Approved Tech Thermite Blade

[Jak Sandrow]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: A personal weapon for Jak Sandrow
• Image Source: Me, I made this.
• Canon Link: Uses this tech: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Plasticene_thermite_gel
• Restricted Missions: N/A
• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: JSA
• Model: JSA-THERMSLICE
• Affiliation: Jak Sandrow
• Modularity: No
• Production: Unique
• Material: Durasteel, heat-resistant coating (cortosis), plasticene thermite gel

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Sword
• Size: One-handed
• Length: 1.3 m
• Weight: 3 kg (1 kg is thermite)

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Thermite gel bonded to a durasteel blade

Strengths:

• Sizzle Sizzle - Thermite does not stop burning. It cannot be extinguished once activated. It only stops burning once the fuel source has been dissipated (after 90 seconds)
• Flame On - Burning at very high temperatures, the sword is able to cut through thin layers of durasteel (speeder panels and door locks), as well as organic, unprotected material with ease.

Weaknesses:

• One Use - This sword has a one-time-use 90-second burn. After that is done, the sword itself is structurally compromised and will require significant time to reshape, re-harden, and refuel. Until that is done, it is no more than a floppy piece of misshapen metal.
• Flame Off - While thermite gel burns in excess of 5000 C, the gel used here has a much slower burn, and as such, has a lower temperature. It is simply unable to cut through durasteel, and will only melt through the thinnest durasteel panels (speeders, locks, etc).

DESCRIPTION
The thermite blade works like a lightsaber blade for dummies. While rather formidable-looking (sparking and flaming as thermite will do), it is nowhere near as powerful a tool as a lightsaber. It is unable to cut through most durasteel plating, and can only melt through the thinnest possible platings. However, as an inexpensive, spitballs-and-space-tape weapon, it does its job - look scary and hurt things.

The cortosis weave helps the weapon keep mostly intact after the burn is finished, though the 'weapon' can really no longer be useful for much other than a warm club. The same heat that can melt through a thin lock will also wreck the structural integrity of the sword itself. Significant time back at the forge is required to get the lump looking more like a sword and less like a tin stick.

 

[Hailyn]

Under Review

 

[Hailyn]

[member="Jak Sandrow"]
How does your durasteel blade coated in thermite gel burn through ship hulls or even other things made of durasteel without melting?

 

[Jak Sandrow]

A fair point; added

• Material: Durasteel, heat-resistant coating (cortosis), plasticene thermite gel

Due to this being a unique submission, no RM thread is required for the usage of cortosis.


[member="Darth Ananta"]

 

[Hailyn]

[member="Jak Sandrow"]
Coating your blade in thermite gel, and causing it to light on fire, is not going to allow your sword to cut through other metals. It is the sustained heat of the burning thermite gel which allows the gel itself to burn through starship hulls and such, not simply the heat of the flames, so it would be whatever the gel is applied to that would be melted through, not what is being struck by the sword that has this coated on it.

Essentially, if you wanted to use thermite gel to burn through bulkheads, starship hulls, doors, etc, you would need to apply the gel to the surface you want to get through and then burn that - by coating a sword in this and lighting it on fire you will not accomplish anything except having a very hot, and potentially molten, sword.

 

[Jak Sandrow]

[member="Darth Ananta"]

That is correct, and it's what I'm going for, actually -

Added to description for clarity:

By pressing the activated sword against the desired target, the burning thermite will slowly melt through, but by doing so will eat away at the integrity of the sword itself. Against large enough targets, this may reduce the sword down to no more than its durasteel-cortosis base - at which point the thermite gel, if expended, will no longer eat through the target. This effect is pronounced against denser targets like metal or stone, and more effective against organic targets. To be clear - this is not anywhere near as efficient as a lightsaber; where a lightsaber has a quick, clean, cauterizing stroke, this sword slowly bubbles and melts through its target.

 

[Hailyn]

[member="Darth Ananta"]

That is correct, and it's what I'm going for, actually -

Added to description for clarity:

By pressing the activated sword against the desired target, the burning thermite will slowly melt through, but by doing so will eat away at the integrity of the sword itself. Against large enough targets, this may reduce the sword down to no more than its durasteel-cortosis base - at which point the thermite gel, if expended, will no longer eat through the target. This effect is pronounced against denser targets like metal or stone, and more effective against organic targets. To be clear - this is not anywhere near as efficient as a lightsaber; where a lightsaber has a quick, clean, cauterizing stroke, this sword slowly bubbles and melts through its target.

