>>519374795
>>519374795
>Ok, ok. Here's some more info. The whole thing about mercury plasma is a cover story.
>It's really a rapidly spinning Bose-Einstein condensate. It decouples the reference frame of the craft from local space. It reduces the inertia of the craft, not the mass. You need all the electrical power to keep the condensate cold, to spin it (the motion itself heats the condensate, so you're sort of fighting yourself), to keep the containment system running (you can't let it hit the walls) and to torque the spinning plasma when you maneuver, it wants to slam into the containment when you pitch or roll. You have to apply power to displace it. You also have counterrotating rings so the gyroscopic effect doesn't keep you from maneuvering.