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Description
Ship Class:
Observant Heavy Cruiser
(Rough Kimbeau Translation: Observant Guardian of heavenly justice type heavy secondary combat ship)
Dimensions:
Length: 4025m
Width: 1575m
Height: 1575m
Mass: 275,000,000 metric tons (empty) 330,000,000 metric tons (full)
Est Manufacturing Cost: Δ 2,000,000,000,000
Overview:
The Observant-Class began development shortly after the opening of the Scarlet Veil and the first contact with extragalactic civilizations. With gaussian naval presence now required on an intergalactic scale, superluminal travel time became a much more critical factor. The standard of around 1000 lightyears per hour of travel time no longer adequate to facilitate rapid deployment of military force to far-flung regions of the gedau supercluster.

However gaussians were constrained by their understanding of subspace physics and drive technology, with the only ships able to travel significantly faster being extremely large vessels. Hence the cruiser was not made larger simply on the philosophy of “bigger ship is better” but the size increase was largely to host an overpowered subspace drive that could allow vastly faster travel times. The ship being intended for use with the Galactic fleets in the practiced fractal lotus sphere formation. It could also handle escort or patrol duties typically assigned to a whole fleet of smaller ships and much more rapidly respond to a developing situation.
Weapons:
1 Photokinetic hardlight projector
1 A class spinally mounted mass driver (50 ton projectile at 0.45c)
4 B class mass drivers (12.5 ton projectile at 0.40c)
48 SPRKKM tubes (Superheavy missiles compatiable with Polarity Missiles, Antimatter-fueled RKKMs or traditional ‘Super-Skipper’ warheads)
96 45-Cell Detatchable Torpedo Magazines
60 HLO-429 MK2 Vanquisher Point Defense Nodes
Passive Defense:
Standard gaussian armoring scheme (see Vigilance-Class for full details). Additional armor around Reactor Cores, Bridge, Subspace Drive and the ship’s actively supported superstructure.
Active Defense:
Top of the line hardlight shielding. Since the effectiveness of Hardlight defenses were typically tied directly to the capabilities of the ship’s sensor grid and computer hardware, the Observant had both highly efficient hardlight barrier systems and plenty of energy to divert into creating photokinetic plates. The controlling computer was “precognative” and would remember the trajectory and behavior of various projectiles and weapons even when sensors were disabled and attempt to anticipate impacts.
Electronics:
-Tiapita opto-electronic computation array. An experimental computer built on the hardware level to run computations of the subspace induction scanners and primary drive. Rather than using transistors it utilized a complex array of nano-scale metamaterial crystals to fire photons through a mostly-clear but polarizing substrate and create logic gates, set inside a one meter cube of porous diamond with active cooling running through the porous structure. The computer was physically built on the hardware level only to resolve the ‘harry potter math problem’ one billion times per second. -2500 Kon-Ta standard shipboard computer arrays.
-Kon-Shaper 1283 supercomputer core. Reserved as a backup for the subspace drives and sensors or primarily to run the ship’s onboard Ci, if it had one. It could turn over its processing power to the sensor analysis suite. The Kon-Shaper 1283 was composed of 2,097,152 3D PTM cores linked by internal quantum thread connections. This in essence made the single core a 4-dimensional computer able to route circuit traces through ‘higher dimensions’ Able to resolve complex computations.
-Shipmaster AI. Generic ‘dumb’ AI used to operate ship functions.
-2500 Cyberwarfare AI. Dumb AI which endlessly peruse the ships systems searching for discrepancies that could indicate attempted hacking and autonomously purge malignant software.
-Cyberwarfare Ci. ‘smart’ fully sentient cybernetic intelligence created for the purposes of cyberwarfare. Vastly more intelligent than a cyberwarfare AI; can actually create them.
-PID system. You cant fly the ship if you don’t have a personal identifier symbiote
-Shield control computer. Advanced system linked into the sensors that uses predictive algorithms and sensor monitoring to anticipate enemy fire and generate hard light plates to avoid damage.
-8 SLJ-10-10 Superluminal Jamming Arrays -Targeting computer. Computer designed to assist with weapon targeting and lock.
-Sensor analyisis suite. Designed to interpret and analyze sensor data. Can locate discrepancies in sensor data and alert crew members if potential stealth craft are identified, or raise the alarm for other anomalies.
