Caplan Thruster

The Caplan Thruster is a type of stellar engine first theorized by Dr. Matthew E. Caplan in the year 2019 on Earth. 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.

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.

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