Crystallite

## History

Crystallite is a rare material whose existence was discovered by the United Front during the Great Leak. Kept secret by the United States government prior to the Vooperian Revolution, the material was claimed to have extraordinary abilities; making it a target for revolutionaries to capture. The sample of Crystallite discovered on Earth was a remnant from an asteroid believed to have come from another solar system than Sol.

In modern times, the majority of Crystallite is mined from deep within SpookVooper. This was, in fact, the major reason the planet was chosen for colonization. This is also known to be the main reason the Zar attacked in the Zar War.

## Value and Production

Crystallite is the most valuable resource known in Vooperia. While is is relatively common on SpookVooper, the material is still extremely rare. It is a challenge to mine large amounts of the material due to its high density, causing it to sink to the core of the planet. Volcanic activity is the major proponent of Crystallite reaching the surface or upper layers of the ground, where it can then be mined or collected.

Crystallite can be found on asteroids, however the relative amount is generally slim. It's believed that Crystallite is created naturally in hypernovae, making it extremely rare in nature and almost impossible to recreate. Although many ideas have been posed to create Crystallite within a laboratory, no successful creation has been recorded.

## Subtypes and Usage

Crystallite can be found in two states: Active and Inactive; also known as Live and Dead. Inactive Crystallite is a dense super-material useful for constructing thin nearly indestructible glass, incredibly strong alloys, and a variety of uses in medicine and manufacturing. Active Crystallite, which contains gravitons, can be used to manipulate the mass of objects and create gravitational fields. Heavy usage of active Crystallite will cause it to decay into inactive Crystallite, which is worth considerably less. About one percent of all mined Crystallite is active, and there is no publicly known way to recharge it.

Active crystallite glows blue when in use. It is far more effective to use a large single crystal of the material than many small pieces, making larger cuts of the material worth exponentially more.

Crystallite fields are able to influence mass, with the mass of the object requiring exponentially more energy to affect. This makes a small object like a bullet easy to halt, while a car barreling towards a user would be far more challenging.

It is important to note that Crystallite simply is dense enough to trap Gravitons - without these subatomic particles, there are no special properties to the material other than its transparency and immense strength.

## Use and Recharging

Active Crystallite produces gravitational fields when exposed to electromagnetic radiation of varying frequencies. These frequencies and the energy level of the radiation determine the shape and size of the field created. Advanced Artificial Technology was used to determine how to make fields obey the constraints desired by users. The intricacy and extreme complexity of any equation used to determine the field shape made it necessary to train neural networks to approximate the required input - which now is accurate to a degree considered near-perfect. Users of Crystallite field technology can use their Brain Chip to manipulate a field with their mind - with the AI converting the intended shape and force on the fly.

Recharging Crystallite is known by almost all to be a scientific mystery. In Vooper (*spoilers ahead*) it is found that gravitons are released when the gap between two realities becomes "thin" - in that case of the book, Jack Wise can create these "thin" areas between the planes by accessing memories of his past, due to his consciousness natively belonging to another universe. There are, however, risks to this technique and it is shown to fade over time, as both realities repair themselves and drift apart.