Finally we have managed to man-rate the Dino worm drives we received last year and my teams are working hard on reverse engineering the device so we can begin construction of our own worm drives hopefully by the end of this year. It has not been an easy road as the technology used in the worm drive is totally unlike anything we have handled before.
A major problem is integrating this technology into our ships, its not as simple a case of plugging in something like this and it works! What we have had to do is produce a "wrapper" around the wormdrive to turn it into an Open Architecture device. We had to develop special protocols and standards to integrate the Dino technology into our own what we have termed the Worm Drive Gateway, the wrapper handles all of this so the wormdrive can then be treated as a normal piece of DDS technology.
There are still problems though as the wormdrive requires a lot of power thus ships fitted with it need modifications to their power grids, this can cause problems with feedback as occured we believe on SS Carboniferous recently when a power junction blew out.
Once it is working we then have to make sure it can be maintained. Unfortunately at the moment wormdrive is treated a bit like a "black box" so if it breaks in service it has to be returned to us for us to (hopefully) repair. It will likely take us years to gradually turn worm drive into a normal piece of DDS technology...
