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From: "Jason Patten " 
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Starfleet's main antimatter production facility is located on Mercury.
Powered by Extensive solar power arrays the production facility takes the
Raw material and slag left by almost 2 centuries of mining and smelting
operations on the planets surface to provide the mass for production. 
Starfleet and most warp-capable vessels use anti-deuterium and deuterium to
provide the fuel for the warp cores. Starfleet antimatter is known to have
a VERY high quality and purity factor.  This is important because the
reaction needs to have equal amounts of matter/antimatter to provide the
most effiecent reaction possible and to reduce "erosion" of
warp-core components.  If for example the amount of anti-matter is slighty
higher than matter then stray particles of antimatter may be able to escape
the reaction zone and impact other parts of the core, while the amount of
antimatter that can esacape this way is too small to cause a catestrophic
breach in most cases it does cause a slow degredation of the dilithium
chamber and surrounding structure.  Thus every attempt is made to ensure
that the deuterium/ antideuterium streams are as free of foreign particles
and atoms as possible. Starfleet generally achieves the highest purity
rates, though some of the wealthier Ferengi cartels claim higher rates.

Antimatter production involves four main stages:

In stage 1 the raw material is heated till it loses atomic cohesion and the
atoms obtain enough energy for the component particles to break down.  The
resulting plasma is subjected to a Quantum reversal field that flips the
spin of the particles transferring them into the equivelant anti-particle. 
After the conversion the plasma is cooled and begins to condense into
anti-hyrdrogen and anti-deuterium. Along with a tiny smattering of heavier
elements. After seperation the deuterium is stored in standard antimatter
storage pods for shipment out to starbases and refit stations.

Ok.. Thats what I have so far...  Im still working on the fate of the non
deuterium elements that are seperated out and a few of the technical kinks,
like how the 2 versions of hydrogen are seperated from each other and minor
details like that...

Let me know what you think, but bear in mind I'm not likely to change the
basic manufacturing process unless a good compelling reason comes up :)

Jason



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