Shadow Hand

- Intent: To create a highly advanced stealth and battlefield obfuscation system utilizing Sith sorcery and cutting-edge technology to render ships, facilities imperceptible.
- Image Source:
- Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source:

- Manufacturer:
- Shadow Mind
- Affiliation:
- The Kainate
- Shikkari Assassin Cells
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Abyssal Veil Projector Mk. I
- Modularity: No (The projector is a highly complex system requiring specialized installation and alignment with the Dark Side)
- Production: Semi-Unique (A small number exist, used only by the most elite Kainites, Shikkari Assassin Cells, and Installations)
- Material:
- Sith Rune-Inscribed Blackstone: Alchemized to amplify dark side energy and obscure detection.
- Blood-Forged Aurodium Circuits: Enhances Sith energy conduction and enables arcane functions.
- Ultrachrome Composite: Provides extreme durability and resistance to high-energy attacks.
- Nykkalt-Infused Plating: Enhances natural cloaking properties and disperses sensor readings.
- Reflec and Nightshadow Anti-Sensor Coating: Aids in rendering the device undetectable when activated.

- Dark Side Obfuscation Field: Generates an aura of pure darkness using Sith alchemy and sorcery, warping enemy perception, hiding Force signatures, and confusing those attempting to track the vessel or facility.
- Abyssal Cloak Disruption: Functions similarly to a cloaking device but with additional Sith magicks that distort the minds of those who attempt to penetrate its veil.
- Reality Fracture Distortion: Creates shifting phantom echoes of the ship or structure it is concealing, making it appear in multiple places at once or seemingly vanish from existence.
- Gravitic Mirage Field: Bends light and gravitational fields to prevent mass-based tracking and hyperspace detection.
- Void Echo Projection: Simulates sensor ghosts, Force illusions, and phantom disturbances to mislead enemy scans and tracking systems.
- Sith Sorcery Convergence Matrix: A unique system that allows Sith Lords to amplify the projector's effects through their own dark side power, making its concealment even stronger.

- Ultimate Concealment: The Abyssal Veil Projector blends Sith sorcery and technology to create an impenetrable shroud, rendering ships, stations, and more effectively invisible to the naked eye, sensors, and even the Force.
- Distorts Perception: Unlike conventional stealth, this system actively warps enemy minds, causing confusion, false readings, and even hallucinations for those trying to detect the hidden vessel or facility.
- Counteracts Hyperspace Tracking: The device's gravitic mirage prevents advanced tracking techniques like interdiction hyperspace tracers or mass-based locators.
- Deceptive Echoes: The Reality Fracture Distortion function creates false ship signatures or phantom readings, making it impossible for enemies to determine how many ships there actually are, and their locations.
- Force-Resistant Concealment: Traditional stealth measures can often be sensed through the Force, but the Abyssal Veil Projector is woven with Sith sorcery, making it incredibly difficult even for Jedi Masters to pierce its darkness.

- Power-Intensive: The Abyssal Veil Projector requires enormous power to maintain its effects for extended periods, often necessitating dedicated energy cores or ritual sacrifices from Sith acolytes to sustain peak operation.
- Sith-Dependent: While the projector can function on its own, its most powerful applications require an active Sith to amplify its effects, meaning that without a dark side practitioner nearby, its full capabilities are diminished.
- Interference with Own Sensors: Ships or stations using the Abyssal Veil experience sensor blindness, meaning that while they remain undetectable, they also struggle to scan beyond their immediate surroundings without advanced countermeasures.
- Vulnerable to Large-Scale Disturbances: While immensely effective at hiding individual ships, planetary-scale gravity distortions, mass shadow anomalies, or hyperspace disturbances can reveal its location due to how it manipulates gravitational waves.
- Cannot Function in Null-Force Zones: Areas where the Force is entirely absent (such as ysalamiri fields or certain void regions) severely weaken or outright disable the sorcerous elements of the projector, making it reliant solely on its technological aspects.

The Abyssal Veil Projector is the pinnacle of Sith stealth technology, designed to erase ships, and more from existence, rendering them undetectable to all conventional and unconventional tracking methods. Created within the forges of Malsheem by the Shadow Mind, this device fuses dark side alchemy, advanced stealth engineering, and arcane Sith rituals to bend light, distort gravity, and cloud the minds of any who seek to pierce its shadowy cloak. Unlike traditional cloaking devices, the Abyssal Veil does not simply make a ship invisible, it actively creates a field of warped perception, making it so enemies do not even realize they are searching for something. Those who attempt to pierce the Abyssal Veil often find their sensors giving conflicting data, their minds overwhelmed with hallucinations, or their instruments registering nothing but void.
Its most potent effect, the Reality Fracture Distortion, allows a ship to appear as multiple ghostly echoes across the battlefield, making enemy targeting systems completely unreliable. At its peak, ships have been known to vanish into shadow, only emerging when it is far too late for their enemies to react. Utilized only by the Kainate's most elite forces, including Sith Lords, Shikkari assassins, and specialized infiltration ships, the Abyssal Veil ensures absolute supremacy in the unseen war, allowing the Kainate to strike from the darkness and vanish without a trace. To many, the mere whisper of its presence is a herald of death. To those who stand against the Kainate, it is a nightmare given form.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a highly advanced stealth and battlefield obfuscation system utilizing Sith sorcery and cutting-edge technology to render ships, facilities, or even entire regions of space imperceptible.
Canon Link:
N/A
Permissions:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate Shikkari Assassin Cells
Model:
Abyssal Veil Projector Mk. I
Modular:
No
Material:
Sith Rune-Inscribed Blackstone: Alchemized to amplify dark side energy and obscure detection. Blood-Forged Aurodium Circuits: Enhances Sith energy conduction and enables arcane functions. Ultrachrome Composite: Provides extreme durability and resistance to high-energy attacks. Nykkalt-Infused Plating: Enhances natural cloaking properties and disperses sensor readings. Reflec and Nightshadow Anti-Sensor Coating: Aids in rendering the device undetectable when activated.
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