Resources/Resources III

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Note: this page is in the process of being built from several sources, most notable the SFC scratchpad of the same subject. When the primary references (listed below) have been fully data-mined, then this note should be removed.

The System Generator and Report application provides a Resource Availability report of an orbital body in these categories:

  • Normal Metals
  • Special Metals
  • Radioactives
  • Gem Stones
  • Industrial Crystals

It does not provide any indication of elements present in a scan, unless they are noted for their presence as elemental ores (ex: gold) or as mineral deposits (ex: topaline). The following sections categorize all known resources (elemental or mineral) into one of the above categories, and should indicate whether they are elemental or mineral, by nature. (The use of the term "metals" is meant to be synonymous with "element" or "mineral", where an elemental ore is comprised of the single element and a mineral deposit is a compound of two or more different elements bonded together chemically.)

Organic and manufactured compounds and (presently) unorganized substances are categorized in their own sections.

Note: Most mineral names end in -ite or -ine.

Natural Resources

Normal Metals

Normal metals are elemental ores or mineral deposits that are not considered rare or unique. These entries should indicate their elemental or mineral nature.

  • Anicium
    (element) Use: combined with yurium for an explosive.
Ex Astris Scientia (EAS) has determined this is an element; it's probably common, due to its presence in an undetermined ship's cargo bay.
  • Beresium
    (mineral) found in asteroids; a thermal shock caused by an impact of such asteroids on a planetary surface may lead to a toxic ore rain similar to nuclear fall-out.
  • Boridium
    (element) metallic. Use: power generators; converters in compact machines and devices (including exocomps); subdermal trackers; blades.
  • Calendenium
    (element) highly volatile when combined with hydrogen.
  • Chrondite
    (mineral) resilient; magnetic; found in significant quantities in some asteroids.
  • Cormaline
    (mineral) relatively common and valued as a commodity.
  • Corundium
    (element) Used: construction of interstellar spacecraft.

Special Metals

Special metals are elemental ores or mineral deposits that are rare or unique. These entries should indicate their elemental or mineral nature.

  • Antimonium
    (mineral) an investment-grade commodity. Use: flame retardant, batteries, plastics, pigmentation, and alloy (with lead) for sailboat construction.
The word "antimonium" is an older form of "antimony", an element. It is used here to represent a compound that (possibly) comprises antimony.
  • Bernicium
    (mineral) Use: production of replicator technology
  • Boronite
    (element) forms in infinitesimal quantities. Use: synthesis of Omega molecule.
  • Chimerium
    (mineral) single large crystal valued equivalent to that of a starship (in Delta Quadrant). Use: construction of a chimerium cloak; cloaking devices.
  • Cortenum
    (element) Use: manufacture of the verterium cortenide alloy (for the inner layer of warp coils).

Radioactives

Radioactive metals, for the purposes of resource categorization, are those that radiate ionizing—and often harmful—energy. These entries should indicate their elemental or mineral nature.

