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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I was tickled by the approach David Brin took in the Uplift series: if there was a way to go faster than light at all, there was more than one way, and different galactic species used different methods. The Tandu, for example, had a "Client" species called Episiarchs. The Episiarchs had been bred for psi abilities. Tandu ships used Episiarchs to travel between the stars. The Episiarch denied the current state so intensely that reality warped, and the ship disappeared from here and reappeared there. It wasn't perfect, and sometimes a ship disappeared from here and didn't reappear, but the Tandu were willing to accept the trade-off.
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Interstellar travel by psionic means is a common plot in SF, of course. Consider "Dune", in which the planet Arrakis is the sole source of the drug used by the psi-talented "guild navigators" for interstellar travel, or Anne McCaffrey's "Tower and Hive" series, in which interstellar transport is provided by telepaths using telekenesis to transport ships and cargo between star systems.