Alcubierre Drive

An Alcubierre Drive is an FTL starship drive.

• It is an FTL Starship propulsion drive.
• It is a type of Warp Drive.
• It is also known as an Albuquerque Drive, likely after the place of its discovery.

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Description (Specifications)

Quoted from Wikipedia :

• "In 1994, the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierreproposed a method of stretching space in a wave which would in theory cause the fabric of space ahead of a spacecraft to contract and the space behind it to expand. The ship would ride this wave inside a region known as a warp bubble of flat space. Since the ship is not moving within this bubble, but carried along as the region itself moves, conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation do not apply in the way they would in the case of a ship moving at high velocity through flat spacetime. Also, this method of travel does not actually involve moving faster than light in a local sense, since a light beam within the bubble would still always move faster than the ship; it is only "faster than light" in the sense that, thanks to the contraction of the space in front of it, the ship could reach its destination faster than a light beam restricted to travelling outside the warp bubble. Thus, the Alcubierre drive does not contradict the conventional claim that relativity forbids a slower-than-light object to accelerate to faster-than-light speeds."

FTL Drive Specifications

FTL Drive Specifications (Starship Propulsion)

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History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

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

Starships:

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Speed-of-Travel

• Speed of Travel

• NAFAL (STL) - (Not As Fast As Light) / (Slower Than Light)
• Light Speed (c)
• FTL - (Faster Than Light) - "Superluminal"

• Astronomical Unit (AU)

» Imperial Standard Astronomical Unit

• Light-second (ls)
• Light-minute (lm)
• Light-hour (lh)
• Light-day (ld)
• Light-week (lw)
• Light-year (ly)
• Parsec (pc)

» Solomani Parsec

» Vilani Parsec ("Deshi")

» Imperial Standard Parsec

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Impulse-Drives

• Spacecraft Drives (Interplanetary Drives)

• Reaction Drives:

• Reaction Rockets:

• R-Drive (Rocket Drive)
• O-Drive (Orion Drive)
• H/P-Drive (HEPlaR Drive)

• Impulse Drives:

(Field Drives / Propellantless Drives)

• Z-Drive (Lifter / <1.0 D)
• G-Drive (Gravity Drive / <10.0 D)
• M-Drive (Maneuver Drive or Thruster Plate / <1000.0 D)
• N-Drive (NAFAL Drive / <¹/₈ ly)

• Reactionless Drives:

• T-Drive (Reactionless Thruster: Gyroscopic Inertial Thruster (GIT) or Dean Space-Thruster Drive)

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Interstellar-Drives (Advanced)

• Starship Drives (Interstellar Drives)

• N-Drive (NAFAL Drive / < ¹/₈ ly)
• Jump Space Drives

• Jump Space
• Jump Drive History

• Jump Governor
• Nexus Linkage Device
• Nth Order Jump Space Drives

• J-Drive - Jump Drive ("0th" Order Jump Space Drive / > 100 D)
• H-Drive - Hop Drive (1st Order Jump Space Drive / > 1000 D)
• S-Drive - Skip Drive (2nd Order Jump Space Drive / > 10,000 D)
• L-Drive - Leap Drive (3rd Order Jump Space Drive / > 100,000 D)
• B-Drive - Bound Drive (4th Order Jump Space Drive / > 1,000,000 D)
• V-Drive - Vault Drive (5th Order Jump Space Drive / > 10,000,000 D)

• 6-Drive - Six Drive (6th Order Jump Space Drive / > 100,000,000 D)
• 7-Drive - Seven Drive (7th Order Jump Space Drive / > 1,000,000,000 D)
• 8-Drive - Eight Drive (8th Order Jump Space Drive / > 10,000,000,000 D)
• 9-Drive - Nine Drive (9th Order Jump Space Drive / > 100,000,000,000 D)

• Hieronymous Device ("Jump Potentiator" / "Jump Exponentiator")

• Conjectural Drives

• "Inertialess Drives":

» Inertialess Drive ("I_M -Drive")

» Triplanetary Drive ("I_T -Drive")

• Improbable Drive
• Hieronymous Drive
• Alcubierre Drive ("Albuquerque Drive")
• Reality Drive

• Alternative Interstellar Drive Technologies

• Alternative FTL Drive

» Hyperspace Drive

» Keyhole Drive

» Stutterdrive

» Teleport Drive

» Warp Drive

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References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Traveller 5 (T5.09), p.280 (labeled as "Albuquerque Drive")
• Marc Miller, Robert Eaglestone, Don McKinney. Starships (Far Future Enterprises, 2019), 56. (labeled as "Albuquerque Drive")
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science