Quantum torpedo

The quantum torpedo was a tactical plasma torpedo weapon deployed aboard starships. Quantum torpedoes were used by several galactic powers. The basic mechanism of the quantum torpedo was first operated experimentally in 2236. The first warhead application was tested in 2355, afterwards the mass fabrication started.

Specifications

Quantum torpedoes are armed with plasma warheads.

Even a direct hit from a quantum torpedo might not destroy solid neutronium.

The Federation quantum torpedoes use the standard photon torpedo casing. The Federation quantum torpedo model is called "Pho-torp Mark Q-II" and it has a casing differently shaped from the photon torpedo.

The quantum warhead relies on rapid energy extraction from zero-point vacuum. This is established from an 11-dimensional space-time membrane, twisted into a Genus-1 topology string, housed inside the ultraclean vacuum of a 1.38 meter-long teardrop shaped zero-point field reaction chamber. The detonation of a photon torpedo warhead, enriched with fluoronetic vapor, inside the torpedo powers a continuum distortion emitter. It expands the membrane and pinches it out of the background vacuum. The membrane forms into subatomic particles accompanied by a high-explosive energy release.