Plasma trip mine

The plasma trip mine was an explosive ordnance developed and introduced during the height of the. Designed for use in shipboard combat by the Republic Marines, it consisted of a high-temperature plasma charge that would roast any organics caught in the blast radius but would not cause more than superficial damage to the surrounding vessel. The weapon system itself also carried a crude identify friend/foe protocol in the form of a motion sensor and crude spectrometer that would trigger the mine if it did not also detect the small patches worn by the Marines deploying them.

This ordnance saw its first field tests during the mission to capture, where it was used liberally by the 1st Marine Strike Platoon as they carved their way through the 's. During the battle, the device accounted for at least a dozen s and an unknown number of crewers, as well as at least one. In the wake of this initial success, the 's other armed forces adopted the device, utilizing its crude IFF in other designs as well, such as fragmentation, flash, gas, and sonic mines.

Behind the scenes
The IFF system as put forth in the novel The Last Full Measure could be an explanation of the one-sided effect of mines as seen in the computer and video games ' and '.

Appearances

 * The Last Full Measure