Skip Drive

The Skip Drive is a hypothetical future technological enhancement on the Jump Drive which has a performance measured in hundreds of parsecs of travel. It is a 2nd Order of Magnitude Jump Space Drive.

Description

Like the hop drive, skip drives might use a farport in target systems for cargo and passenger services. However, with skip drives, these ports must typically be out in the oort cloud. This is not a major problem, because it can be located near ice-asteroids that can be mined for fuel.

However, unlike the hop drive, skip drives will probably benefit from having a jump drive installed. This drive gets them into uncluttered deep space, where the skip drive may then operate with better efficiency. It also helps ships limp back to a world in the case of jump scatter. In this case, a farport is not really needed, since the ship can simply jump to the mainworld.

Thus, the farport is not a foregone conclusion.

History & Background

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.