What we have here gentlemen is a space compression/decompression device. It could be used to cause what you call gravity to put pressure on a large land or subsea area. If damaged and forced out of alignment, the spurious radiation and motion displacment even on a molecular level would be very bad. The body will only last so long. If the crew is losing weight fast, that is a clue.

A true doomsday weapon. Dangerous as hell.

Fiction or fact

The mad hatter wants to know.