-Jam-Hardened Tightbeam Radio array
-Advanced subspace transmission capibilities
-Quantum Thread Switchboard
Sensors:
-FEWIS-Type Hemispherical Passive Sensor Array. This large dome-like structure is a modified version of the sensor arrays present on gaussian early warning stations. This type of array deemed non-viable for ships as vibrations from battle or hard maneuvers could knock the complex “compound eye” telescope array out of alignment. Advances in metamaterial lenses, and stabilization technology have made such an array viable for use on a starship. This array can produce a 180 degree image with a resolution of around 25 Petapixels (25 quadrillion pixels) with a refresh rate of 42,000 times per second and a data precision of 16,384 color values across eight overlapping spectral bands. With a significant capacity to adjust up or down its sensitivity and detect and isolate individual photons or polarize against aggressive lighting or jamming. The array works primarily in the visual and ultraviolet spectrum. The entire array is maintained by a large micro and nanobot colony and permeating fluid and covered in self healing lenses harder than diamond.
-TASS-OT Infrared Detection array. A large infrared telescope array built onto the southern axis of the vessel for passive detection of blackbody radiation. This extremely sensitive instrument is cooled by a large neutrino radiator array can be dialed to accurately detect an objects’ temperature to within 1/10,000th of a degree, and is used to spot spacecraft attempting to blend into background radiation through thermal masking.
-4 Lucidity-Type sensor banks. These large rounded modules contained an arsenal of full spectrum sensors and electronic warfare equipment which was highly configurable based on available technology and needed equipment. Intended primarily as a backup if the FEWIS-type array, and to cover the extreme ends of the electromagnetic spectrum which the FEWIS array could not.
-Kasidon OCT Bimodal Xadar. Consisting of 320 panels built into the ship’s forward ridges, this radar array was one of the few sensor systems to have a complete 360 degree sphere of visibility around the ship. Most sensor systems being fixed forward or at minimum having a blind spot directly behind a ship when the engines were active, requiring formation tactics for full coverage. With each panel able to draw around 100 Terawats (the whole array being 32 Petawatts), the array drawing much more power than previous Kasidon xadar systems. When used in traditional mode, it sweeps space around the ship with intense X-rays which strip electrons off the outer surface of an object. In essence functioning like a massively oversized X-ray spectrometer the energy of the returning electron can be analyzed to not only identify a an object which is otherwise invisible, but determine its material composition. The system can also work in holographic mode, wherein it projects a holographic grid (tens of thousands of kilometers across, shifted into the X-ray spectrum) sweeps it across space observes the grid for distortions caused by holographic or light-manipulating cloaking fields. Xadar could also detect extremely small objects down to the scale of nano-weapons, even at great range.
-ULF tranciever arrays. Functioning as large sensitive and configurable “eardrums” that could send and recieve extremely low frequency electromagnetic rays almost indistinguishable from background radiation. These could be used as both sensor systems and auxiliary communications systems.
-BLMS (Bilateral Magnemometry System) A powerful magnetic field detection array mounted on the southern axis used to detect magnetic fields produced by ships. It is fully effective when the main drive engines are shut down.
-8-Lobe GMTSS semi-newtonian gravitic microtractor sensor system. A system which fires billions of microscopic graviton columns. The graviton columns can sweep across space and pull back on the sensor array if they detect an object with mass due to newtons second law of motion. 8 Nodes are installed in the forward ridges. The system was adjustable with each node able to scan independently or cooperatively to detect ships invisible to EM detection.
-SIS-484. Second only to the Omniscience class and its permutations of subspace induction scanner the 484 model of subspace scanner utilized subtorsioners just like the main drive. This exponentially improved the fidelity and range of the much smaller and less power intensive scanner array, though at the cost of requiring even more computational power. The computational array was experimental and could sometimes crash (particularly in the prototype phase of the ship’s design) Able to effectively spot ships and objects at a range of about a light-month and detect incoming ships traveling through subspace or phased into higher dimensions.
Utilities:
-Onboard machine shop and factory facility. The observant-class had a particularly large and advanced machine shop to allow it to operate for extended periods in the field without logistical support. The machine shop held a small atomic alchemy collider allowing the production of bulk amounts of needed elements and electron lattice memory cells, from the ships fuel or from raw materials and extensive plasma centerfuges for breaking down raw materials and scrapping debris. The machine shop was limited in that it did not contain arsmithing facilities, and thus could not repair or replicate torsion bands.
