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The Hawking Drive is a faster-than-light propulsion system employed by starships

The Drive is named after esteemed 21st-century physicist Stephen Hawking, although it was derived only tangentially from his ideas.

The drive is capable of enabling travel at thousands of times faster than the speed of light.[1]

References[]

  1. The Rise of Endymion, 1997, Chapter 1, p. 1.
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