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10831230 No.10831230 [Reply] [Original]

>it's the star trek universe
>you have a dilithium crystal
>amazing source of energy that could power an entire fleet of autonomous construction craft to render a hundred asteroids into materials and built an earth-sized habitat and have enough energy left over to sustainably power it at optimum population for thousands of years
>instead you're going to sell it to jimmy bob for 150 credits and he's gonna put it in the fuel tank of his beat up star-suv that's capable of seating seven people but usually only one and he's gonna drive it six or seven hundred light years to the nearest sonic burger to pick up his lunch for today

>> No.10831323

>>10831230
Dilithium crystal wasn't a power source bro.
It's used to regulate the matter/antimatter reaction in the warp core.