A new rp from Yukito-Kun... Maybe...

Sure, but they aren't crystals, they're incredibly small cousins, if you will, of the taurus reactor. Nuclear fusion at relatively low temperatures... I was originally thinking helium-3, but the idea of a quark reactor sounded ideal for the scale.

You do know that commercialized fusion power will first be accessible by 2050 right? Unless there's a big change in government funding along the ways that will allow fusion to advance to such a state by then. And fusion power will be run off of deuterium fusion reactions which will make helium-4 by products, which in turn will make either lithium + hydrogen or beryllium.

But okay. I'll post something later today.

We're talking about a civilization advanced enough to travel at near-light speed, distort space-time, manipulate gravitational fields and do genetic manipulation capable of creating different species of human. I think a quark powered fusion device is within their grasp.

I was just saying, and I do get your point.

I get where you're coming from and found your post informative, I was simply looking for the most advanced idea I could imagine given humanity's current understanding of the cosmos.

I see... though I would have gone more along the lines of using an anti-matter positron relay device.

I thought quarks would be more advanced...

I don't really think so, as we can already harness quarks, and might be possible to use them in reaction within the century, but we have nearly no knowledge on anti-matter except for the fact that the collision of matter and anti-matter is very destructive and releases a very large amount of energy due to the negation properties associated with positive and negative energies.

It is so destructive, in fact, that one single reaction of uncontrolled anti-matter collision with matter could destroy the entire Earth.

I know that this is off topic, but could you find me the struggle you read on that? I'm not doubting you I'm just interested in reading it.

I'm sure you mean article, not struggle, so here's some stuff on it.

NASA funded Antimatter Positron Engine for space exploration article:
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/antimatter_spaceship.html

Matter-Antimatter Power article:
http://space.about.com/od/Space-and-Astronomy-Star-Trek/a/Matter-Antimatter-Power.htm

And a video on Antimatter:
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/howstuffworks/4671-could-antimatter-destroy-the-earth-video.htm


And I don't find this off topic, I find it very on topic, as it would indicate what would be the power source for the ship we were on.

Edit: I found stuff on it, as most of the things I've learned on antimatter came from my physics classes in college.

Later Edit: Most of the stuff on matter-antimatter power relate to Star Trek, where it was first thought of, but it is also used in games like Deus Ex, Mass Effect, and Halo.

The main power source is a micro-black hole in the core, how exactly it would work, well it's all theoretical, but it utilizes Hawking radiation. The black hole is suspended in a dirac sea which encloses on itself rendering it safe. When the crash happened it sealed itself by expanding the internal dimensions of the enclosed space. The machinery required contain the fields and radiation make them impractical for use. They use the small power cells as fuses because they are in redundant quantum entanglement pairs, when path A is blocked the power travels down B, etc etc. It's an improvised solution to the rising costs of manufacturing dedicated parts.

... What if I make a use of that thermoscope I got so we could make a nice ambush of our group?

I reserved something before you did.

Huh? o.O

Zorf posted, WE CAN MOVE ON! :D

Haven't heard from Room101 recently, hope he posts soon.

Or else he dies. Dun dun DUUUUUN! (dramatic music)

So. . . are we going to move forward?

I'd post if I had any idea what to do next.

I thought Room gave up on this RP long ago.

Agreed.