Re: Metallic Hydrogen storage?

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Yup, Heplar makes sense, maybe I'm thinking in MT/CT terms, but thought jump fuel volume was biggest culprit?

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> With reaction drives always going to need large volumes of space for reaction mass, if nothing else. IIRC CT power plants were much more hungry so not as big of a disparity IIRC
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> Scott Quigg wrote:
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> Has anyone looked into storing fuel via metallic storage? Figured TL15 couldn 't be too far out of scope. Was it part of or considered as Canon?
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> It always stuck in my craw that such large volumes of space had to be dedicated to raw/inefficient/vulnerable fuel storage.
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> Sure, ship design would be changed radically, but I always wanted to build a Super Star Destroyer like "dreadnought".
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