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On that note, Black Holes sound like a theoretically awesome power source, since in theory they have an insane energy density owing to infinitesimal size and high mass (E = MC^2). It's just converting that mass to energy on short notice that's an issue. The more I look at it, the more it seems that a Singularity Engine is more practical for a stationary facility, possibly a stealthy one, since there's minimal emission of energy, especially if one could handle the gravitational weighing it would inevitably produce (Though, it's just gravity, which travels only at the speed of light, so it's not especially obvious anyway).

You probably also want to put it somewhere far away so if something goes wrong you don't turn your home into a black hole or something like that.
 
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On that note, Black Holes sound like a theoretically awesome power source, since in theory they have an insane energy density owing to infinitesimal size and high mass (E = MC^2). It's just converting that mass to energy on short notice that's an issue. The more I look at it, the more it seems that a Singularity Engine is more practical for a stationary facility, possibly a stealthy one, since there's minimal emission of energy, especially if one could handle the gravitational weighing it would inevitably produce (Though, it's just gravity, which travels only at the speed of light, so it's not especially obvious anyway).

You probably also want to put it somewhere far away so if something goes wrong you don't turn your home into a black hole or something like that.
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I'm sorry, but this is definitely a bad idea. Remember, this is Star Trek. If you saw the intro to a Star Trek episode where the Enterprise visits a station where the Federation is testing a new source of infinite energy by making artificial black holes, you'd know within five minutes something was going to go horribly wrong.
 
But that is because the Enterprise is part of the Explorer Corps and will get an event every quarter.

Hmm - maybe keep EC ships away from any and all critical experimental sites ...

Other people's experiments are fine, just keep them away from ours.
 
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The problem that Romulans have with singularity cores is that they are a singularity you carry around inside of you.

You can't exactly take that and power down.

Also, if you do lose all power, before it all comes apart in a blaze of hawking radiation and other assorted pleasantness, you have a very bad no good 50 microseconds that you can't eject. It is almost the definition of fail-deadly.

Starfleet Engineering is not a fan.
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People using MAM reactors have no high ground to stand on here...
 
chriswriter90 said:
We do have a convenient wood chipper at hand called Gabriel...
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See, you are thinking the Bureaucrats aren't a species of their own, they are, some call them parasitic others think they are symbiotic. the debate rages on, but in the right circumstances the Bureaucrat reproduces though spores and takes the form of the closest non bureaucrat sentient it can find.

The disposal of these critters is dangerous and resource intensive and many see it as a lost cause.

I, personally, think they'd made great Ablative Armor...
 
Chaos Blade said:
People using MAM reactors have no high ground to stand on here...
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The principal difference is that you can stop a M/AM reaction by cutting off the flow of anti-matter.

A singularity is passively warping spacetime via its mass, and convincing it to stop doing that when you need to shut down for maintenance or you have concerns about the power system is decidedly problematic.

In sum, no one should be putting themselves in a ship that looks like the set up for penrose diagram exercises.
 
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The principal difference is that you can stop a M/AM reaction by cutting off the flow of anti-matter.
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Unfortunately, the antimatter is still there, ready to react to any regular matter it encounters. Unless you have a technobabble nonreactive substance to use for containment purposes, cutting off the reactor doesn't mean you can cut power to your fuel storage.

High energy density fuels are a bitch.
 
Perhaps it is a Singularity Inductor; What it would do is to create an artificial singularity with technobabble, then use that singularity to produce more energy via more technobabble. When shut down, it simply dissipates the Singularity that had formed.
 
The Romulans should build a reactor fueled by smugness. Lord knows the Romulans & Vulcans have enough for the entire Beta Quadrant.

If all the Cardassians stood in one place, their smugness could power half the galaxy.
 
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OneirosTheWriter said:
The principal difference is that you can stop a M/AM reaction by cutting off the flow of anti-matter.

A singularity is passively warping spacetime via its mass, and convincing it to stop doing that when you need to shut down for maintenance or you have concerns about the power system is decidedly problematic.

In sum, no one should be putting themselves in a ship that looks like the set up for penrose diagram exercises.
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so is there a crunch affect here? like a greater chance of losing all hands when a ship goes up?
 
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so is there a crunch affect here? like a greater chance of losing all hands when a ship goes up?
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There is a reason that the proto-Federation and the Romulans could have a big shooting war, without seeing the body (living or in part) of a Romulan. The Romulan ships have very effective self-destructs as the drive crunches the whole ship ...
 
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Well they had something that prevents any body from being recovered for years of hard fought war.
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When your ships mostly get massively overkilled by multiple nuclear weapons in combat and you're carrying huge amounts of explosive hydrogen fuel for your fusion reactors, guess. I mean, when you take an unshielded torpedo hit in our era, it's surprising that anything of the ship survives, much less that sometimes they're still able to fight.
 
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You have to go out of your way to make sure that antimatter reactors fail safe. It takes the cunning Romulan mind to consider just leaving it fail deadly as a feature!

> : V
 
AKuz said:
You have to go out of your way to make sure that antimatter reactors fail safe. It takes the cunning Romulan mind to consider just leaving it fail deadly as a feature!

> : V
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I suppose maybe that way you can ram the ship and self-destruct to produce what is basically a supertorpedo destruction?
 
*Romulans open diplomatic relations with ISC*

*ISC sends inspectors to check out the safety of their warbirds*

*ISC closes relations, sends a note to the Senate with their recommendations on improving starship and warp safety*

Addendum: the "note" is actually the size of a textbook.
 
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