Rocco was never satisfied with proving that the material could harden.
MM-1 demonstrated impact locking. MM-1E demonstrated electrically stabilized rigidity and shape hold. Useful discoveries. But still only steps.
What Rocco wanted was control at a scale small enough that the structure itself could change.
Nanobots.
Hardening.
Shape retention.
Transformation.
The goal was no longer to create a better metal. It was to create a material that could become something else. That is where the Miracle Metal stops being strange and starts becoming dangerous.
Unknown territory begins when matter can be instructed.
Enter the story
Start with Book One, or read Signal Zero, the free, optional prelude.