4th Drive

The 4th Drive (also known as the Slipdrive), is a piece of hyperdrive technology that allows a vessel equipped with it to go faster than normal hyperdrives allow. This drive system allows the ship to enter a fourth space (which is not Realspace, Hyperspace, or Otherspace), and travel here takes a fraction of the time it does in normal hyperspace.

The major downside to this drive system is the enormous power requirements needed to move the ship beyond hyperspace to fourth space. As such, only larger capital ships in the company (mostly warships) are equipped with this technology to allow them to rapidly deploy to systems to deal with emergency situations.