Aerospatiale Afrique Laboratories is a company founded in 2201 in the Lower African Republic. It was known throughout the Sol system as the premier location for theoretical scientists. The Astronomy division conducted purely scientific research, never intending practical application.
By 2214 The market needed an alternative to the then-current problem of contemporary antigravity vehicles; these negated gravity by projecting a field which suppressed the gravitic mass of every particle, consisting the occupants of the vehicle weightless. While studying a solution to this problem, Dr. Shari Akwende discovered the antigraviton drift which led to the invention of the Jump-drive.[1]