FTL Drive Name Generator

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Generate names for the faster-than-light engines of a science fiction setting, from Corvane Fold Drive and Mark IV Brane Skimmer to The Long Step and Old Hiccup. The 1,000 names cover inventor drives, navy designations, corporate models, crew slang, precursor relics and risky prototypes.

About FTL drive names

A faster-than-light drive usually has three names in a well-built setting. The manual uses the formal one, often the inventor's surname plus the principle: Corvane Fold Drive, Voss-Kessandra Tunnel Drive, Quillane Displacement Drive. The hull plate carries a designation or a product name, such as Mark VII Fleet Translation Drive, Dawn-class Translation Engine or Brightwater Farline 400. The crew uses neither. They call it The Kicker, Old Hiccup or The Long Step, depending on how the crossing feels.

The verb in the name tells readers how the drive cheats distance. Jump and skip drives vanish and reappear, so travel comes in discrete hops with a recharge between them. Fold drives crease space until two distant points touch, then step across. Warp and slip drives bend or slide through space and suggest continuous motion. Gate and tunnel drives open a path and go through it. Pick one family for each culture or era and its ships will feel related.

The list of 1,000 also holds physics-flavored names, navy marks and type numbers, civilian workhorses, drives named for shipyards and animals, precursor relics such as The Humming Stone, and prototypes with warning-label names. Words like brane, tachyon and metric are borrowed from real theory for flavor only. All of it is fiction, not working science.

How to choose FTL drive names

  • Decide how the drive moves the ship before naming it: discrete jumps, a fold that brings two points together, a continuous warp or slipstream, or a gate the ship opens for itself. The verb in the name should match what happens on the page.
  • Give each drive a formal name and a nickname. Tormarrin Harmonic Drive on the paperwork and The Rattlebox in the engine room tells readers how the crew really feels about it.
  • Use marks, types and class names to show age and rank. A Mark II Courier Stepper beside a Mark XV Grand Fleet Drive implies a long service history without a word of exposition.
  • Invent the inventor. A made-up surname, or a hyphenated pair of them, reads as history and keeps your setting clear of drive names that belong to existing franchises.
  • Save the strange names for strange drives. A precursor relic or an unstable prototype earns a name like The Engine That Was Here First or Prototype 7, Do Not Engage Near Planets.

Frequently asked questions

What does FTL drive mean?

FTL stands for faster than light. In science fiction an FTL drive is the engine or device that lets a ship cross interstellar distances in days or hours instead of centuries. Every setting invents its own, which is why the name matters: it is often the first thing readers learn about how travel works.

What are good names for an FTL drive?

Formal names pair a surname or a principle with a head noun: Ellisande Metric Drive, Null-Lattice Jump Core, Meridian Slipstream Coil. Military settings suit designations such as Type 12 Transit Engine, and lived-in settings suit crew slang like The Coffee Spiller or Grandma's Sewing Machine.

What is the difference between a jump drive, a warp drive and a fold drive?

They are storytelling conventions, not fixed definitions. A jump drive usually moves a ship instantly between two points, a warp drive moves it continuously inside distorted space, and a fold drive brings two distant points together. Writers bend these freely, so decide your own rules and name the drive to fit.

Can I use these drive names in my own story or game?

Yes. The names were written for this generator from generic building blocks such as jump, fold and warp, and you are free to use them in fiction, games and tabletop campaigns. The list aims for original names instead of drive names from existing franchises. If you plan to publish, search any name you pick first, since no list can promise that a name is unused.

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A: 27 names

  • Abernach Traverse Core
  • Abiodun Threshold Stepper
  • Accordion Fold Drive
  • Aditi Varghese Drive
  • Admiralty Pattern Transit Engine
  • Aeon Lamp Drive
  • Albatross Glide Sail
  • Aldercross Horizon Drive
  • Alpha Unit, Sealed Chamber Only
  • Amaranthe Passage Drive
  • Amberly Deepspace Honeycomb
  • Ambulance-Grade Priority Drive
  • Ancestor-Light Prism
  • Andrassy Cascade Drive
  • Anjuli's Principle Drive
  • Anselm Drives Journeyman
  • Anvil-class Tender Core
  • Apprentice Wick's Improvement
  • Arctic Tern Long-Range Drive
  • Ardesh Transit Engine
  • Arkwell-Diallo Shuttle Loom
  • Arm-to-Arm Liner Drive
  • Ashen Choir Resonator
  • Ashwick Institute Trial Core
  • Asterhaven Light Pattern
  • Auntie Elsewhere
  • Aurora-class Passenger Motor

