Roth Likonis
Industrialist
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: to create a stabilizing carbonite-based agent specifically for safe nova crystal transportation.
- Image Source: Link
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Carbonite / Carbon-freezing
- Manufacturer: LIKON, Ltd.
- Affiliation: LIKON, Ltd.
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: carbonite (60%), oxygen (20%), micronized ostrine particles (10%) cryogen (5%), null gas (5%)
- Classification: solidified gas
- Weight: Heavy
- Color: metallic / pale blue
- Resistances:
- Energy (And other Blaster type weapons): Very High
- Kinetic: High
- Lightsabers: Very High
- Other: Average
- Continuous refrigeration: ostrinite, once initially flash-frozen, continually and reliably insulates frozen objects by continually sapping heat for roughly one month. Because of this, it requires very little additional freezing and temperature control technology.
- + Carbonite strong: like carbonite, ostrinite is immensely energy resistant, capable of withstanding huge amounts of ambient energy, heat, and explosive force. Just as these traits made carbonite ideal for transporting highly explosive tibanna gas, the same properties make ostrinite ideal for transporting massively unstable nova crystals.
- - Prohibitively heavy: ostrinite is heavy, like regular carbonite, and requires the use of standard carbonite repulsor sleds in order to move it. This prevents ostrinite from being deployed in anything larger than standard carbonite slabs and blocks.
- - Gradual decay: ostrinite gradually decays in its ability to regulate its own temperature and solidity, even with the help of a carbonite frame. Ostrinite will eventually completely break down and revert to a gaseous state once it eats through its supply of impregnated oxygen; the resulting gas is highly toxic, though unremarkable.
- - Novel material: ostrinite is too much of a novel material, with highly specific maintenance needs, to be used for much of anything outside its highly specialized industrial niche. In its solid state, it is too impractical for armor, insulation, or other protective material; in its gaseous state it is an unremarkable (though toxic) gas classified as industrial waste.
Nova crystals are the main export on Cotellier, the headquarters of LIKON, Ltd. Immensely unstable, raw nova crystals matrices are highly volatile and reactive to ambient heat and energy; capable of detonating with tremendous force, a single small flake of nova crystal can explode with the force of a small bomb. As such, raw crystals must be immediately refrigerated using specialized equipment and containers, then transported offworld so they can be atomically bound to inert trace elements in a prohibitively costly process.
LIKON, trying to find an edge over its competition, has thought of a novel way to streamline this process; enter ostrinite.
Ostrinite is a specialized form of carbonite, designed to be self-refrigerating and insulating, requiring an absolute minimum of cooling equipment to keep its contents frozen. At its base ostrinite is composed of carbonite (60%), oxygen (20%), micronized ostrine particles (10%) cryogen (5%), and null gas (5%) combined in a proprietary mix; specifically, LIKON has found a way to atomically bond cryogen and null-gas together in a neutral state around magnetized grains of micronized ostrine. The resulting mix inhibits the rate at which the cryogen consumes oxygen; the warmer the mix gets the more oxygen it uses, while the cooler the mix the less oxygen it uses.
This effect is most useful when the gas is flash-frozen; the initial freezing process chills the mixture and initiates an extremely slow and uniform consumption of oxygen in an arrested reaction that can be precision timed based on the temperature at time of flash-freezing, and the amount of oxygen added to the mix. Combined with the cryogenic and heat absorptive properties of ostrine, the resulting solidified mix can reliably sustain its cryogenic reaction for up to a month before using up its impregnated oxygen supply.
