Gallop would make MUCH more sense; thanks!
Using those minerals for MSP is odd in my opinion because it seems so divorced from what they're used for. If a ship lacked sensors, it would use the same supplies; at the same time, many compliments which use other minerals would apparently be forced to be repaired by the same supplies. A laser, which uses Boronide and Corundium, would surely be repaired with those same minerals, right?
Gallop would make MUCH more sense; thanks!
Using those minerals for MSP is odd in my opinion because it seems so divorced from what they're used for. If a ship lacked sensors, it would use the same supplies; at the same time, many compliments which use other minerals would apparently be forced to be repaired by the same supplies. A laser, which uses Boronide and Corundium, would surely be repaired with those same minerals, right?
Duranium, Gallicite and Uridium are used for MSP because they are the most common materials in ship construction.
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg116381;topicseen#msg116381
My mental image of Tritanium is not that of a material for warheads as it seems to be implied in Aurora. Tritanium is an especially strong, but relatively rare/expensive to manufacture metal alloy used for high-performance structures - like torpedo casings that must be able to withstand great speeds. It's used in ordnance factories because you need very strong and durable precision manufacturing tools to work it which are, in turn, also made from Tritanium.
Generally I associate different colors and different qualities with the minerals.
Duranium is a lighter grey or silver, as it's a basic steel-like material.
Neutronium is a dark grey. It's a hard and brittle material used for massive industrial superstructures like shipyards.
Corbomite is a shining white or almost white substance for CnC functions. FTL communication maybe?
Tritanium is a strong orange-brown metal alloy for military high-performance structures.
Boronide is a dull lighter green material used for mediating power flows, such as in fuel tanks, reactors or civilian anti-grav infrastructure.
Mercassium
Vendarite is a strong dark purple/blueish metal, but not quite as strong or easy to work as duranium or neutronium. It's used for ground unit equipment because, unlike duranium, neutronium or tritanium especially, it or it's alloys are not poisonous to humans and therefore suited for military equipment in direct contact with squishy biological creatures.
Sorium is a white powder, in it's solid form, and has a very high energy density.
Uridium is a bright green mineral used for high-performance TN computers, such as those required to filter out faint ship signatures from raw sensor data or calculate firing solutions in extremely fast and extremely long range (10k km is the minimum range!) space battles.
Corundium is a slightly orange yellow crystalline structure used in both military and mining lasers.
Gallicite is everyone's favorite dark green engine mineral. It's the only substance with the right characteristics able to handle the strong energy flows needed for creating the energy fields involved in Aether propulsion. Larger and efficient engines can distribute the energy flow over more area and material and can stretch the Gallicite with other, cheaper materials. A smaller or boosted military engines require smaller coils or stronger energy flows and need to be made out of a much higher Gallicite concentration.
Although I think Tritanium still makes sense as a warhead; I don't think any minerals are associated with actual combustion, so it seems sensible to have a TN explosive.
Although I think Tritanium still makes sense as a warhead; I don't think any minerals are associated with actual combustion, so it seems sensible to have a TN explosive.
True - I just can't picture them like that after being used to Tritanium in Star Trek and who knows how many other games/series/universes be a metal. Somebody had an example of a mech armored with tritantium, which is much more in line with my mental image.
Sorium, on the other hand, is an explosive substance used in quantum torpedoes and weapons of mass destruction in other games I play :-)
Missiles require tritanium in proportion to the size of the warhead...so the tritanium is probably the bit that goes boom.
I think this actually was different in VB6, since I remember needing way more tritanium and way less gallicite for missile manufacturing. Shrugs.