B: 37 names

  • Bastion-class Station-Mover
  • Beekeeper's Hive-Mover
  • Belisande-Kruger Loom
  • Bellwether Transit Companion
  • Bench Unit 12, Not Flight Rated
  • Bessie Lightfoot
  • Beta Build Transit Drive
  • Bexley-Arroyo Leap Drive
  • Bhattarai Soliton Drive
  • Blind Jump Core
  • Block IV Long-Watch Plant
  • Block V Flagship Drive
  • Blue Heron Works Wader
  • Bookmobile Stepper
  • Border-Range Patrol Coil
  • Borehole Transit Rig
  • Bosun's Lullaby
  • Bound-and-Rebound Springboard
  • Bow-Wave Drive
  • Brane Collision Drive
  • Brane Shear Drive
  • Brane Skin Glider
  • Brane Tension Winch
  • Brane-Contact Stepper
  • Brannoch Shunt
  • Breadboard Jump Core
  • Breath-of-Stillness Drive
  • Bridgehead Drive
  • Brightwater Farline 400
  • Brightwell Limit Breaker
  • Brindle Bay Pattern Stepper
  • Builder-Era Resonance Heart
  • Bulk Geodesic Runner
  • Bulk Transit Drive
  • Bulk-Space Diver
  • Burden-class Bulk Translator
  • Burrow Drive

C: 50 names

  • Cairn-Builders' Step
  • Calderon Transit Works Envoy
  • Calvessa Bulk Drive
  • Candle-Across-Water Drive
  • Candlewick Stellar Nightlight
  • Captain's Headache
  • Caravan Master's Lead Drive
  • Caravan-class Convoy Drive
  • Carried-Gate Array
  • Cartographer's Patient Drive
  • Castellane Geodesic Drive
  • Castellanos Remainder Coil
  • Castlereach Workhorse 12
  • Cathedral-class Ark Heart
  • Cathmoor Corridor Drive
  • Causal Offset Governor
  • Causeway Drive
  • Caution: Hot Core
  • CD-17 "Curlew" Crossing Drive
  • Census Ship Plodder
  • Chain-Jump Drive
  • Charter Yacht Comfort Drive
  • Chief's Darling
  • Chirality Inverter
  • Circuit Rider's Drive

C, continued

  • Circus Train Transit Plant
  • Clean Fold Drive
  • Clean Jump Motor
  • Cluster-Range Courier Motor
  • Coherent Vacuum Drive
  • Cold Jump Flywheel
  • Cold-Start Hyperdrive
  • Coldharbor Deep-Range Drive
  • Coldslip Runner
  • Coldwarp Drive
  • Colony Ark Translation Heart
  • Comet-class Express Drive
  • Committee-Approved Risk Engine
  • Cooperative Pool Unit
  • Coreward Express Engine
  • Corlath Yards Pacesetter
  • Corrigan's Landing Pattern
  • Corvane Fold Drive
  • Courier Guild Fast Core
  • Courier-Grade Hyperdrive
  • Crease-and-Fold Drive
  • Crestline Skimmer
  • Cross-Sector Freight Drive
  • Cuckoo's Shortcut Drive
  • Curvature Gradient Drive

D: 43 names

  • Darkloom Drive
  • Darkrunner
  • Dawn-class Translation Engine
  • Daybreak Motive Sunchaser
  • Decoherence Shell Drive
  • Deep Fold Core
  • Deep Hyperspace Keel
  • Deep Jump Cradle
  • Deep Tunnel Auger
  • Deep Vault Pattern Key
  • Deep Warp Core
  • Deep-Field Survey Plant
  • Deepshuttle
  • Deepslip Diver
  • Deepstride
  • Deepthread Drive
  • Deepwake Drive
  • Delacroix-Mbeya Parallel
  • Dellacourt Redshift Drive
  • Demonstrator Unit Two
  • Dimensional Offset Drive

D, continued

  • Diplomatic Pouch Courier Drive
  • Distant Bell Resonator
  • Dizzy Lizzie
  • Do Not Exceed Step Two
  • Do-Not-Stand-Aft Drive
  • Dockyard Loaner Unit
  • Doctor Halloway's Stepper
  • Dolphin Arc Drive
  • Doorstep Drive
  • Double-Skip Stepper
  • Dragomir Crossing Drive
  • Dragonfly Dart Drive
  • Dragonfly-class Skimmer
  • Dravik Asymmetry Rotor
  • Dreamer's Crossing Drive
  • Driftline Rudder
  • Drillpoint Core
  • Drowned Temple Drive
  • Drummanagh Threader
  • Dunmere Collective Motor
  • Dunmorrow Shift Drive
  • Dust-Choir Drive

E: 24 names

  • Easthaven Stellar Pilgrim
  • Eel-Current Skimmer
  • Eigenstate Selector Drive
  • Elder Lattice Heart
  • Elder Song Drive
  • Ellisande Metric Drive
  • Elsewhere by Dawn
  • Ember-class Short-Range Drive
  • Emberlin Works Stepper
  • Emeka's Equation Machine
  • Engineer's Regret
  • Engineering Board Transit Unit 44
  • Ennoth Wayfinder Shard
  • Entangled-Pair Translation Drive
  • Equinox-class Liner Plant
  • Eriksdottir Zero Projector
  • Eskerfield Needle Drive
  • Evacuate-First Prototype
  • Even-Skip Metronome Drive
  • Evening Departure Lantern
  • Everbough Transit Family Drive
  • Experimental Drive, Uncalibrated
  • Experimental Phase Tap
  • Experimental Stepper, Serial 001

