Region: Everyshore
Constellation: Odilis
System: Quier
Security: 0.7
Sovereignty: Ardenian Federation
CONCORD had already requested assets of the Federation Navy to facilitate the bridging of the Blue Legion. They had yet to communicate this fact with the coalition and the coalition had yet to discover the true extent and ability of native Ayen drive systems. The evolution of Ayen drive systems had produced five distinct drive technologies.
For sub-luminal movement the majority of vessels in Ayenee and Eden utilize an augmented fusion rocket and thruster system, usually consisting of one or more fusion reactors, an accelerator, a driver coil assembly, and a number of vectored thrust nozzles to direct the plasma exhaust. The fusion reaction generates a highly energized plasma. This plasma, is then employed for propulsion and can be diverted through the EPS to the power transfer grid, via EPS conduits, so as to supply other systems. The accelerated plasma is passed through the driver coils, thereby generating a limited subspace or warp field which improves the propulsive effect.
For faster than luminal movement the majority of vessels in Ayenee and Eden utilize the warp core drive system which warps space-time behind and in front of the vessel causing the fabric of the universe to push the starship in the desired direction at speeds greater than light. To power such a device the ships utilize engines fueled by the reaction of matter (hydrogen) and antimatter (anti-hydrogen) suspended in a strong electromagnetic field and diverted through an assembly of diamondine crystals, which are nonreactive with antimatter when subjected to high-frequency electromagnetic fields.
These reactions also produce highly energized plasma which is channeled by the electro-plasma system (EPS). The plasma is funneled by plasma injectors into a series of warp field coils surrounding the warp core. These coils generate the warp field. Though there is no limit to how fast a ship can move utilizing a warp core drive system the energy demands do increase depending on how massive the vessel is and how fast it is pushed as stronger and stronger warp fields are needed as those two variables are increased and the total measurement of energy in the universe is finite.
The third drive system developed in Ayenee was only recently implemented and is in limited use primarily by CONCORD. The drift drive system, also known as the phase drive utilizes gate technology and the warp core drive system to phase a vessel's mass to the very edge and border of the universe. In this state the vessel skips across a higher cosmological dimension in which space-time and such ideals as the conservation of energy and thermodynamics are bent to the very brink of shattering.
The drift drive system allows for swift inter-galactic travel at speeds that the traditional warp core drive system would not be able to accomplish with the combined total energy in the universe at its disposal.
The forth drive system was introduced with the invention of the gates nearly fifty stellar years ago and is the predecessor to the drift drive system. While the drift drive system causes a vessel to skip across phase space the jump drive system causes a vessel to completely exit the universe and enter phase space to return at any point in space-time through the use of a bridge and a cynosural field, a jump drive and a cynosural field, or two linked gates. Though the system does seem to break some paradoxical laws due to the constant speed of light this is a matter of perception relative to an observer at a defined point in space-time. The system can not reverse the arrow of time in relation to the universe as a whole but does allow for instantaneous travel anywhere in the observable universe provided some conditions are met.
The fifth drive system is a covert version of the jump drive system and changes only a little in application.
The Erebus class titan. A 14km long vessel of Ardenian origin.
The fourteen kilometer long Ardenian titan awaited the beacon and green light outside of the outpost station orbiting the twenty-seventh moon of the fourth planet in the Quier system in Ayenee. The titan was waiting to make the jump into the Garden so that it could bridge the Blue Legion back to Quier.
Location: CYS-81/923
Admiral Arlan directed EGO to send a query for direction and also relay the solution to get the Blue Legion to Ayenee that same day without leaving their equipment or personnel behind.