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Aeon Bomb

If the trans-dimensional energy entering the lattice - the sieve - isn't removed quickly enough, the photons will soak up the energy, acting like capacitors. Once the charge is high enough, the gauge-bosons making the lattice will greedily steal it, growing denser and denser, shrinking rapidly as they attract one another.

Eventually comes a point where the lattice can become no denser, known as degenerancy - at which it overlaps, with pairs of bosons acting bizzarely like single particles.

If further compression is attempted, the lattice will snap back like a rubber band, expanding massively. As the amplitude expands, the volume of energy pulled through will grow exponentially.

Clever computer control can hold an expanding lattice, feeding its energy into an empty one like the ventricles of a beating heart - essentially playing a game of hot-potato. When the game stops, the lattice expands uncontrollably.

During this rapid expansion, trans-dimensional energy pours through the lattice with massive pressure, destroying it in a massive explosion that distorts the shape of space itself.

That is the 'Aeon bomb', the first true aeonic weapon, commonly used on starships (for example, the AS-7, used by XXXXX vessels). Aeon grenades do exist but are quite rare and not at all practical.

A practical example of an Aeon Bomb would be the Aeon-Flechette, a guided faster-than-light aeonic warhead using a fieldic system to propel itself. Despite its small size, it maintains a respectable yield.

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