Re: [Spaceships] Mass-driver realism
Accuracy does not matter for thrust. The real problem with mass drivers are that they are energy hogs because of the inefficiency of ionizing random matter. While people can talk about ISRU with mass drivers, water is more common than dirt in the outer solar system, and a fusion drive that uses water as reaction mass is vastly superior to a mass driver (meaning that mass drivers are only really useful in the Inner Solar System).
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