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futurology2016-11-20 01:51 pm
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voice, @Doc Knock
A quick question — does anyone among us have any background in synthesizing? I know the finer points of the science are probably a little beyond your evolutionary pay grade, and I’d usually know better than to run this by a bunch of humans and humans lookalikes, but, well… desperate times, as they say.
I’ve heard from the Qorral Mayor that their species hasn’t had much success with synthesizing argecite, but synthetic materials just so happens to be one of my specialties.
[ And sure, he’s had disastrous results before, but they were still results! He probably won’t accidentally make any vampire zombies here, it’s fine. ]
If any of you think you’d be of any use to efforts to engineer an artificial compound to replace argecite — synth-ar, you could say — feel free to speak up. The only hitch being that this backwater planet doesn’t have much in the way of laboratory equipment. The local blacksmith has been told to expect us stopping by with equipment requests, but I have to wonder if even that is enough. This is a ground-up operation if I’ve ever seen one.
I’ve heard from the Qorral Mayor that their species hasn’t had much success with synthesizing argecite, but synthetic materials just so happens to be one of my specialties.
[ And sure, he’s had disastrous results before, but they were still results! He probably won’t accidentally make any vampire zombies here, it’s fine. ]
If any of you think you’d be of any use to efforts to engineer an artificial compound to replace argecite — synth-ar, you could say — feel free to speak up. The only hitch being that this backwater planet doesn’t have much in the way of laboratory equipment. The local blacksmith has been told to expect us stopping by with equipment requests, but I have to wonder if even that is enough. This is a ground-up operation if I’ve ever seen one.
audio; [un: ironman]
so much so that he listens into all the results, backreading through the dossiers casually as he does so, the wheels turning as he grasps onto something that he feels like he can have some sense of control over: science.
he opens up a response channel and sounds almost more like he's musing aloud to himself than actually responding, his voice almost annoyingly casual. ]
What kind of process were you planning, exactly? Flame fusion? Czochralski? We're not exactly in a position to stimulate flux growth, let alone hydrothermal. Pretty sure we could cook up a homemade Vernuil furnace and supercharge it to fit the bill. [ you can all but hear his shrug ] Might not be crystalline, but we're basically doing the Chopped synthetic challenge, so we'll have to work with what we have.
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Hang on. Who are you? One of the humans? [ why do you actually sound like you know your stuff?? ]
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Tony Stark.
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I'm only passingly familiar with the Czochralski process; you wouldn't believe how outdated it is. I'd got electrode arc processors in mind, it's a cleaner fusion and easy to to rig together if you're running low on proper equipment. Which I'd say we are, considering we'll be building anything of consequence from scratch.
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Sounds like kismet to me.
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If only. No, I'm going to need the room and doors to be at least 20 feet tall, and I understand not many Qorral buildings are built with those proportions in mind.
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Shapeshifting?
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