User blog comment:USS Enterprise CVN-65/The New (And Improved) Official Roleplay Room/@comment-11181609-20151219221554/@comment-11135771-20151219231933

I fail to see how RMPs have anything to do with "electronic drugs". Research projects need to be announced more specifically than that - otherwise I could just put "stuff" as being my research project and then pull out literally any random tech when it becomes convenient.

As implied by the name, warp drives work by warping spacetime, bending it in such a way to move a part of it to another relative location. Detectable warp "residue" is the bent spacetime where a ship entered or exited warp - needless so say, firing lasers at it is absolutely pointless.