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Most ships will not cruise above the theta band for extended periods of time, so this band is designated maximum cruising speed. Range under d-warp drive varies greatly depending on several factors. The high bands of hyperspace require greater power expenditure to radiation shielding and travel in iota and kappa bands is relatively limited in duration. Also, each ship type has a different power reserve. Even with the most power efficient Generation IV system, d-warp power consumption is high enough to drain ship's batteries even with all mater-antimatter and fusion reactors outputting at full power. Thus, it is very important to keep track of power stores when suing d-warp. A ship that is in d-warp that does not have enough power for transition back down the hyperspace ladder into normal space will be lost forever as there is no way to recharge power stores in hyperspace without exposing the crew to fatal radiation levels. | Most ships will not cruise above the theta band for extended periods of time, so this band is designated maximum cruising speed. Range under d-warp drive varies greatly depending on several factors. The high bands of hyperspace require greater power expenditure to radiation shielding and travel in iota and kappa bands is relatively limited in duration. Also, each ship type has a different power reserve. Even with the most power efficient Generation IV system, d-warp power consumption is high enough to drain ship's batteries even with all mater-antimatter and fusion reactors outputting at full power. Thus, it is very important to keep track of power stores when suing d-warp. A ship that is in d-warp that does not have enough power for transition back down the hyperspace ladder into normal space will be lost forever as there is no way to recharge power stores in hyperspace without exposing the crew to fatal radiation levels. | ||
Note, despite these dangers and limitations, that theta band transit is more than 28 times faster than warp 6 (standard cruise for many ships) and more than 7.4 times as fast as warp 9. Further, kappa band transit is more than 90 times as fast as warp 9! D-Warp shows its real uses in long tansits. Cruising in the theta band allows a ship to cross a sector in less than 16 | Note, despite these dangers and limitations, that theta band transit is more than 28 times faster than warp 6 (standard cruise for many ships) and more than 7.4 times as fast as warp 9. Further, kappa band transit is more than 90 times as fast as warp 9! D-Warp shows its real uses in long tansits. Cruising in the theta band allows a ship to cross a sector in less than 16 hours instead of 19 days at warp 6. If a ship pushes its drives to 0.75c (which corresponds to the maximum limit of radiation shielding), then a ship in the kappa band can achieve a speed more than 136 as fast as warp 9 and over 34 times warp 9.98. | ||
Most major alien races are known to possess dimensional warp drive systems. The systems employed by the Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians are approximately equivalent to those used by the Federation. Powers near the galactic core appear to have discovered hyperspace travel before normal space warp travel and tend to use dimensional warp technologies prefferentially. As would be expected, their systems are correspondingly more advanced and efficient. The Dalriadan Alliance, in particular, has a very efficient hyperspace drive system which is capable of operating over extended distances using only fussion power. It is believed that the Dalriadan hyperspace technology owes largely to technology originally developed by the Sidhe Imperium. | Most major alien races are known to possess dimensional warp drive systems. The systems employed by the Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians are approximately equivalent to those used by the Federation. Powers near the galactic core appear to have discovered hyperspace travel before normal space warp travel and tend to use dimensional warp technologies prefferentially. As would be expected, their systems are correspondingly more advanced and efficient. The Dalriadan Alliance, in particular, has a very efficient hyperspace drive system which is capable of operating over extended distances using only fussion power. It is believed that the Dalriadan hyperspace technology owes largely to technology originally developed by the Sidhe Imperium. | ||