Frame Shift Drive (SCO)

Faster-than-light capable ship drive, featuring experimental overcharge capabilities, necessary for supercruise travel and hyperspace jumps between star systems.

— In-Game Description

The Frame Shift Drive (SCO) is a hyperdrive system manufactured by Achilles Aerospace. It was introduced to the market in 3310 after research on Thargoid Titan travel. The Frame Shift Drive (SCO) is capable of both supercruise and hyperspace jumps, with an additional capability of supercruise overcharge, allowing faster travel within a star system.

Usage

In supercruise, the boost function will activate and deactivate Supercruise Overcharge. During an overcharge, the Frame Shift Drive will accelerate rapidly, but there are multiple drawbacks: it will consume large amounts of fuel, generate a thermal load which can overheat the ship, and the ship's controls will suffer interference.

After deactivating a supercruise overcharge, there is a cooldown before the ship can start another overcharge. Commanders can see when another ship is in cooldown on their HUD's target info panel.

Supercruise overcharge will be deactivated during an interdiction. If the ship runs low on fuel during supercruise overcharge, it will perform an emergency drop into normal space, leaving a small amount of fuel in the main fuel tank. Emergency dropping during supercruise overcharge will deal severe damage to the ship and its modules.

Benefits

Supercruise overcharge (SCO) is very beneficial for shorter-distance travel rather than long-distance such as to Hutton Orbital.

For example: the C7 FSD has the slowest and worst acceleration curve. When using the C7 FSD in a star system with a second star that is 182,000ls from the primary star; with normal supercruise the journey is 11 minutes, 30 seconds. If you do use SCO, the journey is just 5 minutes, 30 seconds. So travel time is cut by more than half. For shorter jumps it can cut travel time to 1/10th or less.

Specifications

Unlike Frame Shift Drives, you can only install a Frame Shift Drive (SCO) if its size class matches the size of your ship's Frame Shift Drive Internal Compartment.

Class	Rating	Mass (T)	Integrity	Power Draw (MW)	FSD Optimal Mass (T)	Max Fuel Per Jump (T)	Overcharge Max Speed Increase (%)	Overcharge Max Acceleration Rate	Overcharge Heat Generation Rate	Overcharge Control Interference	Value (CR)
2	C	2.50	51	0.20	60	0.60	142	0.090	0.41	0.24	20,829
3	C	5.00	64	0.30	100	1.20	120	0.070	0.49	0.29	67,720
4	C	10.00	80	0.30	350	2.00	100	0.060	1.23	0.35	214,680
5	C	20.00	96	0.45	665	3.30	80	0.055	1.40	0.40	623,820
6	C	40.00	113	0.50	1200	5.30	62	0.045	1.80	0.64	2,157,270
7	C	80.00	131	0.68	1710	8.50	46	0.040	2.00	0.67	6,838,550