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Ejectable Reactor Core (Star Trek Inspiration)
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Ejectable Reactor Core (Star Trek Inspiration)

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So let's say that your reactor is going critical in your precious ship. Instead of letting it go critical in your ship, it would be much more desirable to have it do that somewhere away from your ship, right? Well, using thrusters that can be turned on and off in the hud menu. I've done just that. If you turn on the red thrusters named "Emergency Core Release" they will burn through the thin reactor supports when you hold F. Since the core will suddenly become its own ship the one thruster on the top will kick in (inertial dampeners), shooting it out the bottom of your ship. Hooray, crisis averted! Now you're running on emergency power though.

Here is a scene from Star Trek Voyager with the Warp Core being ejected
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♫ erikhale gaming 🐺 15 Nov, 2014 @ 8:08pm 
that i play star trek online then space engineer uss enterprise D
Rose 29 Jun, 2014 @ 2:41pm 
Oh nice, i wasnt even hoping for a retrivable reactor core XD
Shepard (KeGGeR)  [author] 27 Jun, 2014 @ 4:23pm 
I should mention, I made a better version in what is currently the shell of a Luna Class Starship, (similar in appearance to Voyager).
Shepard (KeGGeR)  [author] 27 Jun, 2014 @ 4:22pm 
I actually did this at near fullspeed and it worked great. Now it'll work even better with merge blocks. I tested it many a time though. (Merge blocks allow for reintegration of the core too now :D)
Rose 27 Jun, 2014 @ 3:52pm 
Love the idea, but how could you apply this in a fully built ship? in that scene from Voyager (which is one of my favorite scenes) the ship is going quite fast, and the warp core is ejected through a quite small hole. This may work on film, but in Space Engineers, the physics would kind of drag the core along with the ship.

Maybe something with Pillars could solve the problem? Good work so far, please keep at it. We need more realistic Star Trek star ship functions in this game. All thats really missing is for the devs to add the ability to use hotkeys for groups of reactors...maybe you can and im just missing something
Dragonknight525 30 Apr, 2014 @ 7:16am 
A wonderful concept to start with, though one step up from this could be the complete separation of a shuttle similar to this scene from the original transformers movie. I’m only suggesting this as you’d probably have better luck than me in creating a reliable system.