Yamato's auxilliary engines fire up
The Battleship-type Cosmo Turbine Kai is a type of Earthling auxilliary engine. Eight turbines are equipped aboard the EFCN battleship Yamato, grouped into two shafts.[1][2] The Battleship-type Cosmo Turbine Kai is a nuclear fusion engine, similar to those equipped on pre-wave-motion technology Terran vessels. It's activated thanks to the energy provided by the ship's other auxilliary machine, the Type 74 Propulsion Engine. Since a considerable amount of antimatter is required to start Yamato's wave-motion engine, the second auxiliary engine is used to start the antimatter generator, however, the Battleship-type Cosmo Turbine Kai itself consume large amounts of fuel, so it's usually shut down when not in use.[3]
The engine type would not be used by new ships commissioned as part of the Wave-Motion fleet plan, instead being replaced by the Kelvin Impulse Engine, which would be mounted on the Andromeda and Dreadnought class of ships.
References[]
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 1: Distant Journey theater pamphlet, p. 12
- ↑ Yamato 2205 mecha data
- ↑ Tokugawa's manual from "Escape from the Jupiter Sphere", seen in full on the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Complete Works Vol.3 p. 074
Japanese language information[]
艦本式コスモタービン改 Kanpon-shiki kosumotābin aratame