Developed to enable Face ID, the TrueDepth camera uses advanced technology to stuff a high - tech 3D scanning
system into a tiny space within the notch above the iPhone X's display.
It looks harmless and unassuming at a glance —
tiny, 2D crewmembers patrolling a spaceship, manning the various
systems, firing the occasional burst laser or operating a teleporter here and there — but scored for its ruthlessness, FTL is second only to venting an airlock
into space while an enemy boarding party's still in it.
Because we have this other coordinate
system in which a large
space of calendar years is folded up
into this
tiny interval, it's suddenly not so intuitive.