Phantom Energy

Phantom Energy is a powerful and dangerous form of Dark Energy. There has been no sightings of naturally-occurring Phantom Energy, with refinery technology creating it. Due to the extreme difficulty and cost of extracting Dark Energy from Hyperspace and refining it, Phantom Energy has seen exclusive use in the top ranks of the most elite and advanced hyperspace-faring militaries.

Workings
Even with the advanced technologies and scientific understandings of the Chronicle Timeline and other universes, Phantom Energy is still a complex subject, as most of the information on it was lost during the Great Warp. Although it is near-impossible to harvest it from within realspace, hyperspace maelstroms hold leaks of raw and tangible Dark Energy, which can exist within the altered physics of hyperspace, and can be refined into Phantom Energy. Phantom Energy is contained in similar manners as antimatter, as contact with ordinary matter has very dangerous effects. Phantom Energy's properties, which are very similar to Dark Energy, and slow rate of collection make it incapable of becoming a power source, much less an efficient one, but makes an excellent source of energy weapon ammunition. When discharged from an energy weapon, Phantom Energy takes on a plasma-like form. Like Dark Energy, Phantom Energy can reliably damage supernatural and intangible entities, and rather than using extreme heat, Phantom Energy creates minor spatial distortions. These distortions deal heavy damage against all types of matter, able to breach most Imperialite armor in single shots, and leave energy residues around the point of impact for some time afterwards. Phantom Energy has been known to blast clean through unarmored targets, such as organics, and at high intensities, disintegrate them through creation of a micro nova, which is a phenomenon that causes the point of impact and some matter around it to turn into energy and discharge, destroying the impact point and target instantly and causing heavy damage in a small radius around it. Micro novas can be created through large, concentrated blasts of Phantom Energy, a discharge of an entire cartridge at once, or a reaction with an energized or otherwise volatile target, although only large weaponry are known to handle the sheer power behind the blast. Spatial distortions caused by Phantom Energy are more noticeable and damaging than those of Dark Energy, and massive amounts of Phantom Energy, such as the amount fired from Ultra Laser-like superweapons, are known to cause temporary distortions in realspace and hyperspace, making its effects instantly visible across vast interstellar distances.