Deep Space Engine

The Deep Space Engine is a technology used to enter and exit deep space. It is part of the Standard Engine Array. The Deep Space Engine is the most complex engine part of Union spacecraft, and also the most expensive to manufacture. The Deep Space Engine is therefore not included in a part of the Union spacecraft fleet (about 11.7%). Spacecraft without the Deep Space Engine is only useful for repetitive and planet-bound journeys, as they aren't able to travel great distances in short time. Even interplanetary travel within a single solar system is too time-consuming without a Deep Space Engine.

The Deep Space Engine consists of a set of technologies that is continually expanded to allow more stable journeys through deep space. The most important improvement in the Deep Space Engine stabilized the tracking changes while in deep space enough to receive signals from space, instead of only sending them, allowing spacecraft to implement a Deep Space Communicator.