[quote=ASTA]
The FTL bit is debatable.Causing something as massive as a star to go supernova requires such vast amounts of energy that it makes me wonder how your nation hasn't created full-blown pocket universes yet.
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I'll have to say honestly I do not see the link between the two. Considering stars are confirmed for real things and the possibility of their death is real. It exists, it can die, its a matter of finding a way to speed the process. Pocket universes are debatably real and have no confirmed way to reach them. So that would be creating a place which potentially doesn't exist through a gateway which, assuming pocket universes exist, potentially do not.