Approved Tech Sholan Junkmetal

[Jerec Asyr]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: Inspired by Ingrid L'lerim and Ishani Dinn , I want to play with building materials.
• Image Source: Vladimir Fedorenko
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: First discovered by the Spacer Guild, but can be made by others
• Affiliation: Spacer Guild and basically anyone
• Market Status: Open Market
• Model: Sholan junkmetal
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material: Unique ancient Sholan alloys

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Mechanical mixture of pieces of a homogeneous exotic alloy
• Weight: Very heavy
• Color: Shades of dusty reddish brown, like a uniform desaturated rust (note that this is the alloy's natural colour, not oxidation, as the alloy is extremely stable)
• Resistances:
  • Energy (and other blaster-type weapons): Average - if you get hit while protected by this, it'll eventually come apart into individual bits under the strain
  • Kinetic: Low - can be shaken apart by impact; makes a decent very-short-term ablative armor against kinetic weapons
  • Lightsabers: Average - can protect against lightsabers to some extent
  • Sonic: Very Low - can be shaken apart by powerful sonic weapons; provides minimal protection to anything it protects from sonic weapons
  • Disruptors and molecular furnaces: Average - can stand up to these technologies to some extent; tends to clog molecular furnaces
  • Heat: Extreme - can't be smelted by current technology; can stand up to stellar-core temperatures
  • Cold: Very Low - rapid cooling causes shrinkage, disaggregating the bits
  • Acid/chemical: Extreme - can't be chemically smelted
  • Radiation: Extreme - superb rad shielding

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Mechanical composite created by very-high-pressure industrial presses
• Radiation resistance
• Heat resistance
• Acid/chemical resistance

STRENGTHS

• Soaks up heat and radiation with extreme ease.
• Hard and reasonably tough.
• Some disruptor and lightsaber resistance.
• Chemically invulnerable

WEAKNESSES

• Frangible as a composite, conferring vulnerabilities to kinetic damage...
• ...sonic damage...
• ...and very rapid cooling.
• Takes powerful industrial equipment to reshape.
• Can't be smelted/recast/forged by any means.
• Tough to paint.
• Perpetually rough surface.
• Ugly.

DESCRIPTION

"So out on the edge of Wild Space, there's this planet that wrecked itself. Its people mined it right down to the core. I've flown down some of those mineshafts until the temp gets too serious for normal heat shielding. My guess is that's why they developed this stuff, I mean the alloy. All that anyone's found is little bits that won't smelt any which way, so what we did is stick those bits in a hundred-thousand-PSI industrial press, cold. Out comes a roughish sandwich kind of thing that holds together pretty well like it was all one piece.

"Yeah, the deep mineshafts on Shola are one of the only places you can find the ancient Sholan junk you need to make it. Where else? Uh, Ronyards and Lotho Minor and Patch-4 so far. And other garbage worlds, and little bits here and there as curios.

"Best heat and rad shielding I've ever seen. You need to fly too close to a star and can't afford Kerts-Bhrg? Sholan junkmetal's exactly what you're after. Swear to feth, a buddy of mine used it for roof tiles on Vjun, too - the acid rain just slides right off."

 

[AMCO]

Jerec Asyr

I honestly didn't know frangible was a word; you learn something new every day, I suppose. Great work, as usual, even if it's hella ugly.

Approved.