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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
Antimatter boosted hydrogen, required for antimatter plasma rockets, costs $12M per ton, so the 500 tons of required reaction mass costs $6B, meaning that it would cost around $7B. Antimatter is prohibitively expensive in any realistic setting, making it worthless for normal combat spacecraft, so I would suggest replacing it with fusion rockets instead (half the acceleration and half the delta-v, but it is a lot cheaper reaction mass cost).
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This is correct. Fred's design unfortunately doesn't work as written, but could be fixed with fusion rockets.
Unrelated, when adjusting combat range downward, I might just do that automatically after 10 rounds even if ships have managed to inflict *some* damage on each other. That way, having weapons with Extreme range is worthwhile, but you avoid the thing where it's literally impossible for ships with less than 0.5G acceleration to close on each other after well over an hour.