[quote=@Willy Vereb]
[@Ophidian]Well, understanding concepts from physics or at least the layman explanations of them shouldn't require any math skills, rest easy.
As for vacuum energy missiles they can be your rarely used doomsday warheads. I mean with sufficient butchering of physics you can say that vacuum energy generation creates unstable exotic particles which might have effects so harmful it makes radiation fallout look like Disneyland.

As for tech how about having a "vacuum cell" in the warhead with finely controlled environment to momentarily harness this power into a massively powerful explosive device? They would be also fail-safe because it requires a specific activation and thus it won't blow up your ship upon damage or destruction.
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I'm going to shamelessly steal from you too if that's alright. :p 

The stuff I was stealing was more light-hearted in tone, so you saved me alot of footwork in...gussying it up, as it were:

[quote]After years of research, Soviet scientists figured out their main rocket scientist actually [i]lied[/i] about the range of rockets. Despite kidnapping Von Braun, it never occured to the Soviets that he was anything but honest to the day Captain Rocket rescued him and his family. Soon, and despite a high mortality rate, Soviet rocket scientists were creating and testing new rockets, and then missiles, all with much greater range and speed, until they were the second to none in expertise. The Soviets still have the edge in rocketry, and the Allies are reminded of this daily.

The height of Soviet rocketry was the ICBM (Inter-City Bombarding Missile), which had the potential range of over 400 kilometres, an astonishing figure for an atmospheric flight. Though impressed by this, the Red Army noted that they had nothing to arm it with. A simple high explosive warhead would at most destroy a single building, and gas warfare was banned by the Politiburo. In typical Soviet straightforwardness, several professors of relative expertise (such as atomic chemistry and theoretical physics) were locked in a large room stocked only with books about large explosions, blackboards, and a year's supply of food and water. They were promised to only be let out once they came up with a warhead of suitable destructive power.

Months later, they had an answer. Inspired by accounts of vacuum bubbles in water mains bursting and collapsing entire city blocks, the scientists put forward that the best suggestion would not be an explosion, but an implosion. Moved from the large room to a (locked) facility with the most advanced laboratory equipment in the Union, the scientists used their notes to create a Perfect Vacuum, thought impossible by Allied scientists except between atoms in lesser vacuums. A Perfect Vacuum is, literally, the absence of anything; even in outer space, there is a thin interstellar medium in the vacuum. A test in Siberia resulted in the entire taiga, from trees to soil, sucked towards the centre of the vacuum, leaving only a large crater and a superdense core of fused material. Needless to say, the Soviets had their warhead.
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For the curious.