Magnetic Monopole

Magnetic monopoles are elementary particles that carry units of magnetic charge. Monopoles are their own antiparticles: a North monopole will mutually annihilate a South monopole. Monopoles are easily accelerated by strong magnetic fields and carry electric charge in addition to magnetic charge.

Monopoles are naturally produced in great numbers at the Big Bang and then get difficult to collect during the inflation of the universe. Planets, stars, and neutron stars accumulate monopoles and civilizations looking for them begin searching within the cores of gas giants then eventually neutron stars, fields of black holes and at the entrances of wormholes. Gas giants and neutron stars typically contain less denser strange matter which eventually forms magmatter during collapse into black holes.

Magnetic monopole reactors provide extremely high amounts of power while avoiding the dangers inherent in antimatter storage. Energy generation requires access to magmatter. The reactor operates via fusion of monopoles with common elements such as hydrogen and helium that creates plasma. Controlled amounts of this conventional matter bombards a magmatter surface, resulting in the instant conversion of the conventional matter to energy. The conversion process also produces positrons, neutrinos and electrons which collide to produce gamma ray radiation. A conversion reactor therefore creates a high temperature plasma from which electricity or magnetricity can be extracted via standard magnetohydrodynamic methods.

Uses:

 * Power generation for an extremely large city or ecumenopolis, stellar engine or stellification.
 * Conversion drive for spacecraft and spaceships
 * Monopole-enhanced thermonuclear explosive devices are so high yield that they can be used in the industrial scale mining (or destruction) of large asteroids, moons or even planets.