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The Six Drive (shorthand for "6^th Order Hyper/Jump Drive") is a hypothetical future technological enhancement on the Jump Drive which has a performance measured in millions of parsecs of travel.

It is a 6th Order of Magnitude Jump Space Drive.
It is a type of Interstellar Drive not available within Charted Space..
Some researchers and studiers of the artifacts of precursors believe that some earlier civilizations may have had this technology.

Description (Specifications)[edit]

No information yet available.

FTL Drive Specifications[edit]

FTL Drive Specifications (Starship Propulsion)
Category	Specifications	Remarks
Name	TBD	TBD
Drive Type	TBD	TBD
Velocity	TBD	TBD
Duration	TBD	TBD
Hazards	TBD	TBD
Physical Constraints	TBD	TBD
Geometry	TBD	TBD
Levels	TBD	TBD
Entry	TBD	TBD
Exit	TBD	TBD
Fuel	TBD	TBD
Resource Requirements	TBD	TBD
Inventor	TBD	TBD
Characteristics	TBD	TBD

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

No information yet available

Technological Overview of Projected Propulsion Technology[edit]

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

Library Data Referral Tree[edit]

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

Starships:

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

» Solomani Parsec

» Vilani Parsec ("Deshi")

» Imperial Standard Parsec

Impulse-Drives

Spacecraft Drives (Interplanetary Drives)

Reaction Drives:

Reaction Rockets:

Impulse Drives:

(Field Propulsion Drives / Propellantless Drives)

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

Reactionless Drives:

T-Drive (Reactionless Motion Thruster):

T_N-Drive (Reactionless Field Thruster: Advanced Gravito-Nuclear Impulse Thruster)

Deep Space Maneuver System - ("Reactionless")

Jump-Space-Drives

Jump Drive (J-Drive />100 D)

Background & History:

Components & Key Resources:

Lore:

Interstellar-Drives (Advanced)

Starship Drives (Interstellar Drives)

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

J-Drive - Jump Drive (JD₀: "0th" Order Jump Space Drive / > 100 D)
H-Drive - Hop Drive (HD₁: 1st Order Jump Space Drive / > 1000 D)
S-Drive - Skip Drive (SD₂: 2nd Order Jump Space Drive / > 10,000 D)
L-Drive - Leap Drive (LD₃: 3rd Order Jump Space Drive / > 100,000 D)
B-Drive - Bound Drive (BD₄: 4th Order Jump Space Drive / > 1,000,000 D)
V-Drive - Vault Drive (VD₅: 5th Order Jump Space Drive / > 10,000,000 D)

D₆-Drive - "Six Drive" (D₆: 6th Order Jump Space Drive / > 100,000,000 D)
D₇-Drive - "Seven Drive" (D₇: 7th Order Jump Space Drive / > 1,000,000,000 D)
D₈-Drive - "Eight Drive" (D₈: 8th Order Jump Space Drive / > 10,000,000,000 D)
D₉-Drive - "Nine Drive" (D₉: 9th Order Jump Space Drive / > 100,000,000,000 D)

Jump Potentiator ("Jump Exponentiator")

» Hieronymous Nexus Linkage

Conjectural Drives

Jump Potentiator ("Jump Exponentiator")

» Hieronymous Device

"Inertialess Drives":

» Inertialess Drive ("I_M -Drive")

» Triplanetary Drive ("I_T -Drive")

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

Alternative Interstellar Drive Technologies

References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

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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 Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

Frank Chadwick, Dave Nilsen. Fire, Fusion, & Steel (Game Designers Workshop, 1994), 71.
Don Perrin. Starships (Imperium Games, 1996), 71.
David Golden, Guy Garnett. Fire, Fusion & Steel (Imperium Games, 1997), 66.
SS&V #4 - Gravitics vs. Fusion Rockets
Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science

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+The [[Six Drive]] (shorthand for ''"6<sup>th</sup> Order Hyper/Jump Drive"'') is a hypothetical future technological enhancement on the [[Jump Drive]] which has a performance measured in millions of [[parsec]]s of travel.
-Please refer to the following [[AAB]] [[Library Data]] for more information: <br>
+* It is a ''6th Order of Magnitude'' [[Jump Space]] [[Drive]].
-'''[[Starship]]:'''
+* It is a type of ''[[Interstellar Drive]]'' not available within [[Charted Space]]..
-* '''Speed of Travel'''
+* Some [[researcher]]s and studiers of the [[artifact]]s of [[precursor]]s believe that some earlier [[civilization]]s may have had this technology.
-** [[FTL]]
-** [[NAFAL]] ([[STL]])
-* '''Spacecraft Drives''' ([[Impulse Drives]])
-** [[G-Drive]] ([[Gravity Drive]])
-** [[M-Drive]] ([[M-Drive|Maneuver Drive]])
-** [[N-Drive]] ([[NAFAL Drive]])
-** [[Rocket Drive|Reaction Rocket]]
-*** [[HEPlaR|HEPlaR Drive]] ([[High Efficiency Plasma Recombustion]])
-*** [[O-Drive]] ([[Orion Drive]])
-*** [[R-Drive]] ([[Rocket Drive]])
-** [[T-Drive]] ([[Thruster]])
-** [[Z-Drive]] ([[Lifter]])
-* '''[[Drive|Starship Drives]]''' (Interstellar Drives)
-** [[N-Drive]] ([[NAFAL Drive]])
-** [[J-Drive]] ([[Jump Drive]])
-** [[H-Drive]] ([[Hop Drive]])
-** [[S-Drive]] ([[Skip Drive]])
-** [[L-Drive]] ([[Leap Drive]])
-** [[B-Drive]] ([[Bound Drive]])
-** [[V-Drive]] ([[Vault Drive]])
-** [[6-Drive]] ([[Six Drive]])
-** [[7-Drive]] ([[Seven Drive]])
-** [[8-Drive]] ([[Eight Drive]])
-** [[9-Drive]] ([[Nine Drive]])
-** [[I-Drive]] ([[Inertialess Drive]])
-** [[Reality Drive]]
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-'''[[Jump Drive]] ([[J-Drive]]):'''
-* [[Resource|Jump Drive Key Resources]]
-** [[Lanthanum]]
-** [[Zuchai Crystal]]
-* [[Jump Drive History|Jump Drive Lore]]
-** [[Jump Bridge]]
-** [[Jump Damper]]
-** [[Jump Dimming]]
-** [[Jump Drive History]]
-** [[Jump Projector]]
-** [[Jump Space]]
-** [[Microjump]]
-** [[Misjump]]
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 == Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
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 ''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]]
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+<br>
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