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Assuming high point requirement = more advanced technology:>Quantum computing technology: 5 point requirement>Particle accelerators: 15 point requirement>Cold fusion reactors: 5 point requirement>Orbital platforms: 10 point requirement>Star Trek Magic Engine (Impulse Drive): 10 point requirementWith ample respect paid to the state of modern technology, please tell me that I'm not the only one that sees the problem here.
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Nothing to do with star trek

Impulse (n): the effect of an impelling force; motion induced; impetus given.
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction", that is the principle that given the copious energy cold fusion can produce which propels thus equipped spacecraft. Instead of slingshotting between gravity wells as humans are currently doing, "Impulse Drives" go directly from point A to point B accelerating half the way there, and decelerating the rest of the way- a commonly seen sf method. What I am doing right now in notepad is writing out brief tech flavor texts so we do not have these kinds of confusion. Everyone calls different things differently - in my head I call ships with these drives "Lighters", and could not really find a generally accepted name for them, so I used actual physics to name it.

Also, it is "Particle Acceleration", which as a pre-req to "Light Speed Accerlation" may be a tip off that it is not literally the Large Hadron Collider.

As far as quantum computing, current technology in the here and now is one breakthrough away from using sub-atomic particles to store data. Orbital platforms in comparison are incredibly more difficult.