Bonded Superdense

Bonded superdense is an advanced alloy developed as a superior form of Crystaliron, that is used in particularly advanced armors, and other materials that need a level of extreme resilience. Primarily it is utilized by the high-tech starship manufacturers, though other industrial concerns also make use of the material for components that need to be highly resilient. Bonded superdense is very difficult to manufacture however, with most worlds incapable of producing it, which limits the viability of universal adoption.

Properties

Physical & Chemical Properties

Bonded Superdense is a composite material made from multiple bonds of Crystaliron that have been smelted together at the molecular level via the application of extremely intense artificial gravity and pressure wells. This molecular smelting results in an extremely tough bond that is resistant to extremes of temperature, pressure, and other external forces far exceeding any common material and even that of Crystaliron. The only major weakness of the material, at least compared to other common superdenses, is that it is less resilient against the effects of common entropy compared to Crystaliron, and the even harder to manufacture Coherent Superdense, requiring maintenance on a scale of decades rather than centuries. It is fairly lightweight, having half the mass again, of a comparable piece of Crystaliron, and is a very resilient semiconductive material

History & Usage

Discovery

Bonded Superdense was first discovered as an accident of space exploration. When examining the properties of black holes and Jumpspace during the 36th century, a large probe initiated a jump close to the event horizon of the black hole. When the probe returned to its base, the Crystaliron hull of the probe was demonstrably severely damaged, the materials having been warped and blended together. Though this was initially considered destructive, Dr. Isaac Wen tested this material, finding it to be much more resilient against the effects of extreme conditions and damage, than it was previously. Seeking to recreate this process Dr. Wen created his own high pressure chamber to simulate the effects of a small stellar mass black hole. Subjecting Crystaliron to this pressure and then folding the material while doing so led to the creation of the first manufactured Bonded Superdense. Since then, knowledge of the practice has spread, but Bonded Superdense remains extremely difficult to manufacture and as a result is largely limited to higher tech manufacturers.

Everyday use

The primary usage of Bonded Superdense is in high tech starship manufacturing. In this field it is used as the primary component of starship hulls, conductive plates for high-tech M-drives, in the manufacture of J-Drives of a caliber higher than 4 (and often in lower level jump drives of advanced manufacture), and the reinforcement of high tech fusion reactors. It is a lightweight, extremely resilient, semiconductive material and is therefore also used in certain electronics manufacturing, particularly in robot brains.

Type

Composite