WEAPONS LOCKER - LOWER
PERSONAL PHASERS

	The primary defensive arms carried by Starfleet crew members are 
two types of small phasers, Type I and Type II. Both are high-energy devices 
sized for personal use and can be stowed in or attached to oneÕs uniform. As 
with the larger ship-mounted arrays, the Type I and II phasers convert stored 
energy into tightly controllable beams for a variety of applications.   Phasers 
operate on a modified version of the rapid nadion effect (see index topic 
listing for 'PHASERS - Bridge' ). Rapid nadions produce a pulsed protonic 
charge in the heart of the device, a stabilized LiCu 521 superconducting 
crystal (lattice formula Li<>Cu><Si::Fe<:>O). LiCu 521 is an advanced version 
of the 518 crystal mass-produced for the shipÕs Type X Main Phaser and 
exhibits a 3% improvement in thermodynamic efficiency at 92.65%.  Æ