Magnetic Monopoles

Magnetic monopoles are elementary units of magnetic charge. Unlike conventional magnets and magnetic fields, which must always have north and south poles, a monopole is a single pole isolated on its own.

Monopoles were theorized for centuries, and finally produced during the Second Interstellar Period with ouroboros accelerators capable of reaching the energies required to create them in particle collisions. Once created, monopoles can be used to breed more monopoles through collisions with matter.

Applications for monopoles include induced baryon decay: a monopole which collides with an atomic nucleus will shatter it into a shower of particles and energic radiation, making possible matter-conversion engines and power sources, and the manufacture of collapsium.