Approved Tech Ersteel 145

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create a unique composite metal using ores and material available within the Eriadu star system.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: NZ Umbrella Corporation, Nargath Holdings
• Affiliation: Closed-Market
• Model: Ersteel 145
• Modularity: No
• Production: Mass-Produced
• Material: 10% Carbonite, 40% Doonium, 50% Durasteel

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Alloy
• Weight: Heavy
• Color: Silver gray
• Resistances:
  • Energy (And other Blaster type weapons): Very High
  • Kinetic: Average
  • Lightsabers: High
  • Elemental: High
  • EMP/ION: Average
  • Acid: None

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Stealth Applications: Due to it's heat resistant nature, Ersteel can be used for engine pods and weapon covers, making it much harder for sensors and heat scanners to pick up on a heat signature of any vessel using this material as plating or weapons|engines using it as cover.

STRENGTHS

• Heat Resistant: Due in part to the carbonite component within the alloy, Ersteel can boast a high resistance to elemental properties, with in particular heat, which combined with it's heavy density also adds on to it's great resistance against Energy weaponry.
• Highly Energy Resistant: Due to it's heavy density paired with its elemental resistance, this alloy is very capable of shrugging off the majority of energy based weaponry and projectiles.

WEAKNESSES

• Weak To corrosive weaponry: Though it has a heacy density, the fact that it's an alloy of metallic and non-metallic components, it's fragility lies in the fact that corrosive material can dissolve the bindings between those two parts of the alloy, weakening it substantially.

DESCRIPTION
Ersteel started as an alternative to the regularly used Durasteel which is used in practically every part of daily society ranging from home appliances to massive machines of war. To somewhat mitigate the cost of constantly importing various minerals needed for the production of durasteel, The Eriadu government commissioned the N&Z Umbrella Corporation to either find a solvable alternative or to find a way to at the very least lessen the burden of the durasteel refining within the eriadu system and to lower it's reliance on other systems for the production of its materials.

After many trials and tribulations, metallurgists and engineers employed by the company managed to come up with an answer. Despite their best efforts, they had not yet been able to figure out a full alternative for the production of Durasteel, but increasing the use of doonium: a material more readily available within the Eriadu system was seen as a plausible answer to the more pressing problem. Through trial and tribulation, the metallurgists managed to come up with a first variety of what they dubbed Ersteel or Eriaduan Steel, by decisively combining Durasteel with a large amount of Doonium. Though first tests did show great promise, it was soon discovered that the alloy still lacked something, as it eroded rapidly and was rather succeptible to heat. Further testing was done within the laboratories on Eriadu, until the solution was found in binding the basic compound with carbonite, thus mitigating most of the erosion and heat resistance issues. Ersteel 145 is now expected to rapidly replace most applications of durasteel within the Eriaduan system as a means to test out its viability and further explore additional compositions for the alloy.

 

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