There is one thing that bugs me with those FTL neutrinos.
When an object is 8 lightyears away, we see it in the state it was 8 years ago.
When Nuke travels 8 lightyears from that star to us (having constructed his own rocket), we see him as how he was 8 years ago.
But if he would travel faster then light, then what kind of nuke would we see then? A nuke that got younger during his journey?
It depends, to a degree, on how much faster than light he was travelling. Faster than light still doesn't mean instantaneous, so you'd still see him travelling, but he'd... sort of stretch. If Nuke managed to travel at almost exactly C (add +.00001km/h or some similarly negligible difference so you can technically call it FTL, but only just barely, as far as the F is concernet) and you had a telescope that was capable of resolving across an eight light-year distance, what you'd see is, essentially, a spaceship working its way up to speed in the distant system, accelerating to C, and then instantly appearing right near you, where, since Nuke's the one piloting your hypothetical ship, it proceeds to bombard you with C-Sabot munitions, wiping out your whole planet. Alternatively, if someone else was piloting, you'd see it accelerate out of its starting star system, and blur into an almost invisible streak (difficult to see due to doppler shifting of emissions) which matches the streak that was left behind the streak the ship left when it started decellerating a reasonable distance, depending on propulsion mechanisms, outside your current star system, and hopefully misaligned from the plane of the ecliptic, in order to minimize potential... incidents.
Ninja'd:
if i constructed my own rocket you can rest assured it will be hevily armed, bristling with gatling guns, nukes, and impaled aliens from my conquest 
Please, Nuke, you've got a supra-luminal drive. At those kinds of relative velocities, you don't need to bother with nukes, since you can get more damage with a simple solid projectile - a dinner plate would hit with a force measured in the kilotonne to megatonne range, depending on your china pattern - gatling guns seem even more outclassed as far as external mounts are concerned, and any aliens you've encountered in a hostile fashion should be ... I want to use the word 'vaporized,' but there wouldn't be anything left to precipitate into a vapor, much less impale on your hull.
(edit to show my work: F=M*A . M, mass of the projectile (depending on type of dinnerware, whether you're just throwing the plate or tossing in a full tablesetting, etc.) ~ 1 to 10 kgs. A, acceleration assuming that the plate comes to a complete stop from luminal speed and disregarding various relativistic effects for the sake of efficiency of calculation, will be about 2.9*10^8 meters/second. Anything where you're multiplying by ten-to-the-eighth is going to be really big.)
Also, I suggest the Joshster read Hawking's 'Universe in a nutshell.' It's got good comprehensible explanations for what you'd see, according to the best theories available pre-current-cern-thingey, which are still the only theories we (by we I mean humanity, not some secret clique of scientists that Dr. Hawking and I are in. I don't think our secret organization has formalized a secret position on this yet. I'll check with Dawkins and get back to you.) have as far as macroscopic objects are concerned.
