Heptadetonite

Used by the Britannia to fire its duodec bomb at a Boskonian warship in 'Galactic Patrol', heptadetonite is the equivalent of gunpowder in an old-fashioned cannon - it provides the force necessary to hurl the explosives out of the cannon and into the enemy ship. Whilst this may seem low-tech, an inertialess field would greatly improve the speed of the projectile, the heptadetonite would be easy-to-store, low-tech and require less power to use than say a railgun (which aside from requiring a lot more power and thus draining other weapon systems, could also suffer from feedback problems, as real railguns do).

Record 1187 - technology - Last update 28 Mar 2007, 23:10:25

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