Kalian Hyperdrives

"Kalian Hyperdrives" are built on the backbone of early warp bubble research. Warp-bubble, or “superluminal” faster-than- light travel, is a significant improvement in speed and reach for starships. This technology is quite new, with the drives only being available for the last 20 or so years.
That research was largely abandoned after the advent of hyperspace drive, but its promise of much faster space travel kindled the research flame. After Link Up, when human, kalian, and rakashan scientists finally pooled their knowledge and resources, the first small-scale warp-bubble experiments succeeded—primarily because the warp bubble was actually created within the hyperspace dimensions, something that had not been attempted until then—ushering in the modern star travel paradigm and making for a truly inter-species endeavor.

Utility

These drives can halve the time it takes to travel between star systems compared to a normal hyperdrives.

Manufacturing

A Kalian company called QuaronCo bought the technology from the researchers and is the primary manufacturer of this type of FTL drive.

Parent Technologies

• Hyperdrives

Access & Availability

Available in limited quantities across most systems, but the drive costs twice as much as a normal FTL drive.

Discovery

The initial theories around warp-bubble technology date back to pre-star travel researchers on Earth, Kali (Zeta Pyxidis-6) and Tazan who speculated space could be contracted in front of a bit of space configured with a lower energy-density field than normal vacuum, while the space behind it could be simultaneously expanded, forcing the bubble from place to place at faster-than-light— or superluminal—relative velocities.