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THERMAL DETONATOR



Thermal Detonator - 300 ICs
It was made to be thrown or dropped by a vehicle. It would then stick to any vehicle until it exploded. The style and purpose of thermal detonators varied widely, and despite the legal restrictions of many governments, were in widespread use across the galaxy.

The name was descriptive of the process by which the device explodes. Inside the shell, which was generally made of thermite or axidite, was a sample of baradium, a highly volatile substance. A trigger emitted a short burst of fusion energy that forced the baradium into a state of fusion reaction. The result was an expanding particle field that could atomize any material that did not conduct heat or thermal energy within the fixed blast radius—typically five meters, though some had an even greater radius. Uniquely, a thermal detonator's blast would only go as far as its blast radius. After that, the blast field would collapse, and anything even slightly beyond the blast radius would be left unharmed.