Corodal Carbon

Corodal Carbon is a metallic carbon-based material used in the construction of Archetypes, giving them multiple advantages over traditional mechanical technologies. They are featured prominently throughout Mobile Suit Gundam Agua.

Description & Characteristics
Corodal Carbon can be described as a kind of living metal, using full-body electric pulses to simulate the flow of energy across a living being's body. Made of a combination of several different metals as well as carbon, the material is designed to be melted and hardened for mass production purposes, meaning it has low combat-oriented durability. However, due to a more flexible outer layer, the metal is also incapable of breaking under stress, making the underlying frame more solid than the component-based mechanics used for older mobile suits. Stronger outer armors are chemically fused onto the Corodal Carbon in order to add to its durability.

The main feature of Corodal Carbon, and the reason why it is made to be alive, is the ability to regeneration. Via L2 Particle stimulation, the material is able to perform cellular growth and repair, enabling it to heal from damage taken done to any section of its body. The material is given a biological footprint that is added onto via the fusing of materials, meaning the Corodal Carbon will regenerate not only itself but also whatever armor it had attached to it, making for a temporary on-field self repair system. This is why armor is chemically fused onto the material.

In order to make additions or changes to the overall material, a counter electrical signal is produced throughout the body which halts its energy flow. Any kind of changes made to the frame during this time will stick, such as the removal of regrown parts for actual replacements made of a different material.

Because Archetypes, and by extension their Corodal Carbon, need L2 particles in order to have cellular growth, these frames are equipped with an extensive system which is plugged into a LefLiva Drive which both produces the electrical pulses and the L2 particles necessary.