-Onboard hospital with an automated reconstruction theatre.
-Refueling Drouge. This is a long space elevator cable connected to a large collapsable scoop-like sail construct made of an advanced nanomaterial. This drogue would be dangled into the atmosphere of a gas giant or ice giant and collect hydrogen fuel for the ship. The drogue was connected to a refinery module to compress the gaseous hydrogen into liquid metallic hydrogen and separate deuterium and tritium isotopes. Under ideal circumstances the drogue could collect and pump around 10,000 tons of hydrogen per hour. Such modules were sometimes equipped to other gaussian vessels intended for extended deployment.
-The life support system uses a cryogenic ductless atmosphere system. This means the atmospheric gasses are liquefied and pumped around the ship, the ship has no air ducts only small insulated cryogenic tubes. The ship’s internal atmosphere is made of an argon-neon-oxygen mixture.
-There are sterilization sprayers hidden around the ship, specifically on the entrance to the bridge, in the hangars and docking gangways.
-The ship has powerful reactive inertial dampeners and artificial gravity within the livable sections, capable of cancellation up to 35g of acceleration. However the entire crew are provided with and drilled on heading to crash couches in the event of an emergency. The artificial gravity system also produces microscopic gravity waves configured to interfere with teleportation and phasic technology.
-The observant has a local anti-teleport spacetime lattice interdiction system in addition to a 15-light-second-range local interdiction system.
Power Generation:
The Observant uses five MX-350 9th generation antimatter polarity reactors able to output 50PJ/second (250 PJ for the array), the tried and true model of the venerable Vigilance class, with the reactors being more or less interchangeable. Four reactors are seated near the rear of the vessel while the fifth is in the front section and all inside armored casing. This rectified the primary weakness of the vigilance class in that the ship was no longer an all-or-nothing design. Built more in line with direct combat warships like the Falconer and Relegator which could lose reactors and continue functioning. Multi reactor setups were however vastly less efficient and more expensive and maintenance heavy per unit of power produced.
-Smaller auxiliary fusion reactors were installed around the ship, standard.
-The Observant had a large reserve of momentum capacitors to store energy for burst energy usage in CQB, most of them being installed internally throughout the ship. The momentum capacitor array capable of holding around 75PwH of power, equivalent to 20 minutes of reactor array run time.
-Emergency battery banks for life support and cold restart.
Support Craft Compliment:
32 Seeker or Vanguard gunships
48 Aerospace Fighters with Drone Wings
72 Xashur or Cramithia Dropships
Crew Compliment:
-GDCDC Ci 
-260 Officers
-1400 Enlisted
-100,000 Squires -Standard Microbot/Nanobot colony maintinence system
Troop Compliment:
-up to 20,000 troops along with 320,000 KR-series war droids and ground vehicles for deployment.
Engines and FTL:
-The Observant makes use of a five-drive configuration with four outer drives on the intermediate axes and a singular central drive for additional thrust, with these drives being a slightly upgraded version of the drive already ued by the vigilance class. This configuration means that any two drives can be shut damaged or shut down and the ship will retain some capacity for forward thrust. Multi-drive configurations also allow for turning on the main drives through differential or even deflected reverse thrust, meaning the ship needs fewer reaction thrusters. The Observant also has an extended fuel bay for prolonged deployments. Where most gaussian vessels carry protium fuel to be used as reaction mass for sub-light power and in antimatter annihilation with polarity reactors but at a mass ratio of only 3-10%, the Observant can increase in mass by as much as 20% when fully fueled.
-64 Reaction thrust plates (identical to vigilance class)
-The Observant makes use of highly specialized 4th Subtorsioning Generation Tasirist-Gulumari Subspace Ascention Drive. This means many small arsium torsion rings are installed alongside the main torsion bands. These can ‘streamline’ the ship as it moves through subspace, allowing it to achieve much higher speeds by finely tuning the field. Theoretically up to over 9000 lightyears per hour or 9 times faster than a standard cruiser if the drive is calibrated using new formulas that are still resolved by supercomputer arrays. Presently most ships achieve around 3500. Maintaining these smaller rings made the drive more maintenance intensive and losing even one subtorsioner would completely disable the functionality. The drive could operate in a fallback mode using only the main torsion rings, at a more standard speed of 1,250 lightyears per hour. Ships could replace secondary torsion rings in the field from a limited onboard supply but not make new ones.

