Hop Drive

The Hop Drive is a technological enhancement on the Jump Drive which has a performance measured in tens of parsecs. It is a 1st Order of Magnitude Jump Space Drive.

Description

No information yet available.

FTL Drive Specifications

See Jump Drive#Jump Drive Specifications, with which Hop Drive shares many similarities. The velocity is 10-fold. The various grades are 8 TLs later than their equivalent Jump Drive grade (Hop-1 at TL-17 though Hop-6 at TL-23), so no major group has access to Hop Drive before then. Entry and exit is at 1,000 planetary diameters instead of 100.

Farports

The development of the Hop drive enables longer-ranged exploration and transport. While long-ranged scout ships can simply be refitted and ready to go, transports require more support.

One possible support is the farport -- a distant starport extension. This is infrastructure which will lag the hop drive for some years.

Farports will first be built on routes between important worlds. They sit out at a 1000D point, holding fuel for hop ships. They will also have fast shuttles and slow in-system barges, for moving people and cargo between the hop port and the mainworld. They have considerable fuel tankage available, which is in turn serviced by fuel shuttles, or ice-asteroids pushed inward from the oort cloud, or a fuel barge gathering hydrogen from a percolator orbiting a nearby gas giant. In the latter case, the farport will be at a long orbit around a gas giant -- 1000 diameters from a gas giant can range from 0.13 AU to 1.3 AU.

Auxiliary Jump

In the first years of hop drive, ships will have a hop drive installed with an auxiliary jump drive. This allows a ship to make a long-distance hop, but then jump into the mainworld. In this manner, no farport is necessary. Even with a state which has farports, any ship that is off the major routes would do to also have a jump-1 drive "just in case".

History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

See also

Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Starship:

• Speed of Travel
  • Astronomical Unit (AU)
  • FTL
  • Light Speed (c)
  • Light-week (lw)
  • Light-year (ly)
  • NAFAL (STL)
  • Parsec (pc)

• Spacecraft Drives (Interplanetary Drives or Impulse Drives)
  • G-Drive (Gravity Drive)
  • M-Drive (Maneuver Drive or Thruster Plate)
  • N-Drive (NAFAL Drive)
  • Reaction Rocket
    • HEPlaR Drive (High Efficiency Plasma Recombustion)
    • O-Drive (Orion Drive)
    • R-Drive (Rocket Drive)
  • T-Drive (Reactionless Thruster or Dean Drive)
  • Z-Drive (Lifter)

• Starship Drives (Interstellar Drives)
  • N-Drive (NAFAL Drive)
  • Jump Space Drives
    • Jump Space
    • Jump Drive History
    • Nth Order Jump Space Drives
      • J-Drive - Jump Drive ("0th" Order Jump Space Drive)
      • H-Drive - Hop Drive (1st Order Jump Space Drive)
      • S-Drive - Skip Drive (2nd Order Jump Space Drive)
      • L-Drive - Leap Drive (3rd Order Jump Space Drive)
      • B-Drive - Bound Drive (4th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • V-Drive - Vault Drive (5th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • 6-Drive - Six Drive (6th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • 7-Drive - Seven Drive (7th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • 8-Drive - Eight Drive (8th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • 9-Drive - Nine Drive (9th Order Jump Space Drive)
    • Hieronymous Device
  • Conjectural Drives
    • I-Drive - Inertialess Drive
    • Reality Drive
• Alternative Interstellar Drive Technologies

Jump Space Drives:

• Jump Drive Key Resources
  • Lanthanum
  • Zuchai Crystal
• Jump Drive Lore
  • Jump Bridge
  • Jump Damper
  • Jump Dimming
  • Jump Drive History
  • Jump Flash
  • Jump Projector
  • Jump Shadow
  • Jump Space
  • Microjump
  • Misjump
  • Time In Jump

Expected Drive Development Sequence: NAFAL to FTL

• Relativistic Drive (NAFAL) → Jump Drive → Hop Drive → Skip Drive → Leap Drive → Bound Drive → Vault Drive → Six Drive → Seven Drive → Eight Drive → Nine Drive

References

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), 280.