F: 38 names

  • Faldrennan Seam Drive
  • Fallen Sky-Priests' Censer
  • Far Gate Lantern
  • Far Shore Drive
  • Farhaven Easy-Transit
  • Farjump Keel
  • Farladder Spindle
  • Farlathe Rotor
  • Farrowdeep Yard Special
  • Farthest-Light Survey Core
  • Farthingale Transit Pocket Drive
  • Farthread
  • FD-9 "Heron" Fold Drive
  • Featherfall Arrival Drive
  • Fenmarsh Parallax Drive
  • Ferry Line Shuttle Motor
  • Ferryman Oar
  • Field Trial Unit "Tuesday"
  • Fifty-Parsec Packet Drive
  • Fingers-Crossed Drive
  • First Light Elsewhere Drive
  • First-Makers' Stride
  • Fisher Fleet Net-Runner Drive
  • Flat-Stone Skip Engine
  • Fleet Standard Drive, Second Pattern
  • Flying Fish Engine
  • Fold Hinge Assembly
  • Fold Mirror Array
  • Fold Radius Drive
  • Fold Seam Stitcher
  • Fold-Wake Keel
  • Foldpoint Anchor
  • Fording Drive
  • Fossil Light Drive
  • Foxglove Orbital Featherstep
  • Free Trader's Compact Drive
  • Frogkick Stepper
  • FTL-2 "Sandpiper" Courier Unit

G: 35 names

  • Galactic-Plane Cruiser Core
  • Gannet Plunge Drive
  • Garage-Built Gate Rig
  • Garrowick Lens Drive
  • Gate Harmonic Tuner
  • Gate Iris Drive
  • Gate Key Drive
  • Gatecutter Rig
  • Gatefall Core
  • Gatehouse Winch
  • Gatelatch Motor
  • Gateless Transit Drive
  • Gatethread Spindle
  • Gateway Aperture Ring
  • Gatewright Portable Drive
  • GD-11 "Nightjar" Gate Projector
  • Glacier-class Hauler Core
  • Glass Slip Drive
  • Glasswing Transit Whisper
  • Glendarroch Torus Drive
  • Glide-Phase Drive
  • Glowworm-class Lamp Drive
  • Godwit Nonstop Drive
  • Goldfinch Yards Chorister
  • Gone-Before Wayknot
  • Grain Barge Slow-Transit Engine
  • Grandma's Sewing Machine
  • Granite-class Heavy Impeller
  • Granny Ostrander's Drive
  • Grasshopper Coil
  • Graven Path Tablet
  • Gravimetric Lens Drive
  • Greyfall Shipwrights' Drive
  • Greywater Systems Dependable
  • Guildhall Certified Transit Drive

H: 41 names

  • Halcyon Reach Tranquil
  • Halcyon Shoals Light Coil
  • Half-a-Hop
  • Half-Finished Warp Shell
  • Halls-of-Echo Drive
  • Halvane Dynamics Stride
  • Halvane-Oyelaran Drive
  • Handle With Tongs Drive
  • Harbor Pilot's Tug Drive
  • Harborlight Engines Beacon
  • Harcastle Minimum Drive
  • Hard Jump Stepper
  • Hard-Crease Fold Motor
  • Hare's Leap Stepper
  • Hartsfell Highroad
  • Harvest Fleet Bulk Translator
  • Harvest-class Freighter Plant
  • Hazard Class Nine Translator
  • Hazeldine Vault Drive
  • HD-8 "Shearwater"

H, continued

  • Held Breath Drive
  • Heron-class Courier Stepper
  • Heskerry's Second Theorem Drive
  • High Carrow Guild Drive
  • High-Warp Cruising Drive
  • Higher-Dimension Keel
  • Hirokane Translator
  • Hollinrake Stitch Drive
  • Hollow Gate Array
  • Hollow King's Stride
  • Hollow Road Engine
  • Holloway-Ngata Greenstone
  • Homecoming Engine
  • Homesteader's Transit Engine
  • Homeward Thread
  • Homing Pigeon Core
  • Hopscotch Drive
  • Humpback Song Resonator
  • Hundred-Light-Year Hauler Drive
  • Hyperfold Coil
  • Hyperspace Threshold Motor

I: 13 names

  • Ibex Ledge-Leaper
  • Ice Hauler's Cold-Start Drive
  • Idowu Transform Drive
  • Ilmenite Flats Bulk Translator
  • Ilvanov Torsion Motor
  • Improved Telmarrow
  • Inés Valcourt Legacy Drive
  • Inflation Bubble Drive
  • Irongate Motive Portcullis
  • Ishikura-Bale Coherence Drive
  • Ithrai Star-Thread
  • Ivory Shoal Yards Tradewind
  • Iwuchukwu Resonance Drive

