James Justice
Charting new Paths
Intent: A unique material to be used in enhancing the Star Wars universe for armor and other purposes.
Development Thread: If Needed
Manufacturer: SocMin Fed
Model: N/A
Affiliation: Open Market
Modularity: No
Production: Production: Limited
Material: Alum; Bandorium
Armor Quality: Melee: 4 Energy: 8
Description:
Creation
In the early days, before the Republic and during the Colonization period, the age of prolific discovery was there. Weapons, armors, and ships ranged from the bizarre to the absolutely unique. It was a time of wonder and exploration; before the codification of many building laws, space-regulations, and the standardization of blasters and armor to protect them.A poor group of scientists, headed by the Doctor Vallegium, specialized in weapon and armor designing during these early days. During an exotic scientific convention they were captured by a pirate king, who at the time was only known as Dark Beard the Terrible. Even today many of the pirates of the Outer Rim and Wild Spacer wag their heads at the tales of his epic butchery and barbaric nature. Vallegium and his colleagues were taken to Soceras’s moon Verga. At the time, the planet was still just a smudge on the radar of every ship. It was agreed on that no one would be foolish enough to land on this death trap, let alone hide there. No, that is, except Dark Beard, who had set the base up. The pirate lord gave the scientist a choice: develop an alloy that could be used to fight these fangled blasters or be fried themselves.
For months the galaxy was searched for these great minds. And for months they worked their hardest to craft a worthy alloy, going through dozens of formulas at a time. At last they discovered a material that through a complex process would provide what they needed to meet the pirate’s needs. First, in a super forge Alum was heated to its melting point, almost to a plasma-like state. In the meantime, the scientists cooled Bandorium to a sludge-like state, permeating a frail but working ice-crystal lattice throughout it at -80 degrees Kelvins. Rotating the Alum in its suspended state with an dynamo-effecting electromagnet, the scientists dumped the Alum into the mixture. The violent reaction shorted out some of the surrounding equipment and a need for better thermal coupling was notated by those in the area, the research suggested Carbonite. With it, Blastos was born. Unfortunately, though their experiments proved correct, they were unable to verify it or even barging for their lives. A solar storm of radiation wiped out all in the base including the scientist and Dark Beard. It seemed Blastos was lost to time.
Several thousand years later, a mining crew of SocMin Fed uncovered the hidden base during a non-sanctioned race of commercial mining vehicles on Verga. The loss of the crashed equipment was offset with the discovery of this metal, and the method to create it. James Justice ordered a crafting attempt be committed to re-create Blastos. It was successful, and the new, or rather old, material entered the galactic Market.
QUALITIES:
- High energy resistance: Due to the nature of this material it has a high energy resistance to heat, cold, electromagnetism, and radiation. This was caused by a unique binding of these metals causing a valence electron bond. This allows them to obsorb more energy as their electrons bump up in the electron shells before being released. This principle applies to the manner of electromagnetism. Including radiation. This was gained in the forgoing of stealth abilities.
- Hardness: 4 (on a scale of 1-10, 10 being diamond-level hardness)
- Tinsel strength: 1110 MPa (On par with Tempered steel)
- Luster: .5 (1.0 is perfect reflection like a mirror, .0 is perfect light absorption, blackness of space)
- Color: dull green-grey
- NOTE: THERE IS NO STEALTH QUALITY IN THE USE OF THIS ALLOY
Notes from Vallegium during testing:
The material seems to hold up quite well under heating and cooling. It does not freeze to shattering brittleness until temperatures drop to -100 K. The material is surprisingly able to sustain heating temperatures, only melting at temperatures no less than 6000 K. However, material seems to be lacking in the ability to withstand Newton forces. The material bends easily to the touch, transferring seemingly all force greater than 1 Newton through per quarter inch of material. This appears to be problematic. The material also has proven quite good at not transferring all forms of electromagnetic radiation. One inch of the Blastos has succeeded in staving off Gamma radiation indefinitely. A quarter inch for an hour. An eighth of an inch for half an hour. Higher ranges will be tested tomorrow for—what? What is that? Mein goth, get out of here! Everyone, begin eva—“ <<End of entry 7.75.8.9>>
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