Main Engineering
Visible are the main controls along the far wall and the ladder leading up to Deck 14; the grille separating the intermix chamber; and the dilithium reactor in the center of the floor.
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Deck 15 is often referred to simply as "Engineering". The Eagle's warp engine room is forward on this level.
The engine room's entry foyer features the main power systems display board and switching console. From here, engineering personnel can monitor all shipboard power usages and override other control boards.
A door in the forward portside bulkhead accesses a room in which repair circuitry and replacement parts are stored.
Along the starboard wall of the main engineering floor are control consoles that provide a complete interface with all reactor systems. Bisecting the console wall is a ladder leading up to the engineering computer monitor room on Deck 14.
The port side of the main floor is dominated by a pair of massive dynamos. A ladder leading up to the portside of Deck 14 can be found tucked in the rear corner. Many of the ship's critical systems run circuitry lines through this area, such as the transporters and life support.
The center of the main engineering floor features the radiation-proof pedestal of the dilithium reactor assembly, where the raw matter/antimatter energy is focused into coherent waveforms for use by the ship's engines. The dilithium chamber can be opened, providing unobstructed access to the dilithium couplings, allowing the crystals to be easily replaced in the event of crystal burnout or other damage. The chamber can only be accessed when the warp engines are deactivated.
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Located just aft of main engineering and separated from it by a metal grille is the intermix chamber. This multi-deck complex provides operational power for the warp field nacelles and furnishes enough additional energy to power all other shipboard systems. Both matter and antimatter for the chamber are contained in a series of magnetic bottles, which are housed in pods on Deck 20 at the bottom of the Secondary Hull. These pods may be ejected from the ship in case of extreme emergency via blow-away panels in the outer hull.
The chamber extends one hundred forty-five feet aftward, at which point it feeds into the nacelle pylons port and starboard.
Beyond are load-bearing structures (which support the immense mass of the nacelles and pylons) and a narrow corridor which leads to the aft end of the deck.
At the aft end of Deck 15, a double sliding door opens onto the Hangar Bay Control Room. This area features five large windows which look out into space beyond the stern of the ship. The vessel's landing bay doors are controlled from this point, as are the landing tractor beams. Three additional viewports afford an upward view of the ship's nacelles, and a floor-level row of windows gives an unobstructed view of the entire Hangar Deck floor.
