Short jump
From Encyclopedia Hiigara
Short Jump is the term for a type of hyperdrive developed in the first time by Bentusi and sold to many races on the Outer Rim Trade Routes. It allowed ships to move faster and farther then any conventional drive would allow. It is known that many races developed improvements, however they were still far from creating hyperdrives able to Far Jump. Therefore ships equipped with Short Jump drives can travel larger distances only by a series of shorter jumps, waiting each time for the hyperdrive to recharge.
[edit] Appearances
- In Homeworld's, Homeworld Cataclysm's, and Homeworld 2's multiplayer modes, all ships frigate-size or larger can make Short Jumps, at the cost of a certain amount of RU's (the longer the jump, the more RU's are required.)
- In all of the Homeworld games, enemy reinforcements arrive via short jumps, as the reinforcements in all Homeworld games do not have a ship capable of Far Jumping.
- In Homeworld: Cataclysm, since the Kuun Lann is not equipped with one of the Three Hyperspace Cores, all of the end-mission jumps are therefore classified as short jumps.
- In Homeworld 2, the Pride of Hiigara makes a short jump in Mission 4 to jump past Vaygr forces and destroy a Vaygr command station.
