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The SCED scanned Charon, found a small density anomaly (thats the Relay, lets not kid ourselves, but they dont know that yet and there could be hundreds of alternative explanations) and thats it.
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Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition
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Didn't we actually find some element zero on Mars?
I remember we researched it and discovered its properties but I don't think anything actually came of it after that.
I remember we researched it and discovered its properties but I don't think anything actually came of it after that.
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Right, we discovered and studied miniscule amounts of Eezo but have no idea what it or where it came from.
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
Yeah, we discovered some Eezo, but due to the fact that only a miniscule amount was discovered and no one had any idea of how to get or make more, it was deemed 'scientifically interesting, but not useful'.
Has it been established if it is theoretically synthesize? Could make for a useful commodity if it could be upscaled, though that is contingent on it being economical vs mining it.
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GDI currently has a few micrograms of it for study, the yield in that region of Mars is equally miniscule, and no working theoretical physics framework for how it is made, artificially or naturally, so no.
Understood, just thinking in terms of economics for what GDI has to offer. With tiberium, they can essentially produce any element on demand. I know some materials traditionally considered rare on Earth are abundant for asteroid mining, and that's not considering moon and exoplanet extraction, but there is undoubtedly some materials which remain rare, and so it'd be a useful niche to exploit.
Strunkriidiisk
THE LEGEND
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The real value is in stable trans-uranics, which we can make in comparative abundance. The sort of thing you normally need to build an enormous particle accelerator to even try to get a few grams of.
Infernium, zrbite, elerium, that sort of stuff.
That sounds like a "wait and see" question.
(I expect that, and cultural items, and perhaps some things that are considered cleared for export that are inspired by Visitor/Kanetech.)
Unlikely as Eezo seems to be neither a STU or even baryonic matter. Eezo is stated to have an atomic number or mass of zero hence the name so it is fairly safe to assume it is non-baryonic matter that easily binds to normal (likely heavy) matter. This would also mean that Eezo would not be producible from Tiberium using current known methods. As for it being described as a STU, well it could easily been mistaken for such by the scientists that were studying it. After all it is not like we have put too much into studying it, not when we have been so busy dealling with Tiberium.
//Edit: Although I could just be wrong about this.
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Nottheunmaker
Altman be praised
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Eezo has been described has an electron lathe structure. I don't know if that qualifies it as non-baryonic matter, but it is strange.
As an interesting side note, Tiberium is (currently) a positron lathe.
This makes me wonder if we could refine eezo into other strange kinds of matter. After all, we have gravity control technology that isn't reliant on eezo, so we don't strictly need it for that. Probably need it for the Relay to work, and that's our only meaningful FTL method right now so we'll need some of it, but we don't need to build our tech base around it. Tiberium already has us firmly in it's clutches. Experimenting with in it that way could yield interesting, perhaps even useful results.
As an interesting side note, Tiberium is (currently) a positron lathe.
This makes me wonder if we could refine eezo into other strange kinds of matter. After all, we have gravity control technology that isn't reliant on eezo, so we don't strictly need it for that. Probably need it for the Relay to work, and that's our only meaningful FTL method right now so we'll need some of it, but we don't need to build our tech base around it. Tiberium already has us firmly in it's clutches. Experimenting with in it that way could yield interesting, perhaps even useful results.
Vista
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I think you mean a proton lattice as a positron is an anti-electron and I'm fairly sure that Tiberium is not made of anti-matter
Well that definitely makes Eezo not producible from Tiberium as they are almost literally polar opposites of eachother. As for weather they are baryonic of non-baryonic, now that you two have reminded/informed me of there exact compositions, I have to say that they are technically baryonic but with a distinctly exotic structure.
The quote from Q3 2059 results:
And we certainly don't have enough eezo to run tests on how nicely they don't play with each other.
So, in-quest, what it is actually made of, and whether that hides deeper secrets like Tiberium does, are currently not specified.
And we certainly don't have enough eezo to run tests on how nicely they don't play with each other.
Well considering that one is a proton lattice and the other an electron lattice the most basic possibility then (without taking into account as to why and how they are in that structural arrangement), would be that they would combine and turn into hydrogen mutually destroying each-other's exotic properties.
This being the most basic possibility (ignoring that we do not, in fact, know that eezo is an electron lattice) likely means that this is unlikely to be the entirety of what happens. If nothing else, it leaves a free-floating cloud of the malice that was trapped within the Tiberium.
