Salty. Will re-write and try again.
As for why its helpful, its a very compact safe fusion system that slowly peters out over time. Aura is rediculous levels of overkill for things like the logistical vehicles I'm writing like the Rook and LCOV and flat out unnecessary (The SARP desperately needs vessels that serve logistical and functional purposes in the civilian and industrial sectors, as Wes has stated and that's very specifically what this is for).
For example; If you travel for two years into a system and back in an environment where aether doesn't work and you want to power equipment that frankly needs a lot of energy to stop a pair of neutron stars from cooking your hull using clever electrical trickery and engineering, you're going to need fusion because fission lacks the energy density for a two year round trip and the friction of nebulous gasses against the hull will create static charges that would fuck you over in the first place, requiring the specially designed hull to begin with.
As for 5 dimensional space, the setting is utterly dependent on it for travel independent of time dilation caused by relativity: All spacial nesting and FTL is built on that theory. You can't pick and choose where and how that works.
This is just a way of making microscopic 5 dimensional space and overlapping it instead of trying to shove an entire ship through it, which seems far more reasonable than pushing an object weighing upward of 2000 tons that's full of people and the size of a city block through one that isn't even maintained via an external projection system, that has to carry its projection system AS it travels (newton's 2nd & 3rd laws weep).
>As well, even if this is an alternative technology, it isn't one that's necessary or useful to the setting beyond what we have already.
Fusion is dependent on deuterium. That means mining the moon. This is dependent on muons, which means finding muon sources is the new fuel. We have a source of muons, the Aura. So this is ideal for smaller vessels like shuttles attached to a bigger mothership using the Aura. This is trading one energy debt for another and creating a link of refuellable interdependence to influence stories instead of pretending we have an infinite source of deuterium while curiously having almost no gas-mining vehicles (given the most efficient way of getting deuterium is diving into gas giants).
Logistics creates conflict and problems. Conflict and problems are constraints. Constraints remove solutions to problems in story and that pressure of problems vs constraints in search of a desired outcome is the backbone of a good story.
This is no more theoretically dense than other fusion articles, there's just more "of" it. There's also no template. Now I know what you want, I can actually start making those changes.
A flat rejection just means expect another submission in a few days, revised with your feedback given. We could have been constructive and instead, I'll have to be redundant. Thank-you for your words though, they are very helpful. I appreciate your time.
Sorry about my tone, I've just woken up with three hours of sleep.
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