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No. There is a work with this as the main premise
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You're not being very clear on what you're looking for. What does "ftl" even means? It"s easy, it's a route and it's part of the work's promise but it doesn't say what it is.
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ftl = faster than light? Is this a work about space travel? Then what does "human route" mean in this context? Also, can you at least clarify what kind of medium it is? Text? Video? Comic? Podcast?
It's hard to know for sure without more details but there was a short story "The Road Not Taken
" which could possibly match this premise. This wasn't a web original, though it's possible you could have thought it was one if you read it online. Alternatively, there could be an adaptation I don't know about.
In that story, developing faster than light travel was simple and could be done relatively early on in a species' technological development (so FTL is easy). However, once you'd done it your development in other areas tended to stall (which would be the FTL route in this case). Humanity never developed it and so ended up developing advanced technology that other species lacked (which could be the human route you speak of).
@Ape Account. Thanks. That was what I was looking for.
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Ftl is easy but you can either go human route or ftl route
Edited by Omega-Void