Talk:AIF/@comment-10905876-20161027145539

-Arcadia, Temporary Admiralty Complex-

Fleet Admiral Hodston leaves a briefing room giving an update on the situation in Europe, and heads to another room for another briefing. As he enters the room, he is greeted by some of the AIF's top engineers and physicists, along with several officers of the research division.

Officer: "Welcome, Admiral. Please, sit down."

Hodston: "Greetings, gentlemen. What have you got for me today?"

Engineer: "Admiral, what we have here is a revolutionary new power source, should you choose to allow development of it."

Hodston: "A new power source? Please, go on."

Engineer: "It will be more powerful than anything else we have! This new reactor will have power outputs as high as those of advanced antimatter reactors, with none of the risks of containment breaches wiping out a fleet!"

Physicist: "It all comes down to black holes. Very small ones, specifically. See, black holes emit radiation as they evaporate. This is especially true of small ones, which evaporate very quickly. We have a means of harnessing this radiation, and converting it in to useable power."

Engineer: "This proposed reactor will use particle accelerators to create these black holes, generating them in a controlled environment where they quickly evaporate to provide power to the ship or base it is on."

Hodston: "Gentlemen, how exactly is this any safer? Generating black holes in the middle of a ship sounds like a surefire way of destroying that ship, even with a fully functional reactor!"

Engineer: "Well sir, these reactors will only make very small singularities. They won't have enough mass to damage the ship, or even the reactor. If something fails, the reactor simply stops working, and the singularities currently generated will evaporate before any damage is done. A railgun could obliterate half the reactor, and it'd still simply grind to a halt instead of explode or flood the deck with plasma."

Hodston: "What kind of applications would these be useful for? Could they be used to power the whole fleet?"

Physicist: "Unfortunately sir, this reactor will be rather large."

Engineer: "Admiral, the particle accelerators needed are quite bulky, and there's not a good way to make them smaller. The smallest ships able to mount them are going to be the likes of the Unyielding and Andromeda classes. But for capital ships such as those, they'll be enormously powerful."

Hodston: "So, what do you need?"

Engineer: "Funding and approval, of course."

Physicist: "A remote testing facility. Despite our claims of safety, we don't want to swallow the Home Islands should experiments go poorly."

Engineer: "We will of course need the parts to build a test reactor..."

Discussions continue on the fiber points, and eventually research is approved. Completion will be in one month, after which, manufacturing can begin on micro-singularity reactors for use on warships.

OOC: New tech developed by owl and discussed by the other admins. If you want this tech, consult with owl for a feasibility check.