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The Midonian Breach Generator, often known as the Midonian Drive, is a type of superluminal propulsion that utilizes the Ascension Plane. Most, if not all, known Type-3 nations, including Singularia and the Anixides' Throne, use the Midonian Drives as their primary mode of superluminal transport within the Palioxis Starfield. The Midonian Breach Generators are tens of times faster than Matter-Force Alternator Drives, the most frequent method of superluminal transport in the Starfield. They can reach speeds of two light-years per second, though this can vary heavily per model and ship.

The Midonian Breach Generator propels a spaceship into the Ascension Plane while maintaining the mass and energy profile of the ship. The starship then follows a defined route, either manually or automatically, until it reaches its destination and returns to the Palioxis Starfield. Because the Ascension Plane is an integral part of the Palioxis Starfield, the Midonian Breach Generator can only be used in the aforementioned realm. Since the Ascension Plane is identical to the Palioxis Starfield in terms of navigation, journeys that would take decades in the Starfield would only take minutes in the Ascension Plane.

Ascension Plane travel, however, is hindered by the existence of mass shadows, semi-physical manifestations created by large celestial bodies. Upon contact with a mass shadow, the vessel spirals out of the Ascension Plane, destroying most of the ship and leaving its crew members in a comparable state. While mass shadows are rare, as are celestial bodies, their size is tenfold that of the bodies, further increasing their lethality. As a result, Midonian Drives have been fitted on drones, which have been set on a collision course with enemy fleets.

The Midonian Breach Generator is an ancient technology, with its origins traced as far back as the times of the Aergol Alliance. The Midonian Drives have been modified ever since they were discovered on Eralisen several hundred thousand years ago. Upon their discovery, they became mass-produced, eventually leading to their increased popularity. The performance and speed of the Midonian Breach Genrators have been heavily altered over time, being more than twice their original speed upon creation.

