Looking at the Trav 5 tech level charts, superdense armor has disappeared.
Does anyone know why?

Linking back to the recent nuclear weapons thread, the existence of superdense materials implied:
- the ability to produce industrially useful quantities of stable allotropes or polymorphs or higher
density than found 'in nature'; or
- the ability to produce industrially useful quantities of stable (half lives of tens of thousands of years or more)
superheavy elements.

The advent of nuclear damper tech dramatically expands the range of available superheavies if half-life can
be arbitrarily prolonged. (I was reminded of the superheavies and the stability problem by the recent announcement
that element 117 had been synthesised again in Germany).

Presumably gravity manipulation tech has a key role in forming superdense materials from non-superheavy elements -
and it could be used to produce pure fusion nukes.

"WARNING: DO NOT insert the following materials into the Naasirka Graviforge UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES: metallic uranium,
transuranic elements, solutions or salts containing uranium or transuranics, lithium deuteride or tritide, or heavy water.
Consult the Operators' Manual for other warnings."

I also wonder whether superdense lasing rods for nuke-pumped lasers might work better.
They would seem to make nuclear-pumped shaped charges, explosively formed penetrators or 'claymore/shot' weapons more effective.

Rob O'Connor