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'''Light Speed''' is the constant rate at which light travels in a vacuum, approximately 3.00x10^8 m/s. While it is theoretically possible with modern technology (and surely the Elder Races had the technology) to accelerate a ship to within a hair of the speed of light, the energy costs necessary to shield a ship moving at any significant fraction of this speed are beyond imagining. A single speck of space dust striking a ship at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light will hit it with the force of multiple nuclear blasts. Instead, most races opt to use [[Skip Drive|skip drives]] which utilize [[Wormhole|wormholes]] to quickly cover vast distances across time-space in a non-linear fashion.