Eng/Ops Terms to Know
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- Eng/Ops Terms to Know
Engineering and Operations Terms
- Antigraviton: Artificially generated by aliens, this can act as "antigravity".
- Antimatter: This naturally occurring matter can also be artificially generated by the Federation. It is matter with electrical charge properties that are the opposite of "normal matter".
- Antiproton: A naturally occuring antimatter version of a proton that is capable of penetrating the Romulan Cloaking Device.
- Baryon: Naturally occurring "heavy" particles like protons. Periodically need to be swept from the surface of deep space constructs.
- Communicator: Small communications device (Starfleet issue communicators are in the shape of the Starfleet emblem) which allows you to communicate with others within a short range. Can also be used as a tracking device, and is used to establish transporter locks.
- deBroglie Waves: Naturally occurring--a representation of ordinary matter as waves rather than particles. Can also be artificially generated, and is a side effect of cloaking devices.
- Deuterium: Naturally occurring isotope of hydrogen with twice the mass of ordinary hydrogen; also called "heavy hydrogen". It is used to power the warp core, and provides energy when combined with Antideuterium.
- Dilithium: Artificially generated substance that is important in maintaining warp drives. The dilithium is recycled through recrystalization within the warp chamber.
- Holodeck: Or "Holosuite", is an area in which a person can simulate just about any fantasy they can imagine using a mixture of holographic and transporter technology.
- Holomatter: A simulation of matter using force field and holo-imaging technology within the holodeck. Disintegrates when removed from the holodeck.
- Neutron Radiation: Naturally occurring. Emitted from older classes of the Klingon Bird of Prey, neutrons not contained within an atomic nucleus have a half-life of about 15 minutes.
- Static Warp Shell: An artificially generated anomaly which replicates the universe and begins to make it shrink.
- Tachyon: Artificially generated faster then light particle. Can be used to detect cloaked ships, and used to probe anomalies.
- Transparent Aluminum: An invisible metal that is artificially generated.
- Transporter: Device which transports people and objects from one location to another (within a certain range), by breaking the person/object down to their subatomic parts, and re-assembling them at their intended location. It is a painless experience which lasts only a matter of seconds.
- Tricorder: Multi-purpose scanning device.
- Warp Particle: Emitted by warp engines and can be used to follow the path of a ship recently in the area.