>>6009582“No, he doesn’t.” You continue to laugh, making a note to ask Dozle about what monster of a mobile armor he’s planning to have made with so much of the precious alloy, “They’re going to armor a whole Gwazine in it? I figured something like that would be too expensive.”
“I haven’t seen the numbers,” Elena continues casually, still occasionally nibbling on her sandwich, “but they probably have enough zeros at the end to make Gil’s eyes pop out. Mink’s going to be one of the richest women in the Earth Sphere probably.”
“Mink?” <span class="mu-i">Another</span> surprise.
“Her family’s mining business has the rights to the asteroids with the best ore compositions for processing into Luna Titanium. It’s not my field, but it makes the process much easier than sourcing from somewhere else. There’s enough for most of Zeon’s needs for years. I think they’re planning to haul them into the same orbit as Axis for the factories out there too, but last we talked she wasn’t sure about the details yet.”
>”Enough for years? That’s amazing, it could revolutionize the whole fleet.” Mink’s always on about something, but when she talks about her family it’s only very rarely about their business. You know they were contracted for working on part of Axis as well, but they were just helping with some of the details on it, not the bulk of the work.>”Beam weapons and luna titanium… Sometimes I wonder if the K is getting too much shoved into it, those two on their own would be enough to outperform anything in development.”>”...Luna titanium won’t stop beam weapons on its own, will it?” It’s hard to imagine anything less than the thickness of a cruiser or battleship’s most armored sections surviving a beam strike. Luna Titanium might expand that protection to more locations across a ship, but it’s still a brute force solution even as advanced as the alloy is…>Write-in. 