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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jemal" data-source="post: 6097383" data-attributes="member: 9026">Well that is the basic idea.Well, keep in mind this is essentially a post-apocalypse setting on a galactic scale, with everybody recovering at different speeds.  Most of civilization had been demolished: the vast majority of knowledge, art, governments, military's, corporations, colonies, etc lost.. and that was before the infighting and power struggles that followed as people tried to grab what they could.  The galaxy (OR at least the portions of it your characters are from) managed to survive the first portion of that and make it into the rebuilding phase.In the less-recovered/advanced portions of space (Which tend to outnumber the higher end civilizations greatly) FTL may be the top of the line they have access to.  Some have only FTL, but they have it on all their ships, some barely have any ships but may be on the cutting edge of Biotechnology and cybernetics, others could have lots of local ships but very little in the way of advanced tech such as FTL.  Some places may even oddly enough have several Hyper-drives but no FTL!It's about as hodge-podge as you can imagine.So, obviously it would depend on the recovery of the local civilization, but if you want an example, I'll stat out how space-travel would work in one of the higher-end civilizations (Which is more than likely where the PC's are from, so would be what they're familiar with).  We'll use Drothgery's suggested Victorian empire: Travel within a solar system is common place, like travel within a city. Normal space-ships may be owned by ordinary citizens.  (Cars in the early 21st century - affordable but not cheap) A local cluster of stars serviced by FTL ships would be traversable but expensive - generally reserved for business trips, shipments, or vacations.   Wealthy people could go between systems at will, and would likely own their own FTL capable ships.  Personally owned FTL ships would not be unheard of, but not overly common except among the rich.  (Cars in the early 20th century - not affordable, but not unthinkable).  The Faster FTL's would be much more expensive (HIGH END Luxury Cars), as would travelling to systems outside the local cluster.Slower Hyper-drive ships would belong to corporations (note: in many cases corporations ARE the government/military of a cluster), and the very rich. (Private Jets/Yachts.)Faster Hyper-drive ships would belong exclusively to Mega-corps, Governments, and the Super-Rich (and in many nations, these three may be the same thing).</blockquote>

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