Hi!
Actually, the author DOES talk about the Iserlohn fortress
protective armor, but not in very great detail. It is a
QUADRUPLE armor of four different substances. One of them is
cermaic, I do remember that much. The outer one is polished to
a mirror shine to reflect beam weapons. There is NO repeat
NO basis for the liquid surface, ther than that it looks NEAT
when animated.
Oh, yeah - Something about one of the other layers being
crystalline caarbon of some sort? I'm not big on
chemical words!
- Sue