History Quotes / HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace

->"...No, don't move," [Ford] added as Arthur began to uncurl himself, "you'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's unpleasantly like being drunk."\\
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"\\
"You ask a glass of water."
-->-- ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1''

->'''Captain Miller:''' Oh my god. [[EyeScream What happened to your eyes?]]\\
'''Dr. Weir:''' Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.\\
'''Captain Miller:''' What are you talking about?\\
'''Dr. Weir:''' I created the ''Event Horizon'' to reach the stars. But she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos... pure '''evil'''. When she crossed over, she was just a ship... but when she came back... she was alive. Look at her, Miller... isn't she beautiful?\\
'''Captain Miller:''' Your "beautiful" ship killed its crew, Doctor.\\
'''Dr. Weir:''' Well...now she has another crew. Now she has ''us''.
-->-- ''Film/EventHorizon''

->'''Dr. Weir''': Did you really think you could destroy this ship? She's defied space and time. She's been to a place you couldn't possibly imagine. And now...it is time to go back.\\
'''Captain Miller''': I know. To hell.\\
'''Dr. Weir''': You know ''nothing''. Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse.
-->-- ''Film/EventHorizon''

-->-- '''[[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast]]''', [[http://magiccards.info/us/en/149.html Planar Void]]

->'''Phillip''': What's out there?\\
'''Jon''': Nothing.\\
'''Phillip''': Do you want to talk about it?\\
'''Jon''': No.
-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Goats}}''

-->-- ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''

->"''Man, hyperspace always looks so freaky.''"
-->-- '''Peter Griffin as [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]]''', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball''

-->-- '''Han Solo''', ''Film/ANewHope''

->'''Yondu''': It [[BodyHorror ain’t healthy]] for a mammalian body to hop more than fifty jumps at a time.\\
'''Rocket''': I know that.\\
'''Yondu''': [[ThisIsGonnaSuck We’re about to do]] ''[[LudicrousSpeed seven hundred]]''!
-->-- ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''

->"''I never thought I could stretch so far! I think I kinda phased through a planet! ([[NightmareFetishist laughs]])''"
-->--'''Amethyst''' describing her experience traveling at FTL, ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''

->''"Some are not mentally prepared enough for alternate dimensions."''
-->--'''[[HaveANiceDeath FAIL Screen]]''' after using a teleporter in ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Infiltrating the Airship]]''

-->--'''Wonka during [[NightmareFuel the tunnel scene]]''', ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''

->[A]ny further discussion of subcultures was interrupted by the arrival of Twilight and two smoking reindeer.\\
To her credit, Princess Ljufa didn't dry heave as long as Jarl Vidar. The grazer noble looked absolutely terrified when he finally looked anything at all.\\
"There were... things there!" he panted. "They... looked at me!"\\
Twilight was only embarrassed a very short while for exposing someone with second sight to the space between space, because then she was barreled over by an overjoyed Spike.
-->--''Fanfic/UnderTheNorthernLights'', Chapter Eighteen

!! ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->'''Dr. Weir''': The ship brought me back. Did you really think you could destroy this ship. She's defied space and time. She's been to a place you couldn't possibly imagine. And now...it is time to go back.\\

->''"Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse."''
-->-- '''Dr. William Weir''', ''Film/EventHorizon''.

'''Dr. Weir:''' Now she has another crew. Now she has ''us''.

->'''Captain Miller:''' Oh my god. What happened to your eyes?\\

'''Dr. Weir:''' I created the ''Event Horizon'' to reach the stars. But she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos... pure '''evil'''. When she crossed over, she was just a ship... but when she came back... she was alive. Look at her, Miller... isn't she beautiful?
'''Captain Miller:''' Your "beautiful" ship killed its crew, Doctor.

'''Dr. Weir:''' I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars. But she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos...pure '''evil'''. When she crossed over, she was just a ship...but when she came back...she was alive. Look at her, Miller...isn't she beautiful?

'''Dr. Weir:''' Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

->''"The warp is a vital tool to us, a means of communication and transport. Without it, there would be no [[TheEmpire Imperium of Man]], for there would be no quick bridges between the stars. we use it, and we harness it, but we have no absolute control over it. It is [[SentientCosmicForce a wild thing that tolerates our presence, but brooks no mastery]]. There is power in the warp, fundamental power, not good, nor evil, but elemental and anathema to us. It is a tool we use at our own risk."''

