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3. "RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed?"
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   LAST EDITED ON Nov-25-12 AT 06:25 PM (EST)
 
>I may have only seen this in a dream, but I vaguely remember that the
>AT&T was only fold-capable because it was powered by some notably
>dangerous reactor system. If that is the case, and not simply my
>dreaming, then mothballing it would probably include taking down the
>fold reactors, to keep the risk of Something Very Bad happening.

This is so; in fact, all GENOM spacefold technology was incredibly dangerous, because their engineers didn't have access to actual Reflex technology and so ended up sort of brute-forcing the same result. This is why the crash of the Executioner destroyed basically the entire surface of Musashi. (Even GENOM themselves phased out the technology for general use thereafter; by 2300 it was out of service across the fleet, and only reappeared in the AT-series battlestations out of strategic necessity.)

If just one of those fold cores, sufficient to move a quite large but not astronomically-scaled starship, could do that to a Minshara-class planet, imagine what havoc an array of them big enough to shift a small moon would wreak if they got out of hand. That system wasn't just shut down when the WDF captured the AT&T, it was removed entirely and very, very carefully scrapped. This required some pretty significant structural compromises, which is one of the main reasons why I said in my other response below that the station is not what you would call a going concern in the early 2400s.

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 Has the plan for the AT&T changed? [View All] Zemyla Nov-25-12 TOP
   RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Peter Eng Nov-25-12 1
     RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Gryphonadmin Nov-25-12 3
   RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Gryphonadmin Nov-25-12 2
      RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? mdg1 Nov-25-12 4
      RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Zemyla Dec-01-12 5
          RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Berrik Dec-03-12 6
              RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Mephronmoderator Dec-03-12 7
                  RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? BeardedFerret Dec-03-12 8
                      RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Bushido Dec-03-12 9
                  RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Berrik Dec-08-12 10
                      RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Gryphonadmin Dec-09-12 11
                          RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? The Traitor Dec-09-12 12
                              RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Peter Eng Dec-09-12 13
                                  RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Gryphonadmin Dec-09-12 15
                              RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Gryphonadmin Dec-09-12 14
                                  RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Vorticity Dec-11-12 16
                                      RE: Has the plan for the AT&T changed? Gryphonadmin Dec-11-12 17


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