Historical Research - The advent of the FSD
05 May 2021Brainjax
The FSD was developed by the Alliance through secretive reverse engineering of a captured thargoid vessel and then provided to Sirius Corp. "After the collapse of the Galactic Cooperative in 3174, dozens of Thargoid vessels that GalCop forces had captured and stored eventually fell into the hands of the Alliance after it was established in 3230.[4] By the 3270s, the Alliance was able to reverse-engineer Thargoid technology and produced the revolutionary Frame Shift Drive, which it quietly ceded to Sirius Corporation at the behest of The Club in the hopes of preserving the balance of power between the three superpowers. Sirius monopolized the technology and distributed it to all the powers and factions, ensuring no one gained an advantage.[4] News of the Frame Shift Drive's development precipitated the signing of the London Treaty in 3278, in which the superpowers agreed to limit the construction of Capital Ships for the sake of preventing an arms race.[6] The completed Frame Shift Drive was unveiled in the late 3290s,[2][4] and immediately rendered the Type 2b obsolete when it became widely available in 3297.[2][3]”
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