What is the history of the Akwende Propulsion System?
Upon creating the first antigraviton generator in 2214, Dr. Shari Akwende discovered something interesting: antigravitons do not produce their theorized thrust. Instead, they naturally move towards a fixed spot in the solar system. Repeating her experiments during an early mission to Pluto, Dr. Akwende triangulated the location towards which these anti-gravitons naturally flowed: a point in space between Neptune and Pluto that pointed towards Alpha Centauri. Although it was not known at the time, this, which she termed a Antigraviton Tropic Anomaly, was the first discovery of a jump point. The first actual jump drives were created by the Pilgrim Alliance around 2504. Their existence was kept secret from the Confederation, which developed its own prototype Akwende Drive in 2588. The jump drive was invented by the Lower African Republic’s Aerospace Afrique, the same institution Dr. Akwende had served hundreds of years earlier. The Haile Selassie made the first jump from Sol to Polaris on
