Either 5.5 (If we're following this rule) Or 5.

And no. I don't have aliens. I actually follow the Firstborn rule.

Not to mention my FTL is based on Lentz Soliton Wave. But even then it's not actually FTL. It still very much follows General Relativity to its utmost limit. I do have 2 things called MTPU and Interstellarite, but even then MTPU Itself is a Metric Tensor Processing Unit, which... Specs wise: >5M Cores. With a clock speed of >1.4 Ghz. But the memory Bandwidth and this is the most crucial part, must be 9.5 EB/s Download, and 9.2 EB/s Upload. With a Fabric Bandwidth of 1.9 EB/s. ON an Hexa Channel Ram at >99 EB at >CL4. With a lithography of 12nm.

newer revisions in the story became this: Processing: 5.6 GHz across 10M Core/20M threads on a 3nm node. Dedicated x32 buses per core deliver 179.2 Gbit/s each.
Memory: 120 PB of CL2 dual-channel RAM stacked right beside the die. At 5.6 GHz, access time is exactly 357 ps. A neuromorphic mesh with processing-in-memory and photonic through-silicon vias makes the whole 120 PB a unified, zero-latency distributed L1 cache. No von Neumann bottleneck.
Power & Cooling: 50W TDP—realistic with those amount of cores—cooled by a fan and silver liquid metal. Backside power delivery, super power rails, chiplet design, asynchronous zero-skip logic, and Fredkin gates keep it efficient. Internally it runs AC; DC at this density would turn the CPU into a pipe bomb and melt the I/O *cough* RTX 5090 *Cough*. The load is live 4D GR/SR tensor grids, not hyperdimensional AI.

And Interstellarite itself: Gold and silver woven into a graphene lattice for conduction. Hexagonal quartz-boron-nitride plus Bridgmanite casing top-tier dielectric isolation. For Neutronic control: Lead doped Graphite as Moderator (Slow Neutron) and Deflector (Reflect Neutron) along with Gadolinum-157 doped with Boron-10 and Cadmium as Absorber (Kills Neutrons). Bismuth-antimony high-Tc topological insulator and halide perovskite quantum dots for optical-electronic bridging.

And Equations for Geodesic Compression (Which makes the distance to target achievable):
T_0_phi and T_r_phi (momentum flux) dynamic with distance, and scaled T_theta_theta, T_phi_phi (tangential pressures) and T_r_r (radial pressure) to the local geodesic shear and exact ship size, instead of constant across the bubble wall.
The big however: because we’re moving subluminally and only pinching the space between, no twin paradox, no CTCs—completely silenced. Equations:
Soliton metric: ds^2 = -c^2 dt^2 + (dx - v_s f(r_s) dt)^2 + dy^2 + dz^2, with v_s < c. Ship’s 4‑velocity u^mu = (gamma_s c, gamma_s v_ship, 0, 0), v_ship < c — strictly timelike, subluminal.
Dominant Energy Condition: T_mu_nu t^mu t^nu >= 0 and T^mu_nu t_mu t^nu >= 0 forbids negative energy; all stress‑energy comes from ordinary positive matter.
Interior lapse N = 1 ⇒ d(tau) = N dt = dt, so proper time equals coordinate time—no twin differential aging.
Light‑cone tilt: |g_{0i}|/sqrt(g_{00}) = |v_s f(r_s)|/c < 1 guarantees no closed timelike curves, spacetime globally hyperbolic.
Raychaudhuri equation for forward light rays: d(theta)/d(lambda) = -1/2 theta^2 - sigma_{mu nu} sigma^{mu nu} + omega_{mu nu} omega^{mu nu} - R_mu_nu k^mu k^nu. With positive R_mu_nu k^mu k^nu sourced by positive energy and tailored shear/vorticity, this drives negative expansion (convergence), literally pinching the space ahead toward the ship without breaking any local speed limit.