It was an enhanced jump drive not a super drive. As the super drive is only one shot 900 LY version and a shorter but reusable 120 LY version. The enhanced drive was based off of SL research and only failed because the crew wasn't able to maintain the drives properly before they tested it out. It has a range of 40 LY.
Nope the enhanced drive was just being tested and was a prototype that in canon they destroyed with their second jump. The 900 LY one was made by dumping both the primary charge and the secondary charge of the L-F battery right after each other in a jumping sequence. It also slags both the drive and the battery to uselessness after one use. It was made by the WoB. The 120 LY one does the same thing but it has a bunch of safety systems in place that cut the range but protect the drive and battery. This one was a secret company project that was kept out of the hands of other and was either lost or buried away. Only the enhanced drive has a chance of being available to the Terrans.
The 120LY drive apparently also doesn't have the gravity limitations of all other KF Drives. It was destroyed by jumping inside a Star, which is notably rather far inside the normal jump-limit.
Honestly, the simples solution is to take the changed canon from deadlock that edits the timeline a bit:
This is so blatantly a game mechanic I really don't know why you're bringing this up.
Out of character, it's mostly a thematic thing. Forcing jumpships to jump to places orbiting a sun, and thus inhabited planets means that FASA and Catalyst could focus on the people and places rather than Asteroid ZFG-0005 or whatever planetoid gets found in the middle of space. It drastically reduces the amount of space that has to be covered by the writing crew.
If the THIE still has a strong navy, I'm betting they'd have similar advances done to their warships as well.
Again you already can jump inside and into the gravity well of a system it is just that it will kill you. What the superdrive did was not special it was just an extreme of what normally would happen if you tried it.
But this time it might allow them to survive instead of misjumping.
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.
No it wouldn't because the very fundamentals of the drive mean you die. It is not a misjump it is jumping into a place where you blow up. Only in areas where the gravity is just right is it possible to reemerge. Anywhere is will destroy the ship.
In every version, the Jump Drive and the knowledge of it is destroyed and lost. The two drives also work completely different so they wouldn't have led to the other.
I wouldn't be so quick to do so, given that the Rag Tag Fleet had to hunt for Tylium quite often (at least, it's inferred). The Kobolian FTL drive has to cycle for a combination of fuel, maintenance (both the drive and the ship that uses it), and personnel reasons, and it costing Tylium for 'quick cycling' the drive isn't that quite out there.
No they didn't the single mission to the asteroid we see is the only time fuel/tylium is mentioned to be an issue and that is because they all had to run with whatever they had left. After they raided that asteroid they didn't need to worry about Tylium as they had more than enough to last them to the end years later.
Here's the thing, that isn't likely. Shows like to gloss over logistics because it's slow, tedious, and very unsexy. The few shows that don't gloss over it tend to slow to a crawl.
They literally say "enough fuel for years" after the battle of the Tylium asteroid.
Forgive me, given that it has been ages and nBSG is a mess in terms of how things work...
If this fic is a fusion of both BT and NBSG, who or what was/were the 13th Tribe of Kobol if they're not the Terra of Battletech?
Given that it is likely that the Kobolians haven't done the naughty with Earth humans for millennia, we don't know. The entire Kobol mess is murky as hell, even without the entire late-series mess causing hiccups.