re: #39 freetoken

Some of the B5 episodes used the plot device of not correct or missing navigation/beacons in the special dimension of their hyperspace travel. But it was only a plot device, not an attempt to solve a science problem.

Which is one of the SF solutions to the problem. Have beacons/known navigation points that exist in the hyperspace/transport dimension the FTL works with.

Other FTL systems in SF works involve “jump points” which are fairly fixed points that jump to other fixed points. And an often off-stage part of the set-up is that there are services/explorers/expeditions out attempting to find and map new points on the network. And I remember at least one instance where it was mentioned that a major challenge was figuring out where the far point of a jump actually was located.