Nuclear Charges
Intro
On a few occasions, the
Alphans
use or attempt to use nuclear charges.
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Examples
- "Collision Course" (Y1):
Use separate charges, in small capsules,
to blow up an asteroid that may
collide with the Moon.
- "Collision Course" (again):
Attempt to change the course of the
Moon by detonating charges,
again contained in capsules,
between the Moon and Astheria.
- "Space Brain":
An Eagle is loaded with a series of roughly-cubical charges,
in an attempt to destroy (or weaken?) the Space Brain.
This Eagle is recalled when the nature of the Space Brain
and its attempts to communicate are realized.
The charges were to be redistributed on the Moon's
equator in an attempt to change the Moon's course.
The Eagle malfunctions and is badly damaged or destroyed,
and the charges are destroyed and cannot be used for the
second effort.
- "The Metamorph":
During a communication from
Psychon,
allowed by
Mentor to deceive the Alphans,
John Koenig manages to slip
Tony Verdeschi a coded signal,
Directive Four,
to destroy the point of origin, in this case Psychon.
An Eagle is packed with nuclear charges and sent towards Psychon,
but Mentor and
Maya detect the deception,
and the former destroys the Eagle short of Psychon,
before the charges can detonate.