Omni-gel
From FABT
Omni-gel is a technological material with a wide variety of applications. Omni-gel is composed of common, reusable industrial plastics, ceramics, and light alloys kept in a semi-molten state. It can be obtained by looting or scavenging it; by purchasing it from stores and vendors; and, most usefully, by synthesizing it through a process that breaks down existing equipment and converts it into the gel. Rendering down non-essential or obsolete hardware into omni-gel allows it to remain useful while keeping weight and storage space requirements to a minimum. Brainstormed by the hanar inventor Finds-Jubilation-In-Giving in 944 CE, omni-gel is a piece of technology originating from a utilitarian mindset, with the idea that any byproducts and other waste can, instead of being discarded or thrown away, can be broken down and reused for a variety of other purposes, therefore lending the former object a new lease on life. Until 2185 CE, omni-gel could even be used for decryption and electronics hacking, however this was finally countered with a series of security upgrades that proliferated across the Milky Way that caused a failsafe measure to activate if omni-gel was detected, thus bringing an end to the gel's use as a hacking tactic.
Omni-gel continued to be used into the modern age, with its range of applications and the amount of objects capable of being transformed into omni-gel only increasing as each century passes.