VASIMR plasma drive in GURPS...

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

That's obviously where the bright white glow in Star Wars "ion drives" comes from. :)

To the OP, any proposed Real World drive that boasts of its' (potential) performance is comparing itself to earlier RW proposals that were eventually abandoned as impractical, not fictional drives.

Yeah. I honestly wasn't holding out great hopes or anything. I just saw it mentioned in a show the other day and, once again, I went through the emotional roller coaster of thinking maybe THIS one could do it. Okay, that's an exaggeration. It was more like and emotional 'ride on the cars with that track down the middle.' But you get the idea. ;)