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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I think how hard sci-fi usually does it is how you say at the end. You store it if you need to be dark, then use your propellant to dump it when you don't need to be dark anymore. You'd actually recover some of the energy as delta-V in this way too I assume.