Araxes Exports and Trade Reserves

Araxes Exports and Trade Reserves

The main export of the Tsovereign Commonwealth of Mu Draconis is well known to be The Araxes Cinnamaldehyde mono-atomic Transition Metal Crystalline Spice, it is a multi-trillion credit industry.

The TCMD also has sizable exports of Enerogon, which we are the second largest producer in the Geminga Sphere. Enerugon, also known as Energon and Arcybite (by the Ferengi), is mined profitably in the asteroid belt.

Sirillium, known as Tibanna Gas in the Sky River Galaxy, is actually Helium-3, a valuable and rare isotope of Helium, which is a useful fusionable fuel with a high proton exhaust product which is invaluable for weapons and shields. It is also valued as a plasma catalyst. The TCMD mines it from the mid-troposphere of the Cryo-Gas Giant Yasvi, but also in the Rolor Nebula. The Rolor Nebula is one of the two largest nebula with high sirillium content. The other is the Azure Nebula on the other side of the Geminga Sphere near the Klingon border.

A byproduct of the refining of The Spice is nano-dusts. Nano-dusts are tiny particles composed of between 1 and 100 atoms. Because of the difference is the surface area to volume, nano-dusts behave differently than their bulk versions. Nano-dusts and nanoclusters are the scale where matter first exhibits the non-intuitive realm of quantum physics, they behave almost as a distinct state of matter. Nano-particles are primarily used in nano-facturing and in medicine.

Araxes produces ultra high quality negative refraction index optical fibers, useful for avoiding distortion and improved signal quality of cable relayed signals, but also valuable for electromagnetic absorbers such as radar-microwave absorbers. Also valued for computer components that use photons instead of electricity.

Araxes produces some of the highest quality solar cells, which even work from just ultraviolet and infrared, and even have carnot heat exchangers to keep them in the optimal temperature range. Solar Cell Films down to nanoscopic thicknesses available. Solar nanofilms produce as much power as normal solar cells and are close to their theoretical optimal efficiency, even though they weight 1000 times less. Negative refractive index lenses have no distortion, used as a concentrator, said solar nanofilms efficiency can have efficiencies well above the Shockley–Queisser Limit. Thin film heat exchangers kept the materials from overheating and retaining excess heat so they always stay at their optimal efficiency without degradation.

Tired of your batteries and capacitor banks revealing your location because they are easy to scan, we value our privacy also, which is why we developed our patented (or at least trademarked) micro nano-flywheel energy storage batteries. Arrays of micro-or nanoscale flywheels, on near-frictionless magnetic bearings, embedded in a solid, sealed, evacuated matrix. Energy is stored by the flywheels in the form of angular momentum. Billions of nanoscopic flywheels store the energy as kinetic energy as they rotate in a high vacuum. Energy Density of about 25 megajoules per kilogram.

Torsion Batteries. Using long chain carbon nanotubes, coiled like a spring, torsion batteries are made with energy density higher than the best chemical batteries. The best chemical batteries are 10 megajoules per kilogram. The energy density up to 25 megajoules per kilogram is slightly less than petroleum. Torsion batteries work essentially like old fashioned clocks. This is used for nano and micro devices that are required to operate without electricity either to avoid detection or to operate in an environment where the interference is a factor. These so called clockwork nanobots and synsects are typically special use. Ceramic clockwork synsects work in environments where metallic and electromagnetic surveillance would be easily detected.

Lesser industrial exports include Sandcaster Sand, various Uranium Ores, Duranium (Depleted Uranium), Tungsten and Tyllium (trade name for fusionable isotopes of Lithium which the Kobolian Battlestar people prefer for fuel). The Tungsten and Tyllium are mined in the asteroids, the rest is from terrestrial extraction.

Microfiber heat-exchangers woven into the cloth in Desertborn clothes and most densely in their cloaks allows their heat signatures to blend into the surrounding environment. Comfortable, fashionable, and discrete.

Nanofibers such as carbon bucky fibres have great elasticity, strength and even superconducting properties which have great many uses. Other nanofibers such as diamondoid (nanoassembled perfect crystalline diamonds), sapphiroid, corundumoid, boronite, graphene, polybuckminsterfullerenes and other similar materials are used in structural material giving them great strength and resilience. Said nanofibers can be woven into a mesh to create planar materials such as woven graphene mesh and elastic diamondoid fibre composites like pandifico. Polybuckminsterfullerene is a nanofactured fullerene composite with tensile strength close to the theoretical limits of molecular matter; a single one millimetre strand can support several tons. The self-healing property of polybuckminsterfullerenes is such that if the nanotubes inside a Polyfullerene filament are broken, fullerene from the matrix heals them only causing a slight lengthening.

