Antimatter Weaponry

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Antimatter Weaponry
Military Science
researchResearch Cost: 35000
Summary
Harnessing the explosive matter-antimatter reaction will allow us to create devastating missile weapons.
Description
Within a spaceship, the gamma rays generated by antimatter reactions are wildly undesirable. Within a weapon, it is the opposite - the violent explosion caused by matter/antimatter collision will damage armor, while the radiation will further harm any life form within it. As always with antimatter, however, the thorniest problem to solve is ensuring it only mixes with corresponding matter when we want it to - the destruction from an antimatter bomb or torpedo inadvertently detonated while in a ship's ammunition stores would be catastrophic. It is precisely this destructive potential we wish to harness - even without the gamma side-effects - as the self-annihilation caused by matter/antimatter reactions is such that mixing a mere half-gram of each releases 40 percent more energy than did the first atomic bomb. Of course, we will be using far more than half a gram for our forthcoming weapons: By suspending hydrogen and antihydrogen particles within an empty vacuum, constrained by a magnetic bottle, our scientists believe the risks are sufficiently mitigated to permit the production of antimatter-based explosives. This will herald a new era of cosmic warfare.
Full List of Prerequisites.
Name Type Cost
Advanced Superconductors Material Science 3500
Advanced Carbon Manipulation Material Science 1000
Superalloys Material Science 5000
Advanced Hydrogen Containment Material Science 20000
Advanced Atomic Manipulation Material Science 10000
Militarization of Space Military Science 5000
Magnetic Force Manipulation Energy 2500
Advanced Electromagnetism Energy 1000
Principles of Space Warfare Military Science 1000
Orbital Shipbuilding Material Science 1000
Mission To Space Space Science 250
Superconducting Magnets Material Science 10000
Photonic Computing Information Science 1500
Antimatter Containment Energy 10000
Total researchResearch Cost (including itself)
Energy 13500 Information Science 1500
Life Science 0 Material Science 50500
Military Science 41000 Social Science 0
Space Science 250 Total 106750
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs Projects
(20%)Antimatter Torpedoes • (100%)Antimatter Particle Cannon
Quote
"One dollar. That's what Paul Tibbets' mother paid for him to look inside an airplane at a local fair. Decades later, he flew the plane that killed 70,000 in Hiroshima. He named it Enola Gay, after his mother. All because of that one dollar."
Commissioner Kiran Banerjee, The Protectorate
From his second book, "Blood Money."
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