This is why it can be easier to just make it up. Do most systems go into the detail of the HSC or Geshrinari submissions? No.
@Nashoba wanted to go into that much detail, but many of the rest of us like fusion batteries ala Exo-Squad, among other handwaved styles of power.
We ain't scientists.
So when I say "two systems," it's because you're using nuclear power as we understand it today. The reactor does not directly provide power; its heat is translated into movement, which then becomes useable energy. In SARP, we tend to skip that second part and just say "it's a reactor, we got power." The reactor
does produce its own energy.
When you say, "I don't know why you guys don't understand this," it's because we're roleplaying in a setting where we have factions that tap
alternate dimensions to obtain limitless energy. Fusion reactors are practically lower class (but refined to the extreme). Seeing a system that uses 20th-century Earth technology just to obtain power appears out of place. We understand it enough, but it's making us think about details that we just gloss as a general principle.
You also have the chip on your shoulder in general. I help put it there, so it's forgiven with me, but others have less intimate context for it, so forgive them their impatience with your attitude.
As to the art of the system, I still want
@Wes to be OK with us using content from Wikimedia. Legally, I understand how the license works, and Wes has bought licenses for art in the past for commercial (SARP) purposes. I still prefer his OK, as this isn't visual content you made or bought.
I think there are practical concerns about how you can shrink this system down to fit in vehicles. You're not saving weight or size, that's for sure. But I can see how you might have a nuclear reactor on a starship where there's thrust produced from the reactions, and there's (waste?) heat that can be used for powering up other ship systems.
Let's do this — for starships, I see this working. For vehicles and starfighters, I don't know that you can fit a small-enough reactor. Depends on the fighter size.
So I give this my tentative approval, so long as the system is used for starships, not vehicles/fighters/mecha. Once those edits are made and Wes OKs using Wikimedia art, you'e good to go.
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