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* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The Zariman 10-0 was an Orokin colony ship with the intention of using the power of [[EldritchLocation the Void]] to, in essence, teleport to the nearby Tau star system. Unfortunately, a catastrophic error occurred, leading to the loss of the vessel within the Void, now known as the Void Jump Accident. The only people aboard the Zariman that survived the incident were the children. Most died from Void exposure, and the adults that survived were instead murdered by other passengers. A select few turned into apparitions of the Void, protecting the Zariman and fighting against the Void's melody, lest they become one of the Void Angels.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The Zariman 10-0 was an Orokin colony ship with the intention of using the power of [[EldritchLocation the Void]] to, in essence, teleport to the nearby Tau star system. Unfortunately, a catastrophic error occurred, leading to the loss of the vessel within the Void, now known as the Void Jump Accident. The only people aboard the Zariman that survived the incident were the children. The rest were murdered by other passengers, and a select few turned into what are essentially ghosts, protecting the Zariman and fighting against the Void's melody, lest they become one of the Void Angels.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The Zariman 10-0 was an Orokin colony ship with the intention of using the power of [[EldritchLocation the Void]] to, in essence, teleport to the nearby Tau star system. Unfortunately, a catastrophic error occurred, leading to the loss of the vessel within the Void, now known as the Void Jump Accident. The only people aboard the Zariman 10-0 that survived the incident were the children. The rest were murdered by other passengers, and a select few turned into what are essentially ghosts, protecting the Zariman and fighting against the Void's melody, lest they become one of the Void Angels.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The ''Zariman 10-0'' was an Orokin colony ship with the intention of using the power of [[EldritchLocation the Void]] to, in essence, teleport to the nearby Tau star system. Unfortunately, a catastrophic error occurred, leading to the loss of the vessel within the Void, now known as the Void Jump Accident. The only people aboard the Zariman 10-0 that survived the incident were the children. The rest were murdered by other passengers, and a select few turned into what are essentially ghosts, protecting the Zariman and fighting against the Void's melody, lest they become one of the Void Angels.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The ''Zariman 10-0'' was an Orokin colony ship with the intention of using the power of [[EldritchLocation the Void]] to, in essence, teleport to the nearby Tau star system. Unfortunately, a catastrophic error occurred, leading to the loss of the vessel within the Void, now known as the Void Jump Accident. All but a handful of people aboard the ship - all of them children - survived the accident. Only three people - the Operator, the Drifter, and Rell - and are known to still be alive.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The ''Zariman 10-0'' was an Orokin colony ship with the intention of using the power of [[EldritchLocation the Void]] to, in essence, teleport to the nearby Tau star system. Unfortunately, a catastrophic error occurred, leading to the loss of the vessel within the Void, now known as the Void Jump Accident. All but a handful of people aboard the ship - all of them children - survived the accident. Only two are known to still be alive.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The Zariman 10-0 was an Orokin colony ship with the intention of using the power of [[EldritchLocation the Void]] to practically teleport to the nearby Tau star system. Unfortunately, a catastrophic error occurred, leading to the loss of the vessel within the Void, now known as the Void Jump Accident. All but a handful of people aboard the ship - all of them children - survived the accident. Only two are known to still be alive.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The Zariman 10-0 was an Orokin colony ship that was lost with all hands when a test activation of its Reliquary Drive went wrong -- this is the Void Jump Accident that gave the Tenno their powers.

* In the short film FTL, the test pilot ends up way off course and encounters some StarfishAliens.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Galaxion}}'': The titular ship is used for testing of a new experimental drive. The two previous tests having ended... explosively, the engineers claim to have smoothed the wrinkles out. They end up seven light months away from Earth. With broken engines.
* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'': The main character Florence's original destination was a remote space station where they would test prototype starship drives at a safe distance from civilization.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Galaxion}}'': The titular ship is used for testing of a new experimental drive. The two previous tests having ended... explosively, the engineers claim to have smoothed the wrinkles out. They end up seven light months away from Earth. With broken engines.
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* ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'': Meg Murry's father, an physicist working for the government, is a DisappearedDad at the start of the book. The inciting incident of the novel is Meg and her brother, Charles Wallace, finding out that their father has been successful in using a tesseract for FTL travel--but it's GoneHorriblyWrong and he's stuck on a planet where IndividualityIsIllegal and is unable to escape.

