High-Energy Electromagnetic Propulsion

High-Energy Electromagnetic Propulsion
Research Cost: 5000
Summary
Physicists improve on electromagnetic thrusters to extend spaceship range.
Description
With electromagnetic propulsion now a proven success, we can explore how to refine it further. While our electromagnetic drives can never achieve the thrust of chemical rockets, we can make them have a measure of more power for less mass, and also more energy-efficient, reducing the need for huge radiators. Advances in room-temperature superconductors and other materials will allow us to contain and direct energetic plasma as well as solid masses as we develop the next generation of exploration and transport space ships. The sky won't be the limit much longer.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Deep Space Propulsion Concepts 1000 Advanced Electromagnetism 1000 Advanced Superconductors 3500 Mission To Space 250 Magnetic Force Manipulation 2500 Superconducting Magnets 10000 Electromagnetic Propulsion 1500
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	5000		0
	0		13500
	0		0
	6250	Total	24750
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
		(100%)Superconducting Mass Driver • (10%)Lorentz Drive • (50%)Advanced VASIMR Drive • (50%)Helicon Drive
Quote
"It is not about who hits hardest. It is about who moves fastest. Though even that will get you killed if you have not planned exactly what to do once you get there." Colonel Hanse Castillo, Humanity First In an interview with the U.S. Southern Command magazine Diálogo
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