J: 10 names

  • JD-14 "Kingfisher"
  • Jessamine Deepspace Roamer
  • Jorvanek Bridging Apparatus
  • Jump Anchor Drive
  • Jump Ladder Rig
  • Jump Lattice Mk II
  • Jump Point Resonator
  • Jump Spindle
  • Jumpfall Core
  • Juniper-class Survey Motor

K: 11 names

  • Kavanagh-Sugawara Crossover Shunt
  • Keep-Clear Rotor
  • Kelderbrook Vacuum Drive
  • Kellan's Reach Standard Engine
  • Kestrel Row Commuter Drive
  • Kestrin's Folly
  • Kethuun Bone-Lantern
  • Keyhole Translator
  • Kingfisher Dive Drive
  • Kite-class Racing Coil
  • Kovalenne Spindle

L: 60 names

  • Lab Queen Mk 0
  • Lady Whenever
  • Lampleaper Coil
  • Lamplighter's Route Drive
  • Lantern Road Drive
  • Lantern Rock Works Drive
  • Lark & Fennimore Skylark
  • Lark-class Yacht Drive
  • Larkspur Drives Morning Run
  • Late-Model Quillane
  • Lattice Defect Runner
  • Lattice Dislocation Drive
  • Lattice Phase Regulator
  • Lattice Resonance Coil
  • Lavrentis Wavefront Drive
  • League-Eater Drive
  • Leapfrog Drive
  • Leaping Trout Impeller
  • Leviathan-class Colony Drive
  • Librarian's Archive-Mover
  • Licensed Zielhart, Short Frame
  • Lightbridge
  • Lightcone Tilt Drive
  • Lightferry Drive
  • Lighthouse Tender's Drive
  • Lighthouse-to-Lighthouse Drive
  • Lightkeel
  • Lightladder
  • Lightlathe
  • Lightskip Paddle

L, continued

  • Lightstitch Drive
  • Lindholm-Oba Correction Coil
  • Lindqvar Brane Drive
  • Liner-Grade Smooth Transit Motor
  • Local-Bubble Commuter Drive
  • Long Bridge Capstan
  • Long Exhale Drive
  • Long Fold Mechanism
  • Long Skip Array
  • Long-Dark Rated Translator
  • Long-Dead Navigators' Loom
  • Long-Haul Hyperdrive Core
  • Long-Hauler's Friend
  • Longcast Coil
  • Longhaul Warp Drive
  • Longhop Treadle
  • Longjump Capacitor Drive
  • Longleap Core
  • Longslip Courier Drive
  • Longwater-class Transit Core
  • Loop-Gate Emitter
  • Loose-Tolerance Fold Coil
  • Lost Cartographers' Astrolabe
  • Low Harbor School Stepper
  • Low-Angle Skip Drive
  • Lowband Warp Drive
  • Lowmoor Engines Plodder
  • LRD-4 "Wayfarer"
  • Lucky Seventh Try
  • Lumley-Harrow Clearway

M: 55 names

  • Mail Packet Stepper
  • Mammoth-class Ore-Barge Plant
  • Mantis Step Drive
  • Map-Fold Navigator Drive
  • Margin-of-Error Stepper
  • Marguerite Dask Memorial Drive
  • Mark I Proving Drive
  • Mark II Courier Stepper
  • Mark III Tender Motor
  • Mark IV Brane Skimmer
  • Mark IX Fleet Tender Drive
  • Mark V Carrier Translation Core
  • Mark VI Home Fleet Motor
  • Mark VII Fleet Translation Drive
  • Mark VIII Vanguard Translator
  • Mark X Fleet Hyperdrive
  • Mark XI Battle-Fleet Impeller
  • Mark XII Expeditionary Drive
  • Mark XIII Long Patrol Core
  • Mark XIV Deep-Range Drive
  • Mark XV Grand Fleet Drive
  • Market Fleet Stall-Mover
  • Marlowe-Sato Crossing Classic
  • Marrow Station Refit Unit
  • Marrowby Translation Coil
  • Maruuni Dream-Road
  • Matsuoka Balance Drive

M, continued

  • Maybe Machine
  • Mayfly-class Disposable Stepper
  • Meadowlark Transit Sunday Driver
  • Membrane Surfing Drive
  • Merchant Standard Number Four
  • Meridian Dockyard Classic
  • Meridian Slipstream Coil
  • Metric Compression Drive
  • Metric Tide Mill
  • Metric Wedge Drive
  • Midwife's Fast Cutter Drive
  • Milk-Run Drive
  • Mining Combine Bulk Translator
  • Minnow-class Shuttle Stepper
  • Mistry-Okpara Function Drive
  • Model 12 Outrider Skimmer
  • Model 3 Lifeboat Drive
  • Model 31 Dispatch Unit
  • Model 7 Border Patrol Drive
  • Model 88 Squadron Drive
  • Monarch Migration Core
  • Monarch-class Flagship Core
  • Monastery Ship Quiet Rotor
  • Morning Elsewhere Sail
  • Moth-to-Lantern Coil
  • Mountain-Fold Crimper
  • Mudskipper Motor
  • Mwangala Tensor Drive

