NUMBER : 3
LOCATION : 1 FORE, 2 AFT (PORT & STARBOARD)
WEAPONS : CONTAINS PHOTON, QUANTUM, AND FLUX TORPEDOES.
PHOTON TORPEDOES
NUMBER : CLASSIFIED
SIZE : 2.1 BY 0.76 BY 0.45 METERS
RANGE : 4,050,000 KILOMETERS
OUTPUT : 18.5 ISOTONS
DESCRIPTION : PHOTON TORPEDOES ARE SELF-PROPELLED MISSILES CONTAINING A SMALL QUANTITY OF MATTER AND ANTIMATTER BOUND TOGETHER IN A MAGNETIC BOTTLE, LAUNCHED AT WARP SPEED AT A TARGET.
QUANTUM TORPEDOES
NUMBER : CLASSIFIED
SIZE : REACTION CHAMBER SIZE IS 0.76 METERS DIAMETER, 1.38 METERS LENGTH, AND 2.3 CENTIMETERS AVERAGE THICKNESS
RANGE : CLASSIFIED
OUTPUT : ~ 50 ISOTONS (CALCULATIONS ESTIMATE 52.3 ISOTONS)
DESCRIPTION :
ADVANCES IN RAPID ENERGY EXTRACTION FROM THE SPACE-TIME
DOMAIN KNOWN AS THE ZERO-POINT VACUUM EVENTUALLY
LED THE STARFLEET R&D FACILITY ON GROOMBRIDGE 273-2A TO TEST A PROTOTYPE
CONTINUUM-TWIST DEVICE WITH A CALCULATED POTENTIAL
OF 52.3 ISOTONS. ZERO-POINT
ENERGY GENERATION BEGAN WITH A NEGATIVE
ENERGY BALANCE, REQUIRING A GREATER INPUT
OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE EPS PLASMA TO INITIATE
THE REACTION THAN WHAT WAS ACTUALLY
PRODUCED BY THE ZERO-POINT FIELD DEVICE. THE BASIC MECHANISM,
FIRST OPERATED EXPERIMENTALLY IN 2236, INVOLVED THE FORMATION
OF AN 11-DIMENSIONAL SPACE-TIME MEMBRANE.
A COUSIN OF THE SUPERSTRING, THE MEMBRANE WAS TWISTED INTO A STRING WITH
A TOPOLOGY OF GENUS 1 AND PINCHED OFF FROM THE BACKGROUND VACUUM, CALLING
INTO EXISTENCE A NEW PARTICLE. THE PROCESS OF CREATING
LARGE NUMBERS OF NEW SUBATOMIC PARTICLES LIBERATED
CORRESPONDINGLY LARGE AMOUNTS OF ENERGY. CALCULATIONS
QUICKLY SHOWED THAT A RELATIVELY SMALL VOLUME OF ULTRA
CLEAN VACUUM CARRIED ABOARD A TORPEDO WARHEAD COULD PLACE
A HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE ENERGY RELEASE ON A TARGET. THE TESTING OF THE
PROTOTYPE ZERO-POINT WARHEAD OCCURRED ON GROOMBRIDGE
273-2A, AN
UNINHABITED GAS-GIANT
MOON, IN 2355, FOLLOWING SIX YEARS OF THEORETICAL
RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT. VARIOUS TYPES
OF EM EMITTERS WERE SUCCESSFUL AT PRODUCING ENERGY BURSTS,
AND ONE WAS CHOSEN FOR A DETONATION TEST 285 KILOMETERS BENEATH
THE SURFACE. THE TEST WAS SUCCESSFUL.
