Rear Admiral
- Intent: To provide a proprietary power core for use with smaller craft or mechanized equipment within the Eternal Armed Forces.
- Image Source: Image Source, image is a prop from movie ‘Angels & Demons’. Original Artist ‘Zade Rosenthal’ | Headers by Kainan Wolfe
- Canon Link: N/A
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- Manufacturer: Karavin Concern
- Affiliation: Eternal Empire
- Market Status: Closed-Market - Eternal Empire Only
- Model: “Arcturas” Antimatter Power Core
- Modularity: Can be scaled up or down to provide power to different mechanised equipment or craft.
- Production: Minor
- Material:
- Agrinium
- Chromium
- Transparisteel
- Power Conversion Components
- Containment Field
- Antimatter Reactions: The Arcturas power core provides massive amounts of energy via chaining overlapping antimatter reactions within a containment field inside the casing of the core. This allows for very large amounts of energy to be available for use by whatever is utilizing the core.
- Containment Field: In order to contain the above mentioned reactions, the Arcturas is provided with a specially calibrated containment field which shields the actual casing from the intense explosions taking place inside to generate the energy to be utilized by the equipment it is installed within.
- Small Package: The “Arcturas” Antimatter Power Core was originally designed for applications within smaller craft and mechanised equipment or machinery, but it can also be scaled up to power larger machinery if needed.
- Antimatter Generation & Storage (See Antimatter Reactions above): This particular power core utilizes antimatter technology to generate massive amounts of energy via a series of reactions caused inside the power core. In order to harness and store this energy, the system also includes a series of nano-capacitors that store the energy so that the core does not have to constantly be active to have sufficient energy on hand, which reduces the risk of power core failure or overuse.
- Volatile: Given the means through which this power core generates its energy, it is almost redundant to state this renders the core particularly volatile. While the containment field and chromium/agrinium casing renders the core completely safe during normal operation, should either the casing or field emitter suffer sufficient damage, the result would be catastrophic for both the core itself, and whatever equipment it is used within (along with the sentient utilizing the equipment).
- Sensitive Calibration: While the Arcturas power core is fairly stable when operating under normal parameters (assuming it does not suffer significant damage as noted in the previous weakness), initial integration with a piece of machinery requires meticulous calibration and commissioning to ensure the sheer power it is capable of providing does not overload the piece of equipment, or its components.
Over the past few years, the Eternal Empire has commissioned companies such as Karavin Concern & Rocksolid Arms to develop new and improved starships and weapons platforms. With this improvement in military technology, logically improvements in ancillary pursuits must advance along with them. In the case of power generation technology, the ‘Arcturas’ Power Core is Karavin Concern’s answer to fill the specialized niche of providing superior power generation to smaller craft and machinery, which has opened the door for the innovation of more advanced starfighter and land-based vehicle platforms.
Utilizing a strong foundation in antimatter innovation and technology, the Arcturas houses a mechanism which manipulates and harnesses antimatter reactions inside the relative safety of a containment field and specially designed casing. Storing this energy within a series of nano capacitors, this allows whatever is to harness this energy to do so without overtaxing the core at any one time, even if demand spikes over a short period of time. While installation of this core requires careful calibration and commissioning from expert engineering teams, another noted weakness of the core is the volatile reaction that would likely occur should the containment field be breached or the casing’s integrity compromised. However, to do either of those things would indicate that the utilizing machinery in question would also be so significantly damaged, that a potential explosion or massive disablement would be a foregone conclusion anyway.
While not mutually exclusive to use within the military, the Arcturas Power Core is being seen with increasing regularity within the latest fighter craft and land-based mechanised equipment
