[quote=@Polybius]
[@GreivousKhan][@GreivousKhan] I was going to leave it at FTL and hope interested players would fill in the gaps. Control of interstellar travel should be highly regulated under Imperial rule, with the inevitable black market pilots and devices and all the trappings leaning over the edge of hard sci-fi. If gravity wells is a thing that works I'm not hard set on any particular method. I don't recall FTL being directly addressed in the star wars films , and I know a major plot point of Dune is the guild navigators, spice and all that psychedelic stuff. I agree that it is something that should be decided on before the RP begins. Thanks for bringing it up. Discuss ...
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Actually, as far as Star Wars goes, (and I'm glad you mentioned them as it has my fav form of FTL) they happen to use what are called hyperlanes, places in space where you can only travel from one system to the next with, creating a kind of connect the dots high way. Which is how they can get away with having choke points and why you need to take a series of systems before you reach your main objective. Thus expanding wars immensely which is part of the reason why canon conflicts in Star Wars take so damn long. 

However, the dunes type of FTL kind of reminds me of Warhammers in which you need gifted members (psykers in Warhammers case) to act as navigators to allow travel through the warp. That would make for some interesting plot points if this setting needs similar navigators like, say, those sorcerers. Perhaps a hybrid of the two? That way you can have the interesting mesh of tradelines (imagine if one person owned an intersection of many lanes, would make for a kind of Constantinople in space.) and also slightly more interesting conflicts that are sure to arise given the current turmoil. 


I'll leave the exact nature of the FTL mode of travel to you and adjust accordingly as long as we have some census, the advantage of having everyone being within the same empire is we should more or less have the same exact FTL technology. Just having us have FTL alone is a little vague I think, doable in a single writer story but iffier in a collaborative effort like this.