Quote Originally Posted by icosahedron View Post
Space is BIG.
You're much more likely to hit something in the ocean than you are in space. You can safely bet your life on not hitting anything in space - especially interstellar space.

However, if you don't use some 'crazy new dimension', relativity is gonna halt your FTL system in its tracks. Hyperspace is a necessity.
If you have a temporal Dilation, IE a way to cause time to pass faster close to the ship, say an antigrave field, you can cheat relativity and actually use it to your advantage to balance out time.