That will be the ultimate fate of the Sol system eventually.
Aren't we supposed to be burned by the transformation of the Sun into a Red Giant ?. I mean the actual size (and mass) of is not enough to go into a Red Supergiant (there also Blue Giants and supergiants...), so there won't be any Neutron Star, Dark Hole or Nova, the Sun is supposed to jus expulse the exterior of layers in gas clouds forming a planetary nebula, then become a White and later a Black Dwarf......
I know you wrote it right, we'll get burned, but anyways, is not as critical as a Nova (it will take much more time to succed since it already transformed from a Red Giant to a Supergiant.....)
That theoretical study on subspace was extremely interesting. I had no idea that Star Trek's and Freespace's subspace drives were so similar. (Course in Trek they call it "Warp Drive"). I had always wondered why subspace appeared as a tunnel...
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Yes, that explanation is very convicent. It's not only FS and Star Trek, I know another series where they appear, SubSpace and Space layers concept are not so rare....
Actually if you played FS1 (or the FSPort) you should remember the CBANIMs of the Warp Drive (or was Engine?)
The Warp Drive is used to jump into a SubSpace rift (the old term used is Worm Hole), however in newer Star Trek games or Series they seem to call it SubSpace Rift. I know this because I read a review that of something "how subspace rift are used" to warp and to damage....In any case I remember reading "A ship is able to travel throught it if it has a Warp Drive and enters it at light speed", again is an additional condition, some other series says Shields. If you see FS anytime a ship starts to warp it accelerates severely it's speed
Which begs the questions: What does subspace look like if you're not surrounded by a Normal space field? And for that matter what would a Short Space tunnel look like?
We don't know, SubSpace concept is really out of knowledge at this moment, I believe it exist because it seems theorically possible, anyways until we can't reach light's speed (at least), it's not something to be really researched...
As we don't know how it should look like, there is no way of known the difference between a SubSpace Rift and other Space rifts.......
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What stop me from beliving that's the Sathanas rift is not a SubSpace rift, is that, we don't know if it is possible to skip Space Layers, for example, jumping from Normal Space to Short Space without passing SubSpace.
(in other Series "Transition engines" are used for the Warp purpose, I now catch it)
By the picture itself is logically impossible, you can't avoid Space layers.....the point is that FS Warp Drives (engines), are configured to enter in SubSpace, however if they were in front of another kind of rift, they would probabily break apart, with no possible escape...