Alternative FTL Drive

Alternative FTL Drives are interstellar transport technologies.

• The canon Traveller FTL Drive is the Jump Drive.
• All other FTL transportation methods are Alternate.

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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)
• 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")

• Starship Drives (Interstellar Drives)
  • NAFAL Drive
  • Jump Space Drives
    • Jump Space
    • Jump Drive History
    • Nth Order Jump Space Drives
      • Jump Drive ("0th" Order Jump Space Drive)
      • Hop Drive (1st Order Jump Space Drive)
      • Skip Drive (2nd Order Jump Space Drive)
      • Leap Drive (3rd Order Jump Space Drive)
      • Bound Drive (4th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • Vault Drive (5th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • Six Drive (6th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • Seven Drive (7th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • Eight Drive (8th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • Nine Drive (9th Order Jump Space Drive)
  • Alternative Interstellar Drive Technologies
    • Alcubierre Drive
    • Hyperspace Drive
    • Inertialess Drive
    • Keyhole Drive
    • Reality Drive
    • Singularity Drive
    • Stutterdrive
    • Teleport Drive
    • Warp Drive

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Description (Specifications)

Some sophont species employ other technologies enabling interstellar FTL flight:

Alternative Technologies

• Alcubierre Drive
• Hyperspace Drive based on entering a different space (AKA Hyperspace) and using conventional propulsion.
• Inertialess Drive
• Keyhole Drive
• Reality Drive
• Singularity Drive
• StutterDrive is a rapidly pulsed jump drive with the jump taking microseseconds, and the jump distance only a very short distance forward - such as less than a light second. Doing this 100 times a second creates the illusion of rapid FTL movement in normal space, although doppler reflections indicate the object is at rest; thus this is a pseudo movement. Traveller2300 depends exclusively on stutterdrive.
• Teleport Drive in which the ship immediately teleports itself from one point to another, with or without passing through some kind of gate.
• Warp Drive which is based on creating a contraction of space-time around the ship, so that the speed of light can be exceeded.

This classification is based on the 'effect', not on the cause or the scientific theory behind it.

History & Background (Dossier)

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