JumpDrive

🌀 WASA Jump Drive — Station-Anchored Fleet Jumps

⚡ A Modern Take on X Rebirth's Jump Drive + Jump Fuel

This mod brings back the spirit of jump travel from the X Rebirth era — a true capital-ship jump drive backed by a dedicated jump fuel ware that you have to produce, store, and protect on your own stations.

In X Rebirth, ships jumped using Jump Beacons placed anywhere in space. X4 has no equivalent — and "jump anywhere" would be ridiculously overpowered in X4's gate-network economy. So this mod anchors every jump to a Wide Area Sensor Array (WASA) module on a station you own or are strongly allied with. The WASA acts as the destination beacon. Build WASAs where you want jump access; lose them and you lose the network. That's the balance trade.

Once you have WASAs in place, the entire L/XL military + auxiliary subtree of your fleet jumps together, fuelled by a research-gated player-only ware.

🪖 Jump Drive is Reserved for L/XL Military and Auxiliary Ships

This is intentional. Only capital-class warships (Destroyers, Frigates, Battleships) and auxiliary ships (Carriers, Resuppliers) can use the jump drive. Traders, miners, builders, S/M ships, and pure fighter classes cannot jump. The drive is a strategic tool for projecting military force across the galaxy, not a logistics shortcut for your economy. Your trade fleets still have to fly the gate network like every other ship in X4.

🚪 What the Mod Adds

🌀 A New Fleet Capability

Engage Jump Drive — jump a commander + every L/XL military/auxiliary subordinate that has enough fuel

No teleport: visible 15-second charge with proper vanilla sounds and voice lines

Critical aiscript order — once triggered, the jump cannot be cancelled

⛽ Jump Fuel — A New Ware

150 m³ per unit, container-type, player-only

Research-gated at the Player HQ

Recipe: 137 Energy Cells + 37 Antimatter Cells per unit (30s production)

🏭 Jump Fuel Production Module

Player-buildable station module

Geometry reuses the vanilla Antimatter Cell production module

Appears in the station builder under its own entry

🛠 Logistics Dropdown Menu

A "Logistics" parent entry in the right-click menu opens a flyout with four actions:

⛽ Refuel Fleet — buys Jump Fuel for the target + every L/XL military/auxiliary subordinate

⛽ Refuel This Ship — single-ship refuel

🔧 Resupply Fleet — vanilla ammo/units/repairs on the target + every subordinate (any class)

🔧 Resupply This Ship — single-ship resupply

🔧 How the Jump Drive Works

🎯 Right-Click a Station or Sector