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==FS2 Tech Description==
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The '''TC-Meson Bomb''' is a special cargo container used only for housing a single Meson Bomb. This container is specifically designed so that it can dock with and be moved from one location to another by the [[GTFr Triton|GTFr ''Triton'']].
  
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The Meson Bomb itself is an experimental weapon developed at the Hideki Institute in the [[Vega]] system.  A highly classified project, this weapon has an explosive yield greater than any other warhead in the Terran or Vasudan arsenals, though its size requires it to be carried into battle by freighter rather than bomber.  Its first combat deployment was to destroy the [[Knossos]] device in [[Gamma Draconis]], and it was later used to collapse the subspace nodes leading from [[Capella]] to [[Epsilon Pegasi]] and Vega.
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From a game implementation standpoint, this ship can be thought of as a cargo container with a custom model and a very powerful explosion.
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==Description==
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{{shipimage|image=[[Image:Tcmesonbomb-old.jpg]]|caption=The TC-Meson Bomb}}
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===FS2 Tech Room Description===
 
The TC-Meson Bomb is used solely as a container for Meson Bomb deployments. Each is custom built specifically to hold a Meson Bomb. The container is permanently sealed once the bomb is safely housed within it.
 
The TC-Meson Bomb is used solely as a container for Meson Bomb deployments. Each is custom built specifically to hold a Meson Bomb. The container is permanently sealed once the bomb is safely housed within it.
  
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==Comments==
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===Developer Notes===
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The canonical warhead yield in [[A Flaming Sword]] was customized using the Special Explosion feature and differs substantially from the yield in ships.tbl.  The tabled explosion causes 100x the damage but produces 1/30th the blast force.  The other explosion stats are similarly modified, though less dramatically.
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===Name Origin===
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meson Mesons] are incredibly small subatomic particles that are made of one quark and one antiquark.
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==Performance:==
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===Statistics===
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|name = TC-Meson Bomb
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|manufacturer =Hideki Institute
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|length = 372
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===Armaments===
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==Third-Party Campaigns==
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In the [[Cold Element]] continuity, meson technology was used to create the prototype GTVX Gorgon Cannon which made a brief but memorable appearance in [[Derelict]].  The prototype cannon is expected to reach its full potential in the [http://ce.hard-light.net/bwo/intel.php?type=ships&id=1 GTD Golgotha] the flagship beam destroyer in [[Blackwater Operations]].
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In the [[Blue Planet]] continuity, the Hideki Institute applied its meson technology research to create the [[Supernova (torpedo)|Supernova torpedo]].}}
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==Modding Resources==
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{{shipimage|image=[[Image:Tcmesonbomb.jpg|480px]]|caption=The TC-Meson Bomb in FS2_Open 3.6.10}}
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First WIP Post: ??? on ???<br>
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The '''Meson Bomb''' is an experimental demolition warhead developed at the Hideki Institute in [[Vega]]. First devised as a large-scale demolition bomb to destroy meteor and asteroid fields, it was first deployed to destroy the [[Knossos]] subspace portal in Gamma Draconis to prevent the Shivans from invading Capella. Up to 17 Meson Bombs have been produced so far; three were used to destroy the Knossos subspace portal in Gamma Draconis and 14 more were retrofitted in decommissioned destroyers, [[GTD Bastion|GTD ''Bastion'']] and [[GTD Nereid|GTD ''Nereid'']] to collapse the nodes to [[Vega]] and [[Epsilon Pegasi]] from [[Capella]]. Its use as a demolition warhead was first demonstrated at the destruction of the Knossos subspace portal, where thereafter Allied Command commissioned its use in the Capella contingency plan for trapping the Shivans in that system.
 
  
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Its name refers to the mesons, which are a group of elementary particles called hadrons. All hadron particles consist of quarks that are kept strongly together by another particle called a gluon, but the other hadron group, baryons, consist of three quarks whereas all mesons are combinations of a quark and an anti-quark kept together by gluon. Baryons include the bulk of ordinary matter, protons and neutrons, mesons are much more rare particles. Mesons can be born in certain energy-intensive interactions. For example, cosmic radiation that impacts the Earth atmosphere creates a stream of meson particles called pions.
 
