I think the problem is more that if you do FTL in normal physics, it's really hard to plot around the time dilation thing. There have been a few stories that ha

I think the problem is more that if you do FTL in normal physics, it's really hard to plot around the time dilation thing. There have been a few stories that have played with this, but generally speaking, having anybody who sits on a planet basically instantly dying from the perspective of anybody on a fast ship is pretty limiting from a narrative perspective.