Plasma and star drives

No, I'm not talking about the clear liquid that carries blood cells around your arteries. I'm talking about the widely-considered fourth state of matter.

Take a proton and a single electron in orbit around the nucleus. We call that an atom of hydrogen. Now separate the electron and you have two elementary particles no longer atoms. Throw a whole lot of protons, electrons and neutrons in there and you have a very hot, very energetic fluid-like substance called plasma.

Plasma has different physical characteristics than liquids or gasses and the Vuduri find it most useful as the propellant for their plasma jets. Occasionally, they use it for small hand-held weapons called plasma projectors.

Where do they get all this plasma from? They use Casimir Pumps to create pockets of negative energy for traveling via PPT Tunnels. The waste product is unlimited, free positive energy. Check the article entitled Creating elementary particles with energy to see how they do it.

They shoot the plasma out the rear of their ships and get to go very fast. Since the Casimir Pumps do not work very well within a deep gravity well (like near the surface of a planet), for atmospheric flight, they typically use electrogravity to get around within a gravity well.

However, upon occasion, MINIMCOM finds the need to fire the plasma jets even in the atmosphere causing an eye-popping pyrotechnical display. He always did have a sense of showmanship.