Description
Ship Class:
Observant Heavy Cruiser
(Rough Kimbeau Translation: Observant Guardian of heavenly justice type heavy secondary combat ship)
Dimensions:
Length: 4025m
Width: 1575m
Height: 1575m
Mass: 275,000,000 metric tons (empty) 330,000,000 metric tons (full)
Est Manufacturing Cost: Δ 2,000,000,000,000
Overview:
The Observant-Class began development shortly after the opening of the Scarlet Veil and the first contact with extragalactic civilizations. With gaussian naval presence now required on an intergalactic scale, superluminal travel time became a much more critical factor. The standard of around 1000 lightyears per hour of travel time no longer adequate to facilitate rapid deployment of military force to far-flung regions of the gedau supercluster.

However gaussians were constrained by their understanding of subspace physics and drive technology, with the only ships able to travel significantly faster being extremely large vessels. Hence the cruiser was not made larger simply on the philosophy of “bigger ship is better” but the size increase was largely to host an overpowered subspace drive that could allow vastly faster travel times. The ship being intended for use with the Galactic fleets in the practiced fractal lotus sphere formation. It could also handle escort or patrol duties typically assigned to a whole fleet of smaller ships and much more rapidly respond to a developing situation.
Weapons:
1 Photokinetic hardlight projector
1 A class spinally mounted mass driver (50 ton projectile at 0.45c)
4 B class mass drivers (12.5 ton projectile at 0.40c)
48 SPRKKM tubes (Superheavy missiles compatiable with Polarity Missiles, Antimatter-fueled RKKMs or traditional ‘Super-Skipper’ warheads)
96 45-Cell Detatchable Torpedo Magazines
60 HLO-429 MK2 Vanquisher Point Defense Nodes
Passive Defense:
Standard gaussian armoring scheme (see Vigilance-Class for full details). Additional armor around Reactor Cores, Bridge, Subspace Drive and the ship’s actively supported superstructure.
Active Defense:
Top of the line hardlight shielding. Since the effectiveness of Hardlight defenses were typically tied directly to the capabilities of the ship’s sensor grid and computer hardware, the Observant had both highly efficient hardlight barrier systems and plenty of energy to divert into creating photokinetic plates. The controlling computer was “precognative” and would remember the trajectory and behavior of various projectiles and weapons even when sensors were disabled and attempt to anticipate impacts.
Electronics:
-Tiapita opto-electronic computation array. An experimental computer built on the hardware level to run computations of the subspace induction scanners and primary drive. Rather than using transistors it utilized a complex array of nano-scale metamaterial crystals to fire photons through a mostly-clear but polarizing substrate and create logic gates, set inside a one meter cube of porous diamond with active cooling running through the porous structure. The computer was physically built on the hardware level only to resolve the ‘harry potter math problem’ one billion times per second. -2500 Kon-Ta standard shipboard computer arrays.
-Kon-Shaper 1283 supercomputer core. Reserved as a backup for the subspace drives and sensors or primarily to run the ship’s onboard Ci, if it had one. It could turn over its processing power to the sensor analysis suite. The Kon-Shaper 1283 was composed of 2,097,152 3D PTM cores linked by internal quantum thread connections. This in essence made the single core a 4-dimensional computer able to route circuit traces through ‘higher dimensions’ Able to resolve complex computations.
-Shipmaster AI. Generic ‘dumb’ AI used to operate ship functions.
-2500 Cyberwarfare AI. Dumb AI which endlessly peruse the ships systems searching for discrepancies that could indicate attempted hacking and autonomously purge malignant software.
-Cyberwarfare Ci. ‘smart’ fully sentient cybernetic intelligence created for the purposes of cyberwarfare. Vastly more intelligent than a cyberwarfare AI; can actually create them.
-PID system. You cant fly the ship if you don’t have a personal identifier symbiote
-Shield control computer. Advanced system linked into the sensors that uses predictive algorithms and sensor monitoring to anticipate enemy fire and generate hard light plates to avoid damage.
-8 SLJ-10-10 Superluminal Jamming Arrays -Targeting computer. Computer designed to assist with weapon targeting and lock.
-Sensor analyisis suite. Designed to interpret and analyze sensor data. Can locate discrepancies in sensor data and alert crew members if potential stealth craft are identified, or raise the alarm for other anomalies.
