Object
Core Processor 451
A rack‑integrated engine control processor module — compact, metallic, and densely pinned — that sits in the Enterprise‑C's propulsion control array. In the current scene multiple modules of this class report offline: indicators dark, diagnostic traces flat, and engineering flags register possible accelerator‑coil trauma. La Forge calls the outage from the bridge while officers tense and marshal emergency triage.
3 appearances
Purpose
To process, monitor, and regulate control signals and status for the ship's engine and impulse subsystems, enabling coordinated thrust, coil management, and diagnostic telemetry.
Significance
The processors' failure converts abstract system warnings into an urgent tactical problem: failing impulse systems and suspected accelerator coil damage raise immediate danger, shape the crew's triage decisions, and sharpen the moral cost of any command choice by linking technical collapse to human loss on the battered bridge.
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