Propellers

Extremist interstellar explorers who are desperate to make the trip to another galaxy. Believing that the galactic energy streams that enable vastly enhanced hyper-optic speeds can be used as a slingshot to other galaxies. They constantly lobby the Goffa Province to allow them over the border so they can get as close as possible to the galactic core and achieve maximal speeds by the time they reach the galactic rim. The Goffa Province have always refused these requests.

Some have attempted the journey by delving as deeply as possible over the Goffa border as they can before being intercepted by border patrol craft, then accelerating the entire length of known streams and out beyond the edge of the galaxy. How far they have got, or whether they have survived at all is unknown, as none have ever returned.

Some have suggested their anti-light shells will likely collapse after the regressive pulse can no-longer maintain shell integrity due to the insane speeds they would achieve.

Another belief is that the curvature of the galactic arms would mean the constantly accelerating craft would eventually be thrown out of the stream leading to some unspecified catastrophe for the craft, be it a planetary or solar collision, or just bodily disintegration due to immense decelerative forces.

Others have suggested that once clear of the galactic rim the enhanced acceleration will invert, leaving them stuck between galaxies where they will live out their lives stuck in a bare-space limbo, too far from a new galaxy to reach it, and too far from this one to get home.

Other more playful or superstitious types believe they will have been eaten by swarms of stream-wraiths (the spacefarers equivalent of sea-monsters) that some believe live around the edges of the galaxy, there to keep humans from spreading themselves throughout the wider Universe.