Four ships, from four different vectors came in from the darkness, into a gar orbit around a K type star...their impulse drives slowing them down, by some at a radical speed. They came to relative rest, slightly under one light-hour from each hour, to be exact, almost real-time, at their subspace radio's warp factor fifteen communication speed. This meeting up, was done every six months for communication security purposes. It involved, sometimes the use of a warp factor three Tritium class Shuttlecraft, but not this time. This was different using standard twenty foot shuttlepods. Part of the reason for the meet ups was personal exchanges. Each shuttlepod made several trips. Enough trips that the shuttlepod pilot had to be changed out - twice. At random shuttlepod transports, the Captain's made their way to the ship where the Captain's meeting et el, was to occur. This took several hours to complete. Previously the Captain's arrived on a prime number of the run. This time it was an even numbered run. Specifically the tenth.
Each of these rather gigantic ships was as large as the Federation Starfleet could make them. The problem was that no recycling of warp plasma was possible, but on the other hand, it was a pure reaction 1:1 matter/antimatter reaction. But a weak one because of containment forcefield technology limitations. The problem was that to achieve the required power levels forcefield technology was integral to the reactors at the far end of the warp nacelles. But the problem with a pure reaction was that it took the radiation tolerance limit above safe levels of exposure to radiation. Hence the were placed at the far end of the nacelles. Meaning that the reason products had to be steered to the fore end of the nacelles to begin their work each nacelle had two matter/antimatter reactors, to reduce the overall power requirements to a given reactor. Also in the reactors were the impulse power units. Inside each ship, was a fully Transtator based computer system, with a full number of Transtator memory units. Each memory unit was a single Transtator, and in some corner of the Earth were increasingly referred to as memory tapes.
Each of these rather gigantic ships was as large as the Federation Starfleet could make them. The problem was that no recycling of warp plasma was possible, but on the other hand, it was a pure reaction 1:1 matter/antimatter reaction. But a weak one because of containment forcefield technology limitations. The problem was that to achieve the required power levels forcefield technology was integral to the reactors at the far end of the warp nacelles. But the problem with a pure reaction was that it took the radiation tolerance limit above safe levels of exposure to radiation. Hence the were placed at the far end of the nacelles. Meaning that the reason products had to be steered to the fore end of the nacelles to begin their work each nacelle had two matter/antimatter reactors, to reduce the overall power requirements to a given reactor. Also in the reactors were the impulse power units. Inside each ship, was a fully Transtator based computer system, with a full number of Transtator memory units. Each memory unit was a single Transtator, and in some corner of the Earth were increasingly referred to as memory tapes.
