FTL Jump Drive

The FTL Drive is the propulsion system used by Liberon, Task Force 77.3, and Admiralty Code ships to achieve faster-than-light travel through space. Prior to a jump, the drive is "spooled up" and then the ship "jumps" to another point in space.
==Physics==
The FTL Drive uses a dimensional transport effect. The ships instantaneously teleport from one point in space to another. On Liberon and Admiralty Code ships, the FTL Drives are powered by refined tylium. When a ship jumps, it distorts the space around it and can damage other vessels that are too close. This was used by a Lautern Lynx when it jumped directly into Noelsnook's Death Star 5's Kyber Crystal core, destroying itself and the Death Star 4 and 6.
==Navigation==
Navigation is very complex when using the FTLs. Speed, trajectory and jump duration must be carefully calculated before a successful jump can be made. Making a jump without these calculations, can take the ship into dangerous locations such as asteroid belts, singularities , or a planet's atmosphere in starship-specific cases.
Properly calculated jumps can be used to arrive in planetary orbit or to jump a formation of ships. The latter is used most often by the Liberon fleet. Jumping without calculations is possible. It is known as a "blind-jump". Lainkea has made a Blind Jump with her entire fleet of battlestars once, and by sheer luck, ended up in orbit over Gamoray.
Jump coordinates must be updated constantly to account for ship movement and stellar drift.
==Limitations==
Liberon ships have a jump limit known as the "Red Line." Any ship making a jump across this line risks unknown navigational hazards and possibly running off course due to compound errors in the calculations.
Admiralty Code has lost several ships to this effect. Forces constantly went missing.
==Task Force 77.3 technology==
Task Force 77.3 ships are capable of much more accurate jumps than the Liberon and Admiralty Code counterparts. They are also able to make much longer jumps than those vessels. For example, a Scimitar Mk. F can jump from Earth to G2837 in 10 jumps, whereas a Talent Class Warstar would need over 200,000,000.
TF77.3 ships use gravitons as a fuel source for their jump drives.
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