Thrawn
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New Engines - Pulse Drives
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PULSE DRIVE TECHNOLOGY:
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DESCRIPTION:
The Pulse Drive technology unique to the Black Guard is a new invention that, were it not for the exclusivity of BG technology, would revolutionize the starship industry. The drive came about as an answer to the desire to have a clean, non-polluting propulsion drive, that functioned both in atmosphere and in space.
Normal subspace drives operate on the principle of matter expulsion, whether it be chemical fuel or ion particles. Matter is projected one way, and the craft moves in the exact opposite direction, with a speed relative to the amount and energy of the matter expelled.
The Pulse Drive is more like a large Repulsor unit than it is like a normal subspace drive. But, unlike repulsor technology, the Pulse Drive does not need to have a surface to "push" against. Instead, the drive generates a series of pulses, that distorts space in wave-like forms, using the "waves" to propel itself forward.
A single pulse can be heard (in atmosphere) as a low-frequency hum of short duration, but since a craft requires a series of pulses to propel it, the actual sound a ship fitted with a Pulse Drive makes is more like a humming, vibrating sound. As the craft increases in speed, so does the vibrating sound increase in tempo.
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PULSE DRIVE MANIFOLD:
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DESCRIPTION:
Rather than fitting an entirely new drive to a starship, the existing one can be fitted with a Pulse Drive Manifold over the thrusters of the ship. This allows existing drives to take advantage of the Pulse Drive technology with only relatively minor modifications. While the Manifold does nothing to reduce fuel consumption, it does lessen the pollution the drive causes, and the increases the overall speed of the ship.
SYSTEM:
A Pulse drive manifold increases the size of the drive by 25 percent. Thus, if the drive used to take up 50 metric tons of space, it now takes up 62.5 metric tons. The craft gets a Space Move increase of +3, and it doubles the crafts atmospheric speed. Due to its hybrid nature, the drive only gets a +5 difficulty to detect, instead of the normal bonus. The Pulse drive manifold is relatively cheap to produce - it costs the same as the drive it is being fitted to.
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PULSE DRIVE:
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DESCRIPTION:
The ful-fledged Pulse Drive is a marvel of technology. It is also becoming the Black Guards star drive of choice. All new ships are fitted with this superior, although costly drive. A ship with this drive has a different sort of power core, built especially for use with the pulse drive (see: Plasma Power Cores).
SYSTEM:
The Pulse Drive is probably the most efficient sublight drive known in the galaxy at its time of inception. A ship that has its regular stardrive replaced with a "standard" pulse drive of the same size receives a +6 to its space move, and a tripling of its atmosphere speed. Since the drive uses the "push-space" method, it is extremely difficult for non-modified sensors to detect. Add +30 to all difficulties in detecting the ship from engine emissions (since there are virtually none). The drive is quite costly, costing 5 times as much as a normal stardrive of the same size.
On of the ships that has this technology is the dragon Class fighter
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