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fushigidane2001
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PostThu Jun 12, 2003 4:51 am    How the Photon Torpedoes work?

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PostThu Jun 12, 2003 9:52 am    

They work by combining an equal amount of matter and anti-matter suspended in pellets. A maximum yeald is 1.5kg of each matter, and anti-matter. Upon impact, the matter and anti-matter combine to form an explosion.

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PostThu Jun 12, 2003 1:46 pm    

Yeah, pretty much.

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PostMon Jun 16, 2003 10:08 pm    

agreed.

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PostThu Jun 19, 2003 9:07 pm    

thats true but they have evolved over the years in TOS it was mainly a defensive weapon with a limited range and was usually only fired at warp

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PostWed Jun 25, 2003 5:20 am    yep

with photons that soudns right, quantums are slightly diferent in that they use subpartical colisons to do damage (quantum=smaller then atom) I think they also have sume antimatter, just to be cool

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