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FTL drive
A stock standard FTL drive, which is the most widely used type of drive in the Universe. Known for being both reliable and cheap.

Hyperdrive
A lesser used drive, known to be prone to malfunctioning, but is also much more space efficient.

Space folder
A more direct approach to FTL travel, the space folder pulls space around the ship to get closer to the destination, instead of tearing holes in reality for the same purpose. Commonly used by "eco friendly" space fairers.

RedAndCosmoteer Warp Drive
Also known as the {NAME HERE, depending on which species} Drive, the Warp Drive encloses the user in a 'bubble' of space time, and then warps space around the bubble as such that behind you, you will experience netgative gravity, and in front of you, extreme gravity, pushing the bubble to FTL speeds.

RedAndCosmoteer Hell Warp Drive (2)
Basically, you tear open a hole to hell another dimension where satan is waiting for you and you can travel at that dimension's speed limit OR use the properties of that dimension to get to your destination faster, where you will open a hole back into realspace.

Tson The Manifold Engine
This is an interesting device, and works on the principle that all space is inherently connected, the manifold engine can provide instantaneous "Travel" for a craft by simply moving everything else so that technically, the ship was already at the destination. It is unknown why this is quicker than moving the ship itself, as this device originates from outside this galaxy, having been brought here by the Ever Children.
No one has successfully managed to reproduce a Manifold engine so far.

IronCross42 IN SKIP Drives
In Skip Drives are found on most Brandenburg ships, they operate by taking a ship and sending them through a small dimensional portal at high speed while creating a strong gravitational field that 'spaghettifies' the ship making it fit through the hole, and adding extra velocity.
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Soundbust11 The Quantum Switch:
A device which essentially trades places with whatever is already at its destination, most commonly photons. Every particle making up the ship (including crew) is quantum entangled to the particles in the desired destination. Then, by establishing opposites, ("[ship] is opposite to [light]" for example) the device switches the opposites, trading places.

Fort_Master_Gustav Tonal Transportation 1

Not really an FTL form, but by erasing your ship from existance with Tonal Denial, then using the information to reproduce it somewhere else, essecially you die in the process, but get re-formed in the other end. Essencially instant, but presumes that a TM array will be on the other side to reproduce you.

Tonal Transportation 2

A semi-proper FTL form, this erases space in front of the ship and reproduces it behind the ship, essencially dragging it. Goes at your normal FTL speeds.

Tonal Transportation 3

By anchoring a Tone to the place you want to travel to, you can use the same to translate information to the place you want, its speed is equivalent to the ammount of mass being transmitted, and distance.

Dimension-Space Folding 1

Used by Omega-Overseers, it folds reality itself like a wormhole, travelling almost instantly somewhere instantaneously, though with undesirable gravitational side-effects

Dimension-Space Folding 2

Used by Omega-Overseers, they create and project an infinitely small Sub-Dimension, that they use to translate their presence to that place.

Dimensional Hyper-Object Projection

Used by Omega-Overseers, they create a sub-dimension that represents and encompasses all the points of the universe, translated into a single, spheric point, infinitely small. By being present in such a sub-dimension, they can travel anywhere in the universe instanteneously, by projecting themselves into the point, and translating them presence to the corresponding point in the normal Universe. Using the Time Manipulation capacities, the travelling process becomes litellary instantenous, for they can make time halt in the point-translated dimension.

Hyper-Object Projection Layering

Again, used by Omega-Overseers, by combining the previous method with an infinite layer of simulated dimensions, they can bend the fabric of space, poking holes and vacating certain snippets of it to their controlled pocket dimensions, this is the power that gives them the status of "gods". For they are never actually present anywhere, rather only a projection of their influence, with a dimension sink that transmits anything that touch them into an infinite ammount of simulated sub-dimensions. This can bring them anywhere in the universe, and anywhere in the universe to them, instantaneously.

              jbox1

              Warp Drive
              Also known as the {NAME HERE, depending on which species} Drive, the Warp Drive encloses the user in a 'bubble' of space time, and then warps space around the bubble as such that behind you, you will experience netgative gravity, and in front of you, extreme gravity, pushing the bubble to FTL speeds.

              Hell Warp Drive (2)
              Basically, you tear open a hole to hell another dimension where satan is waiting for you and you can travel at that dimension's speed limit OR use the properties of that dimension to get to your destination faster, where you will open a hole back into realspace.

              @Tson pls put manifold here, i can't cause it's your drive

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                  jbox1 (might as well)
                  Wormhole Drive
                  Widely used by the Crimson Alliance/Republic,this transportation device require an additional component to pin-point its exit point,by doing so,the pin-pointed space will be replaced by the structure connected to the drive,and vice versa for the original location.
                  Recent advancement in navigation computer and century-long space charting allow the Crimson Republic to no longer require a device to pin-point its destination,but will result in very catastrophic event if the destination has its time/space altered through unknown means.

                      jbox1 I have no idea why are you doing this, is this some scavanger lore or what ?

