Ingenium
Factory & Codex
- Intent: To create a new, weird material for new productions.
- Image Source: Ben Wilson
- Permissions: Not Applicable
- Primary Source: X
- Manufacturer: Federal Cooperative among multiple suppliers
- Affiliation: Open-Market
- Model: Vitanium
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Production
- Material: Vitanium
- Classification: Metal
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Color: Rose Gold
- Resistances:
- Radiation: Average
- Ion/EMP: Average
- Disruptors: Very Low
- Lightsabers: Low
- Heat: Average
- Blaster: High
- Kinetic: Extreme
- Sonic: Very High
- Acid: None
- Bacteria: Very Low
- Regeneration — Kinetic energy causes Vitanium to grow and expand its area, reversing physical damage caused from blunt force from concussive explosions, to melee strikes. However, in large quantities this rosy material can completely shatter surrounding structures and machinery. In trace amounts, as an ingredient in an alloy, Vitanium can cause structures to heal damage.
- Regeneration, Blunt — Vitanium can overgrow an area that's been impacted by blunt force.
- Tough Material — Vitanium is comparable to durasteel in strength when not submerged under or exposed to water.
- Readily Available — There are many untapped Vitanium deposits throughout the Galaxy, previously ignored by mining companies, found in or around current and exhausted Lommite mines.
- Water — Vitanium regenerative abilities are inactive under moderate humidity (60%) or when submerged underwater.
- Disruptors — Vitanium will disintegrate like most other materials under a disruptor blast.
- Lightsabers — Vitanium can be cut like most other materials by a lightsaber.
- Heavy — Despite it's spaghetti, sometimes springy appearance, Vitanium is a heavy material.
- Acid — Vitanium is very weak to acids.
- Radiation — Vitanium by itself provides very little protection from radiation.
- Bacteria — Microbes can easily spread and grow on the surface of Vitanium.
Vitanium is a metal that when found, is often discovered alongside Lommite deposits throughout the Galaxy. In the earl days of the Old Republic, Vitanium was considered a significant nuisance to mining operations. When a Vitanium deposit was hit with a blunt force, the rosy material would harden. However, the diamond-tipped bits of most plasma mining drills were able to drive into these deposits. That's when the real problem would emerge. When plasma drills started digging into a Vitanium deposit, the rosy material would begin to form what miners called "hairs," these centimeter-thick wires, which rapidly multiplied and hardened. This would eventually cause the durasteel drill to shred itself apart, and cause the machine to break apart. Vitanium was a major obstacle where ever it was found. Until an accidental discovery resolved the issue entirely.
It was a splash of water would cause Vitanium to cease growing. Further study revealed that Vitanium was found alongside Lommite on arid planets that never developed large bodies of water. Additionally, Vitanium was found to stiffen when exposed to the air. When enclosed in an environment without oxygen, Vitanium was significantly softer and easier to work with.
After those string of discovers, the densely-packed metal spaghetti ceased to be a major problem for miners. It became a forgotten curiosity, encountered only by veteran miners on desolate worlds. The metal went for millennia unappreciated until 840 ABY, when a research team at Hosnian Prime discovered that trace amounts of the metal could be used to create various self-healing alloys. However, this technology had limitations - chiefly, it wasn't nearly as effective on planets with high humidity, and completely ineffective when submerged underwater. However, this discovery has led the Federal Cooperative, and other enterprises to experiment with the material to determine the potential uses it might have.
9/12/2020 - Added a Physical Specifications section I missed.
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