Subsystem: Power Core / EPS

==Power Systems==
Without power, nothing on a starship can function. The ship can't move, life supportcuts off, and the lights dim. Therefore, Starfleet Designs engineers have taken pains to make sure that ships have multiple sources of power to draw on, the primary ones being the warp drive and impulse engines.
==Warp Engines==
The accompanying table indicates the classes of warp engines avilable, and the amount of power they provide per round.
==Impulse Engines==
Impulse engines also provide ower systems. This power is cumulative with power generated by the warp engines.
==Auxiliary Power==
In additon to the fusion reactors which from the impulse engines, most ships carry another set of reactors simply to generate power. Each Auxiliary reactor generates 5 points of power per round. The crew holds auxiliary power in reserve for use in emergency or crisis situations, rather than using it all times. Most starships have at least one auxiliary power generator for every 4 points of size.
==Emergency Power==
In additon to auxiliary power, starships have a small reserve of emeregency power for use in crisis situations or when other power systems are nonfunctional. The emergency power systems uses a set of fusion reactors which are independent from the standard and auxiliary power systems. 
==Individual Systems Power Generators==
Some of the system on a starship have their own small reserve of power foruse in emergencies or when all other power systems are not working. Emergency life support has its own powre systems, for example, and the ship's phasers have phaser arry power celles good for a few shots when there's no other power avlaible. Even when it can be drained this way, it only provides one-time temporary Power boost, onot an ongoing supply.
==Electroplasma System==
Power from warp engines, impulse engines, and other sources is routed throught the sip by the electroplasma system (EPS). The EPS is a network of microwave power transmission waveguides. A ship's EPS is assumed to be able to handle the power flow to run all systems at up to maximum efficiency without difficulty. But when there's a need to transfer more power, to increases damage a phaser does, or boost the strength of the shields, or feed more power to the sensors to punch through some interference the EPS maynot be able to handle the demands placed on it. The quality and effienicy of an EPS determines how much power a Starship can transfer each round.
Damage may causes decrease in effenciy as overloads can damage Electroplasma pathways through out the ship. Stress on this system depribes vital power to key systems decreasing the amount of aviabile power the warp core is putting out. As a result shields weaking, systems are kocked off line, and speed might even be deceassed. Repairs of this type of damage must be done by routing power through other subsystems or bypassing routes with emergency pathways.
===Isomagnetic EPS Conduits===
Isomagentic conduits are standarized on all ships by 2400.
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