The warship and all stored scientific data is always destroyed, however the crew's fate has 3 open ended outcomes listed in the Loose Ends section of the adventure epilog. SLDF Fleet Lt Andrea Sarti with doctorates in aerospace engineering and jump drive physics ending in ComStar's control would...
It was a 40 LY jump drive. The Super Jump KF was a later development made by the WOB, but they might have had the Chief Engineer off the SLS Manassas to help in its development depending on how the canon version of Living Legends played out.