fusion rockets...

Oh, yeah!
I forgot to comment on the conclusion someone drew that the fusion driv
probably be used as weapons (like a plasma gun, only bigger).  My first cut
shows a Free Trader having a drive with an energy output  of about 30KT/SEC.
This is hardly a trivial matter.  ANd really renders everyone's objections to
PCs with nukes pretty trivial.  After all, the 500T of TNT equivalent in a
det-laser is pretty trivial next to the 30,000T of TNT equivalent of even a
small, wimpy drive.  Per second.  Call it 3MT of damage to wherever it took off
from.  Like the TED's palace.  Or pretty much anywhere else that offended you.

So stop wasting time babbling about TRIVIA like those det-laser missiles.  If
you really want to disarm your PCs, start by preventing them from getting
their hands on a ship of any kind....

Think about it....

		---Steve Higginbotham
"A reaction drive is a weapon, whose efficiency is in direct proportion to
its efficiency as a drive"  --- The Kzinti Lesson, from Larry Niven.