Quantulus Warp Manifold

The Quantulus warp manifold was pioneered by Frontier Aerospace as the first dual-core Warp 10 drive system.

The system has been referred to as any one of the following: Quantulus warp manifold, Quantulus warp drive, Quantulus warp system, Quantulus drive, or Quantulus drive core.

Version 1.x
The initial Quantulus drive core was installed on a refit of the Revolution-class USS Endeavour and the initial construction of the USS Ethos.

This design was inherently unstable, although not dangerously so. Extensive safeguards needed to be installed to ensure that the injector stream variance and containment field integrities did not reach unsafe levels. This dependence on safeguards resulted in a general mistrust of the design by Starfleet, and the inability of any ship with this drive core to be accepted as an "NCC" vessel.

No version of this Quantulus warp system has had an accident.

Version 2.x
The second version of the Quantulus drive was installed on the USS Ethos exploration refit and the Phoenix-class USS Endeavour. Initially, Starfleet was unwilling to accept the USS Ethos with the v1.0 drive core due to its unstable nature; the Revolution-class Endeavour would never be accepted as a true "NCC" vessel for this same reason. Once the second generation Quantulus drive core was installed on the USS Ethos, it was accepted into Starfleet under the registry "NCC-1753", rather than the experimental "NX-1753".

The second generation drive core resolved the containment and injector variance issues that plagued the first generation design, although not fatally. These changes were brought about by Frontier's desire to have both of their ships selected to participate in Starfleet's three-year exploratory mission. The second generation drive core was never installed on the Revolution-class USS Endeavour, but Starfleet enabled the vessel to participate in the mission regardless.

Version 2.1
The Phoenix-class USS Endeavour was equipped with a slight update to the initial second generation Quantulus drive core. This update added more precise injectors and containment field generators, as well as improving the controls of each.

Version 3.x
The third-generation Quantulus drive core is a proposed variant of the second generation design that would be used in any new Phoenix-class or Sentry-class vessels.