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My assumption is that you're using a very local negative energy state to alter the relative permeability and permittivity of the vacuum to artificially raise or lower the speed of light. FTL on its own is impossible, but what IS possible is altering the speed of c in your region of space to be "faster". The LiJun Wang experiment at Princeton in 1999 seems to prove this hypothesis. When the news came out, more than a few people shit on it that is imaginary within the material boundaries, but he wrote a follow-up that it indeed a real effect and warrants further study. Like so many things from 1994-2002, it simply vanished from the news cycle. This is right around the time of Ketterle's Nobel for electromagnetically induced transparency and Hau and crews work on stopping light pulses as a plasmonic excitation.
https://m.fark.com/comments/4371964/50903132/Scientists-think-warp-driven-starships-may-be-possible-one-day-at-least-until-some-acting-ensign-pulls-o#c50903132