Eight Drive

The Eight 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.

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

• Speed of Travel
  • Astronomical Unit (AU)
  • FTL
  • Light Speed (c)
  • Light-week (lw)
  • Light-year (ly)
  • NAFAL (STL)
  • Parsec (pc)

• Spacecraft Drives (Interplanetary Drives or Impulse Drives)
  • G-Drive (Gravity Drive)
  • M-Drive (Maneuver Drive or Thruster Plate)
  • N-Drive (NAFAL Drive)
  • Reaction Rocket
    • HEPlaR Drive (High Efficiency Plasma Recombustion)
    • O-Drive (Orion Drive)
    • R-Drive (Rocket Drive)
  • T-Drive (Reactionless Thruster or Dean Drive)
  • Z-Drive (Lifter)

• Starship Drives (Interstellar Drives)
  • N-Drive (NAFAL Drive)
  • Jump Space Drives
    • Jump Space
    • Jump Drive History
    • Nth Order Jump Space Drives
      • J-Drive - Jump Drive ("0th" Order Jump Space Drive)
      • H-Drive - Hop Drive (1st Order Jump Space Drive)
      • S-Drive - Skip Drive (2nd Order Jump Space Drive)
      • L-Drive - Leap Drive (3rd Order Jump Space Drive)
      • B-Drive - Bound Drive (4th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • V-Drive - Vault Drive (5th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • 6-Drive - Six Drive (6th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • 7-Drive - Seven Drive (7th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • 8-Drive - Eight Drive (8th Order Jump Space Drive)
      • 9-Drive - Nine Drive (9th Order Jump Space Drive)
    • Hieronymous Device
  • Conjectural Drives
    • I-Drive - Inertialess Drive
    • Reality Drive
• Alternative Interstellar Drive Technologies

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Jump Drive (J-Drive):

• Jump Drive Key Resources
  • Lanthanum
  • Zuchai Crystal
• Jump Drive Lore
  • Jump Bridge
  • Jump Damper
  • Jump Dimming
  • Jump Drive History
  • Jump Projector
  • Jump Space
  • Microjump
  • Misjump

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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

References & Contributors (Sources)

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