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Quite an interesting read but to be true, reality is we humans don't even know weather faster than light traveling (FTL) spacecrafts are possible or not, biggest hiccup is the lack of a theory of quantum gravity, every proposed FTL methods including worm holes and alcubiere drive breaks known laws of physics most importantly causality violation, Stephen hawking said that laws of physics beyond those of standard general relativity prevent time travel—even when the latter theory states that it should be possible he called this hypothesis chronology protection hypothesis, where as this spacecrafts would be able to create close time like curves (CTCs) which would allows us to travel back in time which would cause many problems like grandfather paradox..etc it is speculated that the CTCs which appear in certain GR solutions might be ruled out by a future theory of quantum gravity which would replace GR if such a thing happens then these faster then light concepts would turn out to be dead horses hence we will only know Weather FTL is possible or not at first place only after Theory of quantum gravity comes out, research in physics is very slow nowadays we are still stuck on string theory which has turned out to be a total failure. people in this field says that a proper theory of quantum gravity could take even centuries to come.Since Childhood, I have always been fascinated by the world of Science, which is why I took up Science and now I am a STEM student, and since I am a fervent admirer of Science, I am an absolute diehard fan of Science Fiction (Sci-Fi for short). I grew up watching films from Sci-Fi franchises such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, Transformers, Terminator etc.
Though I have watched a lot of movies from many Sci-Fi franchises, I think Star Wars & Star Trek have a special place in my heart because of the fact that they have some of the most iconic starship designs, which sometimes makes you wonder deep down inside:
"Could we build something like this in the real world?"
"Could we build something like this maybe in the near future?"
"Could it be possible many years from now?"
Yeah, this was me back then when I was a kid obsessed with seeing Giant Capital Starships cruising through the vastness of space, travelling several times the speed of light, hovering above an alien planet's surface with the use of anti-gravity, & so so much more, but ofcourse in movies, not in real life.
One of all-time favourite Star-Ship Designs is from Star Wars, & no it's not the Giant Imperial Star Destroyer, not the Imperial Tie Fighter, or the Rebel X-wing, but It's this one, and boy she is dead gorgeous, absolutely beautiful in my opinion.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Soulless One, aka Belbulab-22 Heavy Starfighter, aka General Grievous's Starfighter.
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Upon first glance, All I can is that she looks like the hot rod version of what a small starship would look like, with those beautiful curves that make up its design. I picture this to be what someone would design in the early 1960s, if he/she were asked to design a luxury Star-Ship. & Yes, I like this design a lot, it's one my most favourite Star-Ship Designs ever, even more than the X-Wing, Tie Fighter or any other Star Wars starship. It's just a real pity that it didn't get as much of a screentime as one would have hoped for. Right now I am planning on getting the 30th Anniversary Collection version of it, it was released way back in 2007-2008, it wouldn't be a bad thing having a model of this beauty as a display piece on my shelf.
On a minor note, this is just a request to the moderators.
Would it be fine opening a dedicated thread where we discuss the various fictional vehicle designs & concepts? such as the practicality of their design from a real life engineering PoV for e.g?I know this is a defence forum but I think it would make for an interesting thread nonetheless for us who are interested in such a topic.
Regards.
Even if possible their construction require hypothetical materials for example to keep an worm hole open one will require exotic matter with negative energy density such matter may or may not exist in our universe similar material is also needed for alcubiere drive, constructing an alcubiere drive would also require insane level engineering the thin shell of the craft needs to be of the thickness of planks length.
If you talk about our current feets fastest man made object parker solar probe only has a speed of 0.0065% of light, a gigantic jump that will propel us beyond 100% speed at once is not possible it will take centuries of iterative development to even reach 50-70% speed of light.
