Cruise Disrupters

[sovereign]

I think the usual explanation is that it forces your impulse engines to start- if you're in cruise, this means that your cruise engines get ditched in exchange for your impulse engines, and if your impulse engines are off (i.e. you're drifting) it turns them back on.

As for why it does this mechanics-wise, it was this way in vanilla. Nobody's bothered to look for a way to "fix" it as it adds a lot of depth to combats involving transports, gunboats, and cruisers.

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