Lely and carborundum

Right, bear with me in the opener! And apologies if this is well known but I can’t find any mention when I google it.

My kid is into stones and recently got a lump of carborundum which she wanted to show and tell at school, so I was looking up some info about it so she had more to say than “here is a cool rock”.

Turns out carborundum doesn’t occur naturally on earth - it is from stardust. It can be synthesised on Earth using a method called the Lely process. It is used in loads of stuff but one of its uses is in making ceramic plates for bulletproof vests.

So Lely - his body was marked by stars, he wore ceramic armour.

Not sure quite if this adds anything to the game or anything, but I just thought it was neat and wanted to share