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Akwende Projection -
A popular method of mapping jumps.
Akwende Propulsion
System - A device for entering naturally occurring jump
points.
Antigraviton -
Particle counterpart to the graviton where their half-life is only several microseconds.
Makes up a universal antigraviton sea. Antigravitons naturally flow away from
areas of high gravity and towards jump points. High concentrations of
antigravitons affect the nature of space in a manner similar to highly massive
objects.
Antigraviton Field
- The 500 meter radius sphere of energy created by allowing antigravitons to
reach a jump point before decaying. The radius is a constant, based on the
half-life of the antigraviton.
Antigraviton Flow
- The movement of antigravitons from areas of high gravity towards jump points.
Antigraviton Generator
- A matter/antimatter power plant used to create
antigravitons. Such devices form the centre of both Morvan and Akwende
Propulsion units.
Antigraviton Potential
Field - The portion of the antigraviton sea between
an area of high mass and the Olivarez Equilibrium Boundary. There are no jump
points within an antigraviton potential field.
Antigraviton Sea
- The term given to the natural flow of antigravitons from areas of gravity
towards jump points. It is so dubbed because there is evidence that
antigraviton fields have tides, which may disrupt the passage of a jump capable
ship.
Antigraviton Tropic
Anomaly - Older term for a jump point, now in disuse.
Black Hole
- An area of space-time with a gravitational field so intense that its escape
velocity is equal to or exceeds the speed of light.
Dallas
– Unique anomaly, in that it contains only one jump point -- leading back to
itself!
D-Drive
- Traditional FTL drive used in the 24th century by the Tri-System.
Echo Dimension
- A "dead dimension" reachable by continuing to travel exponentially
faster using a D-Drive.
Equipotential
Eclipsing - A common occurrence in which a variable
stellar object (a planet or moon) blocks a jump line, creating a transfer
station.
Gravitic Warping
- The process of using tachyons or antigravitons to transfer physical matter
across a jump line.
Graviton
- A hypothetical particle postulated to be the quantum of gravitational
interaction and presumed to have an indefinitely long lifetime, zero electric
charge, and zero rest mass.
Haile Selassie
- The first Common Wealth Nations Jump Gate Station
Hopper Drive
- Common name of the Morvan Drive.
Jump Drive
- See Akwende Propulsion System.
Jump Gate
- Device that permanently keeps open a jump point, allowing any ship to pass.
Jump Line
- The naturally occurring path between two opposing jump points.
Jump Nexus
- See Antigraviton Field.
Jump Node
- See Jump Point.
Jump Point
- A naturally occurring spatial anomaly created by objects of high mass which
allows certain particles to enter jumpspace.
Jump Space
- The dimensional plane accessible via jump points.
Jump Trace
- See Jump Wake.
Jump Tunnel
- See jump line.
Jump Wake
- The traces left behind when a ship uses its Akwende Propulsion System.
Klein Vessel
- Portion of the Morvan Drive through which antigravitons pass after being
created.
Matter/Antimatter
Reacto - Portion of the Morvan Drive that generates
antigravitons.
Morvan, Dr. Andre
- Scientist responsible for legitimizing the possibility of an antigraviton
drive. Namesake of the Morvan (Hopper) Drive.
Morvan Drive
- Linear predecessor of the Akwende (Jump) Drive, also known as the
"Hopper Drive". The Morvan Drive forces ships through jumpspace using
artificial antigraviton wells.
Node Deceleration
- The dangerous shaking that larger ships undergo when leaving jumpspace.
Olivarez Equilibrium
Boundary - The invisible boundary that separates the
antigraviton potential field and a jump point.
Pulsar
- Any of several celestial radio sources emitting short intense bursts of radio
waves, x-rays, or visible electromagnetic radiation at regular intervals, generally
believed to be rotating neutron stars.
Quasa
- An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is
several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
Reaction Containment
Field - Portion of the Morvan Drive that collects
antigravitons generated by the matter/anti-matter reactor.
Red Dwarf
- A small cool star; approximately 100 times the mass of Jupiter.
Scylla
- An unusual gravitic 30,000-kilometre radius anomaly. Emits both gravitons and
antigravitons from another universe, and completely cloaks itself in a 1,000-kilometre
sheath of the latter particle.
SuperNode
- A unique jump point created by a Pulsar, capable of jumping to another Pulsar
with the equivalent frequency.
Tachyon
- A hypothetical subatomic particle that always travels faster than the speed
of light.
Trace Analyzer
- Specialized device used for detecting and measuring the wake left by a ships
jump drive.
Transfer Station
- A point in deep space created by equipotential eclipsing. A transfer station
will have two jump points -- one back to its original destination and one to
the intended destination.
Variable Flux Engine
- Device used by most military and some civilian ships to help 'cloak' a jump
by suppressing the bright flash produced by unused energy at jump-out and
jump-in.
Way Station
- Star systems with larger stars and uninhabitable jump lines. So called
because of the fact that objects with higher masses attract more jump points,
the majority of jump lines lead to them.
Well Field Integrator
- Portion of the Morvan Drive that streams and ejects antigravitons, creating a
jumpspace well.