Slipspace Drive

Slipspace Drive
The Slipspace Drive is a system contained on most ships within the Galaxy which allows said ships to move from place to place at speeds of almost 250,000 times the speed of light. It is made up of the Wormhole Containment System (WCS), the Slipspace Calculation and Navigation Core (SCNC), and the Dark Energy Projection System (DEPS). All of these components work together to find and open wormholes to allow access to a dimension that runs parallel to our own called Slipspace which is like a set of tunnels that link all planets and systems together.

The WCS
The WCS works constantly on the ship as it's what allows the craft to navigate Slipspace. On every Slipspace-capable ship there is a large chamber which uses gravitational waves and electromagnetic fields to have a wormhole open at all times. The always open wormhole is absolutely minuscule, only 0.314 nano meters in diameter, yet the chamber used to contain it can be up to 100 metres in diameter due to the amount of shielding required to protect the ship from escaping Tyson radiation emitted from Slipspace.

The SCNC
The SCNC is used as it's name implies, it does calculations for the best navigational routes through Slipspace to avoid dense patches of hydrogen. The more computers a ship has and the better the processors, the faster the calculations can be finished. Before these calculations are run, however, the Navigation part comes into play. The navigation works by firing beta radiation particles into the WCS and tracing them to their target destination. Whichever particle reaches its destination and returns to the ship first is the one that will be followed, then the calculations will be run to allow the ship to follow. This then searches for nearby wormholes to be opened. The SCNC is part of the ships main navigational computer (NavCom) and can be more or less effective depending on the software used to run the calculations and navigation.

The DEPS
The DEPS (colloquially referred to as "the Dips") is a simple system that aims at the wormhole's location and fires dark energy into it, expanding the wormhole to be the same size as the starship entering the microdimension. Once a ship is in Slipspace, the DEPS fires dark energy all around the ship to keep the Slipspace from collapsing upon the craft.