So I can own a real TIE Fighter one day?!

[What's_nitro?]

When the VASIMR concept was in PopSci a few years back I considered trying to build a small-scale working replica. Not quite as complex, using only a few magnetrons to excite the plasma- which I would make using electrolyzed water as fuel. Cool huh. Needless to say it was going to cost more than I thought. Plasma is hot stuff, and the materials to contain it were not residentially available.