Well, FTL travel is still under the same principles, but they've been modified.  I'll give you a brief rundown on the current FTL technology available to the Frontier.

 Atomics - Old and antiquated, these drives are still commonly used throughout the Frontier. Atomics follow the original rules of th KH Game and require overhauling and risk jumping. Atomics have a speed of X1LY/Day

 Hyperdrive -  Hyperdrive Generators were created by Dral and Vrusk scientists and work by creating a bubble around the ship and shifting the vessel into the Void. Hyperdrives require NavComputers and overhauling, though not nearly as frequent as Atomics. Currently, all hyperdrives have coordinates for each, major system of the frontier encoded, so there is no risk jumping, between known systems. A hyperdrive generator's mass increases dramatically, due to the size of the ship. Hyperdrive Generators have a speed of .5 -X10LY/DAY. If a hyperdrive is damaged and rendered inoperable, unless the vessel has a backup, it is limited to STL travel.

Stargate - Stargate technology was created by Yazirians and is almost exclusively used in Yazirian space. Stargates are large energy conductors that are designed to jump ships between two or more, predefined Stargates, using frontier-made wormholes. Ships using a stargate require no FTL drive, as the stargate itself uses its own energy to fling the ship to another location, but if either stargate is destroyed, while a ship is in transit, the vessel is lost. Stargate travel has a speed of x1LY/Day

Fold Drives - Fold Drives were created by Human and Dral scientists, by creating a spatial well around the ship and moving it from one point to another, by merging the two points in space, together. Fold drives use a massive coil which is charged in order to jump the ship and jump coordinates must be updated every 30 minutes, to account for spacial drift. Fold drives require maintenance and are very susceptible to risk jumping. Ships with Fold Drives require NAVComputers for the enormous computations required for jumps. Fold Drives have enourmous, energy requirements to charge the Fold Coil and once fired, requires time to recharge. Fold drives have a speed of x1LY/Day, but unlike all other means of FTL travel, the travel time seems to be mere instantaneous. Though, the jump takes several days, to the passengers and crew, it seemed less than a minute.

Warp Drive - Warp Drives were created by Human scientists and using experimental anti-matter drive cores, hyperaccelerating ships faster than the speed of light. The current maximum speed of Warp Travel is Warp 4. For each Warp level, the ship moves at X1 the speed of light. (ie, Warp 2 is twice the speed of light, Warp 3 is 3 times the speed of light, etc.). Warp Drives are susceptible to drive explosions, require constant maintenance and every jump above Warp 1 is a risk jump, doubling the risk, for each higher warp speed. Only ships of Hull Size 10 ore more can be mounted with Warp Drives.

Hope that helps. 

One of the reasons I made it complete piles of ^@^$. ;P

I should point out that *ONE* of these should be for Sathar, besides Atomic. I was actually thinking of Warp Drive, but when I hashed out thee rules, a few years ago, I was playing with people who showed up for a game, in Starfleet uniforms, after a Con. The wanted Warp Drive.

No, I'm not kidding.

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Sathar look like walking worms anyway... give them serpentine ships able to maneuver the complex passages of a wormhole because of their segmented construction, the only ships to be able to do so effectively. Depending on the properties of wormholes in your ruleset, it might give them a tremendous edge to get past perimeter defenses, and maybe they're able to use those wormholes to direct their mind control so they can extend control over their brainwashed spies from their own space, but only when the wormholes align properly and then only for very specific short mental commands.

Not a fan of Warp drive just because of the images of Star Trek it brings up...

I like that most of your technologies are approx 1LY per day. Because of the size of the Frontier, it really is a decent speed of travel. (random thought: Nobody ever made daily encounter tables for space travel...)

Love the fold drive time dilation. Neat way to make it unique. Spacers who use it regularly will feel imortal. Traveling from point A to point B.... does the ship actually pass through the space between? Is it possible to get on an intercept course with a fold-driven vessel? To halt its passage? Attack it?

To be honest, I hate Warp Drives. I really do. Like I said, though, when you only have Trekkie RPGers, you do what you can, to keep a game going. If we dropped it, I wouldn't have a problem with that, at all.

