Think-Space, Pseudo Truths, Indoctrinites, and Warped Ideals
The method of "faster then light travel" drops the ship into "think-space" which is the plain of existence all the thoughts of all people exist on. Going their while awake is a no no, at lest on paper, you HAVE to (by regulation) be put under in timed stasis until the trip is complete unless your a pilot or crew member. Because raw exposure of the conscious mind to thoughts in think-space without special equipment and training causes the mind to warp and buckle under the thoughts immensely personal and relative scope, becoming obsessed with the thoughts.
Think-space is roughly laid out the same as real space, but it's bound by the all the laws of normal physics. The thing that really does the trick is a "psycho-transitive drive" that can be used to rapidly move to ideas with "mental resonance waves" of the pilots mind. Basically you think a thought and you end up at that thoughts location or the location of a thought like it due to a kind of "psychometric magnetism" that pulls you faster then light to the destination. So you can get to other places by moving to around their area of think-space and dropping out of think-space. course you need a clarity of thought and focus to do that. You would think that means "ADHD and other like wise neurodivergent pilots are bad" but hyper focus is actually amazing for navigation once you get the hang of it. Fastest ships in the fleet for some planets. Provided you can get them interested in "the thought of the destination" which is normally the "mind anchor" used on all the maps.
Course their are synthetic psych-wave transit systems, that use like thoughts captured from thought space to go from one port and back, then you hop on a pod and drop out of think-space. Convenient for well traveled locale like trade planets.
So why go into think-space awake at all? Aside from pilots?
Cause taking thoughts out of think space will turn them into a "pseudo-truth" when the ship drops back into real space, a crystal/stone/object/ really anything the shape is not important or constant, the dangerous part is that funneling energy into the pseudo-truth makes that thought REAL in an area equivalent to energy put into the pseudo truth. Oh is the thought about never being hungry or that good people are immortal (how ever the original thinker defined that)? Well that's TRUE and FACT now, provided you can keep it supplied with energy. The thought that people are evil and hateful by nature and need to be kept in line with violence? True now for as long as the powers on. Are you a good person by nature? Not any more. Or maybe you just don't exist. depends on how the thought is thunk. How ever, if you over energizes a pseudo-truth, it generates a "warped ideal", a black whole that leads back to think space and takes a whole area with it and then collapses into nothing. Very illegal, and VERY tempting for would be dictators and other evil douche wads.
Course their is high level tech to neutralize the influence of pseudo-truths, stuff made for FOB's and stuff to allow them to breach into areas under the effect of pseudo-truths and shut it down. The people tend to recover with some therapy and stuff. Still it's not pretty. The name the nerds calls it is "reality dissonance rectifiers" soilders and those who use it to breach into "faker zones" (areas under the effect or pseudo truths) call them "fact checkers" and/or "lie detectors"
The devices work by measuring out the wavelengths of the pseudo-truth's "psycho resonance field" that allow them to warp real space and then emit a counter waves of opposite frequencies. It's prone to make you nauseous the first time to feel it start. Like real and wrong just started fighting, but you get used to it over time.
Stronger waves need higher resonance, sometimes too high to be safe. When that happens. They call in the counter truth division. Who measure the wave and find a counter truth, a thought so antithetical to the current pseudo truth that they can be used to create smaller pockets of pseudo truth that counter the "bad truth". That's the easy part. The hard part is finding someone unaffected by that truth. Normally someone for whom that truth is a moot point, or that it's already true for. So that they won't be altered by the field
Don't be in the area when a thought becomes a pseudo truth or vice versa when a pseudo-truth goes back to being a thought by returning to think-space, it's an explosive process both ways. You need to contain it in super strict conditions or it can take out whole cities or countries depending on the thought. "violent conceptual realization" in scientific spheres or "the eureka moment" as it's normally called when it happens.
To say nothing of living thoughts, ideas that are conglomerates of similar ideas, that will eat, destroy, and replicate other ideas. Normally harmless in think space, or at very lest you can render then inert and incapable of harm. Bring one of those into real space and you've got bigger problems then just pseudo truths, you've got an entire colony of "indoctrinites" ready to burrow into a person and turn them into consciousness farms, forcing them to think the SAME THOUGHT over and over again to generate more of their kind. Like a parasite that takes it's host free will. No eating, no sleeping, no talking, just one thought, and the only cure is a specialized procedure in the early stages of infection that has a 75% of killing the poor host.
