Manufacturer: Various, including Incom, Sienar Fleet Systems, Corellian Engineering Corporation and Rendili StarDrive. Type: Starship propulsion system

Sublight drives are the engines that push starships through space. Unlike hyperdrives, sublight drives cannot move a vessel faster than the speed of light. A common model of sublight drive is an ion engine, which propels a craft by hurling ionic particles at extreme speeds in the opposite direction of travel. TIE fighters employ twin ion engines to achieve their remarkable sublight speeds.