Quantum Impeller Drive

The standard superluminal engine that was used by the Zodiac Empire.  While the Terran Spatial Warp Drive was developed independently, the basic physics loop-hole that both exploit is the same.  Both drives operate by establishing a pocket of real space around the target and then allow the rest of space outside the bubble to move faster-than-light, thus removing relativistic effects and the laws of physics that prevent that traveling object itself from passing light-speed.
However, the Fenghuang's Quantum Impeller Drive is untold ages more advanced than its Terran counterpart, in no small part due to how long separates when the two distinct drives were developed.  The Q.I.D., instead of just letting space slide by faster than normal outside a secure pocket of real space, incorporated technologies that allowed it to reach speeds a Terran normally only encounters in science fiction.  At its highest settings, a Q.I.D. operated no different than a Spatial Fold Drive while lower settings, though not the lowest, created wormhole like tunnels the traveling object traversed to its destination.
Unlike the Terran S.W.D., the Q.I.D. did not have to be deactivated and the traveling object slowed to safe sublight speeds in order to turn.  As part of the technologies the Zodiac Empire incorporated, the Q.I.D. turned its pocket of real space into a drill that allowed the traveling object to 'tunnel' its way through space, thus how it was able to achieve such high velocities.
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