K-A/67 Ion-injection Engine

Keaya cursed as the lights in the flight deck flickered.
"Damn engines got another coolant leak. Basht, can you get back there and take a look?
Basht stared at the captain with a smug look.
"It's a kaa, boss. It doesn't have coolant half the time."

A common interplanetary engine from K-A Engines. The 67-PB/r engine is capable of lifting most small sized craft into a planets upper atmosphere.
As a K-A product, this common engine is jokingly referred to as a kaa, the Tarunan word for excrement. Developed as part of a partnership between Kaenuan and Altunian engineers, the K/A engines are known for their shoddy workmanship and tendancy to deteriorate rapidly after about 890,000 flight hours.

Mechanics & Inner Workings

Like many PB Engines, the K-A/67 uses Plasmic Beta Propulsion to generate thrust. In order to generate the level of thrust in a smaller form factor, the engine includes an ion-injector, which causes the exiting plasma beta particles to exit the engine at 26% higher force.
Due to the increased output, the engine requires a pressurized coolant system in order to keep from overheating.

Item type

Mechanical

Subtype / Model

PB Engine

Manufacturer

K-A Engines

Related Technologies

• Plasma Kinetics
• Plasmic Beta Propulsion