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Raw material, I would imagine. I don’t remember exactly how replicators work in the Star Trek universe, but they either rely on energy, a raw base material, or both. You can’t create something out of nothing so you would need a significant supply chain to produce your fleet.

If it were that easy, every rogue organization in the galaxy would have already done it before you.

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ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Yep, raw material and a net energy loss.

The Federation might have both in abundance, but I highly doubt that much energy consumption is allowed.

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- SatyrSack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  
  a net energy loss
  
  Like… some energy just gets destroyed in the process? How does that work?
  
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  - ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    It gets converted into another form, as in the operation of any machine. I’m not arguing that it’s destroyed.
    
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  - Darohan@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    The Laws of Thermodynamics say you will always lose some energy to heat when energy is used to affect a change. I have to imagine this would be particularly so when energy is converted to matter since that’s very involved, but I’m not a physicist so I can’t confirm that.
    
    Come to think of it, this means that industrial replication plants and shipyards would likely be incredibly hot places, due to the inevitable loss to heat in replicating massive components.
    
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    Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    i’m sure the federation has good heat pumps and such
    
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AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
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- Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  OK cool, now if only you had a ship to go get the asteroid so you could make a ship. My last point still stands though, if it were really that easy…
  
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  - AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
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    JWBananas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    He also launched it from a space station.
    
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AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
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- Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Of course you could. The process will take more energy than replicating a drained battery too.
  
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- wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  That would violate the laws of thermodynamics, you can’t create more energy in a closed system.
  
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