One of our popular retail exports is Araxes Spider Silk, from our Arachnid Dairies. The spiders are fed carbon nanotube scraps (included with their food) which further reinforces the silk. Available in spools of thread or as bolts of cloth.

Populations with copper based blood import the Araxes Arthropod Haemolymph, Haemocyanin and Amebocytes which have medicinal applications for them. Amebocytes are also used to make Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), which is valued in medical applications for the detection of bacterial endotoxins.

Tetrodotoxin is another major medical export. A well known toxin, specifically a calcium channel blocker, it has therapeutic uses in cancer treatment pain abatement, some types of migraines, and even controlling opiate addition.

Araxes Meat Beetles, Araxes Land Lobsters, Araxes Steak Spiders, Araxes Fat Widows, and Araxes Sand Squids are available in some abundance, both as meat and whole whole carcasses.

Fat Widow Molotov Glands, Meat Beetle acid reservoirs, Steak Spider poison sacs, Bat napalm-vesicles.

The roe (eggs), larvae, haemolymph (blood) and carapace are also available in limited quantities. Araxes Sand Squid ink also available in limited quantities.

High altitudes, specifically low air pressure makes for higher quality coffee. The steep volcanic slopes of the southern highlands and the frequent lightning produces near ideal growing medium. Araxes grows outstanding coffee, with The Spice naturally within it.

Spice Tequila and Spice Mescal also have The Spice naturally within the Agave.

Spice Beer (Splintered Rock Brand), has The Spice added during the fermentation process.

Spice Honey and Spice Mead. Wild Bees produce a wonderful honey with The Spice naturally infused in it. It makes a fantastic mead, available only seasonally.

Popular retail items include: Araxes Poppable Ant Eggs (naturally buttery taste), Breakfast Snake with Deep Fried Arachnids, Araxes Arthropod Sushi, Fried Tarantulas, Fried Silkworms, Chocolate Covered Arthropods Variety Pack, Bug Araxes Pops, Araxes Bug Juice. Kids love ‘em.

Our shipyards have a growing business producing Antimatter Catalyzed Microfusion Reactors (ACME), which uses nanoscopic quantities of antimatter to ignite a fission implosion induced fusion reaction. It is economical and probably the simplest fusion reactor to maintain. The ACME fusion pellets are liquid deuterium and tritium (sometimes syrillium) encapsulated in a shell of depleted uranium, sizes range from 30 grams. One nanogram of antimatter can induce up to 2 tons of the fusionable fuel. A little known fact, depleted Uranium (Duranium) will undergo fission when it comes into contact with a sufficient (albeit miniscule) quantity of antimatter.

While the Tsovereign Commonwealth of Mu Draconis maintains stockpiles of certain foreign trade goods.

The TCMD has a growing industry of Rydberg State ultra-condensed Deuterium and Helium-3, but also Rydberg State ultra-condensed Anti-Deuterium. 250 tons of fuel per 2.5x2.5x2.5 container instead of the usual 2.25 tons per tank. Special handling required. To maintain the Rydberg State, special containers are required, which mass about 100 tons each, return deposit required.

 

Strategic Trade Reserves

While The Spice is extremely valuable, it is not a universally accepted medium of exchange. To that end, The Keeper of the Sands has taken it upon herself to stock up MD’s Strategic Trade Reserves.

Fungible commodities that are useful for exchange for other things the Tsovereign Commonwealth of Mu Draconis might need, but who don’t have a market for The Spice.

1. Deuterium

Deuterium is of near universal utility. Using a coherent atom laser, we have been able to process the Deuterium into Rydberg State Ultra-Condensed Deuterium. While this can be condensed a million to 1, but we are keeping the storage and shipment easier, so our 2.5x2.5x2.5 meter container hold 250 Tons of Deuterium and the magnetohydrodynamic high pressure chiller container weighs another 100 tons. Just decompressing these releases about 4 tons TNT Equivalent per kilogram. We usually let it out a gram at a time. This is 300 times the energy density of petroleum, just in compression.

2. Antimatter.

Although it is a much more delicate operation, we can store 250 Tons of ultra condensed antimatter in the same 2.5x2.5x2.5 meter containers.

