Lens Drive
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The Lens Drive is a drive made to serve the same purpose as the Wormhole Drive, without the time it takes to get both wormholes to their desired locations. Looking inside, the drive consists of several graviton emitters, a primary beam emitter, a graviton and exotic matter reserve, and a navigation computer that calculates the path of the primary beam. After a spinup and a graviton harvesting process, the drive focuses several graviton beams on a single location creating a black hole. Once sufficient gravitational force has been reached, a primary beam is then flung through the Continuum by the black hole, creating another black hole at the end point. After this process, the gravitational wells are then pulled together by the beam through the Continuum, forming a wormhole. The primary beam of the drive travels at several light years a second, and due to the chaotic nature of black holes and the Continuum, may not reach the desired location and end up several light months to light years from the target, depending on the distance. If the destination is set too far away, the wormhole could put a strain on the exotic matter reserves and possibly collapse immediately after creation.
The Lens Drive was originally created in 22015 by the TIFARA to solve the problem that was the lengthy process of getting 2 wormholes to their destinations. Classic bulky wormhole drives simply create 2 nearby wormholes by threading both black hole ringularities via exotic matter, then moving both wormholes away from each other using conventional FTL. This process takes months for nearby locations and upwards of hundreds of years for extremely distant targets. However, as described, the Lens Drive uses graviton beams threaded through the gravitational wells to pull them together into a wormhole. As the primary beam travels at its FTL pace, it can link locations millions of light years apart in less than half a day, however such distance can lead to several thousands of light years in uncertainty.
It is impossible to link nearby locations due to the speed of the primary graviton beam. At the very minimum, the drive can link locations nearby with several light hours of uncertainty.