Legend

Myriad Reality

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I appreciate it. Are you sure you don’t have spare materials lying around for other Lotuses, or other projects?

@Audacious

I didn't make them myself. So unless the engineers have spare parts, the fleet is what we have to work with.

Myriad Reality

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Go on.

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*Lets out a soft, amused exhale through my nose*
All you gotta do is be ready.

@Audacious

As much as I hate to see them go, I can spare a Lotus or two.

Myriad Reality

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*Nods and looks around*
Everyone ready to fail catastrophically?

@Audacious

Well when you put it like that—

Myriad Reality

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Doable. I’ll need to focus, but doable.

@Audacious

*PaMDA generates an alert bubble with a warning sign*
PaMDA: Caution: This material fails catastrophically. Be prepared to contain the shards. Do not inhale the shards. Do not touch the shards without proper PPE. Do not oxygenate the shards.

Myriad Reality

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Not if there needs to be a differential, surely.

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So… If I just randomly make some parts super hot, and some super cold- no pattern here whatsoever- we’re good?

@Audacious

PaMDA: Correct. The pattern should apply on a nanoscopic scale for best results.

Myriad Reality

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So extremely small steps in temperature difference. Easy.

@Audacious

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I believe it wants you to make an extreme heat at all points at once.

@Malevocholy

*PaMDA generates a diagram of a pseudo-crystalline structure colored red and blue at irregular intervals speckled throughout the structure*

Myriad Reality

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Okay, okay. But other than that, what I said will work? Because I can do that.

@Audacious

PaMDA: The temperature differentials should be as discrete as possible. The material disperses gradient heat quite well.

Myriad Reality

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By “kaleidoscopal”, you just mean symmetrical, right? Tiny segments throughout the material with temperature differences that aren’t so great from the next, but that are extremely different from the highest to lowest point?

@Audacious

PaMDA: Non-symmetrical would better suit this material's reforging process. They should be as small as you can manage.

Myriad Reality

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Shattering it, huh?
*Walks in a circle around the spare armor set*
And would you say the material becomes more brittle at cold temperatures?

@Audacious

PaMDA: Cold temperatures decrease the required operating force but are not sufficient ends unto themselves. Suggested approach: Generate an extreme temperature delta within the material. If possible, create kaleidoscopal minuscule deltas within the material. Use Mierno's strength to shatter it.

Myriad Reality

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I do, as much as I don’t like that phrasing. But this time, there wasn’t someone else.
*Takes the hammer and points at the suit*
So how is it that I can take this metal without ruining it? How do you do it?

@Audacious

PaMDA: The material can be bent with sufficient effort, exposing weaknesses at the joints, or the material can be reforged entirely by shattering it.