3. Sirillium

Sirillium is a volatile element found in some rare nebula and even rarer gas giants. It is the same as Tibanna Gas from Bespin. It is coincidentally Helium-3, which is both very rare and very valuable. As a fusion fuel it is 4 times the energy content of Deuteirum. It’s exhaust has no hot neutron, but lost of useful protons which are useful for shields and weapons. The Sky River people use it for their plasma blasters. It is also used in extreme refrigeration, such as the Breen magnetohydrodynamic high pressure chiller containers we use to contain our ultra-dense fuels.

Sirillium is mined in the Rolor Nebula, a mere 20 LY from Araxes. The only other major nebula source is the Azure Nebula, over by the Klingon Border who are nowhere near as agreeable. We also extract Sirillium from the troposphere of Yasvi, the giant cryojovian gas giant orbiting Mu Dracons Beta.

4. Enerogon.

Enerogon has several uses. First, it can be used as a ‘cold fusion’ fuel, which is to say that it fuses at temperatures that will vaporize steel, but not as hot as the sun like some other fusionables. It is also used as a combustible fuel for nanobots and likewise. It also has properties which shield quantum decoherence issues which are a big deal with quantum level technologies such as quantum computers and tiny nanobots. It is a primary energy and shielding mechanism used in programmable matter.

Energogon is mined in the Araxes Asteroid Belt and to a lesser extend in the Near Araxes meteoroid. The Ferengi have the largest supply in the Clarus Star System, about 6 LY away. They call it Archibyte. Whether we like it or not, they are the largest player in the market for Enerogon.

5. Dilithium Crystals

Dilithium Crystals are not fuel, but the means by which the ship can modulate the matter/antimatter reaction. Dilithium looks like pink quarz cystals.

6. LICu Phaser Crystals

LICu518 Phaser Crystals: LiCu518 Stabilized rapid nadion-effect NDF emitting Li<>Cu><Si::Fe<>O 518 superconducting crystal in a gulium arkenide-reinforced plate. Not replicatable. Used for Handheld Phaser Crystals.

LICu521 Phaser Crystals: LiCu521 Stabilized rapid nadion-effect NDF emitting Li<>Cu><Si::Fe<>O 521 superconducting crystal in a gulium arkenide-reinforced sphere. Not replicatable. Used for Ship Phaser Array Crystals.

7. Sarium-Krellide

Phaser energy storage

Essentially a ultraconducting capacitor. Not replicatable.

8. Tri-Cobalt

Anti-Cobalt, 130 times the density of anti-protium (anti-hydrogen). Probably illegal in the hands of civilians. Its detonation has enough energy density to disrupt subspace. The Chenier produce something similar, Anti-Nickel, but they are probably just showing off. It works, it is very Impressive.

We have several hundred tons of the ultra condensed version of the stuff, which after over a year of laborious effort, we have finally transferred to our own patented (or at least trademarked) magnetohydrodynamic high pressure chiller long term containment. We have converted them to over 65 thousand smaller 8-kilogram caches instead of large 250 ton containers. Finite Quantities.

9. Naquadah

Naquadah we learned is actually a substrate suspending small amounts of mass monopoles. It is 5 times denser than iron. It is a superconductor among other myriad uses. It is the primary component in making Stargates. Finite Quantities.

10. Kironide

Kironide is a powerful fusionable fuel, which when ingested causes neurological and psychiatric issues, but grants temporary telekinetic abilities. Better control with Darkover Matrix Starstones, but are extremely difficult to get from Cottman IV.

11. Tyllium

Tylllium is Lithium-6, a minority (7.5% occurrence) isotope of Lithium-7. A quality aneutronic fusionable fuel, favored by the Battlestar Galactica Kolobians. Lithium-7 is also fusionable, known as Red Mercury, but is not red, and is actually usually used as a nuclear coolant and neutron absorber.

12. Cryo Ballistic Void Diamonds.

Diamonds formed in the lower troposphere of certain gas giants and subjected to terrestrial planet sized collisions knocking them into their orbital space, usually into their ring systems. Most diamonds have minute impurities, void diamonds have substantially less and in fact a commercially significant percentage of them have voids where normally these non-carbon impurities would be which makes them idea strata for quantum mechanisms.

13. Cavorite

Use d in anti-gravity and artificial gravity. Also known as Element Zero, Nth Metal, Thanagarium, and rarely Upsidasium. We can discuss how the woodward effect and Mach’s principle is involved if you care.

14. Duranium

Depleted Uranium, surprisingly useful. Primarily as a radiation shield but also as a tamper in the manufacture of fission implosion triggered fusion reactions. The Federationalists mix it with Tritanium for their hull armour because it is very resistant to Phasers due to its very high atomic number.

