Tesretz Radiation

Tesretz Radiation is a form of radiation that is understood very little despite awareness of it stretching back millenia in some empires. The radiation is extremely damaging but is one of the easiest forms of radiation to clear, leading to advanced power cores of some races using generators that release this radiation which is then scrubbed.

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Weaponry
Although most radiation-producing weapons produce nuclear radiation, there are some weapons, the ones used by the Tegitrian Empire in particular, that produce this extremely dangerous radiation. The most famous weapon to produce Tesretz Radiation is the X-01Z Unguided Phase Bomb. The radiation is produced as a result of the method by which the bomb stores energy for impact.

Energy for the weapon is generated in an Inertial Mass Inversion Core and then channeled into a buffer which stores the energy until impact when the core shuts down, removing the effects that allow the buffer to maintain it and releasing it in a massive detonation of pure energy that causes heats of an excess of two thousand degrees kelvin.

The most famous use of the X-01Z Unguided Phase Bomb was during the Battle of Sanrak where a region of nearly eight hundred square kilometers was annihilated by just under six hundred UPBs. The radiation, even after centuries, would not clear naturally and had to be cleaned when Tegitrian technology had reached the point of being able to do so.

Power Generators
Tesretz Radiation is produced by Algarium, one of the few stable elements that has been produced artificially. When a high-powered electric charge is surged into it, it begins the process of Inertial Mass Inversion. This is the principle of power generation in Tegitrian technology requiring high amounts of power output.

As the IMI power generation proceeds, Tesretz Radiation is produced in exponentially increasing amounts, requiring more powerful scrubbing techniques as well as radiators. This is what causes the requirement of Tegitrian interstellar vessels to drop out of FTL in order to scrub the radiation from the IMI Core.

Once the mass reaches critical points which are determined by the power of active scrubbing, the core must be deactivated and post-burn scrubbers used to remove excess radiation before the core can be reactivated. Advances in active scrubbing have nearly doubled the time a ship can remain with the IMIC at power levels necessary for FTL to up to approximately ten hours.