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>This suggests that the starting thruster pack is basically a can of
>Raid, which, as you note, is not entirely implausible. Albeit one would hope with a bit of a longer continuous lifetime for thrust XD
The term you want for this is the "effective exhaust velocity" and you plug that into the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation to find out the ideal case...and then since you're in a crap job, cut those numbers by 50% or so XD