No I know about drives but the manual says there are things that are engines not drives that take up more space but give alot more speed. if their just saying better drives then their wording is very odd casue it is made to sound like theirs another type of device. here is the manuals quote.

"By default your ship moves at 1 parsec a turn( 1 space). Milestone propulsion technologies (such as impulse drive) can add to this base.  However, you can boost your ship speed further by adding engines. Engines use up a lot of space in exchange for adding a lot of moves to your ship."

again if this is just odd way to say research better drivesa cool but otherwise they really made this osund like their talking about two differant things

I know that stuff again the way they say engines liek their a seporate tech that gets attached to the ship.

ok so fro mthe sounds of it their just talking drives but very baddly worded it.  thats cool I just was at first like "why are there none of these engine parts and only drives?" so thanks again I guess they best try to figure out in next manual a better way to explain it so they know it is one item their talking about not 2.

Okay, this is what the manual says:

Adding Engines to Your Ship

By default, your ships move at one parsec per turn (1 space). Milestone propulsion technologies (such as Impulse Drive) can add to this base.

However, you can boost your ship speed further by adding engines. Engines use up a lot of space in exchange for adding a lot of moves to your ship.

And yes, the phrasing is a bit clumsy.  What it should say is that you can add more engines to your ship.

When you create a ship, it has a basic engine in it by default.  You don't add this, it's just there.   This is what moves at 1 pc/wk unless you get speed improvements.

You can then add more engines that take up a lot of space and allow your ship to move faster.

Hyperdrive is the first of these.  You can get better, and smaller, ones later if you research them.  But from day one, you can add (more) engines to any base design to make a ship move faster.  For example, I usually add more engines to colony ships at the beginning of a game so I have a better chance of getting to planets before the AI races eat them up.