You could also store in metallic (using gravitic compression) then allow to return to reaction volume to be used as propellant?
Mass should be the same, just volume would be greatly reduced.
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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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