FE Shipyards
FE Shipyards will re-route part of your Jump circuitry, linking it to your vehicle's velocity-controller.
When full speed is set, the J-drive will engage in a limited mode, similar in effect to an injector, but silent, fluid, faster, and without the attendant fuel-waste.
We call it the O-drive.
To disengage it, decelerate to below your vessel's normal top speed.
Remarks
The O-drive will disengage automatically under the following conditions:
- Upon starting Jump-drive
- Upon docking
- Upon entering witchspace.
Examples
Taking FE Ships as a baseline, some ascending ranges:
- Gecko FE: O-drive velocity range: 212-2120.
- Adder FE: O-drive velocity range: 240-2400.
- Krait FE: O-drive velocity range: 267-2670.
- Cobra III FE: O-drive velocity range: 267-2670.
- Mamba FE: O-drive velocity range: 272-2720.
- Asp II FE: O-drive velocity range: 294-2940.
- Sidewinder FE: O-drive velocity range: 308-3080.
- Viper II FE: O-drive velocity range: 334-3340.
Picture: Cdr. Jinny Jameson of "Tianve's Tides" has just engaged her O-drive. The neophyte Sister's new GETter HUD speed readout shows her O-drive velocity at just above the nominal top speed of her Sidewinder FE.
Picture: And now Jinny has pushed her Overdrive to the limit.
Overdrive is available in the Equipment section of Oolite's Expansions Manager in-game, as part of the Elite Trader Meta Package, or HERE..
Happy cruising, and don't crash into things!
Dor Reval (FE Shipyards Technical Director)
FE Shipyards is a G.E.T. wholly owned subsidiary.
