Tachyon Thruster

"The Tachyon Thruster was designed by Spectre R&D to provide improved mobility and acceleration. These are best used to improve a hull's ability to close in on enemies and overall manueverability."

General
The Tachyon Thruster is a lightweight thruster designed for ships from the Spectre faction.

Advantages
Without incurring any penalties to other speed stats (e.g. strafe speed for Fusion Thrusters, turning speed for Binary Thrusters), this one provides a modest bonus to forward speed. It even increases the ship's acceleration, helping it reach maximum speed sooner.

Unlike the Tier 7 thrusters such as the Zephyr Thruster, it does not penalize other aspects of the ship but still costs next to no mass. As a result, it is particularly useful on ships that are short on mass, such as the Deadeye.

Disadvantages
Compared to other thrusters, the Tachyon Thruster only increases one main speed stat (namely forward speed). Acceleration is rarely an issue, and this thruster cannot even be used on the ships that benefit most from it - dreadnoughts.

Its main competitor, the Harmonic Chase Thruster, is functionally superior as it also provides Harmonic Agility, though it may not be worth the extra ship mass.

Trivia

 * This is the first thruster released since Tier 7.