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Let us consider the Daedalus Project of Alan Bond & company .
I propose that they make it a hybrid fission/fusion rocket with gatling-gun type propulsion layout.
Any add-ons or critiques ?
On a related note ; no fusion reactor yet has managed to achieve SUSTAINED break even power production .
This would obviate the "Rocket Equation"
Low-thrust means that the engine can be tiny
Low thrust means an engine that's not much use.
I wouldn't go that far, since ion engines have very low thrust but are efficient and have high exhaust velocities.
Seriously , fuel-depots were invented right after fire
This would obviate the "Rocket Equation" ,
20+k°C , 50+k.psi , ball of " cold-plasma"
20k°Celsius is categorized as cold, in plasma physicist-talk .P.M.
we definitely must consider the exiting gases to be a "hot" plasma .
As far as technical details go , the above is only a theoretical analysis of a future possible design pathway .