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Originally Posted by
jseah
Actually I have been saying that they DO overlap, all points in the 4dimensional hyperspace (which also includes the 3D realspace) have a corresponding point in the Warp. This was a necessary conceit because it otherwise means that the Culture flying around in hyperspace suddenly lose their biologicals' warp connection.
The idea for the hyperspace-warp hybrid drive is that they have an FTL warp jump from one hyperspace point to another hyperspace point. Tau drives are still significantly faster than light and that gets combined with the way that two points in hyperspace aren't separated by as much distance as their corresponding points in realspace.
EDIT:
Does anyone have some details on the old Nid FTL using the warp?