Name: Diamond Enriched Hardlight. “Kaba’nasii”. Description: A durable form of hardlight constructed by tightly connected cuboidal polygons. Usually used within naian weaponry, shielding or other utilities, Diamond Enriched Hardlight is a versatile material that is quick to conjure, durable and flexible (not in the literal sense). Capable of being shaped freely and customised to the heart's contempt by the user, it has spawned a wide variety of uses from civilian to military. Due to its iron content Diamond Enriched Hardlight gets a reddish-orange hue when no additional colourings are added. Abilities: Durability: Diamond enriched hardlight has an incredible capacity to disperse kinetic, thermal, radiative and electric energy across its surface. This leads to it being able to sustain a fair few light to medium blows. It is also on average as durable as certain metals or military ceramics at a fraction the weight. Additionally it has an incredible resistance towards plasma, being able to completely repel the thermal energy and only really being affected by any kinetic energy the plasma would strike it with. Quick: Diamond enriched hardlight is quick to deploy and quick to retract. This is due to its structure being primarily comprised of tiny, easy to produce cuboidal polygons that are fitted together. This gives diamond enriched hardlight its iconic square criss cross texture. Limitations: Resistant: The innate electrical current within diamond enriched hardlight has to put in a lot of effort to travel through the material. This generates a fair amount of waste heat. Waste heat that makes the hardlight impossible to touch without scalding yourself. This also makes it stand out like a sore thumb on infrared cameras, even when the opacity has been set to practically zero. On the upside soldiers have been known to heat their rations on their blades. Shocking!: Due to the electrical current innate within the hardlights internal structure already putting the material under great stress, any additional electrical currents introduced by, say, a tesla coil will end up greatly diminishing the durability of diamond enriched hardlight’s internal structure, making its strength akin to glass. Packing Pounds: Diamond enriched hardlight is considerably heavier than conventional hardlight. Tricky: Diamond enriched hardlight takes a professional to program. Sedentary: It's very hard to “animate” diamond enriched hardlight as this takes a lot of unnecessary energy and greatly sacrifices durability. As thus, the closest will be to expose it to a process similar to hardlight cloth. This will still greatly impact structural integrity but could produce ropes and tethers of comparable strength to steel wire. Conditional Limitations: Electrobadnetic: The electrical current inside of diamond enriched hardlight can generate a magnetic field. Why this is a bad thing is because the field is, at best, kitchen magnet strength, making it more of a nuisance by, say, picking up large quantities of lunar dust that can seriously damage the internal mechanisms of the conjurer and reduce the efficacy of the hardlight item. How does it work?: Diamond enriched hardlight is, quite simply, a modification on conventional photonic hardlight. Where conventional photonic hardlight simply makes use of subatomic particles, diamond enriched hardlight interlaces these particles with a dense, closely knit lattice of diamond nanothreads. Incorporated into this lattice are iron particles. When these are charged by the electrical current running through the structure the hardlight ends up “clamping down” on itself, greatly improving durability. The emitter, conventionally known as a “Conjurer” is the centerpiece to the entire structure. A conjurer (or several if the construct requires such) have the task of both producing and powering the construct. When initiated the conjurer will begin producing cuboidal polygons of diamond enriched hardlight with material provided from a local hammerspace or EtM device. Each polygon comes at a standard size of around ½ inch for each length though size variations do exist (for instance, polygons can reach sizes nearing or surpassing half a millimetre for blades and projectile tips). These are manipulated via either electromagnetic fields or zero-point energy fields to form the shapes necessary. Flavour text: Invented by the scientist Pimmie-Noo under commission by the naian coreworld council during the conflicts with their outer rim, the technology was to provide a cheap and effective way of creating shielding and weaponry that could rival the opposing vanguards revolutionary plasma tech. Inspired by the recent introduction of hardlight into the naian coreworlds from outsiders, she was determined to figure out a way to make the technology more viable for the naian war front. “The road to victory is lined with kaba’nasii.” Is a quote taken from the admiral Shali Noall after having seen his division stand undefeated throughout several skirmishes and battles with the opposition. Weight: ~0.01 lbs/cubic inch. Durability: 4 Flexibility: Practically nonexistent. Will resist being stretched or bent before shattering. Thermal conductivity: Above average. Electrical conductivity: Very poor. Referenced Technologies: Photonic Hardlight Hardlight weaving Attainability: [Semi-Closed] Tags: [Materials] [Racial] Category: [Industrial]
Hey there, apologies for the long wait on a response. @TrIpTiCuS So, when you were writing this I think you got some of the traits of Faux Hardlight and Photonic Hardlight confused. Photonic hardlight is merely a mesh of locked photons given the illusion of mass, its impossible to truly weave anything into it, and the second it disappears anything that might've been inside the projection will just fall out to the ground, additionally, the immense power requirements of photonic hardlight make it very impractical for portable use in anything much larger than knives and batons. Faux hardlight is the form of hardlight more often used for things like blades, and is also the subject of hardlight weaving, where extruded strands of faux hardlight are added to a material, and you'd find that faux hardlight already has many of the features of this material. Here's its post in the Materials Codex if you'd like to examine it more deeply. https://galactic-citizen.com/threads/materials.1275/#post-3709 As such, this post is currently sitting at a Deferral to the Codex.
