What drive systems do starships have?
A starship has two main drive systems – Warp drive and a reaction drive. The reaction drive is used for manoeuvring and travel within a gravity well that won’t allow the warp drive to engage. Once far enough out of the gravity well, the warp drive can be engaged. However, that doesn’t mean that it goes straight into FTL speed. At a warp factor of less than 1 (e.g Warp 0.3), it acts like a reactionless drive – warping space to pull the ship along. This can accelerate the starship to a large percentage of the speed of light. That’s when time dilation becomes a factor. However, once it exceeds Warp 1, it effectively drops out of the normal universe and is subject to different physical laws. Time dilation does not occur due to its speed. There are other factors that affect relative time, but they are trivial and easily compensated for. Goldfur works on a Star Corps ship which frequently utilises sub-lightspeed warp to make swift passes through a star system in order to do scans of planets,
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