Miscellaneous Bugs And Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread Thread

Engines (possible order of technical development):

1. chemical thrusters (Usable for orbital manovers, or very slow interplanetary travel (uncreatured) very expansive and needs much ressources (fuel, staging etc.)
2. super heating engines (Like the NERVA engine. Would use a high amount of energy (like a reactor to superheat the gas, less fuel as chemical, high trust, but would need energy aswell)
2. ion engine (would improve the interplanetary abilities. It uses ionized particles who are accelerated with electromagnetic fields. There are different particles possible up to superheated plasma who could used in very advanced versions who could also work with similar performance like a chemical engine. Look the plasma engines in sci-fi.)
4. gravimetic engines (difficult to reseach. This engines would use strong electromagnetic fields to create a gravitation field. The first versions could simply make manovering with interplanetary engines easier. More advanced high power versions could warp the space then and be used for fast interstellar travel. (I see no problems to let players use slower engines for interplanetary travel. It would only need much time to get there then. Could be intresting as generation ship for a species who haven't the technolgy and have to fly to another star. Being found on such a journey could be difficult, because space is huge and between the stars is much space. ;))
Another path of the technology could be a engine who can manipulate the field and project it, to use the gravimetric force to accelerate the ship.

Powerplants:

1. Batteries / Energy cells (portable power, can store power and early avaible)
2. Solar cells (Would refuel batteries) Only work near stars, lightweight, fragile, because it have to be outside the hull (could be retracted aswell, but woudn't create power then, only works near stars)
3. Fission Reactor (Easiest to build nuclear reactor, but dangerously, becasue of possible radiation, heavy, creates electricity)
4. Fusion Reactor (Complex nuclear reactor, who needs some technical knowledge. Creates plasma who can be used for electricity, but are also perfect to power plasma engines)
5. Antimatter Reactor (Very complex reactor, could be also dangerously, because of the antimatter. Very high power output necessary for Warp Engines.)
6. Zero Point Reactor (Best possible reactorsystem, but also the advanced one, so difficult to reseach and to produce. Infinite Fuel and a power output like a Antimatter Reactor. So the top technology if you reach it, you can build ships who can fly cross the galaxy how you want.)

Fuel:

1. chemical propellants (could advance with the time, stored in tanks)
2. heat propellant (this could be also some simplier stuff like hydrogen, etc. See above. can be possible collected in the flight (bussard collectors). Won't need reaction material for burning, other as the chemical propellant)
2. ion propellant (something what can be ionized and used for the ion engines. This can be stellar particle, you can collect with bussard collectors, or different propellants you can take with in tanks, or even plasma from a fusion reactor)
3. uran (fission reactor fuel. Need a bigger facility to be created and will left nuclear garbage. Difficult to handle because of the radiation)
4. deuterium (created from hydrogen, very clean and avaible in high quantities. Used to power fusion reactors)
3. antimatter (very difficult and long process to produce, difficult to handle, because of its reaction propensity with matter (would use a magnetic field to be stored). But has a very high power output)

Ways to refuel:

1. Hydrogen Collector (Source: Gas-Planets, Oceans (Could break it from the water); Would collect Hydrogen Fuel for Fusion Rectors)
2. Bussard Collector (Can collect space particles with the collector to power a ion engine)
3. Charge Reversal Generator (Source: Hydrogen; Needs much power for reversal the charge of the hydrogen to create Anti-Hydrogen (Antimatter). Because of this you need a huge amount of Hydrogen to create Anti-Hydrogen and much power for it. The mobile Versions would only be able to create it very slowly, so ships would have to stay for longer in the atmosphere of a gas gigant to collect the matter and to create enough antimatter.)