Arterus Technology

Coming from the Sanäan words <ätra armas> (which roughly translates into English as "fast mass"), ships using Arterus Drives make use of 25m long mass-dampeners which reduce a vessel's mass to a negligible value. These drives take unquantifiable levels of energy to make a single jump, and so, vessels typically carry large stores of ten or twenty "jump rods", super-massive fuel rods (four times as long and five times wider than a regular fuel rod) each of which contains just enough power to make a jump. Logistical ships usually carry enough of these to resupply vessels on deployment, because if one loses all of their rods, these vessels may be trapped in the system they are already in due to the fact that traditional FTL drives can only move a vessel at roughly 10c per day, which means it could take decades to reach their home again with Arterus Drives.