Problem is that I think that is the only drive option we have if you don't want to fall back on chemical rockets.
Edit: and on a different topic, found some potential images for the exterior of our future moon base.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dKG3rJ
Oh well, not that much of an issue.
On another matter, we're probably going to have to massively expand/upgrade Safe Haven Shipyard now that everything's out in the open. Particularly if we want to produce ships for all the Coalition members and/or larger vessels at any reasonable speed...
Right, finally got around to updating the tech summation.
Though does anyone know what the Dissipating Alloy and Penetrating Alloy that we developed ended up getting called? There was a vote but I'm not sure what won.
And away from the solar system we'd just need access to a planet with water bodies, and/or processing equipment in our ships to extract water from asteroids. Which we'd want anyway in order to help maintain our life support systems.
So on one hand we no doubt won't have the endurance/sheer...
We're actually using something similar to the Death Glider's reactionless engines. In that there no propellant involved, we just need to provide power to the system.
Right, forgot about that. At the same time our H2O fusion still have enough juice to send our spaceships on flights all over the solar system with needing constant refueling so they have to be pretty efficient in terms of power output.
Feels like both leaning towards the former for me. Though we do know things are going on in Russia and China that we are not truely aware of.
I'd need to double check but I think Ferrocrete already got patented and is being distrubuted.
The fusion reactor on the other hand is likely going to...