The Null Fold X-Drive

In the original novel Rome's Revolution, Rei Bierak awakened to find that the Vuduri could fly faster than light (FTL) using their PPT tunnels. However, their actual procedures were cumbersome. Their starships had to come to a complete stop relative to the nearest gravitational well, punch a hole, then travel through that hole.

MINIMCOM changed all that. After his crash landing in Part 2 of Rome's Revolution, the starship in waiting learned how to force project a PPT tunnel in a more or less continuous fashion. This led to his "whoosh-pop" snap PPT tunnels that operated a lot like the transporters in Star Trek.


It didn't take MINIMCOM long to apply the force-projection of PPT tunnels into a continuous tunnel drive. This allowed him to travel at nearly 1000c which was almost an order of magnitude faster than that used by the Vuduri.

In The Ark Lords, we are introduced to the Null Fold drive in which MINIMCOM splits negative energy into real and imaginary parts and this new type of star-drive allows him to travel at 15,000c, yet another order of magnitude faster.

Somewhere between Rome's Evolution and the upcoming novel The Milk Run, MINIMCOM and OMCOM figure out how to use the previously discarded imaginary portions of the negative energy used in the Null Fold Drive in a push-pull arrangement. This new type of star-drive, called the Gen2 Null Fold can achieve speeds of 30,000c - a doubling of the previous top end.

But now the time has come to apply these principles, not to negative energy, but to dimensions themselves. This revolutionary new kind of star-drive, called the Null Fold X-Drive, has NO upper limit. Rather the top end is constrained by the amount of computing power carried by the starship. Imagine how fast a spaceship could go if the computer was the size of a planet!

Hey, wait a minute... Isn't that Planet OMCOM? Hmmm... Check out The Milk Run which should be out early next year.