Used to reduce fuel costs or less commonly as the ship's only means of propulsion, Ion drives facilitate the usage of ion thrusters that turn ⚡power into 🔥thrust. Technically it's more complicated than that but ⚡power is the only resource it'll consume in *this* game system. One drive can run all the ion thrusters on the ship. It's [[flammable|Starfinder Ship Building/1 ❗Information❗/Global Symbols & Key Terms#flammable.]].