  • Actinide
    series of elements (atomic numbers 89 through 102), including actinium.
  • Actinium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; reacts with oxygen and moisture to prevent further oxidation. Use: radiation therapy.
No MA entry
  • Americium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; primarily synthetic byproduct of uranium fission, as its half-life is less than 7,500 years; highly radioactive. Use: source of gamma and alpha particles for medical & industrial application.
No MA entry
  • Astatine
    (element) radioactive, with a half-life of less than 8 hours. Use: radiation therapy; potential for destroying faratine.
  • Berkelium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; weakly radioactive.
No MA entry
  • Californium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; primarily synthetic byproduct of berkelium fission, as its half-life is less than 2,700 years; hinders production of red blood cells.
  • Celebium
    (element) extreme radioactivity and toxicity, causing severe damage to many lifeforms. Use: nuclear weapons.
MB indicates the exposure was fallout from an ancient war on the planet Camus II.
  • Curium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; highly radioactive. Use: power source for radioisotope thermal generators.
No MA entry
  • Cyanoacrylate
    a radioactive material that emits eichner radiation.
  • Einsteinium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; highly radioactive.
  • Fermium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; primarily synthetic byproduct of high-power nuclear fission, such as fission reactors and weapons, due to half-life of less than 101 days.
No MA entry
  • Mendelevium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; primarily synthetic byproduct, due to half-life of less than 32 days; highly radioactive.
No MA entry
  • Neptunium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; the first of the transuranic elements; unstable. Use: power source for radioisotope thermal generators.
No MA entry
  • Nobelium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; primarily synthetic byproduct, due to half-life of less than one hour; highly radioactive.
No MA entry
  • Plutonium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; accumulates in bone (for long-term damage). Use: fuel for fission weapons and a power source for radioisotope thermal generators.
No MA entry
  • Protactinium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; extremely rare, highly radioactive, and very toxic.
No MA entry
  • Thorium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; mildly radioactive. Use: fission power systems.
  • Uranium
    (element) in the Actinide series of elements; weakly radioactive. Use: fuel for fission power and weapons.

Gem Stones

Gem stones are minerals of a smaller nature that hold value above that of normal or special metals.

Industrial Crystals

Industrial crystals are solid materials that have formed a lattice structure and are valued for industrial purposes.

  • Bilitrium
    (element) rare; Use: an incredible source of energy when hooked up to an antimatter converter.

Organic Compounds

  • Adrenaline
    hormone & neurotransmitter, with powerful effects on the sympathetic nervous system. Use: radiation poisoning treatment.
  • Amniotic fluid
    a clear liquid that surrounds a developing embryo, serving as a natural immune system.
  • Bitrium
    organic compound left behind after the Crystalline Entity consumed living matter.
MA identifies as an element, but EAS (and I) think organic makes far more sense.
  • Cellular peptide
    certain chains of molecules found in the cells of living things, maintaining cell cohesion.

Manufactured Compounds

  • Bio-mimetic gel
    liquid substance used in the study of genetics; highly regulated as contraband by Federation law; hazardous if not transported correctly. Use:: biogenic weapons; organic explosives; genetic & cloning experiments.
  • Bioplast
    thin material used in the form of sheets for constructing exterior surfaces. Use: certain androids (such as Soong-types).
  • Bitanium
    metallic compound. Use: neural pathways of positronic brains.
  • Cabrodine
    explosive material; easily obtained. Use: bomb.
  • Chemicite
    highly explosive, dangerous to transport, can be sold for a good profit on Orion.
No MA entry.
  • Chloraxine
    chemical substance which was lethal in a sufficient dosage.
  • Chlorinide
    liquid chemical that is highly corrosive; can cause malfunctions to cargo safety systems;
  • Chlorobicrobe
    agricultural substance that assists in the growth of katterpod crops. Use: fertilizer.
  • Cobalt diselenide
    attacks nervous system of certain species (ex: Cardassians); harmless to most other humanoids; must be stored at low temperatures. Use: biogenic weapon.

Medical Compounds

  • Anesthezine
    gas or liquid; lethal in high concentrations. Use: fast-acting anesthetic.
  • Anti-intoxicant
    Use: a medicine that allows one to drink alcohol without experiencing the effects of intoxication.
  • Axonol
    Use: a sedative medicine for psychiatric patients; it could also be dispersed in gaseous form, as a crowd-control anesthetic.
  • Benjisidrine
    Use: a cardiovascular drug used to treat Vulcans who suffer from a heart valve malfunction.
  • Bicaridine
    Use: analgesic medication often used as a substitute for metorapan
  • Borathium
    experimental pharmaceutical. Use: rybotherapy.
  • Cateline
    drug that can cause a simulated anaphylactic shock.
  • Cervaline
    drug to fend off rejection of transplanted organs or tissue.
  • Chloromydride
    cardiostimulant, generally used when inaprovaline is ineffective.
  • Cortropine
    strong stimulant included in standard-issue medkits.
  • Chronexaline
    developmental drug designed to protect biomatter from tachyon radiation.
  • Cordrazine
    strong liquid chemical stimulant, used to stimulate the heart during cardiac arrest.
  • Corophizine
    antibiotic drug used to prevent secondary infections.
  • Cryptobiolin
    chemical to enhance soldiers' abilities in battle.
  • Cytoglobin
    drug that was used to treat chromoviral infections and arterial aging

