Warp core
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A warp core is the energy production reactor technology which allows starships to use warp drive to travel at warp speeds.
Commonly warp cores utilize matter/antimatter reactions to produce the required energy to achieve warp speed. Federation starships use deuterium and antideuterium which is reacted in a dilithium matrix. Romulan starships typically use artificial quantum singularitys to produce the required power. The majority of starships use their warp cores for general energy requirements in addition to powering their warp drives.
An unusual hybrid starship encountered by the USS Enterprise-D in 2370 included a warp core from a Romulan warbird. (TNG comic: "Strategy")
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[edit] External link
- Warp core article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
