Durasteel
Durasteel also called Duranium is a strong yet flexible material, capable of withstanding severe punishment. It serves well as ship armor, mech and vehicle carapaces and in some cases personal armor or weapons though its high processing price, relatively limited availability and navy priority use make it quite rare in civilian applications.
Usually used as a support structure in some buildings, especially those that have to withstand high-g or high pressure Duranium is sometimes used to forge tools and weapons though said weapons are usually prohibitively expensive for the casual user.
Durasteel owes its flexibility during processing and hadness after to nano manipulation under high directed gravitic fields. The high carbon structure inside the material is first manipulated to be flexible and then it is manipulated into almost diamond-like bonds. The outside is processed with a carbon-diamond bond steel alloy finish to ensure maximum initial resistance as well as to offset the negatives of carbon-steel (brittleness, moisture reactivity). The result is a material as easy to mold during production as plasteel but three times stronger in pressure tests and offering 50% more kinetic and energy resistance in military applications. Durasteel is not often combined with other materials like ceramic coatings, nanoweaves or nanocomposite layers, being considered strong enough on its own. When it is combined it is for specialized applications - e.g. Ceramic Duranium carapaces for labor in molten conditions.
Durasteel has advantages over stronger metals used for similar purposes: the hyper-dense neutronium is stronger in military applications but rarer, more expensive, incredibly hard to forge into shape and extremely heavy. Meanwhile exotic elements like Crystalline Entity matter alloys are exclusively reserved for military use and suited at best for ship structural support rather than frontal impact armor.
Usually used as a support structure in some buildings, especially those that have to withstand high-g or high pressure Duranium is sometimes used to forge tools and weapons though said weapons are usually prohibitively expensive for the casual user.
Durasteel owes its flexibility during processing and hadness after to nano manipulation under high directed gravitic fields. The high carbon structure inside the material is first manipulated to be flexible and then it is manipulated into almost diamond-like bonds. The outside is processed with a carbon-diamond bond steel alloy finish to ensure maximum initial resistance as well as to offset the negatives of carbon-steel (brittleness, moisture reactivity). The result is a material as easy to mold during production as plasteel but three times stronger in pressure tests and offering 50% more kinetic and energy resistance in military applications. Durasteel is not often combined with other materials like ceramic coatings, nanoweaves or nanocomposite layers, being considered strong enough on its own. When it is combined it is for specialized applications - e.g. Ceramic Duranium carapaces for labor in molten conditions.
Durasteel has advantages over stronger metals used for similar purposes: the hyper-dense neutronium is stronger in military applications but rarer, more expensive, incredibly hard to forge into shape and extremely heavy. Meanwhile exotic elements like Crystalline Entity matter alloys are exclusively reserved for military use and suited at best for ship structural support rather than frontal impact armor.
Material Type: Metal
Usage: Construction, Ship Hulls, Weapons, Armor
Spread: Uncommon
Usage: Construction, Ship Hulls, Weapons, Armor
Spread: Uncommon
Type
Metal
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