Titanium as an Official resource and Crafting Mat

PastelHarmonics said:
thank you. this thread is extremely silly. Titanium has its uses, holding edges and making repetitive high-intertia impacts are not some of those uses.

Titanium is chiefly useful as a structural material, and you will have a much better idea of its properties if you think of it as "situational side-grade to aluminum" rather than "lighter steel". Titanium is constantly in vogue because you can make truthful claims about its properties that laymen will not understand are not necessarily important. That said, here are some other situationally useful metals that you can buzzword sci-fi vogue your brain on:

Beryllium Metal, Magnesium Metal, Niobium, Vanadium, Scandium (specifically aluminum-scandium alloys), Manganese, Samarium-Cobalt, Yttrium Optical Garnet, Palladium, Iridium, Osmium, Molybdenum
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Im not guaranteeing anything but some of the metals u mentioned may have special capabillities as many sci-fi stories love to depict (again i could be wrong) but titanium is without a doubt the strongest metal in existence but the metal hasn't replaced steel in everything because ever since titanium started to be used mostly for SR71s in the 60s we still dont have any methods in existence that would allow us to mass produce titanium (nobody does) and as of right now titanium can only be mined deep underground or at sand dunes which that along with the super complex refining process takes many months just to make titanium bars or whatever is needed thus making titanium so damn expensive.

 
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