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The one at the end of the last episode? That is the first Aldnoah reactor the terrans officially got.

An Aldnoah generator basically has 2 components:

1) The Aldnoah Drive itself. That is the shining crystal ball. To activate, someone with the activation factor needs to touch it to power it up.

2) A number of round shaped devices arranged near the crystal ball which start shining when the Aldnoah Drive powers up. Not sure about their purpose, but it seems like they need to be somewhat near the Aldnoah drive. Perhaps they "harvest" the light from the Aldnoah drive, who knows.

On the terran Aldnoah reactor, these are placed in the donut-shaped device behind the Aldnoah Drive.

Landing castles have them arranged on the walls of the huge cylindirical room that contains the Aldnoah Drive.

The Deucalion has them on the floor below its Aldnoah Drive (when it is retracted)