Kinetic Grenade

[D' Orrin]

Intent:: To make a weapon distinctly tied to the Protectorate, and better equip the members with gear.

Development Thread:: N/A
Manufacturer:: Omega Protectorate
Model:: Kinetic Grenade
Affiliation:: Omega Protectorate
Modularity:: No
Production:: Minor- Omega Protectorate specific
Material:: Plasteel

Description:: Kinetic Grenades- Actually not true to the name, the device works more off of quantum physics. If anybody's familiar with matter- anti-matter then you'd get the basis behind it. Photons are their own anit-matter. The grenade has two chambers seperated by a middle section. When activated the top and bottom chambers, which hold photon energy, are forced to collide via electro magnetic direction inside each holding chamber and the middle section. The result is something akin to a thermal detonator.

Classification:: Grenade
Size:: Handheld
Status:: Military
Weight:: 5lbs
Range:: 8 Meter Blast Range

 

[Jorus Merrill]

@D' Orrin - Hey bro, just wanted to drop in as a faction member before I have to take a look at this as a tech judge. You've done some research on this, but a bit more research would have shown you that there are a couple of issues with the concept. Number one, even though photons are technically their own antiparticle, that's a technicality, and photons don't react with photons in that way -- or all you'd have to do to cause an antimatter explosion would be to shine a flashlight at a lightbulb. Photons (and "anti-photons") obey Bose-Einstein statistics, and can occupy the same region of space without issue.
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=529507

Your best bet is to cut it to a simple antimatter explosion using a magnetically contained microparticle of antimatter, very very small. Even one gram of antimatter would make an explosion three times the size of Hiroshima. Here's one canon example - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-matter_micromine

Remember, a thermal detonator eradicates everything within a certain blast radius and leaves everything else untouched. An antimatter explosion would be more like a normal explosion, with a goodly dose of gamma radiation.
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=470392

 

[D' Orrin]

Actually, I did a good dose of research, but I've been on other forums. A lot of people don't understand quantum physics like that, and more often than not, go off of media tech. So ya kinda have to dumb down your explanations. Hoping you understand on that one. I was just using photons as a point. And I kinda messed with the size/ amount of the photons in use as opposed to the yield potential output because I didn't want the weapon to seem overly powerful. Like you use one, and you destroy an entire continent.

 

[Jorus Merrill]

@D' Orrin - Don't ever worry about dumbing down explanations for the factory; just be sure to put a TL;DR at the end of it for the average reader.