Faster than light Space Fold Space folding permits Faster-than-light travel in the Macross franchise. This capability was introduced when the SDF-1 crash-landed on Earth, and it has since been officially described as a type of space warp (or what is called super-light-velocity spatial displacement) navigation and allows nearly-instantaneous ultra-long distance travel: a space-fold transports a spacecraft in a very short amount of time by first swapping the location of the spacecraft with super dimension space or subspace, and then swapping the Super Dimension space with the space at the destination. According to U.N. Spacy First Lieutenant Hayase Misa during Space War I (2009–2012) an hour passes in super dimension space as approximately ten days passes in normal space. The latest Macross TV series Macross Frontier further expands on that concept by introducing fold faults or dislocations, which further retard fold travel and interfere with fold communications. Also explained in Macross Frontier are the limitations of space folding, such as the geometric increase in energy requirement with the mass of the object to be folded, which prevents very large objects from being folded across vast distances. The act of entering Super Dimension space is called fold in. When arriving at the destination, the act of leaving Super Dimension space is called a defold or a fold out.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:10:37 +0000
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