Finaly, one of our greatest desires can be fulfilled. Our new friends within the Unioners wanted our help to get rid of a gate that exposes their void to more danger than necessary. So theirs came to ours as we are quite aware of how to destroy human constructions. Anyway, enough of this chit-chat.

So, for the explosive compound, we thought about using our BNC as it most likely has the best chance of accomplishing what needs to be done. From our initial studies with the Black Nova Compound, we found out that the explosive reaction is much more devastating if the compound is pressurized and gets compressed as much as possible. Yet this is not without risk for ourselves. If we make one mistake while the compression is going on and we are even just a few mili-psi over the limit we all will most likely die. The only thing that is truly sad for ours is that they are not willing to let those darklings on the station next to it die. Those could have been great test subjects to see and test the effects of the compound on regular humans.

However, we will have to request certain materials from the unioners so we can build a fitting housing for the device itself.

So we think we are now close to finding the right amount of pressure to then "ignite" the compound. We used a rather rudimentary approach for the achievement of said pressure. We basically use the design of old combustion engines to achieve a pressure of around 870-899 psi. With that, the compound is still stable enough to not collapse into itself but under enough pressure to almost maximize the explosive range.

Now to the more difficult part. While the compound is fairly stable in itself the process of activating its true potential gets only more difficult through that. It sadly isn't ignitable in any "regular" way. The activation of the explosive reaction is very similar to the one of a hydrogen bomb and needs a nuclear bomb as a trigger. Now not even that would be the biggest issue. The biggest issue is that we need some kind of foam that turns into plasma once it gets hit with the heat and radiation of the nuclear explosion, and we don't have that yet. We are still testing but until we find something that is fitting our needs there isn't much other to do.

We will also ask the unioners if theirs would be able to provide ours with a fitting container and a preinstalled remote detonator. We will most likely have to ask them for our daughter's project as well as she needs a few materials too.

In the end, this foam wasn't all that hard to produce after all. What we first thought would be an issue that could cost us days was solved quicker than expected. We tried a few different types but almost all got us the results that we wanted. Even though we worked with plasma in the past we did not expect that almost all of them would work.

Anyhow, we are currently running simulations with different payload sizes to see if there is a demand for adjustment. With our old "Argus" project we have experience of the destructive power of the Black Nova Compound but the main issue is that we never tested it for such large scales. We know through pure simulations that we could evaporate a whole planet with a few perfectly placed bombs but we don't need nor want that much strength in the shimmering Darklings void. We also have to account for environmental changes. We know that the radiation from the compound can end fairly quickly with unwanted side effects and if we make a mistake it could cause permanent damage to the surroundings of the Gate. Worst case scenario through current simulations would include, Deadman Land which means an unenterable zone that destroys everything that enters, poisonous and/or explosive gas clouds.

To prevent that we currently have a few ideas that first have to run through the simulations. We could reduce the point of concentration of the compound by scattering many smaller bombs around the gate and station. This would increase the width of the explosion but it would be less focused with all the compound at one spot, or we reduce the pressure on the compound to even further reduce its explosive power. We are currently not sure how to proceed this is why we will upload the next log after all the simulations have passed.

We are almost done with our part of the deal. So we had the problem with the strength of the compound and to find the ideal solution we ran a few options as simulations. Now of course those won't be one hundred percent accurate but it should be more than enough. Through the simulations, we found out that the best way would be to reduce the pressure on the compound as we only have to build it once and not many times on a much smaller scale. We also did not want to bother the unioners with our requests so it should be a win-win for everyone.

We also started to install various fail saves and a few other things that should prevent anybody from trying to extract the compound from its housing. We won't have to mention all of them but it is rather obvious that we rather kill potential friends than to let them have something this valuable. Even Verac came up with the idea to make the container spring locked so if someone tries to brute force a way into the bomb it would drop the container with the compound and shatter it. This would result in some rather interesting specimens but this is something that we still hope to not need to resort to.

We will shortly inform Mr. James about our progress and ask about the husk so we can finish the bomb.

We do have to commend the Unioners on their work with the casing for the bomb. However, there are a few bits and parts that we have to further adjust. Our main concern currently is one of the valves of the casing. Because once we loaded the casing up we started with the test right away to not lose any time.

After the first x-rays and pressure tests, it all seemed fine but when we went ahead for the second set of tests one of the valves that are needed for rapid pressurization of the tank to give it the needed atmosphere to start the first proper detonation started to crack. This in itself can be fixed easily by exchanging the current one with a new one still... It leads us to some concerns.

Anyway, as for the good news. While one team is working on the valves and rechecking everything We were working on the test fitting for all the electronics. It seems that everything works as it should. We have to say that the unioners didn't really leave a lot of space for extra cables, but we can't really fault them as we forgot them in the first place. But a Dremel can be one's best friend if something gets too tight. As for the composition of the case.

After close investigation, the third team came to the conclusion that just the right amount of refined alloys have been added to the casing so it should be just right to hit both targets with one strike. However, there might be one major issue. The trigger mechanism might be too weak to set up a proper secondary and primary explosion. We are currently running some tests but we might have to replace them with something more powerful. We will update the log once we got a proper solution.

So we have good news and bad news. The bad news first, we now found out what lead to the fault of the trigger mechanism. It was rather that the compound itself interfered with the signals that we send to the receiver. Which basically means one thing. We can't detonate the bomb remotely.

However, there is also some good news. We found someone who will fly the bomb to its location and manually detonate it. A truly loyal subject to our cause one could say. Anyway, we also exchanged the valve and reinforced some parts of the case in order to prevent any more cracking or worse.

As of right now with assembly time the bomb should be complete until tomorrow morning.