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DURANTIUM
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a durable new material for future submissions and role-playing.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Visanj T’shkali
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Model: Durantium
Modularity: None
Production: Semi-Unique
Material(s):
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification: Alloy
Weight: Heavy
Color: Metallic Light Grey
Resistances:
- Energy Weapons (Non-Disruptor-type): Very High
- Disruptor-type Weapons: None
- Lightsaber-type Weapons: None
- Kinetic: Very High
- Sonic: Very High
- Radiation (Including EMP/Ion): Very High
- Elemental: High
- Biological: Very High
- Acid (And other corrosive substances): Very High
- Pressure: Average
- Force Abilities: None
- Incredibly resistant to biological threats, including metal-eating fungi, as well as corrosion and radiation.
- Highly durable alloy is particularly resistant against energy weapons (Non-Disruptor-type) and kinetic damage, and provides a much higher-than-most protection against sonic weaponry, including “Hard Sound”.
- Limited self-healing capability allows the material to repair itself, closing fissures, small holes, even minor weapons fire, and ensures resilience against the rigors of travel in both realspace and hyperspace.
- Offers excellent protection against non-disruptor-type energy weapons and kinetic damage, as well as against sonic weaponry.
- Capable of limited/minor-level self-repair.
- Terrific protection against corrosion and radiation, and against biological threats, including metal-eating fungi. The inclusion of steristeel makes it very difficult for biological material to take root, such as molds, fungi, harmful bacteria, etc.
- Force-based attacks and effects will find no opposition or resistance here, and this material is quite vulnerable to such damage.
- Lightsaber and Disruptor-type weapons are particularly effective against Durantium, which has no defense against them.
- Durantium has only average protection against pressure damage, and if used as a stand-alone hull it cannot permit a vessel to travel (or survive) exposure to heavy pressures such as deep submergence or similar conditions.
- Self-repair capability is limited, and cannot repair major damage whatsoever, and like always, laminanium requires time to completely restore itself proportionate to the damage being repaired. A small scratch might take only a few seconds, while a hole several centimeters in diameter will take considerably more time.
A tough and durable material, durantium is capable of providing protection across a broad range of damage types and threats. From resisting the attachment and growth of harmful bacteria, metal-eating fungi, molds, and other biological threats to protecting against kinetic damage, energy weapons, and sonic weapons, together with a strong resilience against most commonly encountered forms of radiation, durantium delivers. Even more, it is capable – with sufficient time – of repairing minor damage and slowing the spread of fissures, cracks, or similar damage. It won’t heal back from a meter-wide hole blown through it, but it can withstand light/limited damage nicely.
Durantium however, does have its weaknesses. Force-based attacks and effects can easily overcome it and lightsaber and disruptor weapons will make short work of it as well, making it a poor choice for shields or armor against attacking Force-Users or those pesky Mandalorians with their natural affinity for disruptors. Further, as mentioned earlier, the self-repair capability is limited to only minor damage, and even that can take from a few seconds to several days to complete those repairs. Finally, it just isn’t good for standing up against intense pressure, and if used alone on the hull of a starship, exposure to intense pressure will turn a good day into a very terrible one in mere minutes.
