FTL

Faster Than Light Travel Engines were initially called Interstellar Travel Engines in 2125 when they were first invented by Mechanical Engineer Seymour Turner and Astro-Physicist Joseph Mallord. The term Faster Than Light or FTL was coined later by future businesses who bought the rights to the engine and mass produced them.

How it works:
Space and time bends around the engine, allowing the engine to propel any object forward at speeds faster than light by entering inter-dimensional space. In short time is distorted inside and outside of the ship. Trips that would normally take years can be compressed into days.

When the engine is in use, the ship is encompassed in a half sphere of darkness. Due to the very nature of traveling faster than light, light cannot possibly keep up with the ship. So the only sources of light come from within the vessel itself and directly ahead. When peering out a window a passenger would only see a sheet of sheer darkness followed by all light sources ahead of the ship appearing to be a state of perpetual fast forward due to the intense speed.When the ship exits a jump, it is like an explosion of light in all directions when viewed with the naked human eye.

Modified Inertia Repulsors:
Ships need to be equipped with Modified Inertia Repulsors, else whenever the ship were to slow down or change in speed everyone inside of the ship would without a doubt die due to being flung into a wall, or through the very ship itself. These repulsors operate on the same principles as the engine itself, distorting space and time to keep everything inside of the ship in a state of relative safety.