15. Radionuclide Ores

Autunite , Brannerite , Carnotite , Coffinite , Davidite , Gummite , Monazite , Pitchblende , Thorianite , Thorite , Thucholite , Torbernite , Tyuyamunite , Uraninite , Uranocircite , Uranophane , Zeunerite

16. Refined Radionuclides

Thorium, Uranium-235 (enriched, reactor grade, rocket grade, weapons grade and research grade), Plutonium (reactor grade, rocket grade, weapons grade and research grade).

17. Rare non-replicatable material, Ununquadria 298 (eka-lead) 114Uuq298

Ununquadria 298 (eka-lead) 114Uuq298 is the theorized Sea of Stability of Transuranic Elements. Used as a currency (latinum) and to shield nano-bots from electromagnetic pulse weapons.

18. Rare non-replicatable material, Unseptritium 350 173Ust350

Once the electron shells of an atom are so full (173 electrons), that it takes more energy to dislodge the electron than it takes to create a new one. It is used to produce antimatter by directing a beam of electrons at it, causing it to split off into electron and positron pairs. Key ingredient in Zero Point Modules (ZPMs) and antimatter production facilities. Requires special equipment to maintain stability.

19. Rare, ultra exotic material, Superdeformed Orbitally Rearranged Nucleus Elements (SORNE)

Superdeformed Orbitally Rearranged Nucleus Elements (SORNE): There are 8 transition metals that have unique characteristics to be able to exist in a mono-atomic unbounded state and have their nucleus be superdeformed yet maintain stability: Silver, Palladium, Gold, Platinum, Osmium, Ruthenium, Iridium and Rhodium. These Mono-Atomic Superdeformed Nucleus Transition Metals somehow unbonded to any other metal can be in a quantum state that can be useful for nanofacturing of nanobots particularly for nanobots that use quantum levitation and also for nano-flywheel energy storage.

20. Rare, exotic material, Microcluster Transition Metals (MTMs)

Versions (2-6 atoms) of Silver, Palladium, Gold, Platinum, Osmium, Ruthenium, Iridium and Rhodium plus Copper, Cobalt, Chromium and Nickel are also used in nanofacturing of nanobots.

Strangium: Macroscopic quantities of the condensed strange quark, which is very useful in manufacturing Antimatter cheaply. Mined in the outer Kuiper Belt and Scattering Disk.

21. Illudium Phosdex Q-36

Q-36 is an isotope of Illudium Phosdex, a crystal with rare earth metal quantum magnetic channel lattices which have both immense magnetic flux (over 15000 Tesla) and immense Casimir force compression. Also known as Dilithium Substitute. Extremely valuable for particle beam weapons and making jump drive hulls.

22. Metallic Hydrogen

Extracted from the lower troposphere of the Yazvi Gas Giant. Requires special storage.

23. Hull Metals

Used in the construction of starship hull armour.

Tritanium Alloy, Adamantium (Diamondoid Iron Whisker Carbon nanotube), Borene (Boron nitride nanotube) Buckminsterfullerene, Tungsten hi-carbon Steel, Graphene, Carborundumoid (Red), Carbyne, Sapphiroid (Blue), Tritanium-Duranium Alloy.

24. Naguadah

Shares many attributes of Monopolium and Magmatter. Used in the construction of stargates.

25. Massed Monopoles

Monopoles are exotic topological space-time vacuum defect distortions, elementary particles which grants charge to particles but without a opposite pole. Monopolium has greater density and strength than any normal chemical bonded elements, it is used in the manufacture of antimatter, a tremendous superconductor, ultracapacitors and used in conversion fusion drives. It has all of the qualities attributed to Stargate's Naquadria, except it is based on real science. Finite quantities.

26. Monopolium and Magmatter

Tremendously dense and immensely strong artificially created matter, constructed from massed magnetic monopoles. Finite quantities.

27. Strange Quark Matter.

Ultra-dense, of great utility in manufacturing antimatter economically.

28. Primordial Black Holes

Found in the outer oort cloud. Used for energy and antimatter production and scientific research. Quantities are very limited.

29. Diamondoid Hull Plates

Mined from a nearby White Dwarf Star System. Plates are standard sized 2.5x2.5 meters, 0.025 meter thickness. 100 plates per pallets, 40 mass-tons per pallet,

30. Ansibles

Uses entangled particle technologies to provide instantaneous communications regardless of distance, but only between the two units.