[Desdinova]

fusion beams work similiar to fusion reactors. they heat the feul inside a magnetic bottle until it reaches fusion state. then an opening is made in the bottle releasing the energy in a high temperature, high velocity jet (solar flare).

edit. in several of the scifi games i used to play in (traveller, space opera, star frontiers, etc.) it was usually a feul pellet that gets heated by high powered lasers. at lower tech levels they could only heat it till it reached a plasma state (plasma beams) but then at higher levels it could be contained until it reached fusion state.

[ November 22, 2002, 08:04: Message edited by: desdinova ]