Gabriel Sionoma
Sheriff of Sulon
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To craft a new lightsaber crystal oriented towards lightsiders, healers in particular.
Image Source: Zach Sharts, Artstation
Restricted Missions: N/a
Primary Source: N/a
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Name: Ankarres Crystal
Manufacturer: The Hammer and Honey Workshop
Homeworld (optional): Sulon
Production: Semi-Unique
Affiliation: Closed, only distributed personally by Gabriel Sionoma from his workshop.
Modularity: The only modularity comes in the color, which can vary between light blue, violet blue, green, and yellow.
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification: Crystal, [Zoisite]
Weight: 0.2 kg
Quality: N/a
Color: Yes. Light Blue, Violet Blue, Green, and Yellow.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Light saber crystal capable of enhancing users healing abilities and aura of tranquility, impacting those around them.
- A meditation crystal that allows the user to center themselves and draw on the healing energies around them, significantly improving healing powers.
- In either form of use, the stone cannot be utilized by darksiders. In some cases, it may even cause them discomfort.
- Healing Ability: Drawing on the teachings of the Ankarres Tree and Sapphire, the Ankarres Crystal provides a potent means for the user to enhance their own abilities to provide healing aid to their patients. While not as potent as the original Sapphire, the power and time put into this process allows a measure of power that is similar to it's predecessor.
- Aura of Tranquility: The Ankarres Crystal constantly releases an aura of serenity and peace, serving as a beacon for lightsiders to gather and fortify. This can aid them in repelling the temptations of the darkside or can aid them in unifying against a common foe. This aura is persistent and cannot be silenced.
- Meditation: In similar vein as mass meditation, the stone can serve as a fulcrum for introspection and development. For instances where a difficult mental obstacle reveals itself, the Ankarres Crystal might provide the path to the necessary steps to overcome it.
- Darkside resilience: As all things crafted or modified by Gabriel Sionoma, this crystal is inherently untouchable by the darkide or those who wield it. For those who pick up a lightsaber containing this crystal, they might feel discomfort when further tempted by their inherent sickness and greed. Within the crystal, the desire to help others is the foundation in which Jal Shey is adhered.
Strengths:
[+] Healing Aura and concentration: Magnifying the healing abilities of the user, this crystal not only improves the users abilities, but grants them a modicum of additional concentration.
[+] Calming Beacon: Aura of tranquility allows the wielder to reach a measured level of calm, exuding that to those around them.
[+] Darkside deterrent: Like all things crafted by Gabe, this cannot be used by a darksider. Additionally, attempt to use by a darksider may result in anxiety or discomfort that comes with having the foundation of one's persona disrupted.
Weaknesses:
[-] Brittle: The crystal is naturally brittle and chipping, after Imbuement, will destroy the imbuement.
[-] Power Hungry: Use of the crystal is intense on the lighsaber, requiring modifications to the energetic components.
[-] Uncontrollable Beacon: Without ignition, this crystal serves as