Eight Drive

The Eight Drive (shorthand for "8^th Order Hyper/Jump Drive") is a hypothetical future technological enhancement on the Jump Drive which has a performance measured in hundreds of millions of parsecs of travel.

• It is a 8th 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)

No information yet available.

FTL Drive Specifications

FTL Drive Specifications (Starship Propulsion)

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History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

Technological Overview of Projected Propulsion Technology

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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Library Data Referral Tree

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)
• P_H-Drive (HEPlaR Drive)

• 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):

• Gyroscopic Inertial Thruster (GIT)
• Dean Space-Thruster Drive

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

• Deep Space Maneuver System - ("Reactionless")

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Jump-Space-Drives

Jump Drive (J-Drive />100 D)

Background & History:

• Jump Drive History
• Jump Space

Components & Key Resources:

• Jump Governor
• Lanthanum
• Zuchai Crystal

Lore:

• Microjump
• Misjump
• Time In Jump

• Jump Dimming
• Jump Flash
• Jump Shadow

• Jump Bridge
• Jump Damper
• Jump Projector

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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: ("Otherspace Hyperjump 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

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References & Contributors (Sources)

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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