N: 27 names

  • Nakadai Step Motor
  • Nameless Dynasty Drive
  • Narrow Gate Drive
  • Narrow Slip Drive
  • Narrowband Warp Coil
  • Navy Pattern Long-Range Drive
  • ND-2 "Wheatear"
  • Negative-Mass Impeller
  • Negative-Pressure Bubble Shell
  • Neighbor-Star Shuttle Drive
  • Newsrunner's Hot Core
  • Night Mail Express Core
  • Night-Ferry Drive
  • Nightloom
  • Nightstride Drive
  • Nine-Jump Courier Drive
  • Nine-Skip Coil
  • Ninth Dock Translator
  • Ninth Reliquary Drive
  • Njoroge Pattern Translator
  • Nomad Clan Family Drive
  • Norrington-Achebe Ring
  • Northlight Yards Evenkeel
  • Null-Geodesic Skimmer
  • Null-Interval Hopper
  • Null-Lattice Jump Core
  • Nullstride

O: 38 names

  • Oakhaven Engines Steadfast
  • Okonedo Constant Drive
  • Okoro-Lindgren Meridian Touring
  • Old Blue Flicker
  • Old Faithless
  • Old Grumbler
  • Old Hiccup
  • Old Iron Bellows
  • Old Knuckles
  • Old Man Penhallow's Machine
  • Old Patience
  • Old Wheezer
  • Oldfield & Rowe Heritage Drive
  • Ombrette Works Serenade
  • One-Night Transit Motor
  • Open-Bench Tachyon Rig
  • Open-Gate Coil
  • Open-Sky Jump Drive
  • Orchard Barge Skip Drive
  • Orchard-class Seedship Heart
  • Origami Drive
  • Orrindale Null Drive
  • Oskarsdottir Arc Drive
  • Osprey Stoop Drive
  • Ossory Belt Miner's Core
  • Ostberg Yards Longreach
  • Other Shore Sail
  • Otter-class Runabout Drive
  • Ottoline-Mazzanti Inversion Drive
  • Oumari Wayglass
  • Out-and-Back Courier Drive
  • Out-of-Spec Shunt
  • Outer Hesper Yards Drive
  • Outer-Halo Expedition Engine
  • Outreach Impeller
  • Outstride Drive
  • Overclocked Slip Rig
  • Ozhari Wind-Cage

P: 42 names

  • Pale Builders' Keystone
  • Pale Harbor Liner Drive
  • Paper Fold Press
  • Pascoe-Lindiwe Bridge Coil
  • Patched Firmware Core
  • Pattern 11 Reserve Fleet Drive
  • Pattern 19 Escort Coil
  • Pattern 2 Auxiliary Stepper
  • Pattern 4 Signal Corps Stepper
  • Pattern 6 Naval Drive
  • Pattern 8 Blockade Runner Drive
  • PD-5 "Godwit"
  • Pebble-class Lifeboat Coil
  • Pebble-Skip Drive
  • Peddler's Cart Hop Motor
  • Pellinor Works Errant
  • Pemberwick Hop Drive
  • Phase-Space Rotor
  • Pilgrim Fleet Common Stepper
  • Pilgrim's Shortcut Drive
  • Pilgrim-class Slowboat Drive

P, continued

  • Pioneer Wagon Jump Drive
  • Pleatwork Drive
  • Plotted Jump Array
  • Pocket Gate Drive
  • Pocket Hyperdrive
  • Pocket Thunder
  • Port Ysolde Heavy Core
  • Postmaster's Regular
  • Precursor Drive, Type Unknown
  • Preproduction Skip Rig
  • Professor Ashgrove's Loophole
  • Proof-of-Concept Stepper
  • Proper-Time Compressor
  • Prospector's Pocket Drive
  • Prototype "Coin Flip"
  • Prototype "Long Shot"
  • Prototype "Second Opinion"
  • Prototype 19, Mostly Assembled
  • Prototype 2, Do Not Cold Start
  • Prototype 7, Do Not Engage Near Planets
  • Provisional Transit Engine

Q: 14 names

  • Qeth Pilgrim Stone
  • Quantum Foam Auger
  • Quantum Tunneling Array
  • Quarrendon Curvature Drive
  • Quartermaster's Standard Core
  • Queensferrow Station Drive
  • Quenby Aperture Drive
  • Quickslip Vane
  • Quickstep Translation Drive
  • Quiet Dorothy
  • Quiet Passage Drive
  • Quillane Displacement Drive
  • Quillfeather Courier Dispatch
  • Quorum Stellar Navigator LX