Energy or Radiation Fields

  • Anionic energy
    an energy resulting from extraction of consciousness, layered with the being's neural pattern.
  • Berthold ray
    deadly radiation that can cause living animal tissue to disintegrate; there is no known cure or antidote, except for the mind-controlling Omicron spores. Calamarain probes are known to produce non-lethal broadband emissions, as well as Berthold rays.
  • Beta radiation
    caused by nuclear fission, such as that which results from the detonation of an atomic bomb.
  • Biogenic field
    power field composed of biological energy. Use: the ability to render an individual unconscious or inducing hallucinations.
  • Bioneural energy
    naturally-occurring, electrical brain activity.
No MA entry
  • Bioregenerative field
    radiant energy field. Use: accelerate cell growth; cellular development of DNA fragments to reconstruct DNA sequences.

Particles

  • Antichroniton
    subatomic particles, the antimatter equivalent of chronitons. Use: treatment of chroniton radiation.
  • Antigraviton
    subatomic particle, the antimatter equivalent of a graviton. Use: "pusher" energy, such as used by a tractor beam or deflector array.
  • Antilepton
    subatomic particle, counterpart of a lepton; highly dangerous. Use: subspace communications interference; forensic molecular reconstruction inhibitor.
  • Antineutrino
    elementary particle, the antimatter counterpart to the neutrino.
  • Antineutron
    electrically-neutral hadrons, the antimatter counterpart to the neutron, with an opposite baryon number.
  • Antiproton
    subatomic particle, a type of hadron and baryon and the antimatter equivalent to a proton. Use: highly-destructive weapon.
  • Antithoron
    subatomic particle, the antimatter equivalent of a thoron.
  • Anyon
    subatomic particle that can be used to eliminate chroniton fields.
  • Baryon
    subatomic particle, a hadron (a group of elementary particles that experience strong nuclear force) with a non-integer spin. Use: removes an unspecified heavy subatomic particle created by the subspace field of a warp drive, when produced in a concentrated beam (though completely destructive of organic matter).
  • Beta-tachyon
    subatomic particle, an allotrope of the tachyon particle. Use: increase starship shields by remodulating to emit a beta-tachyon pulse and then a series of antiproton beams (into the shield bubble).
  • Chroniton
    subatomic particle with temporal properties; potentially fatal to lifeforms which exist outside time (ex: the Prophets); Use: time travel; compensation for temporal stress of transwarp conduits.
May be a variation of "chroniton".

Uncategorized Substances

  • Antimatter
    a state of matter that is different in some significant way from another state of matter (ex: lepton vs antilepton); generally a subatomic particle of matter with the opposite charge of another similar particle.
  • Anti-time
    a phenomenon which has a relationship to time analogous to the relationship that antimatter has to normal matter; consequently, if time and anti-time were to collide, they would annihilate one another, creating a rupture in space.
  • Argonite
    a substance that, when comprising some value above 17 parts per million, might violate safety margins for air supply.
It is unknown from the context if the compound is organic, inorganic, or manufactured.
  • Cosmic string
    spatial phenomenon characterized by its extremely narrow width and powerful gravitational fields. Cosmic strings are no wider than a proton yet have gravitational fields as powerful as those of a black hole; detected by the ergosphere bordering the event horizon.
  • Dark matter
    substance undetectable via the use of normal sensors; thought to make up the majority of the universe's mass; extremely exotic; can take a number of forms, such as nebulae, asteroids, and even lifeforms; it can also be weaponized.

Sources

Left off with Dark matter
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