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- | ====== Open Cycle Aether Reactor ====== | ||
- | Conceved by the Baal-Hamon design cluster of the [[faction: | ||
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- | ===== About ===== | ||
- | The Open Cycle Aether Reactor configuration is very similar to conventional aether reactors. The device opens a small passage to the [[technology: | ||
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- | The Open-Cycle name comes from the reactor being directly exposed to space, compared to closed-cycle reactors that are entirely self-contained inside of containers / ships / structures. | ||
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- | The design itself comes from the [[faction: | ||
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- | ===== Design ===== | ||
- | Open-Cycle reactors are generally made from two components, and then have a number of accessories added to them based on how the reactor is being used. The Open-Cycle design is intended for use in space only, and the control ring's shield generators work to maintain a vacuum around the reactor core at all times. | ||
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- | === Control Ring === | ||
- | The Control Ring contains the electronics, | ||
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- | This control ring is usually connected to a starship or starbase through powerful electrostatic and gravitic fields. | ||
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- | === Reactor Core === | ||
- | Contained inside of the control ring is the reactor core, a dense ball of mass compressed together tightly by the electrical and gravitational fields created by the control ring. This ball of mass spins rapidly in the direction opposite of the control ring, and is usually superheated and putting out a powerful magnetic field. As the Control Ring siphons off power from the reactor core its magnetic field weakens, it gets cooler, and the spinning slows. The core can then be juiced up again by the control ring opening up a path to the [[technology: | ||
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- | === Other Stuff === | ||
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- | The reactor design is configured so that other parts can be positioned around the control ring. The core ring's shields can be configured to release some of the material of the reactor core in a specified direction to be used by other systems floating in space near by. The design uses powerful shields to keep attached components at the proper distance from the reactor. |