How do Pilgrims relate to jump drives?
The term Pilgrim has been applied to many things: radical terrorists, a legitimate political group, a religion… but in relation to jump drives, it ref errs to ancestors of those born with Space Syndrome Mutation. The altered brain of a Pilgrim allows him or her a greater conscious comprehension of Parallel Tonality — the ability to contact “dead” dimensions. Two types of Pilgrims interest this study: Explorers and Navigators. Pilgrim Explorers have the ability to ‘see’ the subspace plane, and to understand the various gravitic effects and what they mean to FTL travel. Pilgrim Navigators can use their altered minds to ‘see’ the paths laid out by Explorers who had already charted jump points. As of the 28th century, there are no living Pilgrims. Pilgrim ‘powers’ were confirmed by a defecting Pilgrim scientist at Mars University. Lang Tanaka published a 2641 report on Pilgrim powers, which was censured by the CIS, as it endagered the then-in-development NAVCOM A.I. project. The connect
