Collision Avoidance Is The Word For The Day. That means, though there
are all these countries on this planet, who may have developed space
craft propulsion technology, to avoid collisions with everything out
there, the space debris, other planets, and so on, when traveling at
speeds beyond the speed of light, you're going to need a pretty good,
well mapped out and organized understanding of our universe. These
countries with their space craft, such as Belgium, Germany, or
Austria, and now China, and of course the USA, may all have secret
space programs, secretly budgeted for but if they don't have a way of
mapping out every stone, and grain of sand floating around in our
universe, traveling along at beyond light speed is going to be an
awfully risky proposition.

Good seamanship begins with good navigational charts and a clear
understanding of what to avoid. Without a navigational system for the
solar system, than this entire galaxy, and then, eventually, our whole
universe, taking into account every other object out there, all of
them, and that is an awful lot of objects, space crafts are playing it
risky flying blind, as it were.

Someone or some group of people will have to develop a space based
sonar / radar like warning system that covers light years of
territory, especially in the direction you are headed. This system
must also aid in the cataloging of all objects in our universe.
Without it, you are flying blind.

John Ayres