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Also, the ship is not going too incredibly fast, at least compared to some science fiction I have read. Definitely very much less than the speed of light. I'm putting 300-400 years as a rough estimate for the trip. @Nabeshin Isn't that page regarding a ship that is constantly accelerating? (If...

Would carrying a LOT of compressed helium 3 or hydrogen along on the voyage to use for stopping work reasonably? (This is a generation ship, implying that it it HUGE.) The means of propulsion is a fusion drive of some sort though I'm not going to be too hard SF about that part.

It definitely isn't just rocket propulsion, it is some kind of nuclear propulsion. (I don't know how much that would affect those totals.)

@phinds Excuse me for writing that when I was tired. Sometimes people make mistakes. Though I think I will not have continuous propulsion, because the amount of energy required would be too much, which is why I proposed on and off propulsion in the first place. I think I will just have the...

I don't know how often you get questions like this here, if ever, but I was hoping you could help me solve a problem I have come across in writing a story. It is not exactly Hard Sci Fi, but it is definitely not soft science fiction, and I want to get the physics at least mostly right. Here it...