The Rebel Faction

X-type Hyperdrive Engine (Coalition)

As you know, the closer to zero your hyperspace engine is the better. '.5 pas light speed' is apparently better then '1 past light speed'. Well, just as you can now crank music up to eleven, Azguard scientists have endeavoured night and day, in the most secret laboratories, eating the most secret pizza, and watching the most secret golf network, to produce a zero-hyperdrive.

The results were dissapointing. The test flight pilot wasn't found for a week, and that was because when the ship exploded from the stress he had been hiding in the bathroom. This continued until one scientist realized the truth after going over some hyperspace calculations. You can't have a zero hyperdrive, because that'd take you to where you want to go instantly. Which is impossible.

However, what isn't impossible is cutting it as close as possible to zero, so long as you still actually moved from point A to point B. The team began experimenting with stronger, more unstable, and more complicated designs, but none were really commercially viable or good for long-term use. None, that is, until the team just threw a bunch of design features together at random, hoped for the best, and blew up half the facility .

No one was seriously hurt, but one scientist which had recieved a paint-can to the head from the blast suddenly realized what they had to do. So he took a .5 Hyperspace engine, reassembled it so it would fire the wrong way, and attatched a complicated-looking swirly funnel.

Confused, his fellows watched. He must be loony. But, to their surprise, when this engine powered up it travelled a four-day distance in a mere four hours! Impressed, surprised, and confused, the scientists reconvened to discuss the anomaly and see if they could squeeze out a little funding to study it. Tests proved inconclusive, and the scientist who had discovered it had lost his moment of genius. Attempts to return him to geniousness by hitting him with more paint cans were dissapointing.

In the end, they came to the conclusion that by making the Hyperspace engine fire backwards and then funnling it in the correct direction, it speeds up ten times faster. This makes absoloutly no sense whatsoever, but its' better then saying 'we don't know why we're going so fast or how the engine works, enjoy the trip'.

I'm open to any suggestions to upgrade speed and how to equip ships with this engine.