Fiction:Ceronodrakon Alliances Starships/Propulsion Systems

Warp Drives
Reactor-type warp drives make use of antimatter reactor to produce the power needed to send a starship into interstellar travel. The core of the reactor produces power by collision between a minute amount of anti-hydrogen and hydrogen. The wall of the reactor core is protected by F-particle (A particle that is neither a matter nor antimatter) to prevent antimatter to come in contact with the wall of the core.
 * Reactor-Type

The advantages of a reactor-type warp drives is that it is able to operate for a long time. The warp drive is able to operate for a minimum of 300 years. Newer generation of warp drive can be operated for up to 1,500 years and faster. Reactor-type can also be used to travel a long distance to an average of 3,000 lightyears.

However, reactor-type warp drives are that they are difficult to produce and it can be very expensive. The reactor core requires coolant to keep it within a stable temperature.

Recycle-type warp drives powers by capturing the surrounding ions via a panel. The ions that were captured by the panel will be converted into stored energy to power the warp drive. The panel will stop capturing ions once the stored energy is about 90% full.
 * Recycle-Type

Recycle-type warp drives are usually cheaper to produce and equip it in a starship. The small size of the warp drive allows more space for facilities and equipment on board the starship. Recycle-type warp drives are usually used on commercial starship as it is safer.

Starships using this type of warp drives depend on the amount of stored energy it have. Starships using recycle type warp drives has a sue limitation. It is recommended not to use more than 15% of its stored energy in a single warp. Therefore, it is unable to travel as far compared to reactor type.

If the stored energy has been used up, the starship will have to remain parked in a space for the starship to capture ions in space.

Interplanetary Pulse Drives
Pulse Drives are commonly used to travel between planets with a significant amount of light speed.

Accelerated particle pulse drive propel the starship by colliding two particles traveling at the speed of light. Accelerated particle drive is the most common type of pulse drive used in Ceronodrakon Alliances' fleet. The particles are being stored in a storage unit the size of a bus. The storage unit is able to operate for up to 5,000 interplanetary travels.
 * Accelerated Particle

Electric pulse drive operates by colliding modified electrons in a stream of electricity. The collision of modified electron produces S+ particles and S- particles. The particles collides and annihilate each other, producing a reaction similar to matter-antimatter annihilation but in a smaller scale, and propel the starship.
 * Electric Pulse

This type of pulse drive is usually used on commercial starships. Electric Pulse drives cost the least of all pulse drives.

Reactor-type pulse drive operates in a similar manner to the reactor-type warp drive but operates at a smaller amount of energy.
 * Reactor-Type

The reactor core of this type of drive is smaller than the one used on reactor warp drive.

The use of this type of pulse drive is very limited, with only a few used in Ceronodrakon Alliances' fleet.

Recycle-type pulse drive powers by capturing ion on the panel, in a manner similar to recycle-type warp drive. Instead of storing the energy in a tank, the energy captured will be immediately expelled from the nozzle to propel the starship, acting in a way similar to air breathing aircrafts.
 * Recycle-Type

Hybrid Drives
A hybrid drive is combinations of both warp and pulse drive. Hybrid drives are used when space and cost are concerned. Hybrid drives are usually reactor-type. The reactor cores of a hybrid drive make use of 2-in-1 design, by having two separate types of reactors to power the drives.

The drive can be switched between warp mode and pulse mode instantaneously. The hybrid drive also comes with a foolproof system. If an engineer has warp and pulse mode on at once, the starship will not move and warns the engineer that he have both switched on at once.

Mounting a hybrid drive greatly cuts down the cost of production as compared to warp drive and pulse drive separately.

Future generation of starships will be using hybrid drive. First such starship using a hybrid drive is the FEIZON fighter carrier.

Cruise Thrusters
Photon thrusters are the most common type of cruise thruster. Photon thrusters make use of R+ particle by colliding it with another R+ particle with 25% to 35% the speed of light, producing mR+ and mR- Particle. The collision would cause combustion in the housing of the thruster and propel the starships.
 * Photon Thrusters

Another type of photon thruster is accelerated photon thruster. It have the same process as the normal photon thrusters, but the collision of R+ particles is accelerated to 50% to 75% the speed of light, producing MR+ and MR- particles. The collision would cause a larger combustion in the housing and propel a starship in a much faster speed.

Accelerated ion thrusters are the older type of thruster used by first generation starships and space fighters and has since been out of production.
 * Accelerated Ion Thrusters

Ion thrusters use stored energy of plasma hydrogen to propel a starship. The amount of plasma hydrogen must be in check as it depletes through years of operation. Once the plasma hydrogen has been used up, it has to be refilled.