Terra cell improvised explosive manual
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[FOR TERRA EYES ONLY]
Warning: this paper will self destruct if removed from listening outpost [1-19][A/B/θ].
The pipebomb is the workhorse of the syndicate infiltrator on a budget. The... highly explosive workhorse.
Step 1: Form three metal sheets into a pipe frame.
Step 2: Weld them up nice and tight. Eye protection is recommended for NERDS.
Step 3: Add your payload. A lot of mundane things can produce some surprisingly nasty effects when shoved into a pipebomb so creativity is recommended. Here's a list of the more "effective" options:
- Glass shards and metal scrap: Yeah take a guess what these do. Simple but effective at hurting people.
- Glowsticks: splashes victims with a little boiling radium. Nasty.
- Cloth: deadens the explosion, making it five times less powerful. Sounds useless but sometimes you want the attention to be on the other things you've stuck in your pipebomb.
- Detached human butts: ██████ ███ █████, ██ ████ █████ -what the FUCK? NO! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT??
- Telecrystals: Hemera scientists will tell you blowing up telecrystals can lead to "catastrophically unstable telepositional events". Sounds like fun!
- RCD cartridges: randomly punches holes in the floor and builds grilles out of compressed matter.
- Wires and power cells: putting both wire and a cell in your bomb will cause high voltage arcs from the point of detonation.
- Plasmastone: releases a substantial amount of plasma gas upon detonation. NB: this isn't very useful if you just blew a hole in the hull - maybe try combining with cloth?
Remember you can usually only fit three items total into a pipe frame.
Step 4: Pour something flammable into the frame. Generally the more angrily it burns the bigger the boom you'll make.
Step 5: Tangle some wires around it. Don't worry about wiring diagrams, this thing only has to work once.
FINAL STEP: Attach a detonator. The gold standard is a timer/igniter assembly, but anything stuck to an igniter will make it go boom. Make sure to secure the assembly to your bomb with a screwdriver!
Good luck, agent. Try not to blow the bloody doors off the listening post this time.