Suspendium (3.5e Equipment)

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Suspendium[edit]

This rare material is highly valued for its ability to seemingly defy the natural laws of physics. When a mass of pure suspendium is subjected to a muonic charge, its effective mass is reduced in accordance with the quantity of the electric charge. This quality gave the material its name suspendium, and provides technological civilizations with a cheap and reliable method of emulating anti-gravity.

Origins and Statistics[edit]

Suspendium, when purified, is a porous, brittle metalloid and standardly has a density roughly one-fifth that of steel. By itself, it is not suited for construction purposes. The market value of pure suspendium is 500 gp per pound.

The precise nature of suspendium is not yet fully understood by science, as exposure to a muonic charge results in the generation of unidentified non-Newtonian particles dubbed 'suspendions' that seem to exhibit no inertia but possess a negative gravitational mass. With the right amount of charge, a block of suspendium embedded within a vehicle or walkway or other object can make it float in place or even ascend. In order to make an object float within acceptable parameters, at least 1% of its resting mass must be comprised of suspendium, often distributed across the object for optimum stability. For lifting items, 2% or more is advised.

Suspendium has 5 hit points per inch of thickness and hardness 8.

Uses[edit]

Suspendium is mainly used for lightening objects, reducing loads or making things float, though doing so requires a power source capable of emitting a muonic charge, such as a specially modified muon-catalyzed fusion cell. Because of its properties, suspendium is mainly used for making cars and other vehicles that are capable of hovering and flight. Suspendium is also incredibly useful for the space program of advanced civilizations, replacing expensive and cumbersome solid-fuel drives with reusable suspendium elevators using negative mass generation to shoot astronauts and material into space.

In highly advanced technological or magi-technological societies, suspendium is a crucial element in the construction of FTL drives due to its negative mass properties.

Nodes of suspendium embedded within powered armor can be used to allow the wearer to halve the armor's penalty, and depending on the amount used it can even be made to float, making it possible to create cheap flying armors and armatures by adding a propulsion system. The combined amount of suspendium in pounds must exceed 1% of the combined weight of armor, wearer and maximum permissible carrying load for it to be functional.

Proto-Suspendium[edit]

With the right construction lattice and the addition of a muon-catalytic unit, a mixture of proteum and suspendium can be created called proto-suspendium which uses the proteum's ability to draw energy from the weave to suspend an object effectively indefinitely with minimal external energy requirement. Proto-suspendium contains 1% crystalline proteum and 99% suspendium, and is valued at 2,500 gp per pound.



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AuthorSulacu +
Identifier3.5e Equipment +
Rated ByEiji-kun +
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SummaryThis rare material is highly valued for it
This rare material is highly valued for its ability to seemingly defy the natural laws of physics. When a mass of pure suspendium is subjected to a muonic charge, its effective mass is reduced in accordance with the quantity of the electric charge. This quality gave the material its name suspendium, and provides technological civilizations with a cheap and reliable method of emulating anti-gravity.
reliable method of emulating anti-gravity. +
TitleSuspendium +