Rubber

Rubber is a material discovered and used by the Dalmer, it is the basis for many of their trademark technologies including weapons and more domestic applications such as heat control devices.
== Overview ==
The discovery of rubber stems from the native home of the dalmer far up in the northern hemisphere where an arctic variation of the rubber tree exists. 
The dalmer brought the tree with them and continue to harvest and use rubber to this day. Currently, rubber is harvested from the rubber tree. The rubber is drawn off by driving a spike into the tree until reaching its core, when the spike reaches the fluid in the center, it is removed and replaced with a tube with a tap system, allowing ease of retrieval of the fluid matter inside. The fluid then is refined into rubber that is ready for processing. The fluid is allowed to coagulate in the collection cup. 
Natural rubber is used extensively in many applications and products for its large stretch ratio, high resilience, and waterproof nature.
== Uses ==
Rubber has many different uses. It was historically first used for making balls for ball games. Then for making containers and to make textiles waterproof by impregnating them with the fluid.
Rubber has significant uses including door and window profiles, hoses, belts, gaskets, matting, flooring and dampeners. The use of rubber in crafts mostly for pneumatics in particular consumes a significant amount of rubber. Gloves, toys and balloons are large consumers of rubber. Rubber is used as adhesives in many manufacturing industries and products. Rubber yarns are used in garments, and used extensively in textile manufacturing.
Rubber produced as a fiber, is used extensively in the arms industry because of its excellent elongation and recovery properties. For these purposes, manufactured rubber fiber was made as round fibers or rectangular strips. 
=== Rubber based Weapons ===
Main article: Mechanical force weapons
The Dalmer use rubber as a method of propulsing projectiles at higher speeds than other rope based weaponry. Dalmer weaponry is as such composed essentially of slingshots, bows, crossbows, spearguns and ballistae, and their ammunition composed of shot, arrows, bolts, and spears. Their arsenal consists of an array of slingshots, bows, crossbows, air weapons and rubber guns. 
== Protection ==
The Dalmer are extremely jealous of their invention, and protect it fiercely. They are also terrified that the other races could discover turpentine or naphtha, which are both rubber solvents. Dalmer demand for rubber is intense and closely monitored, it is one of the rare cases where they will actively terminate other races who seem to be developing rubber or anti rubber technologies.
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