Sci-fi Word Problem

[Marxist Panda]

Okay. There's cargo container (about the size and mass of a modern cargo container) on its way to the sun. The container is traveling at about 10,000 meters per second or about 170,000 miles per hour. You want to stop this container from impacting the sun but your ship is too small to simply stop an object of that mass traveling at that speed with it's tractor beam. It simply can't generate enough energy without going critical. Furthermore, your ship can't move fast enough to intercept the ship without again making your rector go critical (the ship is kind of crappy). It has limited sub-light engines (capable of about 1,000 meters per second) and a non-variable faster than light engine. How are you going to slow down the container to a speed that you can tractor the container into your cargo bay. The idea is to preserve anything that is inside.

Rules-ish

1. You can't use the ship's shields to stop the container as it would result in overloading the ship.

2. You have a few kinetic charges, missiles, and generic 'beam' weapons.


Lemme hear how you would use non-existing technology and theoretical physics to solve this problem. There's no wrong answer outside of breaking the rules.