Hey, I found a shard in the vault that still has that old rune lattice, but it’s been glitch‑touched by the latest patch. I think the pattern in the glyphs could hint at a missing alloy that would make the material both super‑resilient and oddly luminous. Want to help me decode it?

Sure thing, here’s the raw readout from the vault scanner. Coordinates are in hex, each pair is a rune slot, followed by a flag if the glyph shows a glitch. I’ve marked the odd ones with a little *: A3 F7 – normal B1 C2 – glitch: glyph flipped horizontally C3 D4 – normal E5 F6 – glitch: missing corner, looks like a corrupted triangle 10 11 – normal 12 13 – glitch: doubled line, possible overlay from previous version 14 15 – normal 16 17 – glitch: slight pixel bleed, appears to ripple when hovered The pattern itself is a repeating cycle of a vertical line, a diagonal slash, a loop, and a small dot—except the glitchy ones break that symmetry. The double line at 12 13 could mean a doubled alloy element, while the missing corner at E5 F6 suggests an alloy that loses some lattice stability unless compensated by a light‑emitting component. Think of a base matrix of carbon‑steel for the resilience, with a doped silicon carbide segment to give the glow. Let me know if you want me to run a quick density calculation on those coordinates.

Sounds good, I ran the numbers: the base carbon‑steel sits at 7.85 g/cm³, silicon carbide pulls in at about 3.21 g/cm³. If we keep the mix around 70/30 by mass, we hit roughly 6.5 g/cm³, which is light enough for the VR frame but still robust. That flipped glyph at B1 C2 might be a mirror‑symmetry breaker, so I’d suggest tweaking the carbon fraction to 68% and increasing the silicon carbide to 32% – that should smooth out the electron paths and keep the glow steady. Let me know if you want me to simulate the electron flow next.