Shielding is layered armour plate: exotic alloy and raw exotics, backed with composite and ceramic, made in a Foundry. The flagship, the anchorage, the drive core, ring segments and the fusion reactor are built with it.
In research, its high melting point steers a design toward more fuel capacity, mining rate and power output, at the cost of cargo capacity.
Its exotics come from the Deadzone, and the ice behind its composite and ceramic from the Static outward.