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by Terr_ 849 days ago
That makes me think of the "teraport" invention from Schlock Mercenary, which is basically faster than light teleportation powered by a very small/evenly-spread amount of mass-to-energy conversion of whatever you're sending. (So basically three magics rolled into one.)

Large portions of the web comic are involved with how it completely rewrites the rules of politics and war, with and without review techniques designed to create interdiction zones.