Onnesium?

[RainOfSteel]

I found a reference to this material in Don McKinney's integrated timeline.

650: Darrian (0627 Spinward Marches) based merchantman, "Nilzeng," disappears after leaving Ianic (1924 Spinward Marches), carrying omnesium. Challenge #44, GDW, 1990, p. 33.

I did a search on Google, to no effect. Most references were to Don McKinney's own page, and one was to a TML post on Jan2002, which referred to "The Omnesium Quest".

EDIT---------11/04/2004 1803 MST
I edited the Topic title to correct the spelling of Onnesium.

 

[mike wightman]

The lead in to "The Onnesium Quest" is hinted at in the DIS Newsbriefs in MT Journal 4.
There is an article that rumours have been spreading about the legend of a merchant ship with a hold full of onnesium misjumping into 985-374 (Trojan Reach 1209).
P.s. try searching onnesium instead

 

[Elliot]

You could look in the Imperial Encyclopedia on these boards as well!

 

[mike wightman]

Good idea, this is what it says:

Onnesium

Rare element, atomic number 118, mildly radiactive and dangerous, which has been proved to be a viable room-temperature superconductor. Onnesium is normally found as small, silvery spheres embedded within meteroric nickel-iron ...

 

[RainOfSteel]

Originally posted by Elliot:
You could look in the Imperial Encyclopedia on these boards as well!

Yes, but as the timeline has it misspelled as "omnesium", my search wouldn't have been successful.

 

[RainOfSteel]

Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
The lead in to "The Onnesium Quest" is hinted at in the DIS Newsbriefs in MT Journal 4.
There is an article that rumours have been spreading about the legend of a merchant ship with a hold full of onnesium misjumping into 985-374 (Trojan Reach 1209).
P.s. try searching onnesium instead

Thanks for letting me in on the real spelling. That helped out a lot.

 

[jappel]

So, I guess "omnesium" is the substance that turns you into Grandfather?

 

[Andrew Boulton]

There's also amnesium, but I forget what that does...

 

[ElHombre]

Originally posted by Andrew Boulton:
There's also amnesium, but I forget what that does...

call the pun police!

*BAM-BAM-BAM* 'pun police! open up! we know you're in there, andrew!'

*SMASH* 'THERE HE IS! GET HIM!'

*WHACK-WHACK-WHACK!* (sound of batons beating criminal)

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Ow!

I thought I'd got away with that one...

 

[jasper]

don't do the pun if you fear the punishment.

 

[Zutroi]

Does that put Omnesium higher or lower on the periodic table than Unobtanium and Bolonium?

 

[Evo Plurion]

Tom Lehrer would love this.

 

[Straybow]

There's Antimony, Arsenic, Aluminum, Selenium...

 

[Uncle Bob]

Funny, I thought omnisium could be used for eveything...

 

[Uncle Bob]

Funny, I thought omnisium could be used for eveything...