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We need a new High Frontier thruster card.

• db48x 3y ago
  We would need actual specs of the engine to be sure, but mechanically a 6⋅⅛ thruster could do the job easily. A 6⋅¼ might squeak in under the wet mass limit. Probably better to split it between thruster and reactor cards though; it’s a little bit like the Vortex Confined thruster + the VCR Light Bulb reactor, but rather more efficient since that only gives you 6⋅1. In fact, the 100,000sec ISP figure they quote is insane; it’s an exhaust velocity of around 0.3% of the speed of light. That really makes it a 6⋅0 thruster, in game terms (or a 6⋅1⁄25 if you want to be precise, but none of the other cards are that precise). That puts it in the middle of the pack for the end–game TW thrusters, which is very impressive considering it doesn’t use fusion; the game’s GW and TW thrusters are almost all based on fusion. And apparently it doesn’t even need to be manufactured in space.