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Old 05-19-2018, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Targan View Post
<snip> In the T:2300 universe a lot of a nation or alliance's power comes down to how much Tantalum it has access to. Tantalum is a fictitious mineral crucial to the manufacture of FTL stutterwarp drives.
I'm not sure you wanted to use "fictitious" to describe tantalum, element #73 (Ta) on the periodic table. Nor is Lanthanum (#7 La) fictitious, although used in Original Traveller as a substance essential to jump-drive operation.
Zuchai Crystals, perhaps?
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