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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a first version of what essentially has to become a malleable, yet strong heat and energy resistant material to be used for weapon parts, armors, ship and droid parts. The idea is to create a viable and perhaps even superior alternative to both transparisteel, plastoid and plasteel in each of their respective fields.
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- Manufacturer: N&Z Engineering Solutions In conjunction with United Seswenna Mining
- Affiliation: N&Z Umbrella Corporation and Subsidiaries
- Market Status: Closed Market
- Model: Quinta-PolyCarbonite
- Production: The scale is Limited
- Material: Carbonite, Bistate Gel, Industrial thermal adhesive
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: REINFORCED Polymer compound
- Weight: Average
- Color: Tends to naturally be mainly available in shades of light to dark gray and meshed black, but can be dyed on commission.
- Resistances:
- Energy (And other Blaster type weapons): Very High
- Kinetic: High
- Lightsabers: Average
- Thermal: Very High
- Acid: Low
- EMP/ION: Very High
- Radiation: Low
- Other: Average
- Layered and bonded plates: While the product itself is a combination of multiple components, it is sold as a singular material compound which in its available form is a aggregate of layers of extremely thin sealed carbonite and thermal gel mixed with industrial adhesive, to form a malleable and multipurpose material that has uses both in civilian and military designs.
- Flame retardant material: Thanks to it being a combination of the thermally resistant Carbonite in a purified and refined form and bistate or thermal gel, this material has the added benefit to be fireproof and thus having an insanely heigh melting point despite carbonite's natural gas state and thermal gel being a semi-liquid.
- Durable and Flexible: Much easier than materials such as transparisteel to stamp or mold into forms and desired shapes, allowing for it to be comparable to plasteel and plastoid in the regards of flexibility and closer to duraplast in terms of durability.
- Environment multi-use: Due to its low conductivity and resistance to heat and thermal sources, it can keep both heat and cold outside, while trapping heat or cold inside, depending no the circumstances and the environment, allowing for this to be a rather comfortable material for armors in any and all environments.
- EMP/ION resistant: While it is thermally resistant, it also holds a good resistance against EMP and ION occurances and weaponry, allowing for this material to be extremely useful for Isolation of electronics and other systems that have weaknesses to the aforementioned weaponries or occurances.
- Can be dyed: Rather than being painted after being molded, the particular process in which this material is created, allows for it to have color being impregnated into it during the bonding process of the carbonite layers, allowing for a freedom of expression on a scale never seen before and with a much longer lasting luster and vibrance compared to the usual painting of materials. This method is also cheaper and much more cost effective in the long run.
- Bonding agency: While the plates made from this material themselves are surprisingly sturdy, yet flexible to a degree, any dissolvant that can get to and corrode the industrial adhesive used to bond the thermal gel and refined carbonite, would effectively turn this material into nothing but goop.
- Radiation: Despite it having a very high resistance against heat and a more than adequate resistance against EMP and ION, this material is more or less useless against radiation, as this type of damage may turn the material stiff and brittle, removing both its flexibility and durability when the concentration is high enough or the duration of exposure long enough. Generally a lethal dose of radiation or fifteen minutes to half an hour of high, but non-lethal radiation may end up ruining the material's flexibility and malleability. This excludes radiation such as atmospheric infrared and UV radiation.
- Throwaway material: A major downside to this material when compared to metals is that it can't simply be welded or glued together again when broken or cracked, since reheating is nearly impossible for normal people and when it would be done, this would destroy the bonding, thus leaving one with the thin sheets of carbonite. As such it is usually better to simply get a new product with this material rather than having to go through the nigh impossible task of repairing the material.
Considering how much carbonite the N&Z Umbrella coporation collects for and uses in their designs, it was only a matter of time before the company would seek out new ways to utilize the known carbonite properties and improve upon those. One of the issues with carbonite was the fact that it needed to be sourced and transported in either its natural gas or pressurized liquid form, which made widespread use somewhat tedious and impractical. One of the first things the company thus decided to do was to find a way to alter the structure of the carbonite and carbon gas from which it was collected in order to make it both much easier to transport and much more cost effective to use.
However, to do this and to have this work out well, the process of this restructuring had to be simple and cost effective in the long run. It was therefore that the EnSol division partnered with the N&Z's mining division, which had a great knowledge on all collected material within the company and a crack team of chemists who had worked with the various compounds already in the company's roster to come up with a valable solution to this issue. It was after this collaboration came to be, that progress would and could be made, as the chemists from the USM discovered that by simply rearranging the atomic structure through a process of tempering on a very high heat and absolute zero under extreme pressure would effectively churn out very thin and very light semi-solid sheets of Carbonite which had been dubbed Quinta polycarbonite due to the fact these sheets were in fact only five atoms thick, but could effectively be as long and wide as the company wanted.
To make these sheets structurally viable and useable as a material to be used in shipbuilding and manufacturing of goods, the tetrapolycabonite sheets would be bonded with the use of a strong, industrial adhesive which mixed with a low percentage of bistate gel would only improve the material's basic resistance against thermal and EMP occurances and weaponry, but allow for much greater flexibility than plastoid and plasteel, while granting a similar transparancy as glasteel and transparisteel, thus allowing for terapolycarbonite to have a very wide range of uses and applications ranging from simple home appliances to effective covering and shielding of electronics and even as cockpit windows or armorparts.
With the addition of Armorweave introduced into the bonding process, allowing for a mesh of armorweave to be placed in between the sheets, soaked into the industrial adhesive and bi state gel before being compressed together, this material ends up being much stronger and much more durable compared to the normal variations of the material, but as a result does lose its status as a lightweight product and the thickness of the compressed plates also no longer allow for the small classification. Due to the added costs of this production process, the material's production has been effectively limited.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
TO further upgrade the Polycarbonite Lamellar Compound for use in products
Technical Information
Affiliation:
N&Z Umbrella Corporation
Modular:
No
Material:
Carbonite, Armorweave, bistate gel, industrial adhesive
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