Deck 12 – Main Engineering
This deck contains all the ship’s propulsion systems, both for sub-light and FTL speeds. The deck houses the following areas:
- Engineering lounge. Here, the engineering crew can relax and have a drink, without needing to take the elevator to higher decks.
- Ion Drive. This system allows the ship to move at sub-light speed. It consists of the following sub-systems:
– Fuel pumps.
– Ionisation Driver Core. This is the main engine component of the Ion Drive.
– Ionisation beam stabilisors. - Engineering offices.
- Flow Regulator. This system is part of the hyperdrive and siphons excess energy from the Singularity Core to ensure a stable operation, particularly at high FTL speeds.
- Coolant Systems. This system is part of the hyperdrive and provides physical cooling of its systems.
- Engineering systems control. From this control center, all engineering systems can be monitored and controlled. In the event that the ship’s bridge becomes inoperable, all command functions can also be routed to and controlled from here.
- Injector (linac). This system is part of the hyperdrive. A linear accelerator (linac) is used to accelerate kaons and pions as `fuel’ for the Singularity Core.
- Core Stabiliser. This system is part of the hyperdrive and stabilises the tachyon particle beam for transit to the engine nacelles. A Galaxy-class starship has three nacelles, so there are also three stabilisers.
- Singularity Core. This system is part of the hyperdrive. The Singularity Core forms the `heart’ of the ship and is responsible for the generation of the hyper-excited, polarised tachyon particles that are used to facilitate FTL travel.