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The first '''intrasystem jump drive''' is even older than the first subspace drive; it was present during the post-age of space exploration and colonization.
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The first '''intrasystem jump drive''' is the baseline subspace drive, developed before intersystem drives; it was present during the post-age of space exploration and colonization.
  
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Intrasystem jump drives enable a ship, initially not smaller than a freighter to jump from one location in the system to another, quickly and precisely. A jump drive of this kind does not need a [[jump node|subspace node]] to operate, for the simple fact jump nodes lead to another system and intersystem jump drives, as their name indicates, can only be used within system.
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Intrasystem jump drives enable a ship to jump from one location in the system to another, quickly and (relatively) precisely. A jump drive of this kind does not need an intersystem [[jump node|subspace node]], only the presence of a significant gravity well.
  
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Before the end of [[the Great War]], no ship of equal size of a fighter or bomber could produce enough energy to operate an intrasystem jump drive. When the [[Ancients|Ancient]] ruins were being extracted, Terran fighters used intrasystem jump drives to help assist the GTSC ''Rossetta'' while she was transfering xenolinguists to [[Altair]] to help and examine the ruins that the Vasudan refugees of [[Vasuda]] Prime found.
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While subspace travel from one system to another in an intersystem jump takes a variable but relatively brief amount of time (the Lucifer's transit took fifteen minutes), an intrasystem jump is described as "nearly instantanous."
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While a subspace travel from a system to another in a subspace tunnel takes ten or even more minutes, an intrasystem jump takes no more than one or two minutes, depending on the distance to take, sometimes even less.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 15:45, 30 June 2008

The first intrasystem jump drive is the baseline subspace drive, developed before intersystem drives; it was present during the post-age of space exploration and colonization.

Intrasystem jump drives enable a ship to jump from one location in the system to another, quickly and (relatively) precisely. A jump drive of this kind does not need an intersystem subspace node, only the presence of a significant gravity well.

While subspace travel from one system to another in an intersystem jump takes a variable but relatively brief amount of time (the Lucifer's transit took fifteen minutes), an intrasystem jump is described as "nearly instantanous."

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