Warp charges

Warp charges are a consumable resource necessary to travel to most locations to initiate battles.

Obtaining warp charges
Your ship automatically generates warp chargers at a rate of one every five minutes and stockpiles them up to a total of six. Obtaining a warp processor bridge component allows you to stockpile four more warp charges up to 10 total (this assumes a fully upgraded Hypervalent Warp Processor; the rare version of this component - no non-rare versions of it have been sighted so far).

Using warp charges
Warp charge is consumed for most battles. It is not needed for most weekly events missions (a possible bug?). IT is also not needed for travel to space stations.