Item: Diamond-Hafnium Panels
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Type | Ship Component / Trade Good |
| Cost | 180,000 cl |
| Encumbrance | 4 |
| Tech Level | TL4 |
| Availability | Rare |
Effect / Mechanics
None, Industrial Goods
Description
A massive, 1.5m x 1.5m curved slab of translucent, dark-grey crystal. It is incredibly heavy and the outer face is etched with microscopic, spiraling grooves designed to channel ejected electron plasma into a swirling magnetic dipole. 8 of these combine to a Scattering Sphere inside a PAL Fuel Cell.
Origins
- Source: Trask Intermediaries / Iman Nanofoundries
- Notes: Produced inside Trask Non-Exotic Material Foundries
Manufacturing
This component requires access to purified methane liquid/gas, raw hafnium or purified hafnium aerosol and spools of carbon nanotube superconductors, preferably Iman Nanofoundries brand.
To grow the panels, synthetic diamond is grown over an isotropic graphene mold via a co-deposition process inside a Chemical Vapor Deposition Vacuum Chamber. It takes around a week to grow one panel inside one chamber.
The CVD chambers are leased to Trask from Iman Nanofoundries, and blackbox contracts prevent trask engineers from opening the machines without Iman supervision. The factory floor is lined with brilliant white, 4-meter tall obelisks. Heavy Piping connectects the top and bottom of the obelisks with the feed-tanks for the raw materials. Constantly frosted, insulated pipes connect to the methane tanks, and veavily shielded, reinforced conduits pump the purified hafnium aerosol. Automated, robotic feed-mechanisms slowly unspool the carbon nanotube superconductors from massive drums into microscopic insertion ports at the machine’s base.