Space Travel

Type: Movement

Action: Move

Range: Personal

Duration: Sustained

Saving Throw: None

Cost: 1 point per rank

You can travel faster than the speed of light through the vacuum of space (but not in a planetary atmosphere). You can fly at light speed at rank 1, crossing one light year per year. Each additional rank moves you one step up the Progression Table. So rank 2 allows you to travel twice the speed of light, then five times, and so forth. Speed per rank is shown on the Space Travel table. This effect does not provide protection from the rigors of outer space (for that, see the Immunity effect). Unlike the Flight effect, Space Travel does not work in an atmosphere. Space Travel and Flight cannot be Alternate Powers of each other in an Array (although one could be in an Array and the other separate); in order to fly in both environments, a character must have both effects separately.

SPACE TRAVEL SPEEDS

OPTION: REDEFINING SPACE TRAVEL RANKS

The speeds given for different ranks of Space Travel are just a guideline, suitable for most settings where space travel is common, but infrequent. In other settings, you may wish to redefine Space Travel to simplify or provide more details. So, for example, rather than specific factors of the speed of light, Space Travel might be given as slow interplanetary (taking days or weeks), medium interplanetary (taking a day or so), fast interplanetary (taking hours or even minutes), and so forth with interstellar distances. This focuses more on the relationship to the speed of the plot in a story rather than specifying actual speeds or worrying about the distance between particular planets or star systems.