To a lesser extent than the YF-29, but yes. There is another, bigger obstacle between the YF-30 and mass production.DragoMaster009 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:32 pm I'm guessing the same restriction also applies to the YF-30?
The YF-30's Fold Dimensional Resonance system is purported to be more potent than the YF-29 Fold Wave System it was developed from, though its design focus was somewhat different (being intended to allow traversal of fold faults rather than just boosting performance). It probably uses a lot less fold quartz, given that the system ties into the VF's engines and the YF-30 has half as many of those. It still requires the kind of obscenely high purity that you'll only find among ancient Protoculture devices or Vajra queen-types.
The bigger sticking point is that the YF-30's Fold Dimensional Resonance system is proprietary technology owned by Strategic Military Services. The Fold Wave System was developed by a fleet government for military use, so its specs were shared with the New UN Government as required by law. The Fold Dimensional Resonance system was not. Its development was done by SMS on Uroboros, and SMS gamed the system a bit by classifying their test airframe as a prototype rather than an experimental aircraft, allowing them to avoid disclosure of its proprietary technologies at the time. Even if the super high-spec fold quartz were available, mass producing the FDR system would require obtaining the specs from SMS first, and they're not likely to cough up since finding a way to penetrate fold faults is the personal obsession of the owner of SMS's parent company, Richard Bilra.
By the time the VF-31 Custom Siegfrieds rolled around c.2066, Shinsei, LAI, and other parties like Dian Cecht seem to have found ways to make lower-performance fold wave systems with reduced materials requirements. The Siegfried uses a fold wave system that has apparently been optimized to reduce the fold quartz requirement, allowing both the fold wave system and fold wave amplifiers to share a single pair of large fold quartz crystals (mounted dorsally). On Windermere IV's Draken IIIs, they have an even more cut-down version of the fold wave system called the fold reheat system that focuses exclusively on improving engine power, offering almost twice the performance improvement of Xaos's Siegfrieds fold wave systems, but without the supplemental benefits like bolstering the generator output. It's worth noting that neither craft's boosted performance is in the same league as the YF-29 or YF-30 running normally... that's the price you pay for affordable mass production.