Akwende Drive

The Akwende Jump Drive is the basis for all extra-solar travel. Without it all ships would be stuck in the solar systems within which they were made, else they would take thousands of years to travel at sublight speeds to other solar systems.

The Jump Drive works by creating an antigraviton particle field, Antigravitons as their same suggests are the anti-particle of gravitons, which are the mediating virtual particle for gravity. They interact with gravitions and cause the usual mutual annihilation of matter/antimatter reactions. This means that gravity ceases to be in effect, and more importantly, there is a temporary dis-association of space-time. Normal space-time is bound so tightly that any dis-association caused will quickly be reversed under normal conditions, but at a Jump Point the altered fabric of space-time allows this dis-association to last long enough for a ship to pass through. With the rift created, the ship simply has to move into it and, from an external perspective, instantly appears on the other side. Shortly after, the rift will close as the inter-dimensional forces pull space-time back together as the Antigravition field decays.