Odic Energy
Named after the Wixie who discovered it, Odic Energy is the leftover lifeforce of a Thubanian, and the continued life of the Ooaren people. It is a highly valued resource, fraught with betrayal and the almost extinction of entire races for it’s prize.
Properties
Material Characteristics
Odic Energy that isn’t domestically made is usually very old, and so its most common form is crystallized, named Odic Crystal. It is made of a perfectly clear, unfogged crystal, almost as see-through as glass. Its growth patterns—small, growing bumps over a singular large pieces—have the same clarity as its much larger pieces. It is harder than diamond, but it’s difficult to find sharp edges as, for most locations, Odic Energy seems to have worn itself away. In other locations, it remains uncrystallized; still in its extremely new, raw state as ash, which is simply named as Odic Ash.
Physical & Chemical Properties
Crystallized Odic Energy runs hot on most sensors, radiating heat from miles away and burning most organic life that hasn’t adapted to be within range of it. It is seeming almost alive, as one person could reach out to touch a dull edge of a crystal and be unharmed, uncut, and another could do the same and have their hand be sliced open. The smaller a piece of Odic Crystal is, the less heat it can generate, although there are exceptions depending upon how close to the core a piece was cut from.
Odic Ash, after a comet crashes into a planet or the body of a Thubanian has burned up in the atmosphere, is relatively lukewarm compared to its crystallized form. Over time, it gathers heat, melting over itself and forming Odic Crystal. Odic Ash can be dangerous when breathing in this material; it can seem to pick and choose who to hurt, although most people it harms in defense.
Compounds
Odic Ash is mix with other materials like concrete to strengthen walls, or to polishing paste to make jewels shine, as it will stick to just about any surface in its refined dust form.
It is denser than water, much like salt; however, it doesn’t dissolve like salt does in heat, especially since most of the heat is generated by it.
Geology & Geography
The places where Odic Energy can be found seem to be random—there is no pattern to where it forms out in the galaxy, only that its ash form can be found either at the bottom of oceans, having pooled like salt or sediment, or in craters made by comets. Crystallized Odic Energy, however, is found in the dirt and the mountains—sometimes an entire mountain range will only be layered with a few layers of regular rock, as a sort of disguise. Sometimes Odic Crystal can also be found in craters like Odic Ash, but most times it hasn’t reached the proper heat at that stage, which happens with time.
Microscopic particles of Odic Ash or Crystal can also be found in living things such as trees. Usually, this is the only way for any organic life to survive near Odic Energy—if it is infected with it. If it is found on a planet with organic life that has managed to stick around, then it is a guarantee that Odic Energy will be found within that life, or growing over it.
Origin & Source
Odic Energy comes from the life energy of elder Thubanians and the living plates of Ooarens, two sapient species that are being hunted down for this resource.
Thubanians become superheated comets at the ends of their lives, sometimes burning up in the atmosphere of a planet or crashing into an asteroid and leaving behind Odic Ash, which then solidifies further as time goes on, growing into Odic Crystal.
Ooarens, however, have always had Odic Crystal as part of their anatomy, thick in their blood. As time goes on, this crystal begins to grow all over them, creating scales like a fish, and then plates as an Ooaren gets older. They will remain under the water their entire lifetime.
Life & Expiration
Artificially grown, compressed, and refined Odic Energy lasts only five to ten years. This is due to the lingering life force within the small collection fighting the process.
History & Usage
History
In the beginning, Odic Energy was only an energy source passed down from the very first elders and then allowed to grow to support the family. From then on, unless the energy source was somehow depleted—an unlikely occurrence, as Odic Energy, especially in this crystalized form, grows on its own—elder Thubanians leave their homeworld to travel the stars as comets. They do so until they die, crashing into asteroids or entering a planet’s atmosphere and burning up, leaving behind Odic Ash.
Thubanians only name this material “Elders”, or Oq’jowx in their own language, for that is what the material represents—the lifeforce of the elders who came before them, long lived as they were, made strong with their wisdom and growth.
Everyday use
Odic Energy in its crystalized form is used as a power source, cut down and refined for regulated consumption in ships, city centers, and regular households. The leftover pieces from cutting the crystal down to size and efficient carrying shape are then further crafted into jewels to hang about someone’s neck, after being coated in a specialized, protective glaze to negate the more dangerous amounts of heat.
Although its crystalized form is the easiest to transport, it has another refined form: that of fine ash—small, sand-like particles that shimmer like glitter and are just as see through as the larger pieces. This dust is added to various materials during their melting or binding process to strengthen their end result. To jewels, it is used during polishing to give more shine—it is added to a paste, rubbed all over the gem, left to dry, and then is gently chipped off and brushed away.
Industrial Use
If gathered in large amounts in its raw ash form, it is then melted down using extreme heat at melting stations either orbiting a burning star or built precariously down into volcanic, super-heated planets.
Refinement
When found in its most raw state (that of thick, flaky ash) and if not left alone for it to undergo its next stage naturally, it is gathered and then either artificially compressed into its crystallized stage, or ground into a more refined dust to be added to other materials.
Type
Ore/Mineral
Rarity
Common.
Odor
N/A.
Taste
Heavy, smoke-like, and burning.
Color
Translucent.
Density
Salt-like sediment.
Common State
Solid.
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