[angryoldfatman]

I’m even more lost than I was before you started.

I can’t reconcile these two statements, I guess because I’m not familiar with the terminology being used:

“The speed of light is the same for all observers in uniform reference frames.”

“There is no requirement that objects in relative motion must be moving slower than the speed of light.”

[FredZarguna]

Uniform means "moving at constant velocity." Reference frame means "the observer's environment." Two observers in uniform reference frames are moving at all times with the same velocity with respect to each other. Neither observer can see the other as changing velocity for this to be true. That means, no slowing down, no speeding up, and no changes in direction.

Because Special Relativity only applies to uniform reference frames [including reference frames where an observer is measuring the speed of light] when the motion of an observer relative to what he is observing is no longer uniform, the rules of Special Relativity can be broken.