Flare bomb
Names: Flare bombcorona-rupture machinecorona-rupture devicecorona-rupture weapon
First appears in Book 2: Judas Unchained, chapter 12 (Chapter 12)
Appearances
B1
B2
What you know
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 12A Prime device fired into a star's corona that disrupts magnetic flux lines to produce a huge, long-lasting particle radiation flare that sterilizes nearby planets.
- Ch 12The Prime device reaches 100-gee acceleration, has a powerful purpose-built force field, and turns into a quantum energy nexus with rotating wings thousands of kilometers wide.
- Ch 12Flare bombs sent into stars create lethal radiation; quantumbusters used to destroy them still quadruple a star's radiation emission.
- Ch 13The Prime flare bomb works by altering the properties of surrounding mass, similar in principle to the quantumbuster; it can make Dark Fortress components fail and drop the barrier.
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 12Prime flare bomb strikes Hanko's star
Dublin observes a Prime device plunge into the corona and become a flare bomb; Seattle Project scientists identify it, warning the biosphere of Hanko is threatened.