It's been over a hundred years since faster-than-light travel was developed.
If that were possible, then faster-than-light travel between the stars could be a reality.
For that matter, there's some talk the Chinese are working on faster-than-light travel.
On top of that, they only discovered faster-than-light travel about a generation ago.
This was - we need to deal with faster-than-light travel.
Many stories continue to be written where 1 of the premises is faster-than-light travel.
Some scientists have proposed the idea of using faster-than-light travel to journey back in time.
Only by luck would they ever penetrate into the Beyond, where faster-than-light travel was possible.
If the race that built the ring had known of faster-than-light travel, they would have settled other stars.
That was always the main problem with faster-than-light travel.