Anti-Matter

Anti-matter is very dangerous if not handled correctly, because it has a habit of combining with matter and the two things cancel each other out. Scientists working on the early research into anti-matter had to develop special techniques to store and handle anti-matter, to prevent the sudden disappearance of parts of their anatomy that came into contact with the substance!

Those who store anti-matter in warehouses have to be equally careful. Simply storing and fetching lumps of anti-matter is safe, because the substance is kept in special magnetic fields to prevent it coming into contact with matter. The problems come when anti-matter and matter get mixed up. If you try to add two bays together where one contains anti-matter and the other does not, the anti-matter and the matter will cancel each other out and both will vanish.

For example, if you have one bay with 5 tons of anti-matter and another with 10 tons of furs, attempting to add the two will leave you with just 5 tons of furs and no anti-matter at all. Conversely, 10 tons of anti-matter combined with 5 tons of droids leaves you with 5 tons of anti-matter. And, as you can probably work out for yourself, 5 tons of anti-matter added to 5 tons of anything else simply leaves you with two empty bays.

So use caution when dealing with this highly dangerous substance!