🚀 go-pugleaf

Sorry, couldn't quote all of this one.  

Firstly.  I see what you are talking about _now_.  Sounds not too bad.  
However, it still seems to me that carbon-catalyzed may be a great way to 
go.  1) your carbon keeps coming back and 2) you won't have to carry 
around what I see as becoming GIGANTIC amounts of antimatter.  So what 
YOU are talking about is using antimatter as a partial source of the 
energy to get the hydrogen to FUSE?  Sounds good thus far...

Scramjet...  You know, that may be a SUPERB idea!  Though you can't use 
it initially, I'm looking at seperating the magnetic coils into groups 
that are individually controlled.  Such things as a bussard scramjet 
could be used at high velocities (near the theoretical limit of 
non-scramjet engines), which would give us 4 stages...

Conventional drive (perhaps an injected nuclear pulse engine?)
Carbon (or antimatter) catalyzed fusion drive
Proton-Proton fusion drive
Scramjet p-p fusion drive

Sound good on that end?  Any more help on the carbon-antimatter selection 
would be MUCH MUCH MUCH appreciated!

                                                Jason Cooper