Quantum Drive

The Quantum Drive is the propulsion system that allows Planetary Union ships to travel faster than the speed of light.

The theory behind the quantum drive can trace its origins to a Mexican physicist names Miguel Alcubierre, who theorized a way to expand the space behind you and the space in front of you contracts.

The key to unlocking the power of the quantum drive is exotic matter, which has negative mass. This negative matter has an antigravity effect that pushes on the space around it. Once humans had developed methods to obtain enough exotic matter and organized it properly, it would allow for the creation of a system for stretching space around a ship, shrinking it in front of the ship. Space itself can be expanded and contracted at speeds many times greater than the speed of light.