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As we've already stated, your thrusters are reactionless drives.
Ah. I wasn't quite sure wheather they were reactionless drives with exhausts or rocket engines without fuel consumption. Most of the ships have some kind of nozzle, though, so It seems kind of weird to declare them as reactionless. Although their power output would be more practical to handle when they don't throw ravening particle streams of death around, but if they don't throw anything out, where do they go with the heat? I get a feeling that I'm too much nitpicking here... Consistancy is kinda hard to establish afterwards.
But thats probably down to simple limitations of the engine, I mean cargo and other goods had a mass of 1ton per unit, its just the ship didn't take that into account... I think how I'd like to see it done is to seperate engines and power systems out. You fuel the power system with hydrogen or whatever, which in turn will fuel the hyperdrive and other systems or charge a capacitor which feeds the systems.With actual thrusters we could either drain the power/fuel reserve of the power plant, or actually provide a seperate propellant which uses the heat from the powerplant to expand the gasses ect.Having a seperate propellant is the most plausible of the two but it might be unnecessarily complicated.. But to me it seems the better option for added depth...