Super Bussard Ramscoop
The fusion ramscoops developed during the TL9 and early TL10 were too volume intensive and did not have a big enough hydrogen intake to be viable. It was in the late TL10 that a developer on Terra by the name of Samuel P. Bussard (direct descendant of Robert W. Bussard who originally theorized the possibility of ramjets) found a way to pull in a greater amount of hydrogen to make ramscoops viable. With the advent of maneuver drives which required less fuel that other available forms of propulsion, however, the concept was never developed from Bussard's work.
The problem of misjumps, and the likelihood of being dropped off in a systemless area of space without fuel, led the researchers at Rycharde's Realm's Jump Propulsion Division to look into the ramscoop with great interest. Finally, coming up with a working model of a ramscoop, they released it with much aplomb in 1119.
See also Exatar Project.
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