Reality Drive

Reality Drives are a hypothetical future FTL Starship Drive capable of instantaneous, unlimited travel throughout the spacetime continuum.

Library Data Referral Tree

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

Description (Specifications)

The reality Drive is based on Reality Manipulation. The principle of the drive is that it constantly manipulates reality so the ship is ever slightly closer to the target destination. Should a ship with such a drive collide with a planet, star or other cosmic object, the drive can "revise" reality to prevent the collision. Such drives and their operators would theoretically be bound by a sizable set of rules to prevent abuse of the drive that could prove catastrophic.

FTL Drive Specifications

FTL Drive Specifications (Starship Propulsion)
Category	Specifications	Remarks
Name	Reality Drive	A hypothetical future drive with near unlimited capabilities. It uses Reality Manipulation Technology. It is unsure if any precursor species possessed this technology, even the Ancients.
Drive Type	Universe Traverse	Allows travel through, across, different realities and universes. Might be the most potent transportation technology available. Allows access to anywhere or anywhen within space-time.
Velocity	Unlimited	No limiting factor has hypothetically been found for this hypothetical technology.
Duration	Instantaneous	Some conjecture that the drive allows reality manipulation and chronotaxis, theoretically allowing for instantaneous traverse to any point in time, no matter how minute or large if those adjectives apply.
Hazards	Unknown	Unknown
Physical Constraints	Unknown	Unknown
Geometry	Unknown	Unknown
Levels	Unknown	Unknown
Entry	Unknown	Unknown
Exit	Unknown	Unknown
Fuel	Unknown	Unknown
Resource Requirements	Unknown	Unknown
Inventor	Unknown	Unknown
Characteristics	Unknown	Unknown

History & Background (Dossier)

Reality Manipulation TL-27. The ability to edit reality, primarily through redos: limited retrospective changes to past events to alter their effects on the present.

• The Reality Drive is TL-28.

Expected Reality Manipulation Development Sequence

MACRO LEVEL:

• Reality Manipulation Technology (TL:25-27) → Reality Engineering Technology (TL:28-30) → Reality Mastery Technology (TL:31-33)

References & Contributors (Sources)

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), TBD. (T5.09), p.280, 494, 507, 509
• Author & Contributor: Crawm Lermil
• Compiler: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science