R: 23 names

  • Racing Syndicate Sprint Coil
  • Rag-and-Bone Salvage Drive
  • Rapid-Skip Sequencer
  • Rasmundi Field Drive
  • Ravensworth Cycle Engine
  • Red Tag Unit
  • Redmarch Industrial Bulk-Transit
  • Redwater Drydock Rebuild
  • Redwood-class Generation Drive
  • Refitted Lindqvar, Coldwater Pattern
  • Regent-class Capital Drive
  • Relay Rider's Spur
  • Rescue Service Scramble Drive
  • Research Unit 5 "Probably Fine"
  • Rev C, Known Issues
  • Reverse-Wound Brannoch
  • Riptide Transit Drive
  • River Under Stars Oar
  • Riverbend Works Barge-Master
  • Roadbuilder's Beacon-Layer Drive
  • Rope-Bridge Drive
  • Runaway Cascade Testbed
  • Ruskova Identity Drive

S: 130 names

  • Saffron Line Express Core
  • Saint Odile Foundry Coil
  • Salmon-Run Engine
  • Salvaged Hyperdrive, Third Owner
  • Salvager's Rebuilt Drive
  • Sand-Sealed Translation Urn
  • Sandgrouse Courier Coil
  • Sarrethi Far-Calling Bell
  • Schoolship Training Rig
  • Scrapyard Special Drive
  • SD-6 "Cormorant" Slip Drive
  • Seahorse Drift Coil
  • Second-Hand Hyperdrive
  • Sector-Rated Transit Drive
  • Seed Vault Courier Coil
  • Self-Gate Projector
  • Series 12 Frontier Drive
  • Series 5 Convoy Drive
  • Series 7 Reconnaissance Drive
  • Series 9 Hospital Ship Drive
  • Serrano-Vale Stride Engine
  • Settler's Economy Stepper
  • Seven-League Stepper
  • Shallow Hyperspace Skimmer
  • Shallow Warp Skimmer
  • Shallow-Skip Skimmer
  • Shearwater Glide Vane
  • Short-Cycle Jump Drive
  • Short-Haul Hopper
  • Shortcut Tunnel Coil
  • Showboat Slipstream Engine
  • Sideslip Translator

S, continued

  • Sign-the-Waiver Special
  • Silent Garden Seedpod
  • Silent Jump Drive
  • Silverbirch Astro Canopy
  • Simultaneity Engine
  • Singed Eyebrows Special
  • Single-Use Translation Coil
  • Sister Imelda's Calculation
  • Six-Week Crossing Drive
  • Skerry Light Pattern Drive
  • Skimwake Drive
  • Skip Cadence Drive
  • Skip Harmonic Rotor
  • Skip Ladder Drive
  • Skip Spindle Array
  • Skip-Line Impeller
  • Skipcurrent Vane
  • Skipjack Courier Unit
  • Skiplight Motor
  • Skipstone Drive
  • Skipwater Drive
  • Skyhook Translator
  • Skyladder Drive
  • Skyless Passage Helm
  • Skyseam Drive
  • Sleeping Distance Loom
  • Sleepy Pete
  • Slidepath Translator
  • Slingshot Sally
  • Slip Channel Array
  • Slip-Field Projector
  • Slip-Layer Glider
  • Slip-Plane Skimmer

S, continued

  • Slipcurrent Impeller
  • Slipfall Rotor
  • Slipknot Drive
  • Slipring Motor
  • Slipshear Engine
  • Slipstream Harness
  • Slipstream Keel
  • Slipstream Lantern Drive
  • Slipstream Sail
  • Slipstream Spindle
  • Slipthread Core
  • Slipwake Drive
  • Slipway Launch Drive
  • Slow Dawn Translation Drive
  • Slow Fold Barge Plant
  • Slow-Build Warp Plant
  • Slow-Charge Jump Drive
  • Smallest-Scale Stitcher
  • Smuggler-Proof Sealed Unit
  • Soft Arrival Coil
  • Soft Jump Coil
  • Soliton Wave Rider
  • Solstice-class Fold Drive
  • Sorrel Engineering Thrift
  • Spacetime Pleat Drive
  • Spanwright Array
  • Sparrowhawk-class Dispatch Drive
  • Springbok Stepper
  • Springheel Assembly
  • Stand-Behind-the-Line Drive
  • Standing-Wave Translation Drive
  • Stannivar Projector

S, continued

  • Starbellows
  • Starcrease Drive
  • Stardiver Drive
  • Starfarer Kings' Gate Seed
  • Starferry
  • Starkeel
  • Starless Mile Drive
  • Starling-class Packet Motor
  • Starloom
  • Starshunt Core
  • Starsling Sail
  • Starstride Vane
  • Starvane
  • Starwedge
  • Steady-State Warp Drive
  • Stepping-Stone Array
  • Stillwater Motive Calm
  • Stonebridge Motive Ironclad
  • Stormswift Migration Vane
  • Stride-Length Multiplier
  • Stubborn Agnes
  • Stutter-Jump Drive
  • Sundaresh Lattice Stepper
  • Sunderby Astro Trailmaster
  • Sunken Archive Drive
  • Superluminal Soliton Drive
  • Surfline Drive
  • Surveyor's Long-Reach Coil
  • Swallow's Return Drive
  • Swallowtail Drive
  • Swift-class Messenger Drive
  • Swiftwing Courier Core
  • Swinging Gate Drive

