Caplan Thruster

The Caplan Thruster is a type of stellar engine first theorized by Dr. Matthew E. Caplan in the year 2019 on Aegyn. The first working prototype was created in the Meral System as a test for the viability of the Project Alazar plan.

Design

The Caplan Thruster utilizes a dyson swarm focusing a large fraction of a star's light onto one area of a star, massively heating it and throwing material into space. This material is then collected by a magnetic ramjet, confining it in a small area. The helium in the mix is fused into oxygen and fired out of the system at at least 1% lightspeed. The hydrogen is dumped back into the star.

Uses

This type of stellar engine has a high rate of acceleration compared to other stellar engines such as the Shkadov Thruster, and can therefore hypothetically reverse a sunlike star's orbit around a normal spiral galaxy in less than a million years, or eject the star from the galaxy in the same amount of time. The second use was used in Project Alazar to push the Ardaya System out of the Myrmidan Galaxy to escape the Somnar Hive.

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