User:Odahviinq/Thriyorum

Thriyorum is a rare mineral found upon many planets, with the chemical symbol Ty and atomic number 119.

In it's mineral form, Thriyorum appears bright pink, and once refined, a radiant purple.

Extraction and Refinery
Thriyorum is a very rare mineral, with the average planet containing just over 6 tonnes of Thriyorum. It is often found in very large veins once discovered, and is tricky to harvest.

Because of it's unique pressure immunity, many conventional tools are less effective when mining Thriyorum. The only feasible method is to mine the stone around the ore and take it back in a huge chunk. This can provide many problems, as chunks of Thriyorum can be as large as most land vehicles, meaning the path to the surface must be made large enough to get the vein out.

Often once harvested the Thriyorum needs to be cut into different pieces. However, as said before, most pressurising methods will not affect this mineral and the only known method of separating the ore is to heat it into a liquid (which requires a temperature of approx. 1524 degrees Celsius, care must be taken not to accidentally smelt the ore), separate it in that form, and then resolidify it.

After being split into the necessary sizes, the ore can be refined to make it even tougher, and to remove any excess stone. The ore is heated to around 800 degrees in a specially designed smelter, and once heated into a tough ingot form is ready for use.

The entire harvesting and refining process takes around 3 weeks.

Usage
Because of it's rarity, Thriyorum is not used in building common vehicles or structures. However, the main use of this mineral is building very sturdy ships. Whilst the mineral is immune to any type of physical damage, the use of laser weaponry and explosives is enough to scar it and if enough scarring occurs the Thriyorum serves little protection. Therefore, use of Thriyorum ships in combat is strictly discouraged. Instead, these ships are able to pass through wormholes, in particular rift warps, with relative ease.

Pressure Resistance
Thriyorum is completely immune to pressure from physical objects, and the reason so is only held as a secret by the most technological of empires.

Thriyorum's chemical bonds are held together using high pressure caused by the ore's reaction to air. The longer the ore is left exposed to oxygen, the harder the bonds can become. However, if left too long the bonds extend to stone around the ore making it more difficult to harvest. High energy also forms around the bonds giving them a tough outer shell.

Pressure and crushing work because the object is put against a force it cannot resist, causing it to crumple and crush. However, Thriyorum is able to resist many forces, and tests have shown that Thriyorum is even able to stop the force of two tectonic plates crashing, if enough exists in the area.