08-22-2015, 04:50 PM
(08-22-2015, 03:59 PM)Marxon Wrote:(08-22-2015, 06:00 AM)SilverOtter Wrote: Despite there being an entire galaxy in reach, mining only really happens in several places. However, in terms of raw metals, elements aren't that expensive. In comparison, many complicated or difficult alloys are incredibly expensive, due to their solitary production by the Novakids. Those alloy prices are artificially inflated in the same way diamonds today are.Still keeping novakids in as primary forgers.
OTHER RACES CAN HANDLE FIRE!
what makes them more qualified to forge metal? Because they're made of plasma? Is that somehow good enough.
The Novakids have very precise "forges"*, and can produce very odd isotopes to use in alloys, due to their blunt** but wide mastery of fusion and fission. Plus they have radiation immunity, which means they don't care when a gold isotope decides it can't handle the world anymore.
*They call it a forge, it's more like a containment chamber.
**By this I mean they figured out everything they know today by bashing atoms together and seeing what sticks, sometimes literally.
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