The Galifre Drive

The Galifre Drive is one of the greatest technological achievments of the modern space age.

Development
During the tech race of the early 2450's the Arcadians quickly outpaced the UEC, creating advanced technologied and ships at a seemingly unhuman pace. This led to them pushing back the UEC in battle after battle, reaching as far as the Inner Colonies. This spurred the UEC to invest heavily in R&D. This paid off when in 2459, the Galifre Drive was developed by the tech firm Montblanc industries.

Function
The Galifre Drive works off the principles of subspace and Anti-matter. By creating localized singularities inside the drive itself, it siphons off Anit-Matter from subspace. This Anti-Matter is then kept in containment until needed.

The action of the drive itself is to expose the Anit-Matter to Matter, releasing vast amounts of energy from the resulting contained fusion explosion. The amounts of energy created are far beyond the amount required to aquire the anti matter, making this Drive more than 100% energy efficient.

Implementation
The Galifre Drive is used in all modern UEC ships, including scaled down versions for fighters and frigates. The only draw back is that if damaged, the resulting explosion is catostrophic. This has been used to great effect however in the creation of weapons of mass destruction, or Galifre bombs.

Weaponization
The Galifre Bomb is a hyper charged, miniature Galifre Drive, loaded into a payload. The resulting explosion is exponentialy larger than conventional Nuclear devices.

Galifre Shielding
Still under development, the Galifre Shield is a device that channels the volitile Antimatter energy into a field around a ship, or building. It is capable of stopping nearly any conventional weapon, and refracting Laser weapons to the point of no effect. The only type of weapon that appears to have a high success rate against the Shield is Plasm based. This is spurring a shift to Plasma weapons on all Arcadian and UEC ships.