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After extensive research into quantum slipstream this core was developed. Rather than a matter-antimatter reaction to generate the raw power for a faster than light warp field, this core modulates subspace particle infused fusion plasma to the nacelles. This plasma technique usually only produces a very weak warp field and had in the past only really been useful for warp sustainers and warp test labs. This was because any attempt at increasing the particle mix led to instability and ultimate collapse of a conventional warp field. However the quantum core manipulates the particle mix to the point of instability then via a direct link to the deflector, focusses that instability ahead of the ship and manipulates it on the quantum scale until it creates a subspace vortex that pulls the ship in. It then has to constantly manipulate the particle mix and the deflector to maintain a stable slipstream. This manipulation is incredibly complex and the technology to do it is still in it's very early infancy.

Due to the nature of the core and the technology it is incapable of conventional warp and is also limited in the size of ship it can work with. So far these cores have been limited to specialised shuttles and a few modified runabouts. The discovery about the size limit with our current technology, may also explain why the first ship to attempt to use the technology after they discovered it (Voyager) had trouble with instabilities.
There is also hope that the technology may be the key to the future though as when looking into past warp research the engineers discovered that the slipstream had an unexpected similarity to an experiment aboard the Enterprise D involving a being known as the Traveller, and they theorise that he acted as a quantum manipulator from within the ship. This would also explain why the Enterprise D computer registered both not exceeding warp 1.5 and passing warp 10 as the sensors were not calibrated for quantum warp fields.

Description
After extensive research into quantum slipstream this core was developed. Rather than a matter-antimatter reaction to generate the raw power for a faster than light warp field, this core modulates subspace particle infused fusion plasma to the nacelles. This plasma technique usually only produces a very weak warp field and had in the past only really been useful for warp sustainers and warp test labs. This was because any attempt at increasing the particle mix led to instability and ultimate collapse of a conventional warp field. However the quantum core manipulates the particle mix to the point of instability then via a direct link to the deflector, focusses that instability ahead of the ship and manipulates it on the quantum scale until it creates a subspace vortex that pulls the ship in. It then has to constantly manipulate the particle mix and the deflector to maintain a stable slipstream. This manipulation is incredibly complex and the technology to do it is still in it's very early infancy.

Due to the nature of the core and the technology it is incapable of conventional warp and is also limited in the size of ship it can work with. So far these cores have been limited to specialised shuttles and a few modified runabouts. The discovery about the size limit with our current technology, may also explain why the first ship to attempt to use the technology after they discovered it (Voyager) had trouble with instabilities.
There is also hope that the technology may be the key to the future though as when looking into past warp research the engineers discovered that the slipstream had an unexpected similarity to an experiment aboard the Enterprise D involving a being known as the Traveller, and they theorise that he acted as a quantum manipulator from within the ship. This would also explain why the Enterprise D computer registered both not exceeding warp 1.5 and passing warp 10 as the sensors were not calibrated for quantum warp fields.