Super Tensile Solids

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Super Tensile Solids
Super Tensile Solids.png
“Unbreakable materials”
Requires Matter Compression, Advanced Spaceflight
Leads to Matter Editation
Enables
Armor Pulse 8 Armor
Facility Habitation Dome
Secret Project The Space Elevator
AI priority
Conquer: 1, Discover: 0, Build: 5, Explore: 2
Optical computers, genetic catalogs, nanorepair modules—forget

all of that. It’s when you see a megaton of steel suspended over
your head by a thread the thickness of a human hair that you
really find God in technology.

—Anonymous Metagenics Dockworker,
MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview

The requirements of Advanced Spaceflight and the possibilities inherent in Matter Compression lead to research in Super Tensile Solids. These materials possess such strength as to be functionally unbreakable in a natural environment.