[Space] FTL Ideas/Thoughts

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

That's still worse than fission/fusion at the same TL and a _lot_ less reliable than the ones with no moving parts. Appears like a solution looking for a problem to me.

Fission/fusion require huge minimum sizes, and waste heat that would be a problem in any vaguely realistic ship. Of course, FTL isn't super realistic either, but I prefer to keep my super sciences to a minimum.

But true, chasing high efficiency can lead to over designing an old technology making it less effective in the one niche it out performs newer techs.