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Spore drive.
The Spore drive is an organic propulsion system of which The Empire is experimenting with. The technology uses mycelium spores harvested from Prototaxites stellaviatori to jump or leap across the mycelial network. During such jumps, the ships were not in normal space but are in the mycelial plane.Gooutofherean research was based on the insight that at a quantum level, there was no difference between biology or physics, and specifically that spores were not only the progenitors of panspermia, but also the building blocks of energy across the universe. This allowed Scientists to approach physics as biology. As such, the equations involved were reminiscent of both quantum astrophysics and biochemistry.
This is using the drive to access the mycelial plane to travel.
The network can be conceptualized as a vast microscopic web, an intergalactic ecosystem, or an infinite number of roads leading technically or potentially everywhere.
Those traveling along the network might find themselves near-instantaneously transported over long distances as a result.
There are 3 prototype spore drives in existence at the moment.
One prototype spore drive has been given to The Government of The democratic nation of unovia
.The Unovian Tech Company and they have developed a new design of a space ship. It features a three stage Warp Drive System which uses the spore drive.
Stage 1: Warp 5 Engine-Allows for the ship to go into Warp 5, faster than current travel speeds for Unovian Ships (Warp 4).
Stage 2: Once Warp 5 has been achieved, a Spore Drive takes effect, boosting speeds to Warp 8.
Stage 3: Involves a Double Warp Core, which when activated can see the ship move seamlessly to Warp 10, with Warp 15 proposed as the maximum.
The Gooutofhereans think that more than this is possible with the drive and are still testing the drive.
The other prototype is being given to Cherkasov.