Engines

### Advanced Engines

This is the basic engine for the ships in the datacore. It provides 30% more thrust using the same amount of power as an Imperial design. These engines also provide a lot more manoeuvrability than modern designs which is a major advantage by itself. These engines are found on the cheaper warships and are the easiest to make.

### Heavy Engines

This is the engine designed for maximum efficiency rather than speed. It provides 15% more thrust using 80% of the power of an Imperial design. These engines also provide a lot more manoeuvrability than modern designs which is a major advantage by itself. These engines are found on the more heavily armoured designs, including most of the larger warships.

### Fast Engines

This is the engine designed for maximum speed rather than efficiency. It provides 120% more thrust using double the power of an Imperial design. These engines also provide a lot more manoeuvrability than modern designs which is a major advantage by itself. These engines are found on the faster designs, including all of the battlecruisers.

### Stealth Engines

This is the engine designed for stealth above all other considerations. It provides 70% of the thrust using 80% of the power when compared to an Imperial design. However the true strength of the design is its massive manoeuvrability and the fact that the engine releases far fewer particles and emissions than an ordinary design, making it far harder to detect.

### Advanced Rotary Thrusters

The next interesting STC is the design for some advanced rotary thrusters that will allow space stations to quickly turn in place, allowing them to bombard attackers with more weapons batteries and to spread out incoming fire over their entire breadth rather then a single facing. Installing these will be a major effort but according to Freya they will greatly increase the effect of the larger defence platforms and space stations in major battles.

## Gravitic Engines

Four years ago Archmagos Tranth was able to figure out how to replicate the Gravitic Engines of the Well of Urd. He tells you that while these engines are expensive they can currently be installed on anything from a Light Cruiser to a Superdreadnought, and with additional work may be able to be fitted on even smaller vessels. A Gravitic Engine can be installed beside traditional engines and twists gravity in a way that allows for gradual acceleration in any direction without compromising stealth to any but the most advanced of sensors, and without needing that much power to function. This will allow for ships with them to move under a great deal more stealth then any other engine, though not at combat speeds. As such ship with Gravitic Engines will need to have traditional engines as well and use the Gravitic Engine to move into position before a battle. Additionally Gravitic Engines can be used mid battle to provide a small degree of extra manoeuvrability, being able to accelerate the ship slowly in any direction, which can be the difference between a successful maneuver and a failed maneuver.

## Advanced Singularity Thrusters

One day some researchers over in the Helheim system decided to create a ship mounted singularity projector, with the intention of shooting black holes at their enemies. This failed, they couldn't get enough range on it, it wouldn't actually provide enough gravitational pull to form an event horizon, and the gravity pulled on the ship in weird and unpredictable ways, so they gave up on the idea.

Then someone else picked it up and decided to run with it. They realised that by projecting a gravitational well a little ways off of a ship they could make the ship ‘fall’ in that direction. While the thrust gained in this manner was not exceptional compared to conventional systems, its ability to change the vector of small ships without losing speed was extremely useful to dodging, allowing a ship to throw their entire velocity into a new heading and vector, and improving the maximum distance that they could dodge attacks by in every direction, especially to the rear.

They would essentially slingshot the craft around an arbitrary point in space, allowing it to dodge incoming attacks far more easily. Though it only somewhat increased its rate of travel it had a vast effect on the ship's ability to avoid incoming fire.

By the time the creators of the system were killed research was ongoing in adapting the system to larger craft, but was facing challenges as the creators tried to compensate for the structural strain caused by the uneven pull of gravity on large objects. It was hoped that this system or some variant of it could compensate for the reduced manoeuvrability that immense ships suffer. A Data-Jewel containing the completed design and research was found on Diephobe.