  
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Mesons are in normal conditions very short-lived particles; they rapidly degenerate into gamma radiation by themselves. Physically most likely explanation for the destructive energy generated by the Meson Bomb is that somehow the Meson Bomb makes it possible to contain large amounts of mesonic matter intact, preventing its disintegration by some currently unknown physical phenomenon, or perhaps by slowing time inside the Meson Bomb container by advanced subspace interaction. When the detonation-preventer is then released, the mesonic mass inside the container rapidly turns into radiation, creating same effects as described before&mdash;a hot, expanding shockwave with loads of destructive power.
 
  
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A Meson Bomb's destructive energy could also be the result of some currently unknown reaction that can weaken the bonding gluon between the quark and anti-quark of a meson, releasing a cloud of quarks and anti-quarks in the mesonic matter. More than likely a great portion of quarks and anti-quarks then find each other and annihilate, creating a lot of radiation, which turns the surrounding matter into blazing hot, rapidly expanding cloud of plasma that has a lot of thermal and kinetic energy. This is the obvious shockwave of the explosion.
 
  
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However, current physics does not know of a phenomenon that could divide hadron particles into separate quarks; in fact, theoretically all attempts to separate gluon-bound quarks from each other just increase the force at which the gluon keeps the quarks together. This is called "asymptotic freedom". When the quarks have been sufficiently stretched apart, the energy density demanded to keep the quarks apart from eachg other reaches high enough level to actually transmute into matter; a new quark/anti-quark pair is born and so we now have two mesons instead of the original one. For this reason, no particle consisting of quarks is actually separable into quarks and gluons; any attempt to do so just creates more hadrons as a result of energy transmutating into matter.
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===Veteran Comments===
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The use of Meson Bomb as a tactical warhead is prohibited by its large size.
 
  
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The Hideki Institute was named after Hideki Yukawa, a leading Japanese theoretical physicist that won the Nobel Prize for his theory on meson.
 
  
 
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The TC-Meson Bomb is a special cargo container used only for housing a single Meson Bomb. This container is specifically designed so that it can dock with and be moved from one location to another by the GTFr Triton.

The Meson Bomb itself is an experimental weapon developed at the Hideki Institute in the Vega system. A highly classified project, this weapon has an explosive yield greater than any other warhead in the Terran or Vasudan arsenals, though its size requires it to be carried into battle by freighter rather than bomber. Its first combat deployment was to destroy the Knossos device in Gamma Draconis, and it was later used to collapse the subspace nodes leading from Capella to Epsilon Pegasi and Vega.

From a game implementation standpoint, this ship can be thought of as a cargo container with a custom model and a very powerful explosion.


Description

Tcmesonbomb-old.jpg
The TC-Meson Bomb


FS2 Tech Room Description

The TC-Meson Bomb is used solely as a container for Meson Bomb deployments. Each is custom built specifically to hold a Meson Bomb. The container is permanently sealed once the bomb is safely housed within it.

Developer Notes

The canonical warhead yield in A Flaming Sword was customized using the Special Explosion feature and differs substantially from the yield in ships.tbl. The tabled explosion causes 100x the damage but produces 1/30th the blast force. The other explosion stats are similarly modified, though less dramatically.

Name Origin

Mesons are incredibly small subatomic particles that are made of one quark and one antiquark.

Performance:

Statistics

Name TC-Meson Bomb
Manufacturer Hideki Institute
Hitpoints 400 pts
Length 372 m


Armaments

None


Third-Party Campaigns

The following information has not been confirmed by Volition and is therefore not canon for the FreeSpace universe.
In the Cold Element continuity, meson technology was used to create the prototype GTVX Gorgon Cannon which made a brief but memorable appearance in Derelict. The prototype cannon is expected to reach its full potential in the GTD Golgotha the flagship beam destroyer in Blackwater Operations.

In the Blue Planet continuity, the Hideki Institute applied its meson technology research to create the Supernova torpedo.


Modding Resources

Tcmesonbomb.jpg
The TC-Meson Bomb in FS2_Open 3.6.10


Retail:

$POF File: ???
Textures: ???

MediaVP 3.6.10:

$POF File: ???
Textures: ???


History
Proposed by: ??? on ???
First WIP Post: ??? on ???
First In-Game Model: ??? on ???
Completed In-Game Model: ??? on ???
Final Corrections: ??? on ???



Veteran Comments

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