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+The '''Midonian Breach Generator''', often known as the '''Midonian Drive''', is a type of superluminal propulsion that utilizes the '''[[Ascension Plane]]'''. Most, if not all, known Type-3 nations, including '''[[Singularia]]''' and the '''[[Anixides' Throne]]''', use the Midonian Drives as their primary mode of superluminal transport within the Palioxis Starfield. The Midonian Breach Generators are tens of times faster than '''[[Matter-Force Alternator Drives]]''', the most frequent method of superluminal transport in the Starfield. They can reach speeds of two light-years per second, though this can vary heavily per model and ship.
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-== '''Overview''' ==
-The '''Quantum Shift Drive''', abbreviated as '''QSD''' and oftentimes called '''Hyperdrive''', is an ancient, cutting-edge faster-than-light propulsion engine used primarily by '''[[Singularia]]''', [[Anixides' Throne|'''Anixides' Throne''']] and several other advanced nations of the [[Palioxis Starfield|'''Palioxis Starfield''']] for effective interstellar travel. As an outcome, the Quantum Shift Drive has played a crucial role in shaping the society, trade, politics, and war of the Palioxis Starfield.
-The Quantum Shift Drive operates by propelling a spacecraft into the [[Ascension Plane|'''Ascension Plane''']] while maintaining the vessel's mass and energy profile. The spaceship then travels along a manually or automatically set trajectory until it reaches its target and returns to the Palioxis Starfield. The Quantum Shift Drive can only be used in the Palioxis Starfield since the Ascension Plane, a sub-plane of the Palioxis Starfield, can only be accessed in it's 'parent' plane.
+The Midonian Breach Generator propels a spaceship into the Ascension Plane while maintaining the mass and energy profile of the ship. The starship then follows a defined route, either manually or automatically, until it reaches its destination and returns to the Palioxis Starfield. Because the Ascension Plane is an integral part of the '''[[Palioxis Starfield]]''', the Midonian Breach Generator can only be used in the aforementioned realm. Since the Ascension Plane is identical to the Palioxis Starfield in terms of navigation, journeys that would take decades in the Starfield would only take minutes in the Ascension Plane.
+Ascension Plane travel, however, is hindered by the existence of mass shadows, semi-physical manifestations created by large celestial bodies. Upon contact with a mass shadow, the vessel spirals out of the Ascension Plane, destroying most of the ship and leaving its crew members in a comparable state. While mass shadows are rare, as are celestial bodies, their size is tenfold that of the bodies, further increasing their lethality. As a result, Midonian Drives have been fitted on drones, which have been set on a collision course with enemy fleets.
-=='''Operation'''==
+The Midonian Breach Generator is an ancient technology, with its origins traced as far back as the times of the [[Aergol Alliance|'''Aergol Alliance''']]. The Midonian Drives have been modified ever since they were discovered on '''Eralisen''' several hundred thousand years ago. Upon their discovery, they became mass-produced, eventually leading to their increased popularity. The performance and speed of the Midonian Breach Genrators have been heavily altered over time, being more than twice their original speed upon creation.
-=== '''Ascension Plane Travel''' ===
-To enter the Ascension Plane, a starship pilot would have to select a logged world with the use of the navigational computer. This on-board computer would then-on automatically input the coordinates into the Quantum Shift Drive. In some cases, the pilot has to manually input coordinates throughout the navigational computer, as to reach uncharted worlds or a highly specific point in space.
+== '''Operation''' ==
-If the ship is outside the gravity of a large celestial body, the process of an Ascension Plane jump would begin with small amounts of '''[[Miriandynic Energy]]''' being collected be collected with the use of the numerous '''Miriandynic Collectors'''. Then on, the [[Quantum Shift Drive#Quantum Motivator|'''Quantum Motivator''']] would use many kilometers of charge planes, effect channels, or looping superconducting wire deep within the spaceship to alter the gathered energy in a fusion generator. This process also requires [[antimatter|'''antimatter''']] to help modify the energy. The Quantum Shift Drive's '''Ascension Initiators''' would supply energy to the motivator's energization chamber to spark ignition, which would unleash the energy via the engines. The energy discharge would produce disturbances in the space-time continuum, allowing the ship to thrust itself into the Ascension Plane by riding on these generated ripples.
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-A starship enters the Quantum Shift Drive as a fixed speed, which is based on the Class of the Quantum Shift Drive and the initial power supplied to the drive in its charging up state. While its speed is not able to be increased, it can be significantly decreased when one disables the safety measures of the Quantum Shift Drive, though this is extremely dangerous.
-A starship is only able to stay in the Ascension Plane for two hours, before automatically pulled out of it by the Quantum Shift Drive's safety systems. The reason for that is the heavy damage matter from Palioxis Starfield can suffer from, if exposed to the environment of the Ascension Plane. This makes longer journeys need multiple jumps to complete the voyage.
-=== '''Safety Mechanisms''' ===
-The ship, crew, and cargo are all shielded from being squashed by the enormous velocity of the initial jump by the central gravitational field generator. An '''Ascension Field Stabilizer''' helps stabilize the vessel in the Ascension Plane and prevents it from prematurely emerging from the alternate plane, which can happen without one. All Quantum Shift Drives include [[Quantum Shift Drive#Dilation Shielding|'''Dilation Shielding''']] to protect them from the severe effects of time dilation in the Ascension Plane. Quantum Shift Drives employ an overheat failsafe device to avoid overheating.
-A Quantum Shift Drive can only initiate a jump into the Ascension Plane after it is out of the gravitational influence of a large astronomical body. Small Warp Drives implanted within the spaceship are used to relieve the starship from a body's gravitational attraction before it can leap. Quantum Shift Drives include an integrated protection system that cuts out the drive when a gravity well is detected on the navigational path. Engineers have utilized the safeguard system to create artificial gravity wells to either draw starships out of the Ascension Plane or prevent them from withdrawing into the Ascension Plane, avoiding a crash in the event of a navigational failure. This approach, of course, necessitates either knowledge of a starship's travel schedule or proximity to a well-traveled Ascension Plane route. The failsafe can be circumvented in some Quantum Shift Drive models, although this has been known to result in disastrous results.
-== '''Components''' ==
-=== '''Dilation Shielding''' ===
-While entering the Ascension Plane, a spaceship would be be traveling at such high speeds that time dilation will be noticeable. Furthermore, time dilation is much more severe in the Ascension Plane, with a hour in the Ascension Plane without dilation shielding potentially taking a thousand years in the real universe. The [[VMC Void Beam|'''VMC Void Beam''']], for instance, traversed five thousand years into the future in only two hours. The sabotage and removal of the dilation shield was owing to this strange phenomenon.
-A spacecraft is able to protect itself and it's crew from time dilation with a dilation shield, an advanced component of every constructed Quantum Shift Drive. A dilation shield effectively utilizes various advanced and artificially produced particles to stop the curvature in a way for time dilation to have no effect while gravitational attraction still takes place. As the space-time fabric of the Ascension Plane is fairly similar to that of Palioxis Starfield, dilation shields have the ability to operate within this mysterious plane of existence.
-Travel with a faulty dilation shield is plausible, with minimal to no time dilation actually happening with a moderately faulty dilation shield. Only a nonexistent or a near-broken dilation shield could have serious time dilation. The ship's onboard computers will automatically disengage the Quantum Shift Drive if the dilation shield is operating below 25% capacity.
-=== '''Miscellaneous Components''' ===
-== '''Classification''' ==
-A Quantum Shift Drive's superluminal speed is measured on a reverse scale: the faster the Quantum Shift Drive, the lower the rating. These classifications, referred to as Classes, provide a fast, albeit sometimes inaccurate, estimate of a ship's Quantum Shift Drive speed. For a given base travel time of 1 ly/s, the Quantum Shift Drive class serves as a multiplier. Thus, a Class 4 Quantum Shift Drive takes fourfold the base time to travel a given route, while a more expensive Class 2.0 takes only twice the base time.
-Currently, most militaries equip their spacecraft with either Class 1 or Class 2 Quantum Shift Drives. Quantum Shift Drives of Class 2 or 3 are commonplace on industrial freighters and haulers, while civilian starships have Class 3 or higher. Many ships possess backup Quantum Shift Drives that are significantly less powerful than their primary Quantum Shift Drives.
-Although tampering with the generally stable technology of a Quantum Shift Drive is considered a risky and dangerous activity, some starships have undergone black market modifications to achieve ratings that are below Class 1. A prominent example of this is the [[Phantom Dragonfly|'''Phantom''' '''Dragonfly''']], a '''[[Venixen]]''' model starfighter owned by the famous '''[[Human]]''' mercenary of [[Tybus Corell|'''Tybus''' '''Corell''']]. The Phantom Dragonfly reached a rating of Class 0.5 after several illegal modifications had been made to it's Quantum Shift Drive. Additionally, the Phantom Dragonfly is the only recorded human vessel fitted with a Quantum Shift Drive.
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