Barospace

Barospace, also known as Baronavigatory Space or Gravnav Space is a transcendental physical phenomenon that has been exploited by the Coalition of Congressional Republics in opening the stars for interstellar colonization via its faster-than-light travel possibilities. The terms specifically refer to the higher dimension that a subject entity travels at.

Mathematically ascertained to exist by a Terran physicist by the name of Dr. Vittore De Simone in 2066, the concept of baronavigatory space involves the broaching of the constraints of the third dimension for a third-dimensional object, and allowing it to navigate between spaces of reality through the full manipulation of an object's "brane-state" and its subsequent, fundamental interconnections with all other existent matter through gravitons, as expressed by supergravitational and supersymmetrical principles. This realization and further adaptation of the pre-existent Force-Tunneling Drive after the Second Martian-Terran War lead to the invention of the Tepiltzin-Csanád Drive in 2083 and the birth of the CCR's interstellar human empire.

Physical mechanics
De Simone rationalized the existence of Baronavigatory Space through the technical superimposition of all known supergravitational (and thereby supersymmetrical) physical phenomena currently known to humanity in the late 21st century into a unified theorem. The "de Simone Postulation" effectively promulgated the idea that all matter, when defined as branes (i.e a topological space with the potentiality to have any and all subsequent dimensions), have the ability to exhibit or even outright adopt higher dimensional properties through the keen expression of gravitic particles (gravitons). By default, all known space in the Universe is - within a p-brane mindset - "3-brane" in property. Thus, in order for higher dimensions to be temporarily expressed or adopted in objects within this 3-brane, calculation and expression of gravity must be undertaken to induce a "transitional" or "mimic state" within the parameters of an object. This is because the intense use of gravitic particles to undertake "overexcitation" of the fundamental field of gravity within an object will yield a "dimensional perforation" and thereby access to broach higher dimensions.

When an object within the 3-brane defined Universe enters the transitional dimensional state (or mimic state), newfound physical realities begin to express upon and from the object. With the calculation of all known gravitons in an ideal location (i.e a warp endpoint) interacting with all known gravitons being exhibited from the subject object in the TDS (i.e a ship to warp), the application of hyperinteractivity between these two generalized gravitational fields will allow for a quicker expression of the gravitational force in this faux-higher dimensional state. This will force the object to disobey 3-brane physical notions and enter higher brane states of physics, and the full exploitation of the 11-dimensional spacetime will allow for phenomena such as faster-than-light speed for dimensionally elevated objects.

Faster-than-light travel
The usage of the Tepiltzin-Csanád Drive allows for the ability of all spaceships larger than the drive itself to enter transitional dimensional states, and thereby be expressed as higher branes and utilize baronavigatory space. To chart a course to a warp endpoint, an access console or an artificial intelligence must be fed information pertaining to the exact gravitational phenomena of the object to be warped (the ship). When this is done, the Tepiltzin-Csanád Drive will spool up and begin to warp the gravitational field around the vessel, thereby making the gravitational field of the vessel "opaque" and thus able to breach into a transitional dimensional state (and thereby be expressed as a higher brane). It must be noted that nearby objects to the vessel may exhibit sudden gravitational interaction to the subject itself, but the speed at which mimic state can be achieved renders most threats of drawn-in objects null.

When a ship enters the mimic state, engagement of thrusters and the onset of the vector of acceleration upon the object will be significantly enhanced depending on how broached the object is into its brane state. For example, broaching into a 4-brane state will yield speeds only marginally faster than c, but 5-brane will allow for titanic acceleration that makes interstellar travel feasible. 11-brane mimic states have never been achieved, much like 7, 8, 9 and 10, but it is hypothesized that such speeds from the last mimic brane state will be faster in traversing third dimensional space than the size of the observable universe. The amount of energy needed to power entrance into the mimic state is exponentially related to the value of the target brane state itself.

When acceleration is applied onto a p-brane mimic state when p > 3, it will - to a third dimensional observer - traverse space faster than the laws of light speed will allow. Even so, this does not allow any mimic states to transgress the bindings of time and thereby violate causality, as this is merely translocating third dimensional physical phenomena of a 3-brane onto a higher dimension and having accentuation of its otherwise natural vectors such as speed.

The question of the accentuation of properties such as mass and volume has also been asked until the advent of the Tepiltzin-Csanád Drive. When a ship enters the mimic state, the actual entity is unable to be observed due to the shift of the 3-brane onto a higher order. For example, an abstract 2-brane (sheet of paper) being raised from the surface of a desk indicates a 2-brane translocating across third dimensional space. All 2-brane entities cannot look "up" to see its shift, as it is physically impossible. However, matter and energy are still conserved in its mimic state translation, as it still exists within the confines of reality and the higher orders of the Universe proper. The vessel is merely navigating through a higher dimension (referred to as the specific Barospace) through the assistance of gravitational connections across space between two particles as a "compass" (referred to as barocompasses). This allows its translocation in a three-dimensional mindset across the Universe without leaving its influences within the third dimension proper.