Laumer Engine
From Earth Central
| “ | Deep in the guts of the Cable Hogue, banks of crystalline cylinders phased red-violet then off the visible spectrum. The force holding the ship under the surface of underspace dragged it deeper and slammed it forward. The energy expended was such that the ship left a visible trail behind it in realspace; self-created antimatter sparkled into oblivion as it onnected with stray hydrogen atoms and left black lines like stretch marks across vacuum. | „ |
| “ | The cost later turned out to be a twenty minute stopover in the trposphere of a gas giant for refuelling, then the Hogue really opened up with its Laumer engines. The result was called The Cable, and it glowed in the skies of many a world for decades. | „ |
The Cable Hogue is the only ship known to posses Laumer engines. Apparently they allow travelling at about twice the speed attained by more conventional systems.
