Penrose Drive
"... activate Penrose drive, full speed." - Captain of Galleon "Darkest Night"
Utility
It is used to propel projectiles very quickly and to travel between star systems.
Parent Technologies
Access & Availability
Every Single ship capable of leaving a system is equipped with a Penrose drive.
Complexity
The technology generated two micro singularities that through a strange and not fully understood process, orbit and propel a vessel at faster than light speeds, capping out at 120 times the speed of light.
Discovery
Just months after a mass launch of sublight cryosleep ships, a research vessel leaving Europa accidentally destroyed its fusion core, creating two twin singularities and propelling it into the nearby Sirius system. After an FTL message reached sol, the accident was quickly replicated in lab conditions and the Penrose drive born.
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