Blast Bomb Schematics

(From top-left, down.)

Scanner: The scanner is a ring-shaped part attached to the top of the bomb's shell, fastened with the skull bolt. It is responsible for identifying friend from foe. Some particularly tech-savvy (or downright lucky) knights have been known to hack this device so that it puts a higher destruction priority on certain scans, skewing blasts to increase damage to the specified entities.

Shell: The shell is made out of a specially treated and electronically charged section of adamantium. The adamantium has polarized "pores" that do not allow energy and matter to pass until a certain energy threshold is met. Upon meeting this threshold, the pores discharge, letting the built up energy through.

The outside of the shell is also painted with a microscopic thermographic network of diodes, and the shell is wired at one point to the internal systems of the bomb. When the internal systems drop in energy levels, the thermographic paint automatically begins to absorb heat and light from outside the bomb to recharge the core.

CPU: The internal systems of the bomb control detonation, bomb recharging, and also pyrotechnic adjustment. To trigger the bomb's core overload, a specific electronic signature must be input. This signature, generated by the Knight's power armor, is very long and complex. The complexity ensures enemy forces are unable to utilize the bomb, and the reason it is so long is because it also contains the matter configuration of the user and the user's allies which the bomb's computers use to adjust the explosion of the bomb just enough so that no friendly damage is caused. Certain armors are specifically designed to transfer this signature faster, and some Knights can afford advanced bomb systems so the computer can process the signature at a more rapid rate.

Skull Bolt: The skull bolt is given a positive charge, so that it is attracted to the core, which is negatively charged. When the core gathers electrons during its critical stages, the attraction force increases, preventing the bomb from flying apart even when it is at its most unstable point.

Energy Core: The core is a very complex component and its construction and operation is only fully understood by the most elite Spiral Technicians. It functions off the basis of a flexible energy in, energy out system, similar to a rechargeable battery. When the core is set to overload, it begins to undergo a controlled nuclear reaction. Once the core has overloaded enough, it stabilizes by releasing all the built up energy simultaneously.

Chassis: To allow easy retrieval of a recently detonated bomb, the chassis is not only made out of reinforced adamantium to prevent the bomb from blowing out the ground underneath it, but it also has an energy lens at the very center. This energy lens rapidly converts a large amount of the core's critical mass and energy into a very dense matter, rooting the bomb in place with its sheer weight. It also prevents the core from losing all energy in the blast, and the matter is converted back into the core as energy shortly after the blast.