Chimerium

• Naturally occurring alloy of magnesite and kelbonite (SCE Short Story: "Invincible, Book One")
  • Most discovered deposits incredibly miniscule (SCE Short Story: "Invincible, Book One")
  • Sarindar only known significant source (SCE Short Story: "Invincible, Book One"; TNG Novel: A Time to Kill, A Time to Heal)
    • Federation has exclusive export agreement with Nalori Republic for chimerium (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
• Impenetrable to sensor beams and transporters (SCE Short Story: "Invincible, Book One"; TNG Novel: A Time to Heal)
  • While it cannot be directly transported, it can be transported indirectly through wide-beam capture (TNG Novel: A Time to Heal)
    • Such transport likely to introduce quantum errors in captured matter (TNG Novel: A Time to Heal)
• Deflects at least low-power phaser beams (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)