![]() On a mammoth spaceship called the Ark Hyperion, 20,000 adventurous souls awake to their new home 2.5 million lightyears away after 600 years in cryosleep. Here's the pitch: The year is 2785 and humanity has just finished its first successful journey to a galaxy beyond the Milky Way. ![]() The ships of the video game franchise Mass Effect are no different, except for the subtle but serious constraints of the digital world, which are very much real. From the centrifugal gravity of 2001's Space Station V to the handwave-y hyperspace capabilities of the Millennium Falcon, there is a delicate balance between possible and awesome, likely and ludicrous. Humans have yet to travel beyond our own star, or even beyond our planet's moon, but science fiction–books, movies, TV–has given us countless visions of what it might be like when we do, with varying degrees of respect for scientific accuracy.
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