-Jam-Hardened Tightbeam Radio array
-Advanced subspace transmission capibilities
-Quantum Thread Switchboard
Sensors:
-FEWIS-Type Hemispherical Passive Sensor Array. This large dome-like structure is a modified version of the sensor arrays present on gaussian early warning stations. This type of array deemed non-viable for ships as vibrations from battle or hard maneuvers could knock the complex “compound eye” telescope array out of alignment. Advances in metamaterial lenses, and stabilization technology have made such an array viable for use on a starship. This array can produce a 180 degree image with a resolution of around 25 Petapixels (25 quadrillion pixels) with a refresh rate of 42,000 times per second and a data precision of 16,384 color values across eight overlapping spectral bands. With a significant capacity to adjust up or down its sensitivity and detect and isolate individual photons or polarize against aggressive lighting or jamming. The array works primarily in the visual and ultraviolet spectrum. The entire array is maintained by a large micro and nanobot colony and permeating fluid and covered in self healing lenses harder than diamond.
-TASS-OT Infrared Detection array. A large infrared telescope array built onto the southern axis of the vessel for passive detection of blackbody radiation. This extremely sensitive instrument is cooled by a large neutrino radiator array can be dialed to accurately detect an objects’ temperature to within 1/10,000th of a degree, and is used to spot spacecraft attempting to blend into background radiation through thermal masking.
-4 Lucidity-Type sensor banks. These large rounded modules contained an arsenal of full spectrum sensors and electronic warfare equipment which was highly configurable based on available technology and needed equipment. Intended primarily as a backup if the FEWIS-type array, and to cover the extreme ends of the electromagnetic spectrum which the FEWIS array could not.
-Kasidon OCT Bimodal Xadar. Consisting of 320 panels built into the ship’s forward ridges, this radar array was one of the few sensor systems to have a complete 360 degree sphere of visibility around the ship. Most sensor systems being fixed forward or at minimum having a blind spot directly behind a ship when the engines were active, requiring formation tactics for full coverage. With each panel able to draw around 100 Terawats (the whole array being 32 Petawatts), the array drawing much more power than previous Kasidon xadar systems. When used in traditional mode, it sweeps space around the ship with intense X-rays which strip electrons off the outer surface of an object. In essence functioning like a massively oversized X-ray spectrometer the energy of the returning electron can be analyzed to not only identify a an object which is otherwise invisible, but determine its material composition. The system can also work in holographic mode, wherein it projects a holographic grid (tens of thousands of kilometers across, shifted into the X-ray spectrum) sweeps it across space observes the grid for distortions caused by holographic or light-manipulating cloaking fields. Xadar could also detect extremely small objects down to the scale of nano-weapons, even at great range.
-ULF tranciever arrays. Functioning as large sensitive and configurable “eardrums” that could send and recieve extremely low frequency electromagnetic rays almost indistinguishable from background radiation. These could be used as both sensor systems and auxiliary communications systems.
-BLMS (Bilateral Magnemometry System) A powerful magnetic field detection array mounted on the southern axis used to detect magnetic fields produced by ships. It is fully effective when the main drive engines are shut down.
-8-Lobe GMTSS semi-newtonian gravitic microtractor sensor system. A system which fires billions of microscopic graviton columns. The graviton columns can sweep across space and pull back on the sensor array if they detect an object with mass due to newtons second law of motion. 8 Nodes are installed in the forward ridges. The system was adjustable with each node able to scan independently or cooperatively to detect ships invisible to EM detection.
-SIS-484. Second only to the Omniscience class and its permutations of subspace induction scanner the 484 model of subspace scanner utilized subtorsioners just like the main drive. This exponentially improved the fidelity and range of the much smaller and less power intensive scanner array, though at the cost of requiring even more computational power. The computational array was experimental and could sometimes crash (particularly in the prototype phase of the ship’s design) Able to effectively spot ships and objects at a range of about a light-month and detect incoming ships traveling through subspace or phased into higher dimensions.
Utilities:
-Onboard machine shop and factory facility. The observant-class had a particularly large and advanced machine shop to allow it to operate for extended periods in the field without logistical support. The machine shop held a small atomic alchemy collider allowing the production of bulk amounts of needed elements and electron lattice memory cells, from the ships fuel or from raw materials and extensive plasma centerfuges for breaking down raw materials and scrapping debris. The machine shop was limited in that it did not contain arsmithing facilities, and thus could not repair or replicate torsion bands.
