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The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is an experimental [[Tau]] device to allow for [[FTL|faster-than-light]] travel.{{Fn|1a}}
==History==
The device was developed by [[Earth Caste]] scientist [[Ka'buto]] through years of studying [[Imperial]] FTL technology and old wreckages of [[Kroot]] [[Warsphere]]s. Once fitted to a space vessel, the module creates a bubble of [[Wikipedia: Anti-Matter|anti-matter]] around the ship and propels it at such a speed that it can pierce the fabric of reality itself. Initial test flights were incredibly successful and allowed any vessel equipped with one to traverse the entire span of the empire within a few days, a journey that previously required many months.{{Fn|1a}}
After the disaster at [[Numenar Point]], all the modules were disassembled and returned to storage at the [[Earth Caste]] facilities. [[Ka'buto]] and his team presumably continued to improve upon the device, in the hopes of a 6th Sphere Expansion.{{Fn|1b}}
==Canon Conflict==
The Tau possessed slow but working FTL in the form of [[Gravitic Drive]]s and [[Gravitic Hook]]s prior to the [[Codex: T'au Empire (8th Edition)|8th Edition Codex]].{{Fn|2}} However in the 8th Edition, the Tau were retconned into possessing no true FTL until the [[AL-38 Slipstream Module]].{{Fn|1a}}
==Sources==
**{{Endn|1a}}: pgs. 22–23
**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 25
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Book)]], pg. 96
[[Category:Technology (Tau)]]