Sci-fi Material Name Generator

How the Sci-fi Element / Material Name Generator (Unobtainium Engine) works

How the sci-fi material name generator works

An invented material is named the way real materials are, by chemists, foundries, physicists and salesmen, and the generator gives all four. The element is the chemist's name, a root from the shared worlds of this section and an ending that real elements use, veylorium, cassidite, kestrine, orlanite, haldenon, tarside, meridal, solium, threnite, vantine, ashon, novide, cindral, lyrium, sidonite, andrine, serapium, illon, quadride, marrium, keshite, callixium, aurelal, or with an isotope number, thulium-9, cassium-3, kestrium-7, or with a prefix, neothrenium, isosolium, metavantium, polyashium, protokeshium, since an element is named for a place and given an ending nobody argues with. The alloy is the foundry's name, a corporation and a steel, halcyon steel, Orvane steel, Castellan steel, Lindqvist steel, or a maker and an alloy, Quade alloy, Marrow alloy, Voss alloy, or a maker and a metal, marrow-bronze, Thorne-titanium, Calder-tungsten, Kepler-chrome, Farrow-cobalt, or a root and a metal, tars-titanium, sol-iron, vant-glass, thren-brass, or the ferro form, ferrocassid, ferrothul, ferrokestr, ferronov, or a metal and an element, bronze-veylorium, steel-solium, carbon-cindrium, or a graded one, Thorne Grade steel, Holt Mark ceramic, Argent Type nickel, Solano Lot zinc, which is a name that says who poured it and what it was poured with. The exotic matter is the physicist's name, the stuff that should not exist, a colour and matter, grey matter, dark matter, white matter, pale matter, or a null word and a form, void-glass, null-ice, phase-silk, ghost dust, still foam, cold wax, dead salt, quiet sand, deep oil, hollow thread, mirror mist, shadow ash, slow resin, thin crystal, echo glass, or a colour and a form, red ice, amber silk, violet foam, bone dust, rust crystal, or dark and a word, dark tallow, dark ledger, dark ember, dark argent, or a stone, hollowstone, voidstone, phasestone, ghoststone, nullstone, or a null word and a word, void pell, ghost sorrel, still quill, since exotic matter is named by someone who has seen it and does not know what to call it. The trade name is the salesman's name, a chosen word from the shared cast, Argent, Ledger, Slate, Tallow, Ivo, Ludo, or a word and a number, Ledger-7, Ember-41, Rue-3, Wren-88, Sorrel 200, or a graded word, Slate Grade 3, Pell Grade 9, Hesper Grade 1, or a corporation and a form, Halcyon Weave, Kestrel Plate, Quade Foam, Vantage Glass, Nakamura Fibre, or a word and a form, Pell Foam, Tobin Mesh, Bryony Skin, Linnet Sheet, Lief Cast, Perrin Core, or a corporation and a word, Thorne Cassia, Orvane Quill, Ashgrove Fallow, which is a name that has been registered and appears on a crate.

Element gives the chemist. Alloy gives the foundry. Exotic matter gives the physicist. Trade name gives the salesman.

The lists are original. The roots, corporations, makers and chosen words are the shared worlds and cast of this section, and the element endings, metals, grades, colours, null words and forms are ordinary English and ordinary chemistry of the kind every real material name is built from; no published unobtainium, franchise metal or real alloy trade name appears in the lists, a match with a film, a game or a real product would be chance, since every real element ends in ium and every real alloy is a surname and a metal, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.

For the gadget made of the material, the sci-fi gadget page; for the weapon forged from it, the sci-fi weapon page; for the corporation that mines it, the megacorp page; for the asteroid it is mined from, the asteroid name page; and for the drug refined from it, the sci-fi drug page.

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