Classification: Level 0 – restricted Access
Source: Atlas Foundation
Codename: Koronium
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Material Profile: Koronium (KrN-M)
Type: Exotic energy-responsive lattice material.
Appearance: Silvery-grey crystalline solid; faint blue luminescence under excitation
Density (static): 14.2 g/cm³ (relaxed state)
Density (energized): Variable. Compression up to 45 g/cm³ observed under 10 MV excitation field
Melting Point: N/A – material hardens under heating rather than liquefies
Phase Behavior: Contracts lattice spacing under electrical, thermal, or radiative input
I. Core Properties
1. Energy-Induced Hardening
- Atomic lattice spacing decreases with external energy application.
- Hardness increases exponentially; Vickers hardness > 600 GPa under high field excitation.
2. Self-Healing Mechanism
- Neutron bombardment and radiation damage trigger instantaneous lattice reordering.
- Displaced atoms reintegrated within 10⁻¹² seconds, defect density effectively zero.
3. Neutron Absorption & Reuse
- Unlike conventional matter, Koronium captures neutron kinetic energy and converts it into lattice-binding force.
- Results in net strengthening under prolonged fusion conditions.
4. Fusion Compression Potential
- Embedded hydrogen isotopes (²H, ³H) compressed to inter-nuclear spacing within lattice voids.
- Achieves spontaneous fusion at field intensities far below hot plasma thresholds (~10⁶ K vs. 10⁸ K typical).
II. Experimental Results
- Test KRN-07: 10 g sample loaded with deuterium, subjected to 5 MV excitation. Sustained fusion observed for 312 seconds. Lattice integrity: unchanged.
- Test KRN-09: 100 g sample exposed to 10¹⁸ n/m² neutron flux. No measurable degradation. Material density increased by 18%.
- Test KRN-12: Over-energization at 1.5 GV resulted in runaway fusion cascade. Test site was destroyed. Energy yield is estimated at 2 kilotons TNT equivalent with 10g sample. Containment protocols updated.
III. Applications
- Koronium Fusion Core (KFC): Compact, stable fusion reactors. Potential to replace fission/fossil plants globally.
- Adaptive Armor Systems: Military-grade plating capable of hardening under directed energy or kinetic impacts.
- Deep Space Engineering: Ideal for hulls of long-duration spacecraft; radiation and cosmic ray exposure strengthen rather than degrade structure.
- High-Density Energy Storage: Stores orders of magnitude more energy than TNT or batteries, without chemical instability.
IV. Risks & Warnings
- Runaway Hazard: At ~10⁹–10¹¹ J/kg stored energy, lattice collapses into fusion ignition. Even gram-scale samples can yield kiloton-class detonations.
- Energy Addiction: Koronium in relaxed phase is brittle. Requires constant excitation to maintain "active" form.
- Containment Advisory: Never exceed safe KEC thresholds. Never expose Koronium to unregulated accelerators or stellar plasma.
Research team note:
This material redefines the common knowledge about the four fundamental forces, especially electromagnetism. In ordinary matter, atomic and molecular structures are shaped almost exclusively by electromagnetic interactions, atoms bond or repel under the well-understood rules of Coulomb attraction and Pauli exclusion.
Koronium, however, does not conform to these conventions. Instead of behaving as a passive subject of electromagnetic law, its lattice seems to actively manipulate field interactions at the atomic scale. Where normal materials balance repulsion and attraction to achieve stability, Koronium appears to channel applied energy into selective compression of interatomic spacing, effectively overriding the Coulomb barrier without destabilizing the electron shell.
This suggests that Koronium's lattice embodies a fifth-order coupling effect — not a new fundamental force per se, but an emergent property that enables controlled bridging between electromagnetic and nuclear scales. In effect:
- Applied external energy is transduced into a directed contraction force, bringing nuclei closer than conventional EM balance permits.
- Unlike normal matter, which fractures or ionizes under excess energy input, Koronium self-orders and strengthens, absorbing the disturbance into a denser configuration.
- Only at extreme thresholds does this contraction cross into the nuclear domain, triggering fusion events.
Thus, Koronium operates not as a passive solid, but as a field-responsive lattice engine that manipulates electromagnetic balance at will.
Details about koronium will be included in other reports.
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Archivist's note
Koronium material. The material that changes the course of everything. Its discovery enabled the creation of miniature cold fusion cores, compact enough to power individual mechanized units and armored vehicles, replacing the massive and unstable reactors of the previous era. And revolutionize how we produce mechanized units, allowing the design to be smaller and faster while improving its defense capability. But the worried part about this material is that it was recovered in one of the machine nodes. The data and how to make it was re-engineered by Atlas Foundation. But if the machine already knows how to make it, why didn't it use the material for its own army? Although there are some signs of the machine using the material but that is close to the end of the war. But, why hold back? Was there an undisclosed flaw in the material? Was it reserved for some other design, some greater weapon? Or worse: were we meant to find it as part of a longer strategy that we still cannot see?