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[zapkitty]

“Ah, I see…” said the blind kitty 🙂

My cheap and tawdry space pr0n has worked against me.

The VASIMR units are not permanent attachments to the FOOF station.

They represent a multi-megawatt interplanetary drive configuration that someone has sent to the station for testing after the reactor has been proven to be more online than off.

Let us omit the temptation for joyriding that those drives embody.

Delete the drives! 🙂

And instead for the FOOF initial secondary research projects (the primary research project is the reactor itself) we add two important testing and research rigs… one is for improved radiators via a liquid droplet radiator unit and the other is a radiation deflection scheme that uses electrically-powered fields to deflect both solar particle events and galactic cosmic radiation away from the station.

Both are vitally important to the future of spaceflight and both can be tested as soon as a station capable of hosting and powering them is fielded.

(And that isn’t going to be ISS, perhaps not for a decade… if even then. It’s not designed to handle the changes projects like these would entail.)

As before these are placeholders, and are not intended as CGI work for the sequel to Avatar. Do not confuse the playing pieces with the game. Specifically, the LDR rig is an upside down shower head and the deflector antennas are hydrophone emitters swiped from an old project. I’m lazy 🙂

But these changes should help curb the temptation to hijack the station… I hope 🙂

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