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With some serious investment- you have created a new type of spacesuit. This upgrade is long since due- after all, your current green spacesuit design was approved by <span class="mu-i">Talacent</span> in the early days of his reign.
Using Azurium, and improving on the prototype special model given to high level commandos, such as Jale Berax, these new spacesuits are incredibly durable and strong. Beyond being made of Azurium, giving them excellent protection against microasteroids, heat, and radiation; customizable module slots allow for things like stronger artifical gravity, flight, or personal energy shielding. With these newly upgraded spacesuits; the trials begin first with political dissidents, and then barred-from-reproduction males to test their safety. The new suits hold and are approved for temporary stays on the planet for research.
And you're glad you did- because almost immediately the “heavy metal poisoning” on the planet is discovered to be caused by an entirely new unique form of matter!
This matter, trapped in the gas pockets of the exoplanet, is quickly given the designation of <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">Boson Accumulator Gas</span></span>. Essentially, a form of exotic matter that grabs fundamental particles from energy that touches it. Mostly, it grabs light and radiation, or anything you can spit out of a fusion reactor, and creates matter from it. Incredibly, the gas actually does create more matter then it seems to “be made of” when hit, violating one of the fundamental laws of matter.
This incredible discovery whips up a scientific storm of speculation and interest. After all, the ultimate goal of the Hegemony is to defeat the final heat death of the universe- and this strange gas seems to be a way out of the entropic end of everything!
Over the next <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">ten years</span></span>, rapid advancement in experiments involving the gas come to a head in the eventual realizations. The gas <span class="mu-i">does not</span> fundamentally break the law of thermodynamics; it still takes more energy then it produces, even as raw hydrogen fuel. But it does break other laws- producing mass, or more accurately, duplicating more mass then you began with if subjected to enough energy. It still produces waste heat and isn't a lossless process- it also isn't unlimited, as eventually the gas runs out of its “duplication juice”. However, the simple fact you can essentially create matter from essentially nothing is extremely promising, and is likely to upend the scientific world!