->'''Horus''': Do you understand the full mechanism of the warp, Garviel?\\
'''Loken''': No, sir. I don't pretend to.\\
'''Horus''': Neither do I, my son. Neither does the Emperor, beloved by all. Not entirely. It pains me to admit that, but it is the truth, and [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions we deal in truths above all else]]. The warp is a vital tool to us, a means of communication and transport. Without it, there would be no [[TheEmpire Imperium of Man]], for there would be no quick bridges between the stars. we use it, and we harness it, but we have no absolute control over it. It is [[SentientCosmicForce a wild thing that tolerates our presence, but brooks no mastery]]. There is power in the warp, fundamental power, not good, nor evil, but elemental and anathema to us. It is a tool we use at our own risk.
-->-- ''[[Literature/HorusHeresy Horus Rising]]''

''"[[YearInsideHourOutside Mission clock says they were only in the Warp for 5 days. It was 17 months for everyone onboard.]] They also missed their destination by a couple of solar systems and 8/10th of the crew is dead."''\\

-->-- '''[[MagicTheGathering Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast]]''', [[http://magiccards.info/us/en/149.html Planar Void]]

->"''[[Series/DoctorWho Man, hyperspace always looks so freaky]].''"

-->-- '''[[OurOrcsAreDifferent Bigmaw]]'''

->''"There's no earthly way of knowing... which direction we are going... There's no knowing where we're rowing... or which way the river's flowing... Is it raining? Is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? ...Not a speck of light is showing, so the danger must be growing... Are the fires of hell a-glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? '''''YES!''''' The danger must be growing, for the rowers... keep on rowing... And they're certainly not showing... ANY '''SIGN''' THAT THEY ARE SLOWING! RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHH!"''

''"The Captain calls down to prep the ship for warp expedition. At that time [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture 12000 slaves]] who have never seen the outside of the work galley begins shoveling the dead bodies of the previous workers into massive furnaces along with whatever hard fuel sources they have in storage, like a brutal [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Mr. Fusion]]. A field of pure [[BrownNote Psychic FUCK YOU]] is generated around the ship and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the blinded mentally traumatized man inside a metal egg begins screaming unendingly]] as he charts a course through [[EldritchLocation the Warp]], which is basically a giant ocean of pure emotion in which [[EldritchAbomination Unnamed Ones lounge around and fuck with humanity by the luxury of simply existing]]. The ship then ploughs into the miasma of what you could call {{Hell}} if you lacked imagination. Pray to the Holy Throne the Astropath doesn’t accidentally get you lost, [[DemonicPossession become possessed by a Daemon]] or just [[ChunkySalsaRule explode like a mushy human pinata]] from the mental stress of being around so much pure [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow CANNOT BE]]. If the void shields even flicker on the 8000 years old vessel ([[LostTechnology which no one actually understands completely how to work]]) Daemons [[MadeOfEvil made of RAPE and LEMON JUICE]] will crawl into our reality and do things you literally cannot imagine to every soul aboard. I mean that. The very notion of understanding the completeness of the horror the human victims will be witness to would shatter your perception of reality and cause your [[YourHeadASplode head to explode]]."''\\

''"The Captain calls down to prep the ship for warp expedition. At that time [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture 12000 slaves]] who have never seen the outside of the work galley begins shoveling the dead bodies of the previous workers into massive furnaces along with whatever hard fuel sources they have in storage, like a brutal [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Mr. Fusion]]. A field of pure [[BrownNote Psychic FUCK YOU]] is generated around the ship and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the blinded mentally traumatized man inside a metal egg begins screaming unendingly]] as he charts a course through [[EldritchLocation the Warp]], which is basically a giant ocean of pure emotion in which [[EldritchAbomination Unnamed Ones lounge around and fuck with humanity by the luxury of simply existing]]. The ship then ploughs into the miasma of what you could call {{Hell}} if you lacked imagination. Pray to the Holy Throne the Astropath doesn’t accidentally get you lost, [[DemonicPossession become possessed by a Daemon]] or just [[ChunkySalsaRule explode like a mushy human pinata]] from the mental stress of being around so much pure [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow CANNOT BE]]. If the void shields even flicker on the 8000 years old vessel ([[LostTechnology which no one actually understands completely how to work]]) Daemons made of RAPE and LEMON JUICE will crawl into our reality and do things you literally cannot imagine to every soul aboard. I mean that. The very notion of understanding the completeness of the horror the human victims will be witness to would shatter your perception of reality and cause your [[YourHeadASplode head to explode]]."''\\