-Onboard hospital with an automated reconstruction theatre.
-Refueling Drouge. This is a long space elevator cable connected to a large collapsable scoop-like sail construct made of an advanced nanomaterial. This drogue would be dangled into the atmosphere of a gas giant or ice giant and collect hydrogen fuel for the ship. The drogue was connected to a refinery module to compress the gaseous hydrogen into liquid metallic hydrogen and separate deuterium and tritium isotopes. Under ideal circumstances the drogue could collect and pump around 10,000 tons of hydrogen per hour. Such modules were sometimes equipped to other gaussian vessels intended for extended deployment.
-The life support system uses a cryogenic ductless atmosphere system. This means the atmospheric gasses are liquefied and pumped around the ship, the ship has no air ducts only small insulated cryogenic tubes. The ship’s internal atmosphere is made of an argon-neon-oxygen mixture.
-There are sterilization sprayers hidden around the ship, specifically on the entrance to the bridge, in the hangars and docking gangways.
-The ship has powerful reactive inertial dampeners and artificial gravity within the livable sections, capable of cancellation up to 35g of acceleration. However the entire crew are provided with and drilled on heading to crash couches in the event of an emergency. The artificial gravity system also produces microscopic gravity waves configured to interfere with teleportation and phasic technology.
-The observant has a local anti-teleport spacetime lattice interdiction system in addition to a 15-light-second-range local interdiction system.
Power Generation:
The Observant uses five MX-350 9th generation antimatter polarity reactors able to output 50PJ/second (250 PJ for the array), the tried and true model of the venerable Vigilance class, with the reactors being more or less interchangeable. Four reactors are seated near the rear of the vessel while the fifth is in the front section and all inside armored casing. This rectified the primary weakness of the vigilance class in that the ship was no longer an all-or-nothing design. Built more in line with direct combat warships like the Falconer and Relegator which could lose reactors and continue functioning. Multi reactor setups were however vastly less efficient and more expensive and maintenance heavy per unit of power produced.
-Smaller auxiliary fusion reactors were installed around the ship, standard.
-The Observant had a large reserve of momentum capacitors to store energy for burst energy usage in CQB, most of them being installed internally throughout the ship. The momentum capacitor array capable of holding around 75PwH of power, equivalent to 20 minutes of reactor array run time.
-Emergency battery banks for life support and cold restart.
Support Craft Compliment:
32 Seeker or Vanguard gunships
48 Aerospace Fighters with Drone Wings
72 Xashur or Cramithia Dropships
Crew Compliment:
-GDCDC Ci 
-260 Officers
-1400 Enlisted
-100,000 Squires -Standard Microbot/Nanobot colony maintinence system
Troop Compliment:
-up to 20,000 troops along with 320,000 KR-series war droids and ground vehicles for deployment.
Engines and FTL:
-The Observant makes use of a five-drive configuration with four outer drives on the intermediate axes and a singular central drive for additional thrust, with these drives being a slightly upgraded version of the drive already ued by the vigilance class. This configuration means that any two drives can be shut damaged or shut down and the ship will retain some capacity for forward thrust. Multi-drive configurations also allow for turning on the main drives through differential or even deflected reverse thrust, meaning the ship needs fewer reaction thrusters. The Observant also has an extended fuel bay for prolonged deployments. Where most gaussian vessels carry protium fuel to be used as reaction mass for sub-light power and in antimatter annihilation with polarity reactors but at a mass ratio of only 3-10%, the Observant can increase in mass by as much as 20% when fully fueled.
-64 Reaction thrust plates (identical to vigilance class)
-The Observant makes use of highly specialized 4th Subtorsioning Generation Tasirist-Gulumari Subspace Ascention Drive. This means many small arsium torsion rings are installed alongside the main torsion bands. These can ‘streamline’ the ship as it moves through subspace, allowing it to achieve much higher speeds by finely tuning the field. Theoretically up to over 9000 lightyears per hour or 9 times faster than a standard cruiser if the drive is calibrated using new formulas that are still resolved by supercomputer arrays. Presently most ships achieve around 3500. Maintaining these smaller rings made the drive more maintenance intensive and losing even one subtorsioner would completely disable the functionality. The drive could operate in a fallback mode using only the main torsion rings, at a more standard speed of 1,250 lightyears per hour. Ships could replace secondary torsion rings in the field from a limited onboard supply but not make new ones.