Fusion Power

[forest hemlock]

A while back (~2 years ago), a couple of lads and I came up with the idea of generating a miniature sun as a power source for engineering. With recent events about fusion power coming to light (and the fact this is a sci-fi game), I believe fusion power would be a fun source of power for engineering.

To start off, this theoretical fusion reactor should be a pain in the ass to set up, and could even possibly have R&D needing to research components. This fusion reactor would be a thousand times more powerful and less radioactive than it’s fission-based counterpart (sort of like the singularity engine). The premise is that if engineering is lazy, they could boot up the fission reactor with radiation as a downside while a dedicated engineering department could build a non-radioactive counterpart that requires effort but is much cleaner and powerful.

One final thing could (if gameplay entertainment isn’t impeded TOO much) be that a fusion meltdown is theoretically nothing while the fission meltdown is… well, you know…

Just to note: It doesn’t need to be a sun, it could be a loop like concepts have suggested.

Concept art & propaganda soon™️

[ruby brook]

Fuck the HFR

[clever hull]

Idk I think if it is something it’d have to be like a late game science unlock

Cause fusion power is op irl so it’d be op in game too

[forest hemlock]

mhm

[woven nacelle]

add different fusion variants and breeder reactors, D-D, D-T fusion reactions, big science moment

[hollow horizon]

The reactor we have now is already something you have to watch over constantly

[woven nacelle]

that doesn’t mean you can’t have more reactors

[nova chasm]

Shouldn't black hole gens and Tesla gens be added to the stations before another whole power generator type is added

[clever hull]

Those are already in

[forest hemlock]

uh huh

[nova chasm]

you have to buy them and set them up though

[forest hemlock]

you just need to order em

[clever hull]

It’s a engineering challenge

[nova chasm]

at least a pre set place to set them up would be nice

no more tesla balls in the bar

[clever hull]

Well the point of them is to give engineering something to do and build

[hollow horizon]

Also if they did that we would end up with the station going into a hole every round

Now what we need is to give butch more power

So another good gen would be a heat gen

It works by using heat from a burn