Editing STA A More Perfect Union (section)

===<u>Warp Drive</u>===
Analogies only go so far - keep that in mind.

By analogy, traveling at warp speeds is the equivalent of traveling underwater, relative to the "on the surface of the water" that traveling at impulse speeds represents.

"Regular" warp speeds represent a fairly "shallow" depth into subspace.

"Slipstream" or "Transwarp" speeds represent the next broad depth into subspace. Traveling at this depth renders a ships sensors incapable of "seeing" anything in normal space. The sensors <i>can</i> sense things happening in the "regular" warp speed depth.

"Underspace", "conduits", et.al. speeds represent the deepest currently understood depth into subspace. How these exist, whey they exist, are all unanswered questions. They produce routes through subspace. While traveling in one of these "structures", ships sensors can user sensors on what's happening in the corridor their in, and can use sensors on corresponding normal space.

There's been and handful of other anomalous FTL travel noted (e.g. The Guardian of Forever, Q Continuum) that aren't well understood, or easy to replicate.

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