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Bluespace
“A space that is over or under the perceivable world that does not obey known laws of physics or relativity.”
Bluespace is both the miracle of the millennia that's enabled many species to leave their star systems... and the biggest middle finger to physics known by any species. It's debated if Bluespace is a state of matter, an energy or something else entirely. The most popular hypothesis given it's applications in FTL drives, short-range teleportation and most recently, matter storage is that it's a quantum buffer state of unobserved outcomes. However this is just a hypothesis with no experimental backing of proof.
Bluespace has been discovered by several species in their own ways unique to their own scientific progress. However the Skrell being the earliest species to has had the longest head start. The four species who have discovered Bluespace on their own has been Humanity, The Skrell, and the Teshari with Tajaran help, while joint, independent research projects are ongoing - every species is keeping it's secrets close, whatever mysteries Bluespace unlocks will mean technological, military or economic dominance.
While next to nothing is known about Bluespace, early study into it has always lead to the most practical application - FTL drives. While the energy cost is always extremely high, the technology to leave a system within hours or days is a major milestone in a species' progression. It's also seen recent use in short range teleportation. However longer distances and more matter require more energy and thus the become less ergonomic in applications such as handheld devices or armor attachments.
Finally, the strongest argument for the buffer state hypothesis has been the aptly named 'Schrodinger's Box' prototype unveiled by Bodrich Labs. Demonstrating a high-tech crate that had a disassembled automobile stored within - a feat that would take far more space than one box, before all the parts were removed in the same condition as they went in. A cat however was not used for this demo.
Yes. Bluespace is well known to completely disintegrate carbon life that's put in it's state without the proper protection, it's suggested that the state of Bluespace emits an unknown and very deadly spectrum of radiation. What's more concerning have been remote control probe missions into Bluespace tears, contact always being lost within minutes and what data that is collected is always corrupted. Bluespace experiments have also been known to invoke a sense of dread, or unease in researchers during and after tests - this being named 'The Hume Effect' after doctor Nicole Hume, parapsychologist.
No one knows, between how little is known about this physics conundrum and what strange laws it seems to possess, some experts claiming Bluespace might never fully be explored or explained by science.