Drive

Drives are various kinds of NAFAL Spaceship or FTL Starship propulsion units.

• They are a kind of core Ship Equipment.

Library Data Referral Tree

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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• Hyperspace Drive or Subspace Drive
• Keyhole Drive
• Singularity Drive / Halo Drive
• Space Folding Drive
• StutterDrive / Stutterwarp
• Teleport Drive
• Warp Drive / Alcubierre Drive

Description (Specifications)

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History & Background (Dossier)

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• Into the Deep 1 in Article: A Laymans's Guide to Drive Terminology by Brett Kruger
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science