Linear Hyperdrive
A Linear Hyperdrive is an advanced hyperdrive technology created by Earthfleet, and deployed on the Raven, Wolfpack and Mythos class starships, as well as the rebuilt Generation 3 Sergenious. It that gets its unique name from the method in which it operates and ultimately produces FTL flight. Namely, the drive's power curve increases linearly, and is only limited in top speed by how much energy you can push through the system, or how much plasma pressure that the nacelles can withstand. The top end speed of a linear hyperdrive has not yet been discovered, even though it has already been proven to be able to travel vast distances that would take a comparable warp drive powered vessel months or even years to cross in only a matter of days or hours. The Linear Hyperdrive is, more or less, a 3rd generation hyperdrive, with Coaxial Drive being the unofficial second generation of the technology.
This is because hyperdrive research and advancement more or less stopped not long after the creation of the first hyperdrives, caused primarily by the invention of the Warp Drive, and didn't resume again until it was picked up by the scientists of the Brayburn Society as a means to replace Coaxial Drive technology, which had become unsafe to use, vulnerable, and insufficient for their needs. This new generation of hyperdrive proved to be superior to Warp and Coaxial drive in every way, as well as every other FTL technology ever used, either past or present. The only technology that is faster, although nowhere near as safe, is Jump Drive, which is something the Razkor unfortunately discovered.
The specific model of the Linear Hyperdrive used by Earthfleet boasts a top potential speed of 40 light years per minute, or 2,509,565 AU. However, due to the strain this puts on the ship, the Raven and Wolfpack are generally limited to operating consistently at no more than 80% max power. Only the Mythos class, with its much more rugged design, is capable of sustained FTL at 100% of drive capacity. The other ships can only maintain 100% for short bursts due to the risk of structural failure.
