Express Boat/secret

Secret

Though current technology in the Imperium allows jump-6 travel, the standard means of ferrying information - the Express Boats - travel only at jump-4.

Publicly, the Imperium writes this discrepancy off by citing the high cost of building new ships and the fact that many frontier routes simply do not need jump-6 service. Truly, they say, the cost of jump-6 is high enough to make a universal jump-6 Xboat network inefficient.

But the Imperial government also knows the power of information and maintains a variety of naval Couriers (such as the various couriers lumped into the Jumpmax class Courier class) which can make jump-6. Knowing vital facts before they become general knowledge is essential to a well-run bureaucracy.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• MegaTraveller Imperial Encyclopedia
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
• Author & Contributor: Adrian Tymes