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==Ether Drive==
AKA a Gravitic Drive, this is the FTL method for everyone's favorite [[Tau|weeaboo space communists]]. Unlike a proper Warp Drive (which this tech was reverse-engineered from in the early days of the Tau Empire), these barely dip a vessel into the Immaterium and aren't at the mercy of its dangers. This also makes it far safer, at the cost of speed (while it does go FTL, a Warp Drive will still far outclass one). This 'dive' is achieved by creating the FTL equivalent of a hydrofoil - the field developed by the drive is wing-shaped to take advantage of the turbulent, apparently 'ocean-like' boundary between realspace and the Warp, stalling the transition long enough that they will reach their destination before they even touch the actual Immaterium. The drive has to maintain a certain angle of attack for this 'dive' however, as otherwise the ship will just plunge into the Warp and [[Rape|into the arms/tentacles of its denizens]]. These are used in conjunction with the sublight but still relativistic [[ZFR Horizon Accelerator Engine]] to propel the Tau's expansion into the galaxy.