"...some form of conductive fibres, almost like veins, that are meshed throughout the reactor's capacitor routing systems. These fibres energise the entire assembly when the reactor shunts are connected, granting a Sleeper reactor perhaps one-half to three-quarters again more power output than anything the Empires could produce. This extra power comes at the risk of catastrophic residual discharge, however, as evidenced by the regretable injury of Dr Phaedra and the deaths of two of her research staff during activation trial Theta..."

-Extract from Instar Heavy Industries Incident Report 003.YC115