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[DemiserofD]

Everyone knows that everything is done with mass effect fields and eezo, but in the lore it's clearly stated that to activate eezo you need to run an electric current through it. How exactly is the power for that supplied? Does anyone have any idea? 

[birefringent]

Lots of kittens

[Excella Gionne]

I believe Eezo can self-sustain itself for a long time after becoming active, although, Eezo does decay over several years of repeated use.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Everyone knows that everything is done with mass effect fields and eezo, but in the lore it's clearly stated that to activate eezo you need to run an electric current through it. How exactly is the power for that supplied? Does anyone have any idea? 

 

I assume a fusion reactor for a ship. But possibly an Duracell battery for personal use. lol.

[Excella Gionne]

I assume a fusion reactor for a ship. But possibly an Duracell battery for personal use. lol.

No, Energizer! :-)

[themikefest]

Horsepower.

 

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[Excella Gionne]

Horsepower.

 

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I call SYNTHESIS!

[ImaginaryMatter]

ME ships are all powered by fusion reactors, I also recall mention of matter/antimatter reactors (or was that just propulsion?).

 

Personal armor seems to have some sort of battery/generator combination.

[Arcian]

Everyone knows that everything is done with mass effect fields and eezo, but in the lore it's clearly stated that to activate eezo you need to run an electric current through it. How exactly is the power for that supplied? Does anyone have any idea? 

Yeah, the guy's name was Nikola Tesla.

[Larry-3]

If you go into the engine room in the Normandy SR-1 you can see a large engine spinning. That is implying some type of electromagnetism.

[Arcian]

If you go into the engine room in the Normandy SR-1 you can see a large engine spinning. That is implying some type of electromagnetism.

Somewhere on the good Earth, a bunch of physicists just committed sudoku.

[Han Shot First]

The ships have fusion (civilian) or antimatter (military) reactors that generate the electric current for the eezo. Here is what the lore has to say about fuel and thrusters:

 

 

 

 

 

Faster-than-light drives use element zero cores to reduce the mass of a ship, allowing higher rates of acceleration. This effectively raises the speed of light within the mass effect field, allowing high speed travel with negligible relativistic time dilation1 effects.

 

Starships still require conventional thrusters (chemical rockets, commercial fusion torch, economy ion engine, or military antiproton drive) in addition to the FTL drive core. With only a core, a ship has no motive power.

 

The amount of element zero and power required for a drive increases exponentially to the mass being moved and the degree it is being lightened. Very massive ships or very high speeds are prohibitively expensive.

 

If the field collapses while the ship is moving at faster-than-light speeds, the effects are catastrophic. The ship is snapped back to sublight velocity, the enormous excess energy shed in the form of lethal Cherenkov radiation.

 

 

 

 

 

A mass effect drive core decreases the mass of a bubble of space-time around a ship. This gives the ship the potential to move quickly, but does not apply any motive power. Ships use their sublight thrusters for motive power in FTL. There are several varieties of thruster, varying in performance versus economy. All ships are equipped with arrays of hydrogen-oxygen reaction control thrusters for maneuvering.

 

Ion drives electrically accelerate charged particles as a reaction mass. They are extremely efficient, but produce negligible thrust. They are mainly used for automated cargo barges.

 

The primary commercial engine is a "fusion torch", which vents the plasma of a ship's power plant. Fusion torches offer powerful acceleration at the cost of difficult heat management. Torch fuel is fairly cheap: helium-3 skimmed from gas giants and deuterium extracted from seawater or cometary bodies. Propellant is hydrogen, likewise skimmed from gas giants.

 

In combat, military vessels require accelerations beyond the capability of fusion torches. Warship thrusters inject antiprotons into a reaction chamber filled with hydrogen. The matter-antimatter annihilation provides unmatched motive power. The drawback is fuel production; antiprotons must be manufactured one particle at a time. Most antimatter production is done at massive solar arrays orbiting energetic stars, making them high-value targets in wartime.

 

The exhaust of fusion and antiproton drives is measured in millions of degrees Celsius. Any vessel caught behind them will melt like wax in a blowtorch.

 

Any long-duration interstellar flight consists of two phases: acceleration and deceleration. Starships accelerate to the half-way point of their journey, then flip 180 degrees and apply thrust on the opposite vector, decelerating as they finish the trip. The engines are always operating, and peak speed is attained at the middle of the flight.