The Hunger awaits
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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- Manufacturer: NZ Umbrella Corporation, Nargath Holdings
- Affiliation: Closed-Market
- Model: Ersteel 1333
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: 10% Carbonite, 30% Doonium, 30% Durasteel, 30% Chanlon
- Classification: Alloy
- Weight: Average
- Color: Silver gray
- Resistances:
- Energy (And other Blaster type weapons): Very High
- Kinetic: High
- Lightsabers: High
- Elemental: High
- Acid: None
- Other: Average
- 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.
- 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 thus also improves its resistance against fires, atmospheric re-entry heat, high velocity friction heat and plasma based weaponry.
- Highly Energy Resistant: Due to it's very good heat resistance paired with a very high density, this alloy has a very high resistance against energy based weaponry such as lasers and the likes.
- High Kinetic resistance: Due to an even higher density than the original Ersteel alloy, the Ersteel 1333 can boast a high level of resistance against any kinetic based weaponry, but also against space debris and collisions, providing great structural integrity for ships.
- Extremely 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.
- Not a good conductor: Ersteel 1333 due to it's heat resistance is a rather bad conductor of electricity and heat and thus has practically no use in electronics.
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 1333 is a further evolution of Ersteel 145, further limiting the use of Durasteel by using Chanlon as an additional part of its alloy, Chanlon which is lighter and denser than Durasteel allows for the alloy to provide even more kinetic resistance, while also making the alloy lighter in comparison to the original Ersteel 145. It is however much harder to make and chanlon is less readily available than regular durasteel, which limits the output of this material for practical use and sales. Nonetheless, it has a better structural integrity than Ersteel 145 and is expected to see good use within the future of shipbuilding.
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