Star Citizen · Alpha 4.10 · Size 1 quantum drives

Quantum travel time vs. distance

Every drive ramps up to cruise speed, then mirrors the same burn in reverse to decelerate into arrival. Pick a ship to see fuel range cut each drive's line short, and check which drives are actually worth chasing.

Ship (Size 1 quantum drive slot)

Speed quality 500q (+0%)

Fuel quality 500q (-0%)

Distance Gm

Include spool-up time Include calibration time

Flight phase breakdown

	Drive	Spool	Accel/decel	Cruise	Calib	Total

Accel/decel covers both the acceleration-out and deceleration-in legs; cruise is 0 once accel alone covers the whole trip. Spool-up and calibration are only added to the total when their checkboxes above are checked (both off by default).

Size 1 drives

	Drive	Speed	Spool	Cooldn	Gm/SCU

Up to 8 drives plotted at once. Speed shown in Mm/s (1 Mm = 1,000 km).

How this is calculated

Time. Acceleration ramps linearly from a1 to a2 over one continuous burn (no fitted split point, no engage-speed offset), cruises at top speed, then mirrors the same ramp down on arrival. Closed-form solve from Erec's footage-verified (±0.2s) quantum-jump model. Spool-up and arrival calibration are both off by default — check their boxes above the chart to add either into the displayed time.

Range. Ship's fixed SCU tank ÷ drive's SCU/Gm rate cuts each line short (square marker). Fuel rates verified against erkul.games.

Tags. Best range = most fuel-efficient; Craftable = mission-reward-only blueprint (scmdb.net).

Craft quality. 500–1000q sliders give craftable drives up to +20% speed / −20% fuel, scaling linearly.

Stats: star-citizen.wiki · fuel: erkul.games · blueprints: scmdb.net. Alpha 4.10.

Reference routes - we are within 1 second of SPViewer's times

	Drive	10 Gm	Crusader-MT 57.14 Gm	Terminus-PyroV 101 Gm