That is plain illogical and idiotic. Those are our final words on the matter.

Stripping away one integral component will fracture the rest of it.

This "knowledge core" is something we've never heard of from anyone other than you. The knowledge database of the Asgard is how everything in the core works the way it does.

By the way, the matter converter is basically using the Asgard beaming to assemble stuff from raw energy. We suppose that, since you've slowed that down, you'll also be slowing down the beaming, seeing as its the same emitter tech?

The Asgard core is an "all-or-nothing" object and will remain so until they've managed study it for a long time. Figuring out everything about it would take a lifetime at minimum. You saw that in "Unending". While you'll have to install it all, you do not have to make it all available to whomever. Restricting access to stuff is a military favorite. You know that as well as us.

We're all for having nobody or nearly nobody on the ship able to access the database of Asgard knowledge. That makes sense security-wise. Removing it from the ship will cripple the core, if it is even possible without using decades or even centuries of time to figure out what is safe to remove and what isn't.

Following the situation in Ark of Truth, we'd guess that access to the higher Asgard systems will be even more restricted. That would be both matter converter and database. Probably other things as well.