Warsteel

Warsteel is a black metal manufactured and used by the Terran Confederacy.

Properties
Warsteel is extremely resistant to corrosion, heat, and physical damage; being a superconductive material, it is able to disperse kinetic energy across its entire surface instantly to the point that nothing short of an enormous amount of concentrated force can even scratch it. Warsteel is said to be able to survive the outer plasma seas of a star, implying that it can withstand temperatures of around 7,000 degrees Celsius. It is described as an alloy, however there has been an instance of a warsteel atom splitting , implying that it is an element.

Warsteel is not indestructible. Ships armored in warsteel have been destroyed by conventional kinetic and thermal weapons and Dwellerspawn acid has demonstrated the ability to damage it.

When exposed to a powerful enough psychic force, such as that of Daxin, warsteel can "imprint", storing the emotions of the one who imprinted it. In one instance, this caused a Mantid undercaste revolt as the rage imprinted on a warsteel fragment from Daxin's ship caused an engineer to break free from the control of its Queen, spreading the freedom around the hive and eventually sabotaging an entire fleet.

Uses
The most common use of warsteel is as armor due to its extreme resistance to damage. However, warsteel is also used in some cybernetics, implying that it has some use there as well.

Warsteel is commonly used as ammunition and as melee weapons in the form of chainswords.

Manufacturing
Warsteel is relatively easy to produce, but it cools within microseconds and becomes unworkable unless proper conditions are present.

Heating warsteel after its production requires wrath or hatred to be present in the forger. So far, only Terran Descent Humans and Telkans have demonstrated the ability to re-heat warsteel.

Warsteel's ubiquity in Confederacy military technology implies that it is able to be mass-produced. The ability to create small, standardized parts such as rivets shows that humans have also mastered fine control of the forging process.

Warsteel is primarily manufactured in the Wrath Forges of Mercury and the Hate Anvils of Mars, both located in the Sol system.