As for Fold Drives, think of the explaination Sam Neil gave in Event Horizion. Basically, it works just like it does in Battlestar Galactica (the new one). There's a bright, flash of light that encompasses the ship and poof, it reappears at its destination. Time passes, but the crew and passengers are completely unaware of it, besides a minor shift, as the drive bends space, for less than a minute.

Oh, I almost forgot. Yes, all drives have a standerd 1LY/Day, except Hyper Drives. The fastest Hyper Drive is " .5 past lightspeed" ;) and the slowest is x1LY/!0Days. That way, a standard hyper drive has 1LY/Day, but a backup drive could be X3 or only getting 1LY/3Days.

I hope that clears everything up. Like I said, I *REALLY* need to organize my notes. =/ 

I can't imagine ever wanting a military ship to use anything but a fold drive.  You can't intercept it!  You can't attack it!  You can't set up perimeter defenses against it!  I think they're quite powerful... perhaps too powerful, even with the long delay between jumps to charge the foldcoil.

Some ideas to help balance (please comment on one or all, or come up with some of your own):

• Fold-travel cannot cross the path of another fold.  The resulting knot can fling both ships into far space, perhaps even flinging them into other ships or planets or stars.  Because of this, a fold-drive relies on comm equipment (which gives your destination away) to coordinate destinations with other ships, and making a fold jump without establishing comms first would run the risk of crossing folds, a percentage chance (independent of the normal misjump percent from risk jumping) of foldcrossing without comms would need to depend on several factors: distance, passage of your line of travel through an established starroute on the star map, etc.
• Fold drives cannot be charged with time and energy alone... they need something special.  For example: orbiting a star and collecting ion particles, etc.  If you fold-jump to a destination that has no such star, you travel STL until you get to such a star.
• The fold coils can't hold their charge longer than it takes to charge them.  For example: a huge ship with a large fold drive might take xx turns to charge.  On the xx+1 turn, the coil breaks down and discharges a messy ion cloud, needing recharged.  This ion cloud might be usable as cover or as a masking screen... or might be susceptible to igniting if a proton beam is fired into it and be dangerous to the ship that released it.  A possible damage result from hitting a fold drive might be premature release of its energy.

I understand this fact, but I'm envisioning that the act of joining the two points through spacefolding requires some sort of field effect to establish the fold, whose field could accidentally cross another's field.  I don't know... it just seems too powerful and I feel we have to balance it.  think about it: a mode of travel (even though I think it's cool) that nobody can intercept, nobody can catch up to, nobody can create perimeter defenses against, etc.  There would be no such thing as trade embargos or blockades, no need for smuggling because nobody could stop the traders from trading anywhere they want, etc.  People teleporting anywhere they want regardless of political or military positioning...

I know the field coil takes time to charge (which is a decent limitation as it is) but I think it's still militarily overpowered.  All forms of space combat become guerilla tactic surprises... 

Only UPF Military vessels have Fold Drives. It's Military Technology.

The Maximum jump for a ship is 5 light years if hull sized 5 or higher. The Maximum jump for hull size 4 or less is 3 light years. That means a ship will have to make *SEVERAL* jumps to reach its destination. Fleets of various sizes move the maximum speed of the slowest ship.

Fold Drives have *ENORMOUS* energy usage requirements. A Fold Drive uses 100SEU per Light Year, times the Hull Size of the ship. So, a battleship making a 5LY jump requires (100 x5 x 20) or 10,000 SEU per jump. Just as an example, the battleship would require 3, Type 4 generators to have enough energy for one jump and it would be at least another hour before it even had enough energy to spin the Fold Coil, just to make another jump. As you can see, while Fold Technology is incredible, it has its drawbacks.

Add in the energy requirements for weapons, shields and other items of note, you realize that coordinated jumps are next to impossible during battle and without careful conservation of energy, you can be a sitting duck, no matter how impressive Fold Drives are.

Oh, I should also point out that a jump requires an Astrogation roll, to even be successful and if it fails, the coil's energy is all used up and must be "spun" again.