Orichalcum

## An Overview

The Orichalcum is the best known Remnant Kingdom Material, and one of their greatest achievements. Created from the Kingdom's study of The Eternal's shell (with their permission), it is one of the most powerful alloys known in the galaxy, on par with high-grade alloys of the C'tan, and one even the Old Ones would have regretted not having. Bronze in colouration, the metal is lighter than paper, but stronger than high grade adamantium and even Angelsteel, while taking to enhancement both psychic and material with immeasurable ease. While it is relatively common within the Kingdom itself, it is a rare and highly valuable commodity beyond its borders, one in especially high demand amongst crafters such as the Deep Sea Sirens. It interacts with kinetic energy in a strange way that allows for a well designed Orichalcum suit of armour to divert the kinetic energy of incoming hits, and an Orichalcum weapon to be held against blows that would normally overpower the wielder and strike back with even greater force.

All that makes the material extremely useful for both armour and weapons, except for one issue. The cost. While Archmagos Tranth did succeed in learning the secret of its production - without, it must be said, learning the slightest bit about the principles of its function - the material can only be manufactured at great expense. A single Astartes Terminator suit requires more highest grade materials than the production of seventy Cyclone Torpedoes.

A handful of the Remnant Kingdom's Transmuters are capable of changing existing equipment into Orichalcum, which was done with Jane Oakheart's armour and weapons to great effect.

After the return of Imbac, the Remnant Kingdom has received the World's notes on the Eternal, allowing for an attempt to create an improved version of the material, though it is yet to yield noticeable results.

## Orichalcum Gear

### Orichalcum Power Armors

These armours are insanely tough, with even the Recon variant being as tough as standard Elite Power Armour. They also make use of Orichalcum’s strange properties to redirect the force of impacts to make the armour's melee weapon hit far harder and to aid in dodging. Using Orichalcum Power Armour is not easy and it requires a good deal of dedicated effort to master. The main issue with Orichalcum Power Armour is the cost, with entire squads of Terminators possible to outfit in Advanced Terminator Armour for the price of a single suit of Orichalcum Power Armour, and the price increasing massively as the armour gets bigger. It is said that among the enemy states, which do not know how to produce the material, and must instead loot them off killed heroes of Sanity, a single suit can be traded for as much as an entire Sector.

Orichalcum: +6 Armor, increase HP bonus by 150% of current, +50 to all rolls, +100% melee damage

### Orichalcum Alloy Power Armors

These suits are the result of Archmagos Tranth spending most of a decade working. According to him, due to the nature of Micro-alloys he has been able to take advantage of Orichalcum’s strange properties with only a small amount of Orichalcum in the alloy, greatly reducing the cost of the armour compared to Orichalcum Power Armour. On the downside, the low amount of Orichalcum in the alloy has cut down on how much the armour benefits from the toughness of the material, and it is not massively tougher than standard Micro-Alloy Power Armour while being three times the price.

Orichalcum Alloy: +3 armour, increase HP bonus by 75% of current, +40 to all rolls, +80% melee damage

### Orichalcum Terminator Armour

These fruit of Arhmagos Tranth's mind are a terrifying improvement over his already formidable Advanced Terminator Armour designs. The additional toughness of the Orichalcum makes it all but immune to all but the most effective anti-armour weapons, with most forces needing to bring anti-Titan weapons to bear to have a chance of breaching it. This is made even harder by how Tranth has made use of the kinetic redirection properties of Orichalcum to boost its agility, making it far too agile and good at dodging for anything of its bulk. In fact, some of the suits have been known to survive even orbital fire, leading to massive loss of morale among the enemies witnessing that, along with a corresponding rise in the spirit of the allies.

Orichalcum Astartes Terminator Armour (28 Armour, +1,000% HP, +100 bonus, +75 to all rolls, \*5 melee, +50 stealth, hover, teleporter, teleport homer, High Relic, Cost 20 Thrones 300 Exotic Material and 1,000 Relic Material)

Orichalcum Terminator Armour (26 Armour, +875% HP, +100 bonus, \*4.5 melee, +75 to all rolls, +50 stealth, hover, teleporter, teleport homer, High Relic, Cost 10 Thrones 150 Exotic Material and 500 Relic Material)

### Orichalcum Power Weapons

It took three years for Archmagos Tranth to redesign power weapons to work with Orichalcum. Given how flexible most Dark Age technologies are to being used with a variety of different materials, the only reason that it took as long as it did is the rather strange properties of Orichalcum.

Orichalcum Power Weapon (Pen 18, +50 to all rolls, add half of enemies base damage to your own, can increase base damage by up to 100%)

### Orichalcum Grav-Shear Weapons

Archmagos Tranth’s Orichalcum Grav-Shear weaponry are some of the most deadly weapons known in the galaxy, combining the cutting edge of Grav-Shear with the force multiplication of Orichalcum to create something far superior to either. According to the Archmagos' words, he managed to use the momentum bending properties of Orichalcum to in effect turn the Grav-Shear effect back on itself, massively increasing its strength and allowing it to rip apart even the strongest of materials and effects.

Orichalcum Grav-Shear (Pen 22, +50% damage, +50 to all rolls, add half of enemies base damage to your own, can increase base damage by up to 100%)