Cosmic Tides

Sci-Fi Verse - Cosmic Tides
Far-flung future, lots of space travel and tech.

Ideas:

Articulated and complex robots are obsolete, as technology and biology have improved to the point that living machines can be created in the laboratory. Robotics technology had progressed to a very high level, however, and those that are left are very advanced beings, capable of superhuman feats of mental and physical acuity.

Space travel is commonplace, though mostly limited to intra-galactic travel only, with the exception being trans-galactic generational ships.

Based on a realistic model of the Milky Way galaxy and using lots of real physics.

Space travel is achieved by enclosing a ship inside a quantum field. Then, the field is manipulated to travel in a particular direction along a direct route through the fabric of space. This method of travel ignores all matter which might be obstructing the path, so calculations are much simpler than the old technology, which required short jumps to avoid collisions with celestial objects.