''"The Captain calls down to prep the ship for warp expedition. At that time [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture 12000 slaves]] who have never seen the outside of the work galley begins shoveling the dead bodies of the previous workers into massive furnaces along with whatever hard fuel sources they have in storage, like a brutal [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Mr. Fusion]]. A field of pure [[BrownNote Psychic FUCK YOU]] is generated around the ship and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the blinded mentally traumatized man inside a metal egg]] [[AndIMustScream begins screaming unendingly]] as he charts a course through [[EldritchLocation the Warp]], which is basically a giant ocean of pure emotion in which [[EldritchAbomination Unnamed Ones lounge around and fuck with humanity by the luxury of simply existing]]. The ship then ploughs into the miasma of what you could call {{Hell}} if you lacked imagination. Pray to the Holy Throne the Astropath doesn’t accidentally get you lost, [[DemonicPossession become possessed by a Daemon]] or just [[ChunkySalsaRule explode like a mushy human pinata]] from the mental stress of being around so much pure [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow CANNOT BE]]. If the void shields even flicker on the 8000 years old vessel ([[LostTechnology which no one actually understands completely how to work]]) Daemons made of RAPE and LEMON JUICE will crawl into our reality and do things you literally cannot imagine to every soul aboard. I mean that. The very notion of understanding the completeness of the horror the human victims will be witness to would shatter your perception of reality and cause your [[YourHeadASplode head to explode]]."''\\

->It is forbidden to speak of what I see in the Great Beyond. I could hint at impossible, half-seen castles in the distance, or rivers of pure vibrance flowing to where they fall upon themselves forever, of mothers' love and children' hate given form. But nothing could give you the vaguest notion of what it is truly like.

We are one with the Emperor, ours souls are joined in his will.\\

''"The Captain calls down to prep the ship for warp expedition. At that time [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture 12000 slaves]] who have never seen the outside of the work galley begins shoveling the dead bodies of the previous workers into massive furnaces along with whatever hard fuel sources they have in storage, like a brutal [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Mr. Fusion]]. A field of pure Psychic FUCK YOU is generated around the ship and the blinded mentally traumatized man inside a metal egg begins screaming unendingly as he charts a course through [[EldritchLocation the Warp]], which is basically a giant ocean of pure emotion in which [[EldritchAbomination Unnamed Ones lounge around and fuck with humanity by the luxury of simply existing]]. The ship then ploughs into the miasma of what you could call {{Hell}} if you lacked imagination. Pray to the Holy Throne the Astropath doesn’t accidentally get you lost, [[DemonicPossession become possessed by a Daemon]] or just explode like a mushy human pinata from the mental stress of being around so much pure CANNOT BE. If the void shields even flicker on the 8000 years old vessel ([[LostTechnology which no one actually understands completely how to work]]) Daemons made of RAPE and LEMON JUICE will crawl into our reality and do things you literally cannot imagine to every soul aboard. I mean that. The very notion of understanding the completeness of the horror the human victims will be witness to would shatter your perception of reality and cause your [[YourHeadASplode head to explode]]."''\\

->''"Travellin' through space is boring. [...] Unless strange fings start happenin', which dey usually do when yer out in da warp. One time we 'ad some bluddy great ugly fing come straight outta Weird Lugwort's 'ead! It butchered 'alf da lads! [[BloodKnight Yer, dat was pretty entertainin'.]]"''

->Between the stars the ancient unseen enemies of mankind wait and hunger. Every voyage into the nothing is a confrontation with horror, with the implacable things of the warp, and with man's own innermost fear.
-->-- '''Codex Imperialis'''

->''"Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse."''\\
...\\
''"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."''

'''Yondu''': [[ThisIsGonnaSuck We’re about to do]] ''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck seven hundred]]''!