Kinzium

Kinzium, also known as '*Sengo's Senko*' '*flash metal*' or "*kinzoku senko*" by it's original Japanese discoverers the Sengo Clan, was a near-pearlescent, extremely rare and highly exotic metallic element not found on any modern Table of Elements. Although it is likely in the Platinum group, and while it qualifies as a Nobel Metal, it's superior qualities to any other known Nobel places it in it's own category (also known as 'Kinzium'). Curiously it actually has more atomic similarities to Nickle-Iron alloy but displays none of it's physical appearance. It has become one of the most sought-after secret element on Earth and is thought to have an estimated potential monetary value 60,000 USD per ounce.

However it's real value comes from it's innate and physics-bending hyperconductivity; it's ability to magnify various forms of energy to massive degrees without being supercooled; One of it's unusual properties is it's transfer of ambient radioactivity that can cause the material to attain a thermoelectric charge. It has been proposed by those few who possess any quantifiable amounts of the substance from everything to a new type of battery cell, a fuel source or as a component for directed energy weapons.

### **History**

According to rare, historical archives, notably those found in Japan, Mongolia and China around the 11th century, the material was mined from lava deposits after the direct impact of a 'shooting star' into volcanos; in several instances, particularly ledgers from the era of the Japanese swordmakers, the Sengo Clan, the extreme and exotic conditions in which the meteor strikes the volcanic material causes the formation of Kinzium in very small amounts; the rarity of Senko's metal meant that the family were the only ones with the knowledge to properly forge with Kinzium, requiring temperatures far hotter than any known forge at the time to melt the material.

While a few other swords were forged by the Chinese weaponsmaster in the 13th century, Qi Gao, had a degree of the material and knowledge stolen by Mongols during various invasions of his hometown, and were never truly replicated again after his death.

Swords created by the Sengo Clan, however were numerous throughout history, but only a few actually used Kinzium

One of the most infamous weapons forged by the 18th century swordmaster Osamu Sengo, two blades created for Englishman Jack Smith, one a wakizachi named Inuzama and the other a katana named Kaminari to help him channel the aerokinetic power he possessed; while Inazuma was lost to sea, the latter katana was passed down Jack's family tree until Patricia Smith/Cannon was in possession of the blade.

Although she rarely used it, it amplified her soundwaves to massively destructive levels and she found the blade too uncontrollable, preferring to use her fists and powers outright.

She passed Kaminari down to Ben on his 13th birthday and eventually he began using it after many long years of kenjutsu and kendo practice, becoming practically a master by the time he was in his late 20's.

These weapons were created by folding Japanese tamahagane steel (玉鋼) with kinzium and keeping the steel as hot as possible for several hours longer than a standard forge. Although the exact methods used to create the swords were unknown for sure, were likely through extreme versions of differential heat treatment far above standard forge temperatures, this would have requires a unique and much more efficient forge that was previously though to have existed any time close to the 1740's. Osamu, however was well known for his genius in many fields, including construction, and may have himself created a special forge unlike any in Japan at the time for such purposes.

Other instances of Kinzium is also noted; the ancient Egyptians knew of Kinzium as Blessed Metal long before the 12th century accounts in Asia; though it seemed that the knowledge forging the metal as part of an alloy for weapons was out of their reach, was used in *faience* trinket boxes to store hazardous materials the Ancient Egyptians knew spread sickness, now known as various radioactive elements. The boxes were shown to be composed of partially melted kinzium, and clearly the Egyptians at the time never found temperatures hot enough to properly forge with it. When on a mission to retrieve one of these ancient boxes from a Jordanian military instillation for Israel in cooperation with MI6 and the CIA, Volt was told to swap the box for a fake, and deliver it to MI6, who then disposed of the radioactive material inside and melted down the box that had been energised with centuries of radioactive absorption. The resulting purified and energised material, which MI6 called "Kinzimite" was capable of being used as a battery to power experimental energy weapons. The material and weapon prototypes were later stolen by either System-12 or Black Labs.

Because of the unknown materials used in the natural fusion of the element, it has yet to be synthesised.

### **Uses**

Kinzium's rarity means it is highly impractical to use in any large amounts and difficult to source, however the element has multiple properties that make it highly sought after, notably it has been used as an alloy in forging melee weapons, giving the weapon increased capabilities to conduct and amplify heat, electricity and radiation by enormous degrees. Even small amounts of the element alloyed with steels and irons can dramatically improve that metal's conductivity, strength and durability. Volt's sword is one such example.

Teddy Rodriguez's Dragonfly project uses Aluminium 7075-K0, which contains copper, magnesium and zinc alloyed with small amounts of kinzium to construct most of it's airframe and parts around a standard CH-47 frame.

One of it's newly discovered properties enables the higher processing of computer systems without excess overheating, notably savants who have created AI systems have used silicon-kinzium alloys to help achieve quantum computing. AI system's such as VALER's R.O.D.G.E.R and DD systems, Robin's Lex, Theo's Lady Argent and Hidaki Tengan's I.N.A.R.I AI all use such alloys in processors and storage systems.

Robin's CORE projects use small amounts of a silicon-silver-kinzium alloy as key interfaces (QI's) in interacting human brainwave signals with wireless quantum processors.

### **Against Mana**

High amounts of the element seem to have an unusual ability to absorb and dissipate magic energy or 'mana' within it's structure.

### **Kinzimite**

Reconstituted, radioactively-enriched kinzium, known as kinzium-234 or "kinzimite", has incredibly strange and highly energetic subatomic properties, can retain and produce it's own particle radiation in the form of heat and electricity as if undergoing atomic decay. When applied as a fuel cell, the amount of energy that can be produced for it's size is more powerful than any known form of energy on the planet today. While generating such energies for the purpose of powering cities and nations would be a primary goal, it's tremendous energy output is yet uncontrollable even in small scale, let alone if bigger deposits of the material are ever found. It's utter rarity on Earth and it's highly prized value has made it an unviable source of energy production, but instead is hunted down due to it's property as a weapon catalyst: Using kinzimite in place of magnifying gas in lasers and other experimental particle weaponry and passing atoms and frequencies through the metal directly, causing it to energise, produces highly destructive beams of radioactivity that break down matter at a molecular level.

### **Hephaestium**

Jokingly called "antikinzium", Hephaestium is a metallic element created by Clay from kinzium-palladium-titanium at extremely high temperatures, and moulded using his own powers. After the removal of impurities and slag the resulting metal is supercooled and an element that has the opposite properties of pure kinzium in that is massively reflective and resistant to impact and energies, making it almost indestructible. As Clay has to be directly involved in it's alloying which takes time and effort, Hephaestium is virtually unheard of and those who do know of it seek to unlock it's secrets from Claymore's mines and facilities.