[The Louiswu]

Imagine a space ship is like a slippery Lima bean between your fingers. The shell of the bean is the warp field and the slimey stuff is subspace that’s around the ship. When you apply energy (lots and lots) to the warp field your bean/ship shoots through subspace at tremendous velocities many times faster than light.

You not in normal space so your not breaking and current physical laws and your protected from that massive acceleration by an inertial dampening field (whatever that is) which means you won’t get turned into strawberry jam when you apply that massive acceleration.

[Red Badger]

That’s why I like ‘Dune’ novels. Ships don’t ‘travel’ they are transported in huge Guild Heighliners that carry hundreds of ships simultaneously.

Guild Navigators, immersed in pure Spice Gas tanks, ‘Fold Space’ with their minds and the Heighliners and their cargo of ships just move into the new location and the Navigators then allow ‘space’ to resume it’s normal aspect.............