Express Boats
Though current technology in the Imperium allows jump-6 travel, the standard
means of ferrying information, the xboats, travels only at jump-4. Publicly,
the Imperium writes this discrepancy off by citing the high cost of building
new ships and the fact that many frontier routes simply do not need jump-6
service. True, the cost of jump-6 is high enough to make a universal
jump-6 xboat network inefficient. But the Imperial government also
knows the power of information and maintains a variety of naval couriers
which can make jump-6. Knowing vital facts before they become general
knowledge is essential to a well run bureaucracy.
-IE ldr