Jump Drive

The jump drive is the most advanced type of hyperdrive in the game. It does not rely on hyperlanes to travel, but this advantage at the cost of using twice as much fuel. 
Jump drives are never available for purchase, because the species who possess them are either hostile or possessive of their secrets (or both). However, they can be plundered from various sources.
Due to its functionality, the jump drive acts as a content lock, preventing the player from reaching much of the galaxy and many species until they have either completed the storyline or they manage to plunder one.
== Description ==
The workings of the jump drive are a total mystery. The best that human scientists have been able to find out is that this device is a containment field for matter in a state that cannot normally exist in this universe; if the drive is opened up, the field collapses and its contents disappear. Therefore, even though a few jump drives have been captured over the years, it has so far proved impossible to reverse engineer them.
== Notes ==
* The jump drive has two variants, the regular one and the Jump Drive (Broken).
== Story roles ==
During Free Worlds Reconciliation, the Syndicate install a jump drive on the player's ship during the Pug invasion to allow the player to infiltrate the Pug Protectorate.
The Unfettered Hai are sold jump drives by the Alphas, facilitating their invasion of Wanderer space.
Admiral Danforth keeps a jump drive for himself after the Pug invasion; this allows his Cruiser to travel with the player to destroy the Alpha enclave which was selling jump drives to the Unfettered.
== Species ==
So far, only a few species have unrestricted access to jump drives.
* Drak: The original designers and creators of the jump drive, and the main controllers of their distribution. They only give the technology to species they deem worthy, to maintain the current relative peace in the galaxy.
* Pug: The Pug produce their own jump drives. 
* Quarg: The Quarg were given jump drive technology from the Drak because of their age and wisdom.
* Korath: Inspired by the Drak and the Quarg, the ancient Anatruskor Empire developed their own jump drives c. 1000 A.D. and shared the technology with their allies, the Sestor Federation. They used the technology to explore Hai and Bunrodea space and formed diplomatic relations with the first. When the Quarg and Drak intervened in the Korath Civil War, the Korath were given a choice, to give up their jump drives or be exiled. The Korath Exiles chose exile.
* Rulei: In a rare case compared to most sapient species in the galaxy, the Rulei developed Jump Drive technology first, before discovering the hyperlane network.
However, a number of other species have also been able to obtain a limited supply of Jump Drives:
* Humans, after the Pug invasion and from the Korath exiles.
** Alphas: The Alphas obtained a steady supply of jump drives taken from the Korath Exiles.
* Unfettered Hai, from the Alphas and the player.
* Remnant: The Remnant have looted jump drives from the Korath Exiles. They also show an interest in broken jump drives.
* Heliarchs: The Heliarchy has a stockpile of captured Quarg outfits, including some jump drives.
* Bunrodea: The Bunrodea have a small stockpile of jump drives, at least enough to track down the player outside their home space during their first contact.
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