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The sublight engine on a YT-1300 light freighter Sublight engines, also known as sublight drives[1] sublight thrusters,[2] or sublight jets[3] were engines that enable starships to break through an atmosphere[4] and travel through space below the speed of light.[5] In order to... While starfighters used small yet powerful drives, capital ships had vast engines the size of entire buildings.[7] Technically, the term sublight drive could refer to a wide variety of propulsion techniques: light sails, ramjets, even solid chemical booster rockets. Most sublight drives though used a fusion reaction to break down fuel into charged particles, which were then expelled from the ship in order to create thrust. Because of the heat and mild radioactivity of this thrust, it was illegal to use in or near the atmosphere of most inhabited worlds, though some individuals were not above breaking these laws in...

Sublight engines could accelerate a starship at many thousands of times standard gravity,[8][9][10] allowing it to get clear of a planet's gravitational field in a matter of minutes and cross vast distances of realspace.[7]... This article needs to be provided with more sources and/or appearances to conform to a higher standard of article quality. This category is for slower-than-light engines employed on starships. This article needs to be provided with more sources and/or appearances to conform to a higher standard of article quality. Engines, also known as thrusters, were devices used to propel vehicles across land, through a planet's atmosphere, or through the void of space. Engines could vary in size and shape, with some vehicles like podracers consisting of little more than two engines and a cockpit.[2]

There were at least three categories of engines: repulsorlifts (which required a large mass to push against in order to function), sublight engines (which drove ships in realspace at speeds below that of light),... Engine power in some starships could be boosted to increase the vehicle's speed. Asteroid thrusters were a type of engine which could be attached to asteroids and used to move them.[4] Sublight engines are engines found on ships which propel them through normal space without going beyond the speed of light. The Ancients equipped their vessels with extremely fast sublight engines. Puddle Jumpers are capable of crossing the Lantean system in under 15 hours, faster than anything Earth has made thus far.

One ship—the Tria—had her sublight drives modified to propel the vessel at 0.999 the speed of light, the fastest sublight speed ever encountered; this is the fastest one can possibly go without actually going... Even City-ships are remarkably maneuverable, considering their great size. (SGA: "Rising", "The Defiant One", "The Siege, Part 1", "The Return, Part 1") The Asgard have extremely fast and very maneuverable sublight engines. Older Asgard vessels, and especially the highly advanced O'Neill-class ship, is by far the most maneuverable vessel seen, making sharp turns at high speeds and engaging in dogfight-style tactics, easily avoiding the fire from... (SG1: "Thor's Chariot", "New Order, Part 1", "New Order, Part 2", "Camelot")

Goa'uld sublight drives are equipped aboard all Ha'tak vessels. Despite their large size, the sublight drives of Ha'taks are quite fast and maneuverable. Sublight drives on Death Gliders are also quite fast and maneuverable. These drives are used to decelerate after exiting hyperspace. (Stargate) (SG1: "The Serpent's Lair", "Enemies", "Reckoning, Part 2") Ori warships and fighters are quite fast.

The Ori fighters appear to fly at speeds previously unseen, possibly faster than Death Gliders. (SG1: "Camelot", "Flesh and Blood") Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. Stack Overflow for Teams is now called Stack Internal. Bring the best of human thought and AI automation together at your work. Bring the best of human thought and AI automation together at your work.

Learn more Bring the best of human thought and AI automation together at your work. In a number of Science Fiction Series such as Battlestar Galatica, Star Wars and Stargate spaceships are mentioned to have something called a Sublight Engine. in an episode of Dark Matter i remember someone mentioning that when the ship was disabled both the FTL and Sublight Engines were down so at least in this case a Sublight Engine seems... Sublight engines on the Millennium Falcon A sublight engine, also called a sublight drive, was a vital starship component used to drive ships through realspace at speeds less than the speed of light; the most common form of sublight drive...

The usual speeds achieved by sublight drive were quite substantial, amounting to a respectable fraction of the speed of light. A freighter-sized vessel propelled by sublight drive could clear the atmosphere of a planet and its gravity well in a matter of minutes. The most common sublight drive was produced by Hoersch-Kessel Drive, Inc., and found in vessels ranging from the T-16 skyhopper to the Imperial-class Star Destroyer. Durafly also produced sublight drives.

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