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Super-luminal Rail Drive
The Super-luminal Rail Drive (SRD) was a creation of the human scientist Thomas Wiggin, who published his theories on the SRD in 5621 AR. The first successful manned spaceflight using this drive was some ninety years later, about forty years after Wiggin's death.

Theory
The SRD works by creating a micro black hole in front of the craft, which causes significant spatial distortion. Through precisely placed and timed application of Flux particles, the resulting micro white hole can be directed to almost any point, depending on the amount of power used to create the micro black hole and the amount of energy imparted to the Flux particles. Currently, the furthest distance that can be covered in one "jump" is approximately 125 parsecs. It is important to note that this form of travel is not instantaneous, the further you travel, the longer it takes to get to your destination; for every light-year you travel in this manner, 133/4 hours passes, therefore, one "jump" at maximum distance would take approximately 30 days.

Internal Drive Mechanics
The SRD is comprised of the following systems:


 * Black Hole Projection Mechanism: This is used to create the initial micro black hole by projecting high-energy particles a fixed distance ahead of the craft, and using a containment field to compress it to the point where it begins to generate it's own gravitational pull; after that point, the micro black hole is self-sustaining for a short period before evaporating.


 * Flux Particle Fabrication System: This system, as the name states, fabricates and projects the Flux particles toward the micro black hole. This system also handles the precise calculations required to achieve the requisite timing and direction of the Flux particles so as to create a micro white hole in the desired location.


 * Uncertainty Compensator: This system is used to overcome the Uncertainty principle, which would otherwise cause the drive to exit in an unpredictable manner, sometimes being off by several light-years. This effect isn't achieved completely, but enough to allow the drive function in a reliable and (mostly) predictable manner.


 * Quantum Nullification Generator: This system is used to protect the craft (and its inhabitants) from the internal forces present both as it enters the singularity, and as it traverses the singularity. This is achieved by altering the internal geometry of each particle within the field in such a way that causes them to become what are called "null particles;" asymmetric, massless, particles that are not, by definition, supposed to naturally exist.  However, when acted upon by the Flux particles projected in the event horizon of a micro white hole generated by the SRD, these particles' internally geometries return to their normal, natural state.