                        jbox1
                        The Manifold Engine:
                        This is an interesting device, and works on the principle that all space is inherently connected, the manifold engine can provide instantaneous "Travel" for a craft by simply moving everything else so that technically, the ship was already at the destination. It is unknown why this is quicker than moving the ship itself, as this device originates from outside this galaxy, having been brought here by the Ever Children.
                        No one has successfully managed to reproduce a Manifold engine so far.

                          Tson No one has successfully managed to reproduce a Manifold engine so far.

                          lmao

                          The Sols?

                          Or do they not count because they left?

                            RedAndCosmoteer
                            You forgot that they stole acquired all that stuff from the EL anyway.

                                Tson

                                Well, they have 'reproduced' them.

                                really means that they stole their blueprints and mass-manufactured them because they aren't original

                                  RedAndCosmoteer
                                  Yeah but they didn't, they just wired a load of the drives that they found on an old EL supply planet up to their ships, and then there was the fact that people never seemed to realise that the Sols always had enough Manifold and Stasis even when they couldn't produce them themselves... but that's another can of worms.

                                    TheRainmaker I'm mostly rapping up some loose ends, and also just leaving you guys some tech to incorporate into your lore, or at least be some source of inspiration.

                                      jbox1 So its just a little wikipedia

                                        Tson I thought this thing is still relevant

                                        Tson but the stasis fiieeelds are thee only peices of tech we caan't actually reproduce

                                        said one of your Solaric Commanders, what was his name, Reddish Hue that-you know what I'll just use Redd

                                            RedAndCosmoteer
                                            Bloody hell you actuallydo see everything don't you XD
                                            Ok, well I may have been mistaken, seemingly you are right, as I think Redd would probably know more than me seeing as he is a Supreme Commander... what do I know, I only created him.

                                              Tson I use a black hole as memory storage.

                                                RedAndCosmoteer
                                                Do you turn it into a white hole when you want to use the recycle bin?

                                                    Tson No, silly, I use the black hole itself. I transfer the thing I wanna delete from the surface to the singularity, adding to it!

                                                    I only really know the basics i traded it from a mysterious power called the bureau in exchange for milk and cookies

                                                      jbox1 IN SKIP Drives
                                                      In Skip Drives are found on most Brandenburg ships, they operate by taking a ship and sending them through a small dimensional portal at high speed while creating a strong gravitational field that 'spaghettifies' the ship making it fit through the hole, and adding extra velocity.

                                                      The name can be split into 2 inherent parts the "IN' and the 'SKIP', the 'IN' is when the ship opens the small portal and moves through it, The 'SKIP' is when the ship is Spagetified through gravity to be made to fit through the hole. The 'IN-SKIP Drive' is similar to The [REDACTED]Warp Drive being that it can harness the apparent properties of that dimension.

                                                      Downsides of the in skip drive are that it requires a special Liquid Crystal Fuel, It can be very dangerous for the ship if it is hit while in the process of jumping, It Blocks all communication and shields while in effect rendering the ship who is jumping very vulnerable, when a ship enters back into real space it is not 'Hidable' the reentry creates massive gravity and energy signatures.

                                                      The Upsides to such a drive are that s hip can choose what dimension they want to use allowing for the dimensions inherent properties to be exploited and Tracking a ship after it has gone becomes infinitely difficult to impossible due to the use of multiple dimensions.

                                                      Ships going through In skip first point in desired direction the several large Quantum rings of pure white will form around the ship and begin to spin then the ship will appear to vanish in a massive burst of white light.

                                                        The Quantum Switch:
                                                        A device which essentially trades places with whatever is already at its destination, most commonly photons. Every particle making up the ship (including crew) is quantum entangled to the particles in the desired destination. Then, by establishing opposites, ("[ship] is opposite to [light]" for example) the device switches the opposites, trading places.

                                                        Pros:
                                                        - Theoretically limitless range (in practice limited by the ship's own sensor range)
                                                        - Instantaneous travel
                                                        - More advanced variants can force other ships to switch

                                                        Cons:
                                                        - Requires a metric fuck-ton of processing power, which proportionally increases with ship size
                                                        - Requires ridiculously accurate sensors to A: keep track of the ship's particles, B: keep track of the destination's particles, which are usually thousands of lightyears away
                                                        - A single mistake can leave half your ship on the other side of the universe, or leave all crew behind, etc.

                                                        EDIT: made this for an upcoming faction I have yet to complete, pls don't use for your own yet, thank you 🙂

                                                        Soundbust11 Didn't real life scientists do something like that with a photon ?

                                                          jbox1 Space folder
                                                          A more direct approach to FTL travel, the space folder pulls space around the ship to get closer to the destination, instead of tearing holes in reality for the same purpose. Commonly used by "eco friendly" space fairers.

                                                          This is also known as a Tesseract; Domini Naturae use it... Even if they aren't too relevant in galactic politics now. Sorry if I'm being a bit of a smart alec 😅