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Originally posted by Reverend:
I think its more a matter of keeping the antimatter pods and the matter tanks as far apart as possible.....just incase.
It doesn't matter... the antimatter will react with the pods if the containment fields fail. On the other hand you still need to give the matter a reason to explode [a spark is a good example].
The best reason is the layout of the ship. Keeping the warp core and the main impulse engines away from each other divides a single target [main power] into two different locations. However, the warp core is the only one that needs antimatter on a constant basis so it is the only one that needs ready access to the antimatter. However the Impulse systems only need matter [boosting amounts of antimatter would probably come in portable containers]. Thus the placement of the deuterium tank has to be between the two locations.
The only example of difference I've seen is the Defiant and Intrepid. The Defiant is too small for it to matter, you put things where they'll fit. But with the Intrepid they place the impulse engines with the warp nacelles [something that recombines them into a single target, no wonder they were dead in the water so much]. Anyway... there are still other systems that only need deuterium that are in the saucer section. These include the RCS and the backup fusion generators.
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