These engines act as the standard mode of transportation for most galactic ships. While many of the military ships of various species use more advanced engines to quickly mobilize their fleets, most personal, commercial, and industrial ships use warp drives to move throughout the galaxy at a slow rate.
These engines simply provide enough speed to go at faster-than-light speeds. Depending on the variety, maintenance is often required, especially of cooling units. Warp factors are achieved through a calculation of the factor to the dimension's power. For instance, Warp factor 6 in the fourth dimensional plane is considered to be 1296 times the speed of light, or 64.