Hyperwave inertial momentum sustainers

Experimental Hyperwave inertial momentum sustainers or HIMS (as the Bakuran technical staff called them) were created by the Bakuran Defense Fleet. They used a gravitic sensor that provides a fast cutoff for s ship's hyper- drive if they sense a interdiction field, causing the drives to shut off instantly before it could risk being damaged by the interdiction field. It then activates static hyperspace bubbles, that are produced by a hyperspace coil designed to burn up and blow out. The static bubble can not thrust the ship forward but it holds the ship in hyperspace while the ship's forward momentum carries the ship along. The first coil then sets off a chain re- action causing the other coils to go off in corresponding order. As consequence the ship flickers back and forth between hyper and realspace until the ship can reengage the normal hyperdrive after exiting the interdiction field.

These experimental drives were a crude but effective way to foil a reasonable sized interdiction field. They created a rough ride through the interdiction field but was better than nothing. These drives were only reported to be used on four ships. These ships were part of the Bakuran Defense Fleet, three Bakura-class destroyers, the Watchkeeper , Defender , and Sentinel. They where also installed in the Defense Fleet's flagship the Namana-class light cruiser, Intruder.