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This B-5D Diamond Wedding is a Player Craft introduced in R-Type Final. It's similar to its sister-crafts, the B-5B Golden Selection and B-5C Platinum Heart, having an armoured hull of precious material, bearing resemblance to another craft this time the B-3A Misty Lady. Thus far, this ship marks the terrifyingly expensive end to the B-5 Series.

Requirements
This ship can be unlocked by logging 30 minutes of flight time with the B-5C Platinum Heart.
Description
[High-density Carbon Crystal Armor]
Developed using the hardest material known to man. It is said to cost 720 times more than the R-9K. Naturally, it is extremely rare.
Armaments
Force

Bit Device

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Missile

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Wave Cannon

Trivia[]

  • The name refers to the gift of a diamond ring to signify an engagement for marriage.
  • The B-5D is the only Precious-Material fighter not to be made of a metallic element.
  • In spite of the value of both Gold and Platinum being something most wouldn't consider "cost effective", the B-5D is the only ship in the Precious Material series to have attention drawn to its cost.
    • The exact value, however. is still unknown, given no pricing information currently exists for the R-9K.
  • While correct at the time of R-Type Final's release in 2003, 6 materials have since been discovered, or created possessing hardness greater than that of Diamond, thus invalidating this craft's description.
    • Of the Naturally-occuring materials exist both Wurtzite Boron Nitride, a type of solid formed during Volcanic eruptions, possessing a tetrahedral crystal structure, and simulated showing 18% higher hardness than the Face-aligned cubic diamond crystal, as well Lonsdaleite, crystallised graphite resulting from the centre of a Carbon-based meteor staying relatively cool during atmospheric entry, then impacting the ground.
    • Artificially, Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight Polyethelene (also known commercially as Cuben Fiber, or Dyneema Composite Fabric), a type of light-mass thermoplastic estimated as 15 times stronger than steel, Palladium Microalloy Glass, a mixture of metallic elements that demonstrates the rigidity, and crack resistance of tempered glasses, but the flexibility and deformability of soft plastics, Buckypaper, a lattice of heat-resistant, electrically-conductive carbon nanotubes arranged in a flat plane, and finally Graphene, a single-atom thick sheet of Carbon, have demonstrated several times the strength of both steel, and Diamond.
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