I don’t see how warp speed is really going to help much. I am assuming you are talking about the speed of light. If we were looking to travel to a place that is 500,000 light years away, and could travel at the speed of light, it would take us 500,000 years to get there.
As viewed from Earth. But as viewed by those onboard the ship making the trip, it'd happen in the blink of an eye. And they could make the trip back in another blink... 'Course, at least a million years would've passed back on Earth. Things might be a leeetle different when they get back.
>If we were looking to travel to a place that is 500,000 light years away, and could travel at the speed of light, it would take us 500,000 years to get there.
You are ignoring Einstein’s relativity. 500,000 years would pass on earth. No time, or very little time because the speed of light itself is unattainable, would pass on the spaceship. As observed by the spaceship, the distance to travel would shrink to near zero.