Is there a way to slow down using fusion bombs? Even if you manage to bring thousands of fusion bombs with you? Sounds like this is only a sensible approach for sending probes, which will then zip by their target at huge speeds.
I remember there was a quote from some sci-fi universe that there's "no such thing as an unarmed space ship".
"A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive."
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1) It’d be exactly twice as easy but for Tsiolkovsky!