Antimatter Containment Dish

Distinct from Antimatter Universe Light Streaks - this is a physical containment device that failed during a laboratory experiment.

1 appearances

Purpose

To physically contain and stabilize an antimatter entity during experimental confinement, using magnetic fields and structural integrity to prevent catastrophic release.

Significance

The dish’s catastrophic failure directly triggers the antimatter crisis, forcing Benton’s reckless escalation and exposing the Brigadier’s fatal underestimation of Omega’s threat.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

1 moments

S10E2 · The Three Doctors Part 2

Doctor halts Benton’s antimatter gamble

The heavy circular dish is buckled by Benton’s panicked palm strike during escalation, its etched containment runes glowing faint pink before rippling outward as if shattered glass. The dish fails catastrophically, warping into lethal angular shards that spew lethal antimatter energy, leaving a smoking crater in the floor plating.

Before: Secured and aligned under the emitter dish, maintaining stable containment runes at moderate frequency pulses

After: Warped and fractured, its surface cold but lethal, spewing residual antimatter that scours the lab before emergency systems seal the breach remnants

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