THE HEART OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS THE ZERO-POINT FIELD REACTION
CHAMBER, A TEARDROP-SHAPED ENCLOSURE FABRICATED FROM A SINGLE CRYSTAL
OF DIRECTIONALLY STRENGTHENED RODINIUM-DITELLENITE. THE
ASSEMBLY I S PENETRATED BY A SINGLE OPENING IN THE
TAPERED END, CUT BY A NANOMETER PHASER IN AN INERT ATMOSPHERE
OF ARGON AND NEON. TWO JACKETING LAYERS, ONE OF SYNTHETIC NEUTRONIUM AND
ANOTHER OF DILITHIUM, CONTROL THE UPPER AND LOWER EXTREMES
OF THE ENERGY FIELD CONTOURS. ATTACHED TO THE
TAPER OPENING IS A ZERO-POINT INITIATOR CONSISTING
OF AN EM RECTIFIER, WAVEGUIDE BUNDLE, SUBSPACE FIELD AMPLIFIER, AND CONTINUUM
DISTORTION EMITTER. THE EMITTER CREATES THE ACTUAL PINCH FIELD FROM
A CONICAL SPIKE 10E-16 METERS ACROSS AT THE TIP. T HE ZERO-POINT INITIATOR
IS POWERED BY THE DETONATION OF AN UPRATED PHOTON TORPEDO WARHEAD
WITH A YIELD OF 21.8 ISOTONS , ACHIEVED THROUGH INCREASED MATTER-ANTIMATTER
SURFACE AREA CONTACT AND INTRODUCTION OF FLUORONETIC VAPOR. THE M/A
REACTION OCCURS AT FOUR TIMES THE RATE
OF A STANDARD WARHEAD. THE DETONATION ENERGY IS CHANNELED
THROUGH THE INITIATOR WITHIN 10E-7 SECONDS AND ENERGIZES THE EMITTER, WHIC
H IMPARTS A TENSION FORCE UPON THE VACUUM
DOMAIN. AS THE VACUUM MEMBRANE EXPANDS, OVER A PERIOD OF 10E-4 SECONDS,
AN ENERGY POTENTIAL EQUIVALENT TO AT LEAST 50
ISOTONS IS CREATED. THIS ENERGY IS HELD BY THE CHAMBER FOR 10E-8 SECONDS
AND IS THEN RELEASED BY THE CONTROLLED FAILURE OF THE CHAMBER WALL.
TRI-COBALT DEVICE
NUMBER : CLASSIFIED
SIZ E : CLASSIFIED
RANGE : CLASSIFIED
OUTPUT : CLASSIFIED
DESCRIPTION : THE DESIGN
OF THE TRI-COBALT DEVICE IS HIGHLY UNIQUE IN THE ALPHA QUADRANT. IT USES
A THREE TEAR WARHEAD. ONE COMPARTMENT IS LOADED WITH ANTIMATTER, ONE WITH
AROUND 200 QUANTUM FILAMENTS AND AN APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF TRI-COBALT.
UPON IMPACT THERE IS A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT HAPPEN INSIDE THE WARHEAD.
FIRST, THE QUANTUM FILAMENTS ARE RELEASED INTO THE TRI-COBALT
CHAMBER CREATING A CASCADE REACTION, MIXING THE TRI-COBALT
INTO A HIGHLY VOLATILE MIXTURE. A MILLISECOND LATER THE MAGNETIC
CONTAINMENT FIELD AROUND THE ANTIMATTER IS
RELEASED AND THE ACTIVE
TRI-COBALT AND ANTIHYDROGEN
MIX TOGETHER CREATING A LETHAL EXPLOSION. THE WEAPON IS CAPABLE
OF DISABLING STARSHIPS WITH ONE BLOW, AS STARFLEET UNFORTUNATELY
FOUND OUT. INITIAL TESTING OF THE WEAPON TOOK PLACE JUST BEFORE WOLF
359. DESIGNERS WERE PANICKED AND RUSHING THE PROJECT THROUGH UNDER
STARFLEET'S HASTY GAZE. USS KEEL, AN EXCELSIOR CLASS
SHIP WAS THE TEST VESSEL. THE FIRST FEW BARRAGES IN THE ASTEROID FIELD
IN THE TERRAN SYSTEM PROVED TO BE
MASSIVELY SUCCESSFUL.HOWEVER, IN THE FINAL DAY OF TESTING AN ACCIDENT OCCURRED.ONE
OF THE DEVICES LODGED ITSELF IN ITS LAUNCHING TUBE AND THE WARHEAD WENT
CRITICAL. THE RESULTANT EXPLOSION TORE THE SAUCER SECTION FROM THE KEEL
AND MINUTES LATER THE WARP CORE IN THE DRIVE SECTION WENT CRITICAL.
A TOTAL OF 40 LIVES WERE LOST IN THE ACCIDENT AND ONLY WEEKS
LATER WOLF 359 OCCURRED.