T: 195 names

  • Tachyon Bloom Drive
  • Tachyon Cascade Core
  • Tachyon Flux Manifold
  • Tachyon Pulse Stepper
  • Tachyon Sail
  • Tachyon Skip Engine
  • Tachyon Wake Inducer
  • Tachyonic Condenser Coil
  • Tamarind Stellar Monsoon
  • Tamsin-Rourke Paradox Motor
  • Tandem Jump Drive
  • Tarn & Dalloway Wanderer Core
  • Tarsis Yard Pattern Drive
  • Tavish-Oduya Manifold Drive
  • TD-3 "Longshanks"
  • TE-30 "Stormpetrel"
  • Tea Clipper Racing Drive
  • Telmarrow Drive
  • Tembo-Nordahl Ratio Drive
  • Temporary Permanent Drive
  • Tensor Bias Drive
  • Tern-class Long-Hop Drive
  • Tessel & Wren Pathmaker
  • Test Article 3 "Maybe"
  • Test Rig "Brave Volunteer"
  • Thal-Vorei Sky Needle
  • The Amber Reliquary
  • The Arc Not Traveled
  • The Asterisk Drive
  • The Big Squeeze
  • The Big Yes
  • The Black Glass Spindle
  • The Borrowed Mile
  • The Bright Elsewhere
  • The Buried Chime
  • The Calloway-Imura Compromise
  • The Closed Distance
  • The Coffee Spiller
  • The Coin Toss

T, continued

  • The Cold Shrine Wheel
  • The Coral Helix
  • The Delacott Approximation
  • The Door in the Dark
  • The Dorrance Workaround
  • The Dreaming Lodestone
  • The Egg Timer
  • The Empty Stride
  • The Engine That Was Here First
  • The Engine Under the Ice
  • The Far Side of Now
  • The Ferreira-Lund Shortcut
  • The Folded Map
  • The Gap Between Heartbeats
  • The Glass Reed Organ
  • The Greaves-Tanimoto Standard
  • The Gulp
  • The Harrowby Shortfall Motor
  • The Hold-Onto-Something
  • The Hop Box
  • The Hum
  • The Humming Stone
  • The Hush Before Arrival
  • The Ivory Gyre
  • The Jolt Box
  • The Kettle
  • The Kick in the Boots
  • The Kicker
  • The Kinnear Postulate Drive
  • The Lantern That Remembers
  • The Last Mile First
  • The Leaving and the Landing
  • The Long Sneeze
  • The Long Step
  • The Longfield-Adeyemi Bypass
  • The Lunch Loser
  • The Lurch
  • The Marchbanks Solution
  • The Mirror Under the Mountain

T, continued

  • The Missing Distance
  • The Morwenna Effect Engine
  • The Moss-Grown Heart
  • The Mule
  • The Narrow Hour
  • The Obsidian Torus
  • The Oduya Corollary Translator
  • The Ogunleye Symmetry Drive
  • The One That Worked Once
  • The Patient Crossing
  • The Pogo
  • The Popper
  • The Pruitt-Achieng Method Drive
  • The Purr
  • The Quiet Between
  • The Rattlebox
  • The Road Between Lamps
  • The Rubber Band
  • The Rusted Hymn
  • The Sandoval Interval Stepper
  • The Seventh Sealed Heart
  • The Short Way Round
  • The Shortened Night
  • The Shorter Sky
  • The Shudder
  • The Singing Engine of the Vault-Makers
  • The Skipping Rope
  • The Sleeper's Compass
  • The Snap
  • The Solano Surplus Shunt
  • The Space of a Sigh
  • The Spin Cycle
  • The Stair Without Landings
  • The Step Off the Map
  • The Sternwood Dilemma Machine
  • The Stomach-Turner
  • The Teeth-Rattler
  • The Thousand-Eyed Compass
  • The Thousand-Year Shortcut

T, continued

  • The Trombone
  • The Unburied Engine
  • The Unlit Corridor
  • The Unmeasured Reach
  • The Unreadable Core
  • The Unspooled Road
  • The Unwalked Mile
  • The Vanishing Mile
  • The Vantongeren Conjecture Drive
  • The Vellacott Margin Drive
  • The Verdigris Orrery
  • The Washing Machine
  • The Way Through
  • The Whispering Keel
  • The Wide Step Home
  • The Winterbourne Proof Drive
  • The Yawn
  • The Zipper
  • Thesis Project Drive
  • Thessaly-Okafor Inducer
  • Thessmoor Works Transit Plant
  • Third Time Lucky
  • Third-Generation Corvane
  • Thistle-class Scout Coil
  • Thornbury Stellar Outbound
  • Thorvaldsen-Reyes Loop Drive
  • Thousand-Parsec Ark Plant
  • Thousand-Skip Drive
  • Thousandfold Engine
  • Thread of Morning Drive
  • Three Lanterns Wayfinder
  • Three-Hop Courier Coil
  • Threshold Engine
  • Throat Stabilizer Drive
  • Tide-That-Carries Keel
  • Tidewell Deepline Mariner
  • Tight-Fold Courier Drive
  • Timber Hauler Heavy Jump Core
  • Tin Whistle

