Basic Trope: Interstellar travel is done by relatively normal people in short timescales.
- Straight: Characters often go on adventures to planets many light years apart in mere days.
- Exaggerated: People often have jobs between star systems and commute between them daily, as the trip only takes minutes.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified: Their civilization has discovered an FTL drive with no speed limit and is cheap to operate.
- Inverted:
- Generation Ship
- Characters go on adventures to planets that would take a long time, usually years if not a century.
- Subverted: As it turns out, the planets they go to are in different star systems, and most of them are rotating habitats instead of natural planets.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Interstellar travel takes as long as it realistically would take.
- Enforced: The creators of the work wanted the heroes to have adventures between star systems.
- Lampshaded: “You are asking me to visit this planet that is many thousands of light-years away in mere weeks. How is it that we can visit it on a timely basis.”
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: “If we were in a space opera, we would have already colonized planets in other star systems.”
- Conversed: “I don’t get it why so many creators make super-fast FTL to justify making galactic empires and not making artificial space habitats.”
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