User blog comment:Mike Gilbert/Do you think the Reapers should keep their powers after Synthesis?/@comment-8419211-20130518030659/@comment-72.49.149.251-20130519065808

Nope, the Relays are based on the concept of bending space and pushng away debris   gravatically to make  clean jumps, not black  hole/white hole quantum tunneling. There is, however, another method of FTL that existed even before the beatiful warp and gravitic drives we see so often, the ripper drive. Basically, collide matter and antimatter outside a solar system to create a temporary singularity approximentaly ship size. Shield the ship and push through the portal and you will end up in a totally different dimension. As soon as you are "near" a sufficient gravity-well in "real-space", punch another hole and pop out vaguly close to your destination. Star Wars loved it, Halo loved it, and Warhammer is devouted to it. Perhaps some species figured out the mechanics elsewhere?