Federation Battlestar

[Mark]

I'm going with all three. Remember gentlemen, we are designing the puppy with a minimum of two warp cores (I think Deep suggested four). We've seen ONE warp core power a regular Starship in extended combat before, so I don't think that power is going to be a problem. However, I WOULD set up a safety system with backups to allow for a rapid transfer of power. Our tac systems can only hold so much power before the rest becomes surplus, but we may need some of it back if relays or EPS lines or transfer stations take damage.

I definitely think the pro's outweigh the cons here. After all, this is a matter of survivability.

[Deepcrush]

I recommend eight primary cores.

[DarkMoineau]

With 8 warp core, we can use what we want ^^

[Mark]

A dual core per nacelle? Or spread throughout the ship?

[DarkMoineau]

Well, i am not sure this will be a good idea to put them in the same room.
For me, it's 1 core per nacelle, 2 core for shield and 2 core for weapons in battle, and the possibility to fly at higher cruising speed because we can use the 4 others core when the first 4 have reached their 12/36 hours limit.

[Captain Seafort]

That assumes that the limit is imposed by the cores. If think it's more likely that it's due to the nacelles, in which case the only way to do what you're suggesting would be to only use two nacelles while resting the other two, then swap. This in turn assumes that two nacelles can carry the ship fast enough for long enough, and can be back to maximum effectiveness quickly enough to take over again, that it wouldn't simply be more efficient to use all four and accept a lower warp factor.

[DarkMoineau]

Well, in my idea, the problem isn't the warp factor but the time that we can travel at high warp factor.

But you are probably right.

The answer isn't in "Best of Both World" when Enterprise travel at Warp 9,6 and try to intercept the Cube Borg?

[Captain Seafort]

The answer isn't in "Best of Both World" when Enterprise travel at Warp 9,6 and try to intercept the Cube Borg?

They simply say they can only travel at maximum warp for a limited time - they never said why.

[Sonic Glitch]

The answer isn't in "Best of Both World" when Enterprise travel at Warp 9,6 and try to intercept the Cube Borg?

They simply say they can only travel at maximum warp for a limited time - they never said why.

I always suspected the problem was in the nacelles myself. Perhaps warp coil burn-out or something?

[Mark]

I figured it was akin to running a car at high RPMs for an extended period.

[Captain Seafort]

I always suspected the problem was in the nacelles myself. Perhaps warp coil burn-out or something?

Possibly. We know from "The Chase" that sustained high-warp travel can damage them. Another possibility is that they simply get clogged, given that the E-D needed a more intensive baryon ( ) sweep due to being much more active than a typical starship.

[DarkMoineau]

They didn't said if it's the nacelle of the core?

Okay.

Why do you speek about baryon?

[Mark]

They didn't said if it's the nacelle of the core?

Okay.

Why do you speek about baryon?

That was another entire episode with the baryon sweep.

[DarkMoineau]

With terrorist no?

I habve totally forgotten the technobabble ^^

[Mark]

That's the one