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- Intent: Create a conceptual ammunition technology designed and manufactured by the Grutter Norr Ryk's State Defence Industries, this munition technology is intended to be used in an anti-material and anti-infantry role, consistent with Norr weapons engineering methodology; this munition is fundamentally brutal and intended to be used in an analogous role like fuel for a flamethrower or the high-explosive filler for high-explosive rockets, mortars and anti-tank projectiles.
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- Canon Link: N/A.
- Permissions: N/A.
- Primary Source: Bistate gel, cherenkov radiation, caesium, gel-foam, incendiary grenade.
- Designed: 890-898 ABY.
- Manufactured: 898 ABY-Onwards.
- Manufacturer: State Defence Industries.
- Affiliation:
- Grutter Norr Ryk.
- Citizens.
- Grutter Norr Ryk.
- Market Status: Closed-Market.
- Model: Pyrogel
- Modularity: Yes (This munition technology can be scaled and modularly delivered).
- Production: Mass Production.
- Material: hydrazine, caesium.
- Classification: Ballistic/Kinetic Ammunition Technology.
- Ammunition type: Gel.
- Weight: Varies according to the volume of the ammunition.
- Caesium.
- Ferromagnetic.
- High Burning-Point.
- Radioactive.
- Adaptable: This ammunition technology can be used in three forms, generally: Magnetically-contained liquid stream, magnetically-contained solid projectile, or stored in a large container such as a rocket, missile or shell as explosive filler.
- Adhesive: Pyrogel is adhesive and sticks stubbornly to its target.
- Radioactive: This technology contains a radioactive isotope of caesium that is highly radioactive and begins rapidly releasing the energy contained in the radioactive isotope that makes up the ammunition as alpha and beta radiation; the amount of released energy is sufficient to rapidly induce physical symptoms to contact exposure such as burns, necrosis or ulceration. Metabolic symptoms can include Disorientation, fever, hair loss, infection and nausea.
- Temperature: When ignited, Pyrogel burns between 2000 to 3000 degrees Celsius; it is scorching and can turn materials like Durasteel and Titanium into molten slag; direct contact with the jelly generally results in fourth-degree burns. Interestingly the blast can flash-vaporise the shadows of victims swollen whole by an explosion where they stand.
- Cherenkov radiation: Pyrogel, due to the highly energetic caesium contained, gives off an iridescent azure hue; this makes its' presence in ammunition overt when exposed to visible light and leaves contrails behind in its' wake that can be traced back to its source of origin. This is particularly unhelpful in mortars as it can be used to locate a battery's position without sophisticated direction-finding equipment.
- Magnetically contained projectiles: This munition technology can be magnetically held into a projectile; when magnetically held into a projectile, a lightsabre wielder can use the magnetic field to deflect the magnetic field using the aforementioned lightsabre.
- Liquid: This munition technology can take many forms, including magnetically contained projectiles and liquids; when the munition is in a liquid form and left without gravity, liquid applications are liable to flail around.
- Range: As a magnetically-contained projectile or stream, the resultant range is generally limited due to the mass of the Gel, which is relatively high. Regardless of its form, most individual weapon systems leveraging this technology have ranges limited between one hundred to two-hundred metres for mass-produced models at standard gravity in a typical atmosphere.
- Submerged: This munition technology doesn't function underwater where its' ignition is smothered.
- Volume: Pyrogel's properties mean it takes up considerable volume and is cumbersome to carry in large volumes.
Pyrogel is a radioactive adhesive gel-like material manufactured by State Defense Industries and used by the Norr Ryk's military as ammunition for devastating anti-tank and anti-infantry weapons. The jelly is ferromagnetic and contains a radioactive isotope of caesium; it is stable although highly hazardous. When an electric current passes through the explosive jelly, it ignites or explodes spectacularly if the material is under pressure. The incendiary adhesive gel can be compressed into a projectile with powerful magnets or focused just enough to take the form of a coherent arcing stream where it can be seen to be used in the role of a 'flamethrower'. The munition technology can be packed into kinetic or ballistic projectiles such as rockets, mortars and cannon shells, taking the design role of a high-explosive filler in ammunition to devastating effect.
