IMHO “hard” SF is more about feeling “accurate” than actually being accurate - more lip service is paid to something resembling physics as we currently understa

IMHO “hard” SF is more about feeling “accurate” than actually being accurate - more lip service is paid to something resembling physics as we currently understand it. And the #1 thing for someone to say “fuck it, I’m cutting a hole in existing physics in the interest of telling a compelling story” for is probably “moving shit between planets/stars faster than orbital mechanics and the speed of light allows”.