>>13466530look at salt rockets theyre basically a continuous orion drive, at first glance it seems more doable to me but i didnt do the math.
yea the books did some handwaving, they basically wanted a rocket technology that can accelerate indefinitely and accelerate as fast as humans can survive (and a bit more), probably looked up at project rho and just handwaved some generic fusion rocket.
expanse rockets as as good as they get in scifi without explicitly doing something obviously impossible.
>>13466534they mention the possibility of using the exhaust as weapon multiple times but it doesnt have the range missiles do so missiles are the main weapon in the expanse world (they do find themselves in guns range multiple times tho but that's just the writers trying to write more varied fights)
in the latest (or second latest, i dunno) book someone flies a spacecraft near the exhaust gasses of another to sneak up on it from the rear because its a sensor blind spot.
