[Corsair]

What, will nobody welcome Shade?

system tracking... target acquired... fire main batter!


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[Shade]

I'm afraid that you misunderstood the meaning of delta-v.
In space deployment, delta-v doesn't measures speed, it more like an equivalent of the distances we can cover.

If you substitute delta-v in your post though with c - specific impulse, it makes perfect sense.

Thanks for setting that straight, I did confuse it with specific impulse. Consider me embarressed at making such a mistake... next time I will definitely look it up instead of going by memory

Nonetheless, the fact remains that the actual acceleration we can get out of these drives remains, for the time being, too small to make them useful for manned space flight. Or at least as the main engine for such a flight, I could see them being used for small course corrections or stationkeeping once in orbit around wherever you're going. It's probes that will benefit until we get vastly better options for power generation. Fusion reactors do sound promising if they ever get working properly, good thing there's been some effort in that area lately so hopefully some day...

[Edit] And thanks for the welcome