Hyperpulse Bomb
Sarna News
The Hyperpulse bomb was a conceptual Word of Blake superweapon conceived in 3070, during the Jihad.[1]
Preliminary investigation and research into the hyperpulse bomb was conducted by O'Neill Shipyards in response to a Word of Blake request for proposal. The Word of Blake Militia saw potential in the concept as a new anti-shipping weapon, light and compact enough to be carried as a fighter or missile payload, yet capable of inflicting great damage on spacefaring vessels such as WarShips. These weapons merely use the hyperpulse effect to generate its damaging properties, without the use of a large and expensive Kearny-Fuchida drive to focus it.
O'Neill Shipyards quickly found that while a hyperpulse bomb may generate a strong hyperspace disturbance, capable of scrambling shipborne sensors and even delicate terrestrial electronics systems, the chance of such a weapon inflicting enough physical damage to seriously harm personnel or damage equipment was very small. Any chance of serious hypothetical damage effects would indeed require a Kearny-Fuchida drive.
After follow-up research on Terra confirmed these findings, the Word of Blake canceled the hyperspace bomb project in 3072. Findings regarding the use of Kearny-Fuchida drives in anti-shipping weapons would lead to the K-F torpedo project.[1]