: For complex games like Starsector , new players should focus on the in-game tutorials before attempting long-range interstellar hops. The Guide for Almost Everything - Steam Community
Any FTL hop (moving information faster than light in some reference frames) risks allowing time travel via relativity of simultaneity. The Hop Ship models that stay subluminal (e.g., the Kerr Hop at 1.6c) narrowly avoid this if the crew accepts a time dilation mismatch between origin and destination. Most Hop Ships are designed to hop below 2c to keep the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle intact. Interstellar Hop Sh