star wars is also about elitest demi gods, where democracy is a joke and does not work according to the guy who wrote for the prosecution in the star wars on trial book.
cannot remember his name he is a famous Hard SF author who contributed to the galactic gasbag blog.
in star trek warp 9 is nine times the speed of light, never mind the laughable transwarp type drive in voyager where with borg tech they went like warp 30.
hyperspace is as old as the science fiction genre being roughly equivalent to the speed of light .