Matreya
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Intent: To expand upon real life metallurgic methods
Development Thread: If needed..
Manufacturer: Merr-Sonn, Inc.
Model: MS "Titan Steel" Alloy Mk 1
Affiliation: Selective Markets
Modularity: None
Production: Minor
Materials: Varies, On average possessing traditional steel components electroplated with MerrSteel
Classification: Multipurpose
Weight: Varies, Generally very lightweight
Quality: Varies, Average (with normal Steel components) of 7 but can reach higher
Special Features:
Description: Starting with the ideals of needing a more useful material to have within their arsenal of trade, possessing similarities between MerrSteel and MerrTitan, but being made less so than its predecessors, the heads of decided to go with a new breed altogether. Firstly Merr-Sonn metallurgists, after word from Damien Daemon, and Valashu Elahad, set about starting at base processes, those already known to make materials stronger. Some of the potentials begin with Titanium, as it is one of the easiest, and despite it all, one of the cheapest, to manipulate they chose it as a base for the material. Additions were added though, high levels of chromium, with additions of Iron as well as heavy amounts of Tungsten.
What was a hefty and durable, but easily not the strongest, has now been changed vastly. With additions of Chromium the plating, or slabs of the material, are denser against scratching and slashing, while with addition of Tungsten also adds a tensile strength greatly passing Durasteel, and superbly passing general Steel. Ostrine was added toward the means of heavy heat absorption.
After properly allowing the separate minerals a chance to combine on proper levels, yet while still malleable and mold able, the next process begins. Next the new alloy is put through two massive rolling pins, through which they thin the metal until it is less than two millimeters. Via each of the pins moving on different speeds, they force fused large grains to break back down into smaller grains. Afterwards moderate heating is added to force bonding between smaller crystals. This results in overlay of small crystals around large crystals, making the resulting metal heavily more durable because the surrounding layer of small grains makes it difficult for the large grains to deform, while maintaining flexibility.
The next step is a direct step by step replica to the MerrTitan:
The end result is a type on par with MerrSteel in tensile strength, while also lighter than MerrTitan.
Primary Source: Zhu Strong Ductile
(The statistical information is based upon less than 2mm thin sheets of the metal)
Development Thread: If needed..
Manufacturer: Merr-Sonn, Inc.
Model: MS "Titan Steel" Alloy Mk 1
Affiliation: Selective Markets
Modularity: None
Production: Minor
Materials: Varies, On average possessing traditional steel components electroplated with MerrSteel
Classification: Multipurpose
Weight: Varies, Generally very lightweight
Quality: Varies, Average (with normal Steel components) of 7 but can reach higher
Special Features:
- Lightsaber Resistance
- Very Durable
- Lightweight
- [ Light and Durable ] ~ The material is a very durable alloy, even able to absorb heat from lightsaber blades, lessening the damage they do
- [ Shaping ] ~ Should an item be produced on a grand scale it will likely take pressing to shape to do so, which forces striations to form along the shape. Much like the grain of a fiber of wood, should none follow the 'metallic grain' with, say, a sword, they will find it much easier to destroy the material
- [ Cold ] ~ The material also possesses, depending on method creation and which worker makes it, an inherent severity toward cold. It becomes increasingly brittle with every second that it is exposed
- [ Zzzzt ] ~ Unbeknownst as to why, this material when crafted by certain workers, possesses a dense vulnerability toward electrical surges. Even small shocks become super painful, toward the extent that an average shock can cause total paralysis.
Description: Starting with the ideals of needing a more useful material to have within their arsenal of trade, possessing similarities between MerrSteel and MerrTitan, but being made less so than its predecessors, the heads of decided to go with a new breed altogether. Firstly Merr-Sonn metallurgists, after word from Damien Daemon, and Valashu Elahad, set about starting at base processes, those already known to make materials stronger. Some of the potentials begin with Titanium, as it is one of the easiest, and despite it all, one of the cheapest, to manipulate they chose it as a base for the material. Additions were added though, high levels of chromium, with additions of Iron as well as heavy amounts of Tungsten.
What was a hefty and durable, but easily not the strongest, has now been changed vastly. With additions of Chromium the plating, or slabs of the material, are denser against scratching and slashing, while with addition of Tungsten also adds a tensile strength greatly passing Durasteel, and superbly passing general Steel. Ostrine was added toward the means of heavy heat absorption.
After properly allowing the separate minerals a chance to combine on proper levels, yet while still malleable and mold able, the next process begins. Next the new alloy is put through two massive rolling pins, through which they thin the metal until it is less than two millimeters. Via each of the pins moving on different speeds, they force fused large grains to break back down into smaller grains. Afterwards moderate heating is added to force bonding between smaller crystals. This results in overlay of small crystals around large crystals, making the resulting metal heavily more durable because the surrounding layer of small grains makes it difficult for the large grains to deform, while maintaining flexibility.
The next step is a direct step by step replica to the MerrTitan:
Via the end of this, one finds they have a lightweight, but very durable alloy able to molded to meet many needs. But this still is not where the process ends. When Merr-Sonn, Inc. is properly manufacturing an item for someone, they will shape it as properly deemed before super heating once more. Up until the point where it is beginning to be malleable, then it is quickly cryogenically frozen, forcing the tensile density to solidify. A sword takes one more step to harden, a suit of armor? Same. Gun barrel? Just the same....electroplating carbon nanoparticles to be used in a process known as cavitation ... Firstly, when adding carbon nanoparticles to any alloy, there is the ever present issue with clumping, therefore not dispering into the mixture properly. The result is an alloy that within, locating in multiple regions, there is an ultra hardened material. But the rest of the metal? It becomes brittle, to brittle for most processes required of the alloy. But cavitation, or the application of sonic pulses, allows rapid expansion and retraction of waves that cause bubbling in the alloy. The result is, upon the final and strongest wave, the bubbles popping, dispersing all clumps evenly throughout. This in and of itself already allows for hardening, true hardening, of materials.
Through this method, even steel can become ten times harder than it is at resting.
But then came the electroplating of the carbon nanoparticles. This is performed via electrical applications to an electrolyte mixture containing a MerrSteel salt, so that during the process, involving negatively charging the ions within the electrolyte, the alloy slinks upward into carbon's cell to encase it properly. Thusly when these new hybridal MerrSteel-carbon particles are added, they could make potentially the hardest substance to exist.
The problem there in would be density, and over all weight. At this point, taking a progress that made one of the most durable and heavy metals in existence harder, and heavier, it would be damn near useless via all means. Hence, microlattice mesh additions made from a cooling, therefore malleable, state of the MerrSteel 2.0. Through processes involving machine driven rolling, hollowing, and like, there are hollow nanotubes crafted from the product. These then get formed into mesh that is layered and layered until making a solid shape...
The end result is a type on par with MerrSteel in tensile strength, while also lighter than MerrTitan.
Primary Source: Zhu Strong Ductile
(The statistical information is based upon less than 2mm thin sheets of the metal)