Heavy Weapons - World Building

Anomalous Materials

Within the Heavy Weapons universe, there exist anomalous events that generate impossible materials, these anomalous materials have properties that are physically impossible by known physics, how they work is unknown and generally, their appearance within a universe is a sign that the health of the reality is rapidly diminishing. Yet, these materials can have a multitude of uses to those who are able to claim them. Currently, Anom-materials are extremely rare but still well known enough to be part of most educational curriculums across the universe. Due to their rarity and potential, a lot of the below list are extremely expensive and hard-fought over regularly, should they be generated by an anomaly.

Novarium

"Heat accelerator – existence annihilator."

Risk category: High to extreme

Novarium is a heat intensifier, a brilliant orange and white crystal that is often heavy but malleable. Novarium generates heat as its warmed, allowing for infinite energy production if carefully manipulated, but it catalyses itself and has no upper limit on the amount of heat it can generate, as a result of this, most factions will seek to attain it, but be extremely cautious around it, a Novarium meltdown is something than can liquefy an entire planet after all and that's just the beginning. Novarium comets are thankfully something of the past, but an uncontrolled Novarium mass will quite literally end the universe if given enough time.

Plasmide

"Appearances can be deceiving, do NOT touch."

Risk category: Medium to high

Plasmide is the electrical equivalent of Novarium, a conductive mineral with a striking blue hue that can store an infinite amount of electrical energy and generates its own voltage constantly. The good news about Plasmide, its much less volatile than Novarium as the nature of its energy is much more containable, the bad news is that Plasmide is very difficult to judge, its impossible to tell if a Plasmide nodule is fresh and completely uncharged or if it contains enough voltage to vaporise half the known universe... as before though, Plasmide is very valuable as it skips the middle man and directly generates extremely useful electricity, it does tend to generate plasma arcs at high energy levels though, which needs to be considered to store it safely. Beyond that, providing it is constantly drained and maintained properly, its an invaluable asset to any growing faction.

Ubershards

"Opposites brought together, two sides of the same coin."

Risk category: Low

Ubershards are grey/black elongated, perfectly formed crystals that are able to absorb and dissipate any impact on their "Hard" sides, no matter the magnitude, but will shatter instantly and perfectly if something scratches their soft side. Each face of the crystal alternates between soft and hard, having a black colour if hard and grey if soft. They shatter in smaller Ubershards if broken. If properly engineered, Ubershards have amazing properties for defensive products but they can be difficult to work with, considering that the soft sides are appropriately named as you can break them with a simple human finger nail... surprisingly however, despite their somewhat dull appearance, there is a hyper expensive market for Ubershard jewellery. They have no interaction with any other form of energy either, making them extremely useful for containing the above materials...

Absolite

"Eternally seeking warmth, forever frozen."

Risk category: Extreme

Absolite is the polar opposite of Novarium, it steadily and rapidly consumes heat, bringing everything around it to absolute zero. The heat drained is lost forever, irrevocably destroyed. Needless to say, Absolite is extremely deadly, able to kill anyone not protected in seconds but thankfully its spontaneous generation is extremely rare and easy to spot. As per usual however, there is plenty of use for such a material, specifically around any industry that views heat as a waste resource and needs to get rid of it quickly. Super-conduction is also a very valuable trait that Absolite enables and thus, Absolite heat-sinks and even circuit-boards for ultra-high end computing projects (Such as super computer projects aboard dedicated scientific stations) are always in extreme demand as they can solve difficult logistical problems. An unmanned, space-based super computer station doesn't care how cold it gets...