->''"I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars, but she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil. When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was alive! Look at her, Miller. Isn't she beautiful?"''

-->--'''Dr. Weir''', ''Film/EventHorizon''

* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199'': The Yamato's first warp test has them come out of warp early due to running afoul of Jupiter's strong gravity well. The drain on the power has the ship tumbling out of control, and only concentrated effort keeps them from crashing. Subsequent use of the warp technology go smoother.

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* ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'': The ''USS Enterprise'' has just undergone an 18-month long refit, updating and improving most of her systems. But they haven't ironed out all of the bugs yet, including the warp drive. The new engines aren't properly calibrated, and Kirk orders that they employ the new warp drive while still in the solar system. The imbalance in the engines creates a wormhole that shorts out their subspace communications and has an asteroid trapped with them heading straight for the ship with deflectors and shields disabled. A photon torpedo destroys the asteroid, and the use of animatter in the torpedoes warhead destabilizes the wormhole, freeing the ''Enterprise''. Scotty warns that it will happen again if they don't finish calibrating the engines.

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** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': "The Naked Time" has Spock and Scotty performing a DangerousForbiddenTechnique to restart the ''Enterprise's'' warp engines after they'd been shut down. It was an untried technique, with the possible consequence of blowing up the ship, but not doing it would guarantee crashing on a collapsing planet. Fortunately, the only consequence of the forced restart was that the ''Enterprise'' was flung three days back in time, introducing the idea of using the warp drive for time travel to the series, which would feature in other episodes and the franchise as a whole.

*** "New Ground" has a scientist propose a new method of warp that would avoid the dangerous use of antimatter[=/=]matter warp reactors aboard ship. Using a series of field coils on a planet, a ship would be pushed into warp using a generated soliton wave, ride that wave to a target destination, and then be scattered by dispersion units at the destination planet, dropping the ship out of warp as it arrived. It would have been faster and more economical than standard warp drive, but a flaw in the experiment generated a wave far too powerful, destroying the test ship, damaging the ''Enterprise'' and would have destroyed the planet at the other end if the ''Enterprise'' crew hadn't intervened, using photon torpedoes to dissipate the wave before it could arrive.
** Series/StarTrekVoyager: In episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold Threshold]]" Paris figures out transwarp traveling, which might get the ship back to the Alpha Quadrant. After a seemingly successful test, he has an allergic reaction to water and starts de-evolving into a salamander/lizard/catfish creature. And then things get ''very'' weird.

* ''VideoGame/{{Ixion}}'': The final cutscene of the JustifiedTutorial shows this trope in action, when the Moon is destroyed. Moreover, when the ''Tiqqun'' encounters the survivors in the Protagoras, it is revealed that [[spoiler: every usage of the VOHLE drive results in the destruction of the nearest celestial body.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Starfield}}'', the desolation of Earth was caused by the use of prototype grav drives, which emitted powerful gravitational waves that disrupted Earth's magnetosphere, resulting in the loss of its atmosphere and ultimate sterilization of the planet, [[spoiler: the inventor of the technology, Victor Ainza, was shown by a Starborn version of himself from another future that grav drive use could lead to the loss of Earth, but believed colonization of the stars was worth the risk]].

* ''Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries'' with it's hard sci-fi setting sees few attempts at going FTL during [[SternChase Stern Chase]] in interstellar space. These do not end well. Results either just destroy the ship, or the involved people might have been [[RetGone Ret-Gone]] from the timeline.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Starfield}}'', the destruction of Earth was caused by the use of prototype grav drives, which emitted powerful gravitational waves that disrupted Earth's magnetosphere, resulting in the loss of it's atmosphere and ultimate sterilization of the planet, [[spoiler: an outcome known in advance by its creator, Victor Ainza, who was shown the loss of Earth and colonization of the stars by a Starborn version of himself from another future]].

* Any of the any varieties of TeleporterAccident