Each weapon strike against a ship in quasis weakens its quasis field.
2.
A collapse of a quasis field results in a rupture of the Klein bottles holding the anti-matter fuel used to power the ship, resulting in matter-antimatter explosions.
3.
The novels describe an unspecified number of weapon hits ( typically suggesting two to four ) that will collapse a quasis field and re-animate the crew in the midst of a massive explosion.