You've misunderstood my statement. By applying the gel to the surface you want to get through, I mean literally applying the gel to the surface you want to burn and then combusting the gel once it has coated that surface. Applying it to your sword will not achieve this same effect. While your sword will become a dangerous flaming mass of nearly molten steel at some point, with extremely hot flames covering it, it will not be able to melt through bulkheads, starship hulls, and so on. The only thing the gel is going to melt is your sword, when applied to your sword, and the use of cortosis will not prevent that.

To be completely clear:

1. By lighting your sword on fire with thermite gel you will not be able to do the following: Cut through starship hulls, cut through blast doors, cut through durasteel or similar material-based walls.
2. By lighting your sword on fire with thermite gel your sword will: Eventually melt, lose its integrity as a blade (it'd be easier to break or bend)

 

[Jak Sandrow]

I do understand what you're saying; the problem is we have no real-world equivalent. We have gels, we have thermite, but other than napalm, we have no sticky high-burning gel-like substances. However, if we are to use napalm as an equivalent, then napalm will burn whatever substance it will come into contact with. Yes, it will primarily be the sword that takes the brunt of the heat, yes it will be the sword that will (probably) be the only thing that's destroyed. However, according to conduction, anything that burning thermite gel is applied to (including thin durasteel panels and locks) will also be melted (or at least start to be melted).

For long, 90-second burns, a thermite sword will very slowly cut through anything it's physically applied to. It will take very long for most starship hulls (and it would be shorter to just apply thermite to the starship itself) but it will still very slowly burn through.

I can remove the starship references from the submission if you would like, and have the sword limited to only being able to burn through regular durasteel walls and locks.

[member="Darth Ananta"]

 

[Hailyn]

[member="Jak Sandrow"]
Please make the requested changes or apply for a second chance:

1. Tone down the strengths considerably to what was stated in my previous post.
2. Add the weakness(es) that I mentioned in my previous post.

If changes are not made this submission will be denied.

 

[Jak Sandrow]

Edited from

Strengths:

• Sizzle Sizzle - Thermite does not stop burning. It cannot be extinguished once activated. It can melt through doors, cut through walls, even (in larger quantities) burn straight through ship hulls. Burning in excess of 5000 C, there is no material that can withstand burning thermite for long.

Weaknesses:

• One Use - Until there is significant time to reapply another lump of thermite gel, this sword has a one-time-use 90-second burn. Then it's simply a durasteel blade.

DESCRIPTION
The thermite blade works like a lightsaber blade for dummies, able to slice through anything (except other lightsaber blades) for the duration of the burn. It leaves behind a dripping, glowing, boiling mess, that eats through everything like metallic acid. It is an inelegant but extremely effective way of slicing through things.

By pressing the activated sword against the desired target, the burning thermite will slowly melt through, but by doing so will eat away at the integrity of the sword itself. Against large enough targets, this may reduce the sword down to no more than its durasteel-cortosis base - at which point the thermite gel, if expended, will no longer eat through the target. This effect is pronounced against denser targets like metal or stone, and more effective against organic targets. To be clear - this is not anywhere near as efficient as a lightsaber; where a lightsaber has a quick, clean, cauterizing stroke, this sword slowly bubbles and melts through its target.


to


Strengths:

• Sizzle Sizzle - Thermite does not stop burning. It cannot be extinguished once activated. It only stops burning once the fuel source has been dissipated (after 90 seconds)
• Flame On - Burning at very high temperatures, the sword is able to cut through thin layers of durasteel (speeder panels and door locks), as well as organic, unprotected material with ease.

Weaknesses:

• One Use - This sword has a one-time-use 90-second burn. After that is done, the sword itself is structurally compromised and will require significant time to reshape, re-harden, and refuel. Until that is done, it is no more than a floppy piece of misshapen metal.
• Flame Off - While thermite gel burns in excess of 5000 C, the gel used here has a much slower burn, and as such, has a lower temperature. It is simply unable to cut through durasteel, and will only melt through the thinnest durasteel panels (speeders, locks, etc).

DESCRIPTION
The thermite blade works like a lightsaber blade for dummies. While rather formidable-looking (sparking and flaming as thermite will do), it is nowhere near as powerful a tool as a lightsaber. It is unable to cut through most durasteel plating, and can only melt through the thinnest possible platings. However, as an inexpensive, spitballs-and-space-tape weapon, it does its job - look scary and hurt things.

The cortosis weave helps the weapon keep mostly intact after the burn is finished, though the 'weapon' can really no longer be useful for much other than a warm club. The same heat that can melt through a thin lock will also wreck the structural integrity of the sword itself. Significant time back at the forge is required to get the lump looking more like a sword and less like a tin stick.


[member="Darth Ananta"]

 

[Hailyn]

Awesome. Pending Admin Approval. Thanks! [member="Cira"]

 

[Jamie Pyne]

<p>Approved.</p>