#(SHC) Star Holding Chamber
1 messages · Page 1 of 1 (latest)
Bassily, the "Star" inside the recator is forced into a red ginat stage, and the iron is removed and used to boil water, which then turns turbines ba ba ba, then you have enough power for the FTL drive, and you shoot out the extra iron to slow yourself down later and provide thrust when the FTL drive is offline.
You should give "The Powder Toy" a shot
It's completely free and a 2d physics simulation
Oh yeah I have that game!
Very fun.
Radiators 
You should look at tug designs too where the rockets pull the ship instead of pushing it
The thrusters can rotate around to slow the spacecraft
Interesting
But having your ship being pulled means that it's structure can be under tension
Which saves mass and stuff
Its like a dyson sphere
I forgot to explain how it fuels its star. Bassily, it has 2 massive funnels with a massive magnetic field that suck in massive amounts of hydrogen atoms. This is almost exactly like a bussard ramjet, but on a much larger scale. The Hydrogen is then heated up and then shot out by the hydrogen injectors and into the recator.