- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Unfortunately, any thruster with a force of a magnitude of moving a planet wouldn't make any sense.
Such a thruster would generate more then enough thrust to push anything above it, atmosphere, in this case, right outside of the gravitic envelope that keeps the atmosphere hugging the planet's surface. As a result, so long as the thruster was firing, the atmosphere, all breathable air, would be leaking out of the planet like a popped balloon.
In short order, the planet would be completely unliveable and incapable of being terraformed to support a human friendly biosphere.
Mind you, it could be any number of things. It could be the slip space antenna assembly for example, or a slip space fold assembly. All we really know is that it emits a great deal of light in addition to its true function.
Remember the last announcement trailer, that of Halo 2. There was no bomb when he originally opened the airlock and was sucked out by venting atmosphere. It was heavily modified and the circumstances surrounding it altered tremendously before the game's release.
(I still wish the original announcement trailer's concept was held. I liked the idea of jumping from the MAC station to a Covenant ship, fighting inside and to the hangar bays, stealing a Phantom and flying out as the ship exploded due to the energy build up you'd initiated in the ship's core....)