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 ** Another addendum, the "energy weapon" used by Sovereign at the end of ''Mass Effect'' was revealed (via the codex in ''Mass Effect 2'') to be a high tech fire hose. It used a mass effect field to shoot out liquid of iron, uranium and other heavy metals out at speeds similar to other main ship guns.
 * The harder end of the scale within ''[[Star Trek]]'' may fall in here (primarily ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''), with the rest being one point lower.
-* ''[[Andromeda]]'', a series based on one of Gene Roddenberry's ideas that he never used, is a bit harder than "Trek", there's no transporters and most of the ''Andromeda Ascendant's'' weapons are fairly plausible (relativistic missiles, anti-proton cannons, point-defense lasers...), but its maneuverability and acceleration require extensive use of [[Artificial Gravity]] and the only method of [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]] is slipstream drive. A form of [[Hyperspace Or Subspace|hyperdrive]] where the ship uses antigravity to reduce its mass to near zero and then travels along [[Hyperspace Lanes|"strings"]] connecting different solar systems, along the way navigators have to intuit what paths they take and organic pilots are right about 99.7% of the time due to the [[Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything|"ability of organic observers to collapse wave function probabilities."]]
+* ''[[Andromeda]]'', a series based on one of Gene Roddenberry's ideas that he never used, is a bit harder than "Trek", there's no transporters and most of the ''Andromeda Ascendant's'' weapons are fairly plausible (relativistic missiles, anti-proton cannons, point-defense lasers...), but its maneuverability and acceleration require extensive use of [[Artificial Gravity]] and the only method of [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]] is slipstream drive. A form of [[Subspace or Hyperspace|hyperdrive]] where the ship uses antigravity to reduce its mass to near zero and then travels along [[Hyperspace Lanes|"strings"]] connecting different solar systems, along the way navigators have to intuit what paths they take and organic pilots are right about 99.7% of the time due to the [[Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything|"ability of organic observers to collapse wave function probabilities."]]
 ** The later seasons border on fantasy with sapient stars and aliens who can fold space at will.
 * ''[[Starship Troopers (novel)|Starship Troopers]]'' features FTL travel, but this is handwaved as an excuse to allow for the main [[Bug War]] plotline. Other elements (such as the famous [[Powered Armor]]) are speculative, but certainly within the realm of possibility. The book is also vague on whether [[No Biochemical Barriers|humans can survive on alien planets]] without protective measures of some kind. The main purpose of the work is to be [[Author Tract|didactic]], not to get the science 100% right.