Up for sale today is a vintage 52 year old HARTH TX4 Series Assault Axe, produced in June of 2316 at the ETERNAL THEATER. The serial number is TX4-0001B. The TX4 Series was designed specifically for close quarters combat during boarding actions against enemy vessels in space, and it's popularity grew quickly among combat veterans for a variety of reasons. The TX4 Series was the first foray into arms production by Jed Harth, who credited it's popularity to it's robust reputation, which was the result of a newly discovered forging process. According to Harth, the axe's designation of 'Cort's Favor', was in honor of a little known 17th century shipwright who penned a series of whimsical poems inspired by a successful, but covert, voyage to King Williams island that predated John Franklin's tragic Artic Expedition. On the reverse side of the blade, a quote from one of Cort's poems references life on the open sea, and the timeless lure of adventures into the unknown. The axe head itself is composed of a crystalline metallic alloy, commonly referred to as a 'cold phase substrate'. As the first step in an extensive and complex forging process, specially designed molds are filled with small pellets of the cold phase substrate alloy. Next, the molds are coated with a thin layer of non-reflective resin, and then clamped to the hull of a space-ship's hull. With the molds secured, a ship will then pass close by a local dwarf star. While in orbit, the intense radiation from the dwarf star will heat the alloy to an exceptionally high boiling point, while preserving the integrity of compounds used in later stages of the process. As the ship leaves the orbit of the dwarf star, the cold vacuum of space slowly cools the liquid alloy within the mold, and an interlocking lattice structure is formed, which lends the weapon greatly increased tensile strength. Afterward, a master weaponsmith hones the blade to a razor edge, threads EMP resistant circuitry through the ducts, and then applies a mix of enamel paint and gold coating as an aesthetic embellishment. When fully assembled and powered, the axe is capable of slicing through armor plating with ease, which many veterans cited was crucial when a hasty exit was required during a boarding action gone wrong.
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