| abstract
| - Interstellar propulsion is an integral part of starships. Engines provide the force that drives the ship on those wild, history-making adventures. Trillions of credits have been poured into the field of study that focuses on astro-based kinetics, all geared toward making an object get from point A to point B faster, safer, and more efficiently. Without getting wildly in-depth into the mechanisms of these engines, we'll attempt to illustrate the principles behind them. Technology has made leaps and bounds since 2003, enough to demand that each type of engine have its own scientific field of study. Although a run of the mill repair shop engineer would have a broad, generalized understanding of these engines, it would take a specialist to perform any type of significant repairs, modifications, or upgrades. Astropropulsion as a science is extremely fluidic. With experimental designs being concoted almost daily, it would not be wholly uncommon to find ships tooling around with test engines. Even so, there still remains a consistent set of well-propagated types that have proven themselves on the mass market.
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