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The Hess Drive was a ZZ-level artifact in Kester City. It was recorded destroyed in the Delijn Reactor Meltdown. All information about its purpose and correct operation was lost in the Second Destruction of the Golgari Library. Between the two disasters, information is sketchy. Our primary sources of information are Golgori historical records (always unreliable), and a single still frame of a schoolchild watching an educational program showing the Drive, found in an Atemporal Anomaly. Archeologists identify the markings on the object as first-millinium Kilt'iir (see Kilt'iir, the).

Study of the Hess Drive is believed to have led to Temporeactor technology (see Delijn Reactor Meltdown, the, Incandescent Temporeactor), the temporal warp engine, the discovery of Universe-Universe Binary Interaction, the revised quantum-loop theory of Psychic Attunement, and the theory of progressive ergonomic adaption. Study of the Hess Drive caused the Vvvelll Auto-genocide (see, Sanity Certification). Rarely have so many civilizations been so profoundly impacted by single object.

The previous existence of the Drive was re-discovered by Joseph S. Hess II in RODS 56580a during routine digital archeology in the Kester City pseudo-anamoly.

Historical Plaque in the Joseph S. Hess II Cafeteria