Tech: Nova Bomb

Nova Bomb
Prerequisites: Pending
Research Cost: Pending
Description
The Nova Bomb is less a bomb than a slow moving missile.
A Nova Bomb is a very powerful weapon that makes a sun go supernova, and in the resulting nova the sun and any planets orbiting it are destroyed. The weapon itself is about the size of a 55 gallon drum, and is mounted on a missile in place of a traditional explosive payload. They are almost never actually in missile tubes until right befor they are launched, in case of any technical malfunction that would cause the nova bombs to arm or launch.
A nova bomb doesn't destroy a sun by "blowing it up" in the traditional sense. What occurs is that the warhead is more or less an anti-gravity device. It destroys the bonds of gravity that tightly pack the hydrogen of a star together. A sun's gravity exerts a tremendous amount of pressure on its molecules. Once the Nova Bomb removes those bonds, the hydrogen disperses in all directions, exploding and destroying everything in its path.
Immense amount of Nova Bombs can be used on a black hole. The collective field destroys the gravity well of the black hole, creating a White Hole, which is essentially a miniature big bang, which, like the big bang, takes a singularity of almost infinite density and scatters it. However, once the effects of the Nova wear off, gravity reasserts itself, and all the matter released in the white hole starts compressing back together. This might work, theoretically, on a star large enough, but there isn't nearly enough matter or gravity for a star to reform, making its destruction almost absolute.
The main ingredient in nova bombs is the artificial element Voltarium.
Game Notes
Allows Nova Bomb Payload Starship Component to be added to Starship Designs.
Category:Technology
Category:Weapon Technology
Category:Starship Weapon Technology
Category:Super Weapon Technology
Category:Gravitic Weapon Technology