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A baffled drive uses a simple principle to move a ship through space: chemical thrust, a very old spacedrive concept. Most chemical thrust drives leave a superheated trail behind them, a "wake," that appears on modern sensors for hours after the ship passes through an area. Baffled drives use supercooled gases and specially-designed thrust modules that scatter the escaping gases, so as to leave as little wake as possible. While such units are dangerously inefficient, they are harder to track then conventional ion engine drives (which cannot be baffled). Fuel for such drives is extremely hard to come by, and many synthesize their own.
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Baffled Drive
Model: Rendili StarDrive's WhisperThrust
Type: Baffled realspace drive
Scale: Starfighter
Cost: 100,000 credits minimum on the black market
Weight: 20 metric tons; extra tank: 2 metric tons
Availability: 4, X
Game Notes: The Whisper is a highly illegal baffled realspace drive used on stealthy military starships. The Whisper allows a ship to move in space while running silent at a base speed of 2. Cautious movement is no more detectable than drifting; Cruise movement adds +5 to the sensor operator's roll; High speed adds +10; All-Out movement adds +15.
A WhisperThrust engine has a limited storage capacity for the necessary gases to move: enough to move 100 spacial units. An extra or replacement tank costs 7,000 credits. Synthesizing the necessary fuel requires 120 liters of spin-sealed tibanna gas and 2 kilograms of high-grade hyperbarides and a standard power generator. The fuel-refining process takes roughly three standard days.
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