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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Einan" data-source="post: 2710365" data-attributes="member: 29893">What about some sort of psionic travel?  Every ship and planet has a dedicated telepath who is hooked into some sort of booster device.  A ship's telepath contacts a final destination's telepath psychically.  The ship's telepath creates a conception of the ship in his mind.  He then transfers that conception to the mind of the final destination telepath.  The final destination telepath uses that conception to mentally form a sort of archetypical form of the ship, which is more real than the actual ship.  Since two forms of the same creature cannot exist simultaneously, the more real archetypical form becomes the ship and the ship at the starting point ceases to exist.  Since this is very taxing on the psychics, this form of travel is used only for extremely long distances and only a certain number of times during a period.  Overtaxation of the psychics can result in imperfect transfers (crazy crew, odd malfunctions onboard ship, bizarre outer god-like things coming into our world, thoughtforms coming into existence, etc) or loss of ships entirely.  Which might lead to the question of where they go and what happens when you're lost.  This is a basic idea.  Feel free to tweak as needed.</blockquote>