T, continued

  • Tinker's Refit Engine
  • Tollard Cross Freight Motor
  • Tomb-Ship Translation Heart
  • Topological Shunt
  • Tormarrin Harmonic Drive
  • Torsion Field Drive
  • Tramp Freighter Standard Drive
  • Trans-Spiral Heavy Drive
  • Traveling Clinic Drive
  • Trial Unit B, Revised
  • Tsukihara Wake Drive
  • Tuck-and-Crease Mechanism
  • Tundra-class Deep-Range Drive
  • Tunnel Bore Drive
  • Tunnel Mouth Projector
  • Tunnelwright Machine
  • Twelve-Parsec Stepper
  • Twin Yevenko Array
  • Twin-Bubble Warp Drive
  • Twin-Coil Jump Unit
  • Twin-Fold Translator
  • Twin-Stage Hyperdrive
  • Two-Hop Ferry Drive
  • Two-Stage Vendrell Translator
  • Type 1 Militia Coil
  • Type 12 Transit Engine
  • Type 15 Survey Corps Coil
  • Type 18 Buoy Tender Transit Core
  • Type 22 Patrol Drive
  • Type 27 Pathfinder Array
  • Type 3 Scout Skimmer
  • Type 33 Rescue Cutter Drive
  • Type 40 Heavy Jump Core
  • Type 5 Rapid Response Drive
  • Type 50 Fleet Collier Plant
  • Type 61 Relief Fleet Translator
  • Type 7 Picket Skip Unit
  • Type 8 Staff Courier Drive
  • Type 9 Fast-Transit Array

U: 12 names

  • Ulvestrand Rotor
  • Ulveth Star-Loom
  • Unbalanced Rotor Trial Drive
  • Uncle Tobias's Patent Stepper
  • Undertow Impeller
  • Uninsurable Transit Core
  • Unlicensed Nakadai Copy
  • Unnamed Makers' Spiral
  • Unproven Geodesic Cutter
  • Unshielded Brane Tap
  • Unstable Lattice Testbed
  • Untested Above Idle

V: 20 names

  • Vacuum Lattice Loom
  • Vacuum Polarity Drive
  • Vacuum Shear Impeller
  • Vacuum Tension Motor
  • Valley-Fold Drive
  • Vanished Empire Transit Stone
  • Vantaro Kinetics Swiftline
  • Varkonyi Offset Drive
  • Vasquenne Impeller
  • Vaulting Stride Drive
  • Vellum Moon Yards Motor
  • Venderholt-Oyo Vane
  • Verdant Arc Colony Drive
  • Verity Stellar Promise
  • Veshtan Tide Organ
  • Voided-Warranty Drive
  • Voidneedle
  • Voidshuttle Motor
  • Volatile Resonance Testbed
  • Voss-Kessandra Tunnel Drive

W: 41 names

  • Wake-Rider Keel
  • Warp Bubble Engine
  • Warp Cradle Ring
  • Warp Crest Rider
  • Warp Envelope Drive
  • Warp Gradient Motor
  • Warp Halo Drive
  • Warp Lens Array
  • Warp Mantle Core
  • Warp Seam Drive
  • Warp Shell Projector
  • Warp Tide Mill
  • Warp Trough Skimmer
  • Warpfront Drive
  • Warpline Coil
  • Warpweave Drive
  • Warpwright Standard Drive
  • Water-Strider Skimmer
  • Waycroft-Asante Homestead
  • Waykeel Drive

W, continued

  • Wayneedle
  • Waythread
  • Waywheel
  • WD-22 "Albatross"
  • Wedding Barge Glide Motor
  • Wet Paint Prototype
  • Wexcombe Conduit Drive
  • Whistled Road Drive
  • Whoopsie Drive
  • Widow Farrant's Engine
  • Wild Goose Passage Keel
  • Wildcatter's Deep Coil
  • Wind From Nowhere Drive
  • Windlass Point Translator
  • Windrose Motive Compass
  • Winter Crossing Sledge
  • Wintermark Foundry Drive
  • Wobble Drive
  • Wormway Borer
  • Wren-class Pinnace Drive
  • Wrenfield Homebound 6

X: 2 names

  • X-Drive, Second Attempt
  • XD-1 "Mayfly" Trial Drive

Y: 6 names

  • Yarrow & Stone Longhauler
  • Yarrowmere Eigen Drive
  • Yellow-Stripe Translation Core
  • Yevenko Phase Drive
  • Yolanda Pryce Centennial Drive
  • Yssari Thread-Singer

Z: 6 names

  • Zephyr-class Light Translator
  • Zero-Curvature Corridor Drive
  • Zero-Interval Translator
  • Zielhart Lattice Drive
  • Zoo Ship Gentle-Start Motor
  • Zubiri Threshold Inducer