EVE Fiction

With the current technology available in the cluster, would it be possible to, say, warp a freighter full on anti-matter in containment into a sun's core and let said freighter blow up, in turn causing the sun to react rather....violently?

I've seen it as a recurring theme in a few sci-fi novels I've read (Jack McDevitt and Alastair Reynolds) and was wondering if, lore wise, this would be a possibility?..

This is not an in-game function, I am aware of that. If you read what I said, I was speaking in terms of lore. If you think all my posts are shiptoasting, simply do not answer them.

Please not that I know very little about this subject.

I was thinking as to how large stars go supernova. What makes them explode is that after they run out of the light elements they start to fuse heavier elements like iron and that's what makes them collapse then explode almost immediately. Perhaps instead of antimatter it should be maybe a freighter or two full of Veldspar or Tritanium (iron?). I believe that such a sudden change in density of the core of the star would make it explode suddenly.

Imagine if wormholes worked like Portal portals. Fire orange into center of sun, fire blue into space - differential pressure gradient causes the space portal to squirt out a beam of hyper-dense star guts at relativistic velocities, as the star with the orange portal in it begins to contract, crushing its insides out through the hole in its core.

Use all-destroying star beam to wipe out planets you dislike, etc...

I now hope that the portal gun never becomes real and that if it does, interstellar travel is heavily limited.

Pump some iron in to that sucker. insta kill :)

^^ im not joking btw Iron is the way to go. Delivery is the problem.

When you state it like that, I don't see why not. However I think it isn't that easy otherwise we would surely see stars exploding on a regular basis. Considering that the formation or introduction of a single Iron molecule to the active process kills a star, but that is when it is synthesized, I think more might be needed to collapse a star artificially. I am sure someone would have tried it by now. Knowing minmatar ships, it would even be surprising it hasn't happened accidentally already. Especially since several of my ships have been prone to losing wingy bits. So something about warp technology must not allow for the exit out of warp within the sun. Either that or the quantity required

I am quite certain that a single iron atom would have no effect on the processes of a star. Setting aside that any given star at stage in its life is bound to have a very large number of all types of elements either through its normal fusion process (while most of the fusion will be of the hydrogen and helium variety for a normal star for most its life over time randomness will result in the fusion of larger and more exotic elements, especially iron) or from leftovers of the previous stars that provided the mass to form the star. Our sun, for instance, is 0.16% iron.

All the heavier elements that make up things like planets (metals, gases, and even up to uranium and plutonium) are the product from past stellar fusion processes. Large and/or hot stars can continue fusion all the way up to silicon and at that point iron will make up a surprising amount of the star's mass.

There's no element/molecule that we know of that could be introduced in small amounts to a star to disrupt its process in any appreciable way. Unless we want to talk about exotic forms of matter, like strangelets or something, the only way destroying a star through the introduction of outside material will necessitate just a very, very large amount something (just about anything would probably do). We're talking about a lot though. I have no idea how much or how to calculate how much iron it would take to disrupt the sun's fusion process but if it were even only 1% of the sun's mass you're talking about a lot of iron.

Again, I did some math (probably badly) and what I calculated was that a block of iron equal to 1% of our sun's mass would weigh 22 trillion trillion short tons and would be 18.5 billion trillion cubed miles in volume. That's a cube of iron 26.45 million miles on each side. If anybody plans on trying this do tell so that I can invest in mining lasers now.

EDIT: I think the reason that the hypothetical block of iron is so much larger than the sun itself is because I did not (and could not even try) to account for how the block would collapse under its own gravity and reach a much higher density (and thus much smaller volume) than normal cast iron. The actual ball (you couldn't keep it in cube form) would likely be much smaller but the above still illustrates, I hope, the gargantuan amount of material we're talking about.

You could use the Hand of Omega to turn a target star into a new Eye of Harmony. No more star plus you can power a TARDIS.