Fusion drive: Difference between revisions

[[File:POA-Destruction.jpg|thumb|The ''Pillar of Autumn's'' reactors detonating.]]

Fusion drives can also be used as improvised weapons of mass destruction. A ship's captain possesses the codes necessary to initiate fusion core overload in their [[command neural interface]], but reactor destabilization can also be initiated manually. Though the fusion reactors are protected by magnetic containment fields which surround the fusion cells, they can be destabilized by explosive ordnance once the exhaust couplings protecting the reactor vents have been retracted. Significant amount of damage to the engines will trigger a "wildcat destabilization". The reactor will then detonate within minutes, generating a temperature of nearly 100,000,000 degrees. The most notable instance of this was when [[John-117]] destroyed [[Installation 04]] by overloading the fusion reactors of the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} in order to destroy [[Halo]] [[Installation 04]].<ref name="maw"/> The explosion was later revealed to be similar to a [[supernova]] to the point that it created a new element in [[Alpha Shard|a surviving shard]] of the ring.