Starship warp drives were intricate and complex systems that operated at a level where the laws of physics became fluid and malleable. Devices built to project into the fringes of spacetime, where dimensional membranes were at their thinnest, where energies of catastrophic scale collided, barely held these forces in check so that star-faring races could travel across the void in days rather than millennia. So when those systems malfunctioned, it was rarely without ruinous results. Ships could be consumed whole in matter-antimatter reactions, dragged across event horizons into lethal subspace
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