Under the surging electrical power from the grid, some special propellant inside this giant thruster was ionized, and then its ions began to accelerate within the coils, finally achieving extremely high speeds, converging into an extremely bright, extremely thick blue flame that jetted outwards from the tail, creating an astonishing spectacle.
For a time, the entire massive experimental factory building was dyed blue by this bright flame.
Their maximum ejection velocity even reached 30 kilometers per second! Whereas the chemical fuel thrusters Tom commonly used at the moment generally had gas ejection velocities of no more than 5 kilometers per second.
Evidently, the higher the speed at which a unit mass of propellant is ejected, the greater the thrust it provides.
From 5 kilometers per second to a direct surge of 30 kilometers per second, the ejection velocity increased sixfold, and the corresponding thrust provided also increased sixfold!
