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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Capt_Frank_Hollister: [QB] [QUOTE]Also, and I know this is a fault of many fanboy uber-ships, but in this case I think it's necessary - 3 M/ARAs. 1 for each nacelle, and 1 for ship's power. Unless you think SF would have managed to get hold of a D'Dederex and reverse-engineered that quantum singularity in there. I don't want to be the first to draw that thing![/QUOTE]If I had any drawing skill at all, I'd share with you my own "uber-ship." I actually have a lot of the details worked out and I incorporate a few of the 2380+ weapons that I mentioned in a topic I started a little while back... But that's not why I'm responding to this post. I don't think you would ever need 3 M/ARAs on a given ship. My "uber-ship" uses dual M/ARA in part to provide substantially more power but primarily as a redundancy feature. The main limiting factor in a given M/ARA's power output seems to be how much reactants you can happily pump through the thing in a given amount of time before your containment system fails and blows the thing apart. I don't think starfleet has really reached the upper limit in that respect yet. Also, it seems to me that if the containment system is based in large part on force fields or something that requires power, that the more power you generate, the more you will have available to pump into reinforcing your containment. Furthermore, I think the dilithium crystals do a lot to relieve the pressure/control the reaction by converting the otherwise spherically expanding energy of the M/A reaction into a directionized stream. The point... I think you could still happily run your ship off of one reactor since I don't think the design limit of reactors has been reached yet, or maybe a dual system for added redundancy and not-so-huge individual M/ARAs. Anyways, running individual nacells off of independent reactors is a bad idea because of power output balance problems. Its better to combine the output of one or more reactors into a common plasma manifold to stabilize output and frequency conditions and then pump the energy out to the nacells from there... makes for a safer system, in my opinion. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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