ralgith Blighted Sun Battalion 1st Company "Ralgith's Renegades" Colonel
Joined: 18-Aug-2003 00:00 Posts: 2021 Location: United States
Posted: 13-Apr-2007 19:03 Post subject: Nebula Combat
Awhile back we had a discussion regarding combat in nebulas, and any special effects that might result, including the nebula going BOOM. Well, I've looked into this... and the hydrogen is too dispersed to cause a reaction. However, using a ramscoop to aquire a lot of hydrogen atoms, then flushing them in a pool behind you, and then firing anti-protons into this pool will cause a several hundred megaton nuclear fusion bomb in space
Of course this is stolen and altered from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
wrote:
AP-Catalyzed Fusion
This is a nice trick I found in a dusty old research paper. You basically use the AG fields to condense the free hydrogen atoms in a nebula behind you as you travel, then sprinkle in some antiprotons to induce a great big fusion reaction. Result: a zillion megaton hydrogen bomb.
For over a thousand years, this was basically a solution in search of a problem -- until I realized its potential for lighting up the Witchhead Nebula and changing history - or was that preserving history? Who knows. Time travel makes my head hurt. (see: my log entry for 5.7.10087)
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