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 Transit generators are rather expensive, at \[ce]400 per tonne of ship to which they are fitted.
+===== Power =====
+Transit generator require power only upon activation, to enter or to leave hyperspace.  They will burn 320 kilowatt-seconds for every tonne of ship that they transit, but no power once transit has been made.
+===== Fuel =====
+If your setting instead uses an exotic hyperspace fuel, 5 kilograms of fuel will transit one tonne of starship, either up or down.
+===== Speed =====
+//"We bounced off the iota wall a day out of Yeltsin." -- Alice Truman, **The Honor Of The Queen**//
+The standard of two parsecs per week is a good starting point for transit drives.  However, this assumes that your ships have some reasonable means of getting around hyperspace.  Your Game Master will let you know if there are considerations surrounding that.
+In many settings, "bands" of hyperspace that allow higher speeds exist.  A transit generator that can access such higher bands may have proportionally higher mass, power or fuel requirements.  Alternately, //one// of those factors might be increased by the //square// of the increase in speed.  This is seen in David Weber's Honorverse;  four times as much power is needed to access the Beta band, nine times as much to access the Gamma band, and so on.