In 2325, ships use different technologies for space travel. They almost all rely on an amazing piece of technology called their Hyperdrive engine.

This engine and technology can technically “fold space” but the science around it has gray and unexplained areas for current human knowledge.

It is still dependent on mass, but to a different extent, and humans have been trying to master this technology for centuries.

Ships can use “hyperspace jumps”, but rarely, as these are extremely dangerous and only high-grade military ships can use this effectively and reliably without risking to explode or be lost in space.

In EXODE, reinforcements come from hyperspace jumps. However you can expect many ships to have been lost in space while trying to get there.

Instead, ships usually travel in what is called “Veilspeed”, which is not a hyperspace jump, but rather a “warp travel” speed. Veilspeed is not immediate and is much slower.

Veilspeed also has a sensitivity to mass and gravity that makes it perfect to travel in interstellar space but must stop once near large physical objects.

To engage in space combat, ships usually have to “exit Veilspeed”, and fight.

During “station approach”, your ship is actually in Veilspeed.

Once at the station, your ship cannot engage in Veilspeed and cannot flee using regular technology.

Another technology was initially invented and was called the Neuter-field, a special phenomenon in warp science . Neuter-fields delve a lot into what is unknown yet.

Technically, it is a hyperspace jump technology, and it can allow you to make a hypergalactic jump.

It hash even more dangers than a hyperspace jump.

No people (or animal, or object) ever returned from a hypergalactic jump using the Neuter-field effect. However, science explains that it does lead to another place far away.

In EXODE previous desperate and failed attempts to escape the alien threat have proven one thing: that only Neuter-fields can escape their reach, at least temporarily.

To unlock the Neuter-field capacity in your hyperdrive, it needs to be upgraded by your crew.

This is done by the "Upgrade Hyperdrive" order.