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Imagine the most luminous red giant stars. Such stars have luminosities on the order of a million times that of the Sun. This is the equivalent of converting 4 trillion tons of matter into energy per second. This is enough power if converted efficiently into ship based kinetic energy to accelerate a Nimitz Class nuclear powered aircraft carrier to a gamma factor of 40 million every second. Perhaps any existent ETI or future Humans on planets in a habitable zone around such red giants could develop some sort of: electro-magneto-hydrodynamic-plasma drive, an electro-hydrodynamic-plasma drive, a magneto-hydrodynamic-plasma drive, an ion rocket, electron rocket, and/or a photon rocket based propulsion system. The craft could travel around the coronosphere of the red giant, while using the stellar atmospheric and magnetospheric plasma as a reaction mass where thrust vectoring would keep the space craft glued to the star. The relative energy of the plasma, starlight, and stellar magnetic fields would increase with respect to the craft as it closed in on C. This would permit a more vigorous interaction between the craft and the stellar plasma thus allowing the craft to draw more energy from the plasma while providing the craft with more thrust in order to keep the craft glued to its orbital motion around the star. The process would continue until the craft approached C very closely. Eventually, the craft would exit the star by shutting down its thrust vectoring system allowing the craft to leave the stellar system. The craft might continually orbit the star with increasing gamma factors thereby acting as a special relativistic gamma factor time machine for forward time travel. Explained within are several plausible degrees of spacecraft motion for which the relativistic energy intake and spacecraft kinetic energy may accrue at a much faster rate than otherwise. For these additional degrees of motion many of which would have retrograde aspects, the spacecraft energy collection surfaces would need to have variable and rapidly adjustable optical and thermal properties. This is so because of the need for the surfaces and spacecraft to always or nearly always undergo positive acceleration during the start of a mission. Such adjustability may be pre-programmed to follow an anticipated spacecraft acceleration itinerary, or be adjustable at or near the speed of light. Such real-time adjustment may include electric or fiber optic energy state control or or other methods of classical influence and/or be mediated by quantum mechanical tunneling. Lucky for us, a spacecraft may be able to travel from star to star for kinetic energy increases. Accordingly, a spacecraft might perpetually accelerate around a given star for substantially the entire life of the star. Upon the death of the star, the spacecraft would fly off to another star to repeat the process and so-on. Quasars may also be employed as a tremendous energy source.

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