DESIGNERS EVENTUALLY FIGURED OUT WHAT HAD GONE WRONG. THE TRI-COBALT
DEVICE WAS IN THEORY MUCH HEAVIER THAN A STANDARD PHOTON TORPEDO,
AND ALTHOUGH THE DESIGNERS HAD TAKEN THIS INTO ACCOUNT
WHEN MODIFYING THE LAUNCHING TUBES ON THE KEEL, THEY HAD NOT
BEEN SUFFICIENT. AFTER THE DISASTER AT WOLF 359,
STARFLEET WAS STILL INTERESTED IN USING THE TRI-COBALT
DEVICE ON STARSHIPS. QUANTUM TORPEDOES WERE NOW IN DEVELOPMENT; HOWEVER,
THE SHEER DESTRUCTIVE CAPABILITY OF THE WEAPON WAS SEEN AS A POSSIBLE DEFENSE
AGAINST THE BORG, WHOSE VESSELS WERE VERY LARGE TARGETS. THE
DESIGNERS TOOK THE LAUNCHING SYSTEM BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
AND EVENTUALLY CAME UP WITH A HIGHLY SAFE SYSTEM. FROM THAT
POINT ON STARFLEET ORDERED ALL NEW SHIPS
TO BE FITTED WITH THIS KIND OF LAUNCHING SYSTEM AND A STEADY RETROFITTING
OF THE DEFENSIVE CAPABILITIES OF THE OTHER
SHIPS IN THE FLEET. THE STANDARD SHIP COMPLIMENT
IS FOR FOUR TRI-COBALT DEVICES. ANY MORE WOULD POSE GREAT
DANGER TO THE SHIP. IN ADDITION, SHIPS ON DIPLOMATIC OR INTERNAL
MISSIONS HAVE THE WARHEADS REMOVED FOR SAFETY REASONS.
FLUX TORPEDOES
NUMBER : CLASSIFIED
SIZ E : CLASSIFIED
RANGE : CLASSIFIED
OUTPUT : CLASSIFIED
A NEW ADVANCE IN TORPEDO DESIGN, THE HIGH YIELD FLUX TORPEDO UTILIZES A UNIQUE DISCREPANCY IN WARP BUBBLE THEOREM. AS THE TORPEDO APPROACHES THE TARGET, SPECIAL SENSORS REGISTER THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TARGET AND ITSELF. WHEN THE DISTANCE IS LESS THAN 500 METERS, A SMALL WARP GENERATOR ONBOARD THE TORPEDO IS ACTIVATED, CREATING A WARP BUBBLE AROUND THE TORPEDO OF 5 METERS RADIUS. AS THE FIELD IS FORMED, THE ANTI-MATTER INTERLOCKS IN THE EXPLOSIVE SECTION OF THE CASING ARE RELEASED, ALLOWING THE ANTI-MATTER AND MATTER REACTANTS TO MIX, DETONATING THE TORPEDO ON IMPACT. BEFORE THE TORPEDO DETONATES HOWEVER, THE WARP GENERATOR BEGINS TO ALTER THE WARP BUBBLE RADICALLY, CAUSING THE BUBBLE TO 'FLUX' - EXPANDING AND CONTRACTING RAPIDLY BEFORE IMPACT. AS THE TORPEDO DETONATES FROM THE MIXED ANTI-MATTER AND MATTER REACTION, THE RESULTANT SHOCK WAVE OF FORCE IS AMPLIFIED BY RESONATING WITH THE FLUXED WARP BUBBLE TO CREATE A MORE EXPLOSIVE FORCE THAN THE USUAL PHOTON TORPEDOES. THE FORCE GENERATED IS 0.06 X10 TIMES GREATER THAN THE STANDARD PHOTON TORPEDO DETONATION, BUT REQUIRES ONLY A SLIGHT MODIFICATION OF THE INTERNAL CASING.
PULSE PHASER CANNON
NUMBER : 4
LOCATION : 2 ABOVE AND 2 BELOW THE NACELLE ROOT ATTACHMENTS TO THE MAIN BODY
DESCRIPTION : THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PULSE PHASER ANNON APPLIES A NUMBER OF LESSONS LEARNED AT THE STARFLEET TOKYO R&D FACILITY, WHERE LARGE, NEARLY FLAWLESS EMITTER CRYSTALS HAD BEEN GROWN IN GROUND-BASED MICRO GRAVITY CHAMBERS. THE NEW CRYSTALS, COMBINED WITH RAPID-DISCHARGE EPS CAPACITANCE BANKS AND HIGH-SPEED BEAM-FOCUSING COILS, ALLOWED THE PHASER DISCHARGE TO BE STORED TEMPORARILY (UP TO 2.3 NANOSECONDS) WITHIN THE COILS AND THEN RELEASED AS A LAYERED PULSE. THE EMERGING PULSE IS STRUCTURED SOMETHING LIKE AN ONION AND IS ABLE TO LAND A TARGET CONTACT THAT IS MORE DIFFICULT TO DISPERSE THAN A STANDARD PHASER BEAM.
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