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Originally Posted by Daigoro
That leaves the way open for high-speed cruisers with multiple drives and banks of advanced cooling systems.
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There are practical limits to the size of effective radiators, and of course they are easy to hit fragile components.
Also that means the efficiency curve is such that a ship of any given size's reactor output is able to generate the power for thrust around half a g, and the curve climbs steeply after that as more power gets wasted as heat. High acceleration probably requires temporary power boosts from capacitors.