A material that was produced in the home universe of the Norians and Ayenee.

The discovery of the elemental metal of Lorenzium in YE 01 was vital to the Space Race and Colonization of Ayenee that followed. Lorenzium, a metal similar to Titanium was in abundance on the Norian capital worlds and colonies. Lorenzium would be the heart of the new space program providing a base material for ships, power armor, and mecha. In YE 15, additional research yielded a close-to-modern niranium, however, the modern version of niranium would not emerge until YE 21 after the Chaos Hive War. After the widespread production of Leviathan Husk, niranium became a more secondary material for building conventional structures and objects.

In YE 15, scientists discovered that when formed into a complex alloy with carbon nano-tubes, Lorezium's strength could be increased. The resulting metal would be called “Niranium”, however in YE 21 during the Chaos Hive War the alliance with the Nerimian Defense Initiative yielded the sharing of technology to produce Yamataium/Leptonium. Norian scientists found Yamataium/Leptonium useful, but it also was expensive. Through reverse engineering of Nerimian Defense Initiative technology following the war, they added a similar metalloid with self-healing molecular bonds to niranium. The result was very comparable to Yama-Dura.

In YE 44, with the Arrival of the Norians in the Kikyo Sector there was no Lorenzium present in local space. As a result, the production of Niranium would come to an end. The niranium that was present would be conventional-built structures and objects within the Leviathans of the survivor fleet. It is likely that salvaged materials will be highly coveted by Tsenlan.

Andrew created this article on 2022/10/31 05:56.

This was approved by Wes on 2022/11/21.¹⁾