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Reman Dilithium Mines...

marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
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Good place to send a kid to die etc... A thought came to me today...

What's the point of them?

Romulan ships use singularity drives, they don't need dilithium... So why mine it (or rather, why get Reman scum to mine it)? Might they use it more as a commodity with the rest of the intergalactic community, in the way prospectors pan for gold, or conflict diamonds are mined?

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  • rllaillieurllaillieu Member Posts: 351 Arc User
    But dilithium is good for getting the Feds and Klinks to cough up goods in exchange for the substance. You'd be amazed what they're willing to give up.
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    rllaillieu wrote: »
    But dilithium is good for getting the Feds and Klinks to cough up goods in exchange for the substance. You'd be amazed what they're willing to give up.
    This is what I'm wondering... Commodity, rather than integral part B)

  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    To feed their secret Horta army?​​
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  • conkav22conkav22 Member Posts: 8,146 Arc User
    artan42 wrote: »
    To feed their secret Horta army?​​

    You win this thread
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  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    I just mentally assume it's got some use in subspace equipment, or else a very healthy export business.
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  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    artan42 wrote: »
    To feed their secret Horta army?​​
    You may be onto something there... B)
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    antonine3258 wrote: »
    I just mentally assume it's got some use in subspace equipment, or else a very healthy export business.
    Ooh, that's an intresting possibility... From the comments in Nemesis, it seemed that unmet quotas was an issue, so it's got to be something fairly important B)
  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    Well, if transistors are silicon, what crystal would go into transtators has always been my thought process. :)
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  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    antonine3258 wrote: »
    Well, if transistors are silicon, what crystal would go into transtators has always been my thought process. :)

    I like it B)
  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    marcusdkane wrote: »
    antonine3258 wrote: »
    Well, if transistors are silicon, what crystal would go into transtators has always been my thought process. :)

    I like it B)

    Explain where all that dilithium is being poured into for upgrades - finer and finer equipment. Total fanon, naturally.
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  • admiralnatadmiralnat Member Posts: 22,432 Arc User
    artan42 wrote: »
    To feed their secret Horta army?​​

    Somebody should make a foundry mission of this!
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  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    antonine3258 wrote: »
    marcusdkane wrote: »
    antonine3258 wrote: »
    Well, if transistors are silicon, what crystal would go into transtators has always been my thought process. :)

    I like it B)

    Explain where all that dilithium is being poured into for upgrades - finer and finer equipment. Total fanon, naturally.
    #SeemsLegit B)
  • k20vteck20vtec Member Posts: 535 Arc User
    I remeber Memory alpha says that dilithium can also be use to channel energy into streams of electroplasma. cant open MA for some reason, just search dilithium on MA and you should be able to find it.
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  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    k20vtec wrote: »
    I remeber Memory alpha says that dilithium can also be use to channel energy into streams of electroplasma. cant open MA for some reason, just search dilithium on MA and you should be able to find it.
    Absolutely, that's precisely what it does in a Federation M/ARA, hence my pondering what the Romulans would use it for in their ships :p

    First time I saw a Romulan engine room, I got a creepy/vertigo-like feeling, as it made me think of the Event Horizon O_O
  • shevetshevet Member Posts: 1,667 Arc User
    Federation/KDF ships get their energy from a matter/antimatter reaction, channelled by an array of dilithium crystals into the ship's electroplasma system.... Although Romulan ships get their energy from a quantum singularity, I'd always assumed the rest of the process was pretty much the same. The core provides the energy; the crystals focus it. My headcanon, anyway.
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  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    shevet wrote: »
    Federation/KDF ships get their energy from a matter/antimatter reaction, channelled by an array of dilithium crystals into the ship's electroplasma system.... Although Romulan ships get their energy from a quantum singularity, I'd always assumed the rest of the process was pretty much the same. The core provides the energy; the crystals focus it. My headcanon, anyway.
    Then perhaps the Romulans do need them in their ships afterall B)
  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    Dilithium as rectifier and amplifier does have a prior point and makes a lot of sense as well.

    Well, that episode doesn't, but the use of dilithium does.
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  • grandnaguszek1grandnaguszek1 Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    It's most likely used for trade or at least some sort of power generation that doesn't involve a singularity
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    admiralnat wrote: »
    artan42 wrote: »
    To feed their secret Horta army?

    Somebody should make a foundry mission of this!

    I'm waiting...​​
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    I doubt every Romulan ship is singularity-powered; that strikes me as something they'd only use on their military vessels. Civilian ships and planetside installations are probably still matter-antimatter or fusion, and in the former case Star Trek apparently needs dilithium to make it work (even though the ability to generate artificial gravity should be enough to confine the reaction in both M/AM and fusion).
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  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    crashdragon wrote: »
    grandnaguszek1 wrote: »
    It's most likely used for trade or at least some sort of power generation that doesn't involve a singularity

    It powers the games Dilithium Sink. Also it's where the Tovans breed and play. Romulan players get the escapees

    Fast-Tovan reactors? :)
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  • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    I'm pretty sure dilithium is still very important for the operation of any starship, singularity powered or not. It seems like a pretty universally useful plot substance.
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