Resources/Resources III

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

• Acetylcholine

  neurotransmitter

• 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

• Acidichloride

  gaseous chemical, toxic to Humans, though essential to certain "evolved" Humans.

• Argine

  an explosive compound.

• Baakonite

  composite metal alloy; Use: construction of Klingon bat'leths.

• 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

• Alizine

  Use: a medicine used to counter an allergic reaction in Klingons.

• Ambizine

  Use: a sedative.

• 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.

• Benzocyatizine

  Use: medication used to treat low serum isoboramine levels in Trill patients

• 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.

• Cortical analeptic

  hypospray drug to reinvigorate tissue in the cerebral cortex.

• 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.

• Chronometric particle

  constituent components of an energy form with temporal properties.

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

• Ex Astris Scientia: "Substances and Particles"

Left off with Dark matter

• Scratchpad: Resources
• Utopia Planitia Starfleet Sourcebook: "High Value Resources", pp. 42-44