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The Iron Sky -team is looking for your ideas and comments. Join and show your support for Iron Sky.  NothingBoringly, nothing much would happen. The only way carrying helium-3 would really matter in an explosion is if a weapon impacting the helium were powerful enough to induce fusion. A nuke might do it, but if the weapon is that powerful to begin with, then the additional explosiveness is not going to be particularly noticeable. If the fusion reactor just happens to lose containment, then all that will happen is the plasma will melt the reactor wall. If it's not caught in time, then it will melt the magnets too. At that point the plasma will escape, and then... the plasma will rapidly cool. Without the magnets to contain the plasma, the gas cannot reach the fusion state, so there is no explosion if there is a reactor breach. I think the solution are the anti-gravity drives. What if putting them out of balance while still powered causes them to create intense gravitational gradients? Gradients so steep that they create visual gravitational lensing, so intense that the gradient crushes the saucer's hull like a soda can, turning the crew to red jam, and causing a flash of light at the focal point of the gradient. The saucer would also spin out of control. The gravity drive would completely shatter and explode from this, with the rest of the ship quickly break apart n the process. So, no bang, but a crack, suck, crunch, and wild uncontrolled spinning all in less than a second! Gravity my friends, gravity is the answer. |
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This might be the best way.
Maybe the He -fusion reaction accelerates when not regulated, resulting in a general acceleration of the gravito-magnetic superfluid.
In turn, resulting in the gravitational vortex that crunches the vessel.
What follows are possible explanations for this technology.
Anti-Gravity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJJ-4lnwrck
Mentions Helium-Fusion @ around 6:38
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfjG7fo3y4k
Gravity is indeed the answer. If hit a ship could (would) be compressed inward until it reaches supercritical density , creating a gravitational vortex distortion around it (kind of like a black hole) ,then explode in a bright flash of light, that would be sucked back in by the grav vortex in a spiral-like pattern...
If the anti-gravity drive is also the reactor, then the helium would be injected into the core, or ring, or whatever it is that creates the drive effect. This way, if the drive takes a hit it could shoot plasma out the hole, even if only for an extremely brief moment. In the last part of the crunch, a bit of plasma could squeeze out, but I don't know how right that would be, except that a high enough spot of gravity could keep fusion going until the last moment.
Ah right, I was thinking that helium could burn by it self... stupid me.
Thank you.
There's nothing for a gas to burn with in space, and helium can't combine with oxygen. The final result of what I described above could be an explosion, but I kind of like it without a fiery explosion.
Now that's a cool thought though, fusion.
Though, for the visual impact of things perhaps it could look like this:
Gas leaks out, turn into very swift flames, followed by a sort of big-bang motion..?