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+ | 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 before they are launched, in case of any technical malfunction that would cause the nova bombs to arm or launch. The average [[Glorious Heritage class]] [[High Guard]] ship carried a compliment of 40 nova bombs, and they have never been fired as part of a conflict, and were not even used in combat prior to the Nietzchean Uprising. |
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The 4 tiered control system used to deliver a Nova Bomb as payload
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 before they are launched, in case of any technical malfunction that would cause the nova bombs to arm or launch. The average Glorious Heritage class High Guard ship carried a compliment of 40 nova bombs, and they have never been fired as part of a conflict, and were not even used in combat prior to the Nietzchean Uprising.
Science
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.
Political Usage
Nova bombs provided a huge political advantage for the Systems Commonwealth, because they had the unspoken threat of a weapon that could obliterate a solar system behind any negotiation. They were also carried on board most Commonwealth capital ships because in any conflict they could be used to help bring 2 aggrieved parties to the negotiating table and keep the peace. Nova weapons were never actually ordered to be used in times of war or any other conflict, and had never been fired as an act of aggression. In fact, their first use outside of military proving tests was over 300 years after the Systems Commonwealth collapsed by Captain Dylan Hunt, in order to escape a Black Hole. Later, a group of young refugees aboard Guard Station GS-92196 used nova bombs aboard a Commonwealth slipfighter to destroy the sun of the Dyhedra system and attempted to repeat the feat in 22 other systems before being disrupted. Captain Hunt later used one to combat the Magog World ship, taking out its artificial sun and knocking it out of action until the sun was rebuilt.