LD's as they are commonly called are used specifically in military vessel construction, virtually no fighters have these however all the larger mastermind military ships have them. In function a Luminal drive works just like any other hyperdrive with one noteable expection, unless damaged or it's speed is limited by a tachyon governer they always propel the vessel ad an equivalent speed to a hyperspace rating of .75 which compard to say warp engine speeds would be warp 11. it is a good thing that more often then not mastermind vessels cannot pray to carry enough fuel to maintain the voracious appetite such engines rewquire and thus must replenish their H-fuel fairly often on long voyages.
Adezio Jump Drives
Slower then the super lumina drive but taking up less tonnage, the adezio jump drive allows instand jumps across 45 light years, however, that only makes it ideal for system to system transit. of course since it takes one day of charging via solar-magnetic sails per 5 lightyears travelled most consider it only ideal for commercial and civilian use.
Beta-Laser
Typically applied in both fighters and capitol vessels the betal laser is very similar in function to something like a phaser or a tubo laser. The distinction is that the betal laser is a chemical system combining two advanced and refined forms of oxygen and Iodine to make a high powered coherant beam. The beam then passes through a number of focusing prisms and beam blend shifters to create a high speed pulsed coherant beam. Beta lasers are known for their deep indigo color and seeming ability to bend when fired to track a target shich is little more then the fact the eye cannot realily discern that in fact the beam is composed of hundreds of smaller pulses that when the firing ewapon is turned are still firing straight into space but the way light in space hits the beam it appears to be bending.
Mjolnir grade coil and rail guns
The Mjonir siries is differentiated by where they are used, the coil-type mjolnirs are installed on fighters where space is a concearn while the larger mjolnir rail cannons are installed on capitol vessels. These weapons are everything one could expect from a rail weapon with two noteworthy exceptions, the first is that the capitol grade mjolnir ammunition has an ionizing jacket. The 'jacketed' ammunition of capitol-grade mjolnirs is designed to peirce sheilds in much the same way a torpedo might. Normally ionized rounds are used inthe opening shots of the fight to disable sheild generators and inflict tactical damage before an opponent can close enought aht the cannons must focus on delivering High-Explosive or HE playloads as well as low yeild nuclear payloads.
The fighter-grade Mjolnirs use less sophisticated payloads relying instead on brute force and rapid reloading systems to inflict large amounts of damage to other fighter's sheilding.
Cruise Disruptors
The Masterminds long ago developed the 'battleaxe' grade engine kill missile systems but since then have gone a long ways towards perfecting and enhanceing the systems. Currently the Hornet class cruise engine class is capable of delivering significant engine disruption at reasonable ranges versus both hyperdrive, luminal and warp-type drive systems, however that does not preclude the possiblity the systems cannot be shot down enroute.
Vespoid Artillery launcher
The VAL system is a advanced from of the bombardier system seen inthe early first mastermind war. While only mountable on capitol ships this weapon fires a tightly packed spread of high yeaid matter-anti matter warhead missiles and paints the target with several homing beams providing constant course correction information to the missiles in flight. Equally useful for obrital bombardment as well as anti-vessel and station use the vespoid has proven rather effective.
The Brain Core
Few have understood this technology, however based of what is clearly known the brain core is basically genetically and technilogically enchanced brainmass in a clear cannister made out of unknown materials with a set of primary uplinks on either end, while two bands of minor uplinks run along the case offering what is thought to be direct neural contact between the core and whatever it is installed in. The fabrication process for this core is entirely unknown as is the process for transferring the information of the mind within to a new core. However what is known is that if the core and the interior mass can be desroyed before the transfer the memories and personality within are lost forever. It is also known that the cores are typically when dealing with humanoid body conficuration containted within an armored case in the center torso while the space where the brain cavity should be is filled with as yet unidentifyable sensory systems. Outwardly one cannot tell a mastermind body from a normal humanoid one of whatever race the body is meant to match however deep medical scans can normally discern the 'strange' mass int he torso.
Almost no onehas ever understood the basis of the technology except the masterminds themselves however in one particular galaxy they have likened it to a race of monks who transfer their brains to jars and place them in robot bodies.