[Video] Seeking intel

[blue_eyed_obsession]

I have a feeling that I'm going to regret this...

[A tall brunette appeared before the camera, with his hands stuffed in his pockets, and his shoulders thrown back. He wasn't lacking for courage in posing his question but he was already dubious about what the results might be]

Is there anyone here who has prior experience with interdimensional travel that was undertaken by the traveller's own volition, and has practical knowledge as to how it was achieved? Before everyone chimes in, make sure that you fit both requirements. The only exception will be if you think you have something to contribute to the discussion that could help push this science forward.

[He shifted from one foot to the other]

Only serious responders should reply.

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[blue_eyed_obsession]

[It didn't surprise him that a machine was at the core of this story, and actually found it to be a relief. Mechanical construction he could deal with, magic he could not]

Like a failsafe, so no one could exit early and have their atoms scattered into a million pieces- or worse.

[Not that it could get much worse than that]

So did you have any integral knowledge of the spaceship? What fueled it, how it managed to reach the velocity and trajectory needed to traverse those systems?

[necromanswers]

We were never given a reason for why we couldn't leave- just that we couldn't. Planer systems can be weird like that, that's the lesson we took from it.

[Shrug. A great deal of what occurred on their journey was left unexplained long after it ended, and there's really no helping it.]

The short answer is: magic. The long answer is that one day our homeworld acquired something we called the light of creation, and it granted our population both power and inspiration to advance our technologies by hundreds of years in the span of one. Its power was used to develop something called a 'bond engine', which uses the interconnecting bonds between living beings, locations, and object matter itself as fuel. Even emotions, feelings, thoughts. Bonds in the universe are infinite, so the bond engine would never run dry.

The capacity to leave our system was built in from the ground floor, so the engine wasn't given velocity so much as accessibility, if that makes sense. More often than not, what breaks one free of a plane of existence isn't speed, but finding the right pathway. Or, like I said: unlocking a door.