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<blockquote data-quote="kronos182" data-source="post: 7087037" data-attributes="member: 6668634">Doing a little research on transparent and the quantum slipstream. .. quantum slipstream is approximately 30 times faster than warp 9.99, while transparent is 50. or so memory-alpha says at one point. Transparent kind of creates a wormhole like effect into transparent space, which is kind of a sublayer of subspace.&nbsp; So a ship with a transparent drive can create it's own conduit, which any ship with a transparent drive, or emit the proper tachyon burst (and some other mumbo jumbo) can enter that conduit while it is active.&nbsp; BUT once the original ship and any that followed it are out, that conduit closes. NOW the conduit network on the other hand is a series of conduits that are kept open using the hub as an anchor to maintain the conduit with manifolds or something. This allows ANY ship to enter a preestablished conduit and travel to locations the hub is linked to.Think of a transparent drive as a vehicle&nbsp; plowing it's way through whatever to get to where it's going, leaving a trail TEMPORARILY that another properly equipped vehicle can follow until the trail disappears,&nbsp; while the conduit network is a massive highway network linking several cities together, allowing you to use any vehicle on these highways to get to places pretty damn quick, but still need a transwarp or regular warp to get to areas between those cities.Quantum slipstream is just slower, and so far can't be networked like transwarpor,&nbsp; and doesn't put as much stress on larger ships like transwarpor does (the born have ways around these problems).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kronos182, post: 7087037, member: 6668634"] Doing a little research on transparent and the quantum slipstream. .. quantum slipstream is approximately 30 times faster than warp 9.99, while transparent is 50. or so memory-alpha says at one point. Transparent kind of creates a wormhole like effect into transparent space, which is kind of a sublayer of subspace. So a ship with a transparent drive can create it's own conduit, which any ship with a transparent drive, or emit the proper tachyon burst (and some other mumbo jumbo) can enter that conduit while it is active. BUT once the original ship and any that followed it are out, that conduit closes. NOW the conduit network on the other hand is a series of conduits that are kept open using the hub as an anchor to maintain the conduit with manifolds or something. This allows ANY ship to enter a preestablished conduit and travel to locations the hub is linked to. Think of a transparent drive as a vehicle plowing it's way through whatever to get to where it's going, leaving a trail TEMPORARILY that another properly equipped vehicle can follow until the trail disappears, while the conduit network is a massive highway network linking several cities together, allowing you to use any vehicle on these highways to get to places pretty damn quick, but still need a transwarp or regular warp to get to areas between those cities. Quantum slipstream is just slower, and so far can't be networked like transwarpor, and doesn't put as much stress on larger ships like transwarpor does (the born have ways around these problems). [/QUOTE]

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