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Star Trek Tech STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS FILE ____________________ Warp Travel To explore strange, new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go... you need a way to get there. Since the 1960s, humankind has been able to propel men and women into space, but even then, they werent near ready to reach for the stars. The basic reason was that even at the speed of light, it would take 5 years to get to the nearest star. This was a problem, when you consider that nothing can travel faster than light! So then how do we embark on a trek to the stars? The Warp Propulsion System, or warp drive, is the primary engine used for interstellar travel. The Federation standard for WPS designs was conceived by Zefram Cochrane, a Terran in the mid-twenty-first century. He was among the first Humans to break the light barrier, and his accomplishments led to the creation of such establishments as the Federation and Starfleet. All Starfleet cadets are required to take a course in Cochranes warp physics. The warp drives on all currently active starships in Starfleet capable of faster-than-light (FTL) speeds consist of three prinicipal assemblies: the matter/antimatter reaction assembly (M/ARA); a network of power conduits, and; the warp engine nacelles. The M/ARA, also referred to as the warp core, is the power source of the warp drive. The energy is created by the annihilation of matter and antimatter. The principle behind this is that when matter and antimatter, opposites in charge, come into contact, they destroy one another, and in doing so release a great amount of energy. The flow of matter and antimatter into the reaction chamber is controlled by a Dilithium crystal. Dilithium is the only matter known not to react to antimatter, when it is in a high frequency electromagnetic field. The dilithium can therefore regulate how much antimatter is allowed to react. Once matter and antimatter react in the warp core, the energy it produces is then sent in a p