Frameshift Drives

## Overview

Frameshift Drives are the premier system of Tenásian Faster than Light Travel, with the current 3 Systems in Tenásian Operation being the DD-67, DN-60 and DR-58.

## Way of Functioning

The Frame Shift Drive features two modes: Low Frameshift, which allows travel at faster-than-light speeds within a star system, and High Frameshift, which allows rapid travel through hyperspace from one system to another.

When in Low Frameshift, rather than accelerating a ship through normal space, the Frameshift Drive moves space around a ship to allow it to travel faster-than-light without using extreme amounts of energy or experiencing time distortion. This is similar in principle to the Alcubierre drive design. When in High Frameshift, the Frameshift Drive opens a wormhole and forms a stable, temporary corridor between the point of departure and the destination for a ship to pass through, the wormhole is a crude creation that requires immense amounts of fuel, as of 2105, the Frameshift Drive is the only way to form a wormhole. Most ships leave behind transient wakes after they jump.

## Usage

Frameshift Drives require the sealing of all exterior access points and for a craft to move to a certain distance from gravitational fields and large masses (Breaking Mass Lock). The polarisation of Hull Armour is a common precaution, though not required. Upon sealing access points and breaking Mass Lock, the FSD can be charged, the original AA-01 FSD from 2015 took around 15 minutes to spool, with a 5 minute cooldown at the end, the AA-01 was limited to High Frameshift. In the modern day, the DR-58 and DN-60 FSDs can spool up in 5 seconds, with no cooldown.

It is worth noting, that the injection of Exotic Compounds into an FSD will massively increase its range in High Frameshift by decreasing fuel usage, this has only been used once, to launch a Manticore Class Cruiser from Tenas straight to Earth, a trip that, for a ship the size of a Manticore, would require a refuelling. The Manticore's FSD was crippled upon arrival.

## History

In 2015, Gensturn Mellvai Colzonaeik under the watchful eye of Emperor Saleis Naeoi IV unveiled the AA-01 Frameshift Drive to great success. Emperor Naeoi IV oversaw the AA-01 and its successors, the AA-10, AB-32 and AD-08 being used to complete the colonisation of the Tenmas-Masten System, Naeoi also oversaw the first survey ships arriving in Ares-Zealot, with her successor Chancellor Harvek seeing the initial colonisation of Ares-Zealot and the first survey ships around Mintaka, by Harvek's assumption of the Chancellorship, all Tenásian Vessels were fitted with AH-12 FSDs. In 2050, the revolutionary BA-10 FSD, first of the B Series, was developed, dropping spool time down to 5 minutes, this coincided with the Final Stages of Ares-Zealot's colonisation and the start of Mintaka's colonisation. In 2069, the C Series was developed, dropping spool down further down to 1 minute, enabling Chancellor Shran of Suenor to begin his Military Modernisation Program. The latest series, the D Series, was developed in 2088, days before Chancellor Shras' of Soin and L'men rose to the Chancellorship, with the Drives being fitted into Shran's 2nd Wave Design Ships and later Shras's 3rd and 4th Wave Design Ships.

In 2104, Tenas offered DA-32 and DA-49 drives to the Kalmar Union to fit onto Poltava Class Cruisers and Svenskund Class Heavy Cruisers, and potentially onto the ships of other European powers. With the testing of the Suzkui-Zhang FTL System, The Kalmar Government is fast tracking this through.