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[QUOTE]Originally posted by J: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Something just occurred to me... aren't the NX-01's warp coils supposed to be ASYMMETRICAL? As in, they require both nacelles to form a proper warp field? Based on what we know of warp fields -- from Okudagrams and the like -- I find it hard to believe that it'd be that simple... [/QUOTE]Warp coils work efficiently when they are paired. There is nothing that dictates they have to be paired. The Asymmetrical part comes in with the warp field... it's like a triangle. The sides are symmetrical to each other but the front is wider than the back. Thus you can think of it as the back of the warp field squeezing the ship towards the wider front. A vessel with a single nacelle will have have a harder time moving for a few reasons. 1) Half the power is gone. 2) Their remaining nacelle is off the center axis... the warp field has to be realigned. 3) Endurance is halved (remember that to run at the same level as before, the single nacelle has to work as hard as two, but it's only one nacelle. It can't run that hard very long, or on a regular basis). 4) Manueverability is essentially nothing now (prior to this, it was easy to turn a ship at warp by increasing or decreasing power in one nacelle causing a field imbalance [more power on the left, makes you turn right and vice versa... it's like propellers in water]). I can't figure out a way to do that with just one set of field coils (the fore-aft imbalance that makes a warp field asymmetrical is a product of the way the energize the coils, there is simply no way to turn with one set of coils). Then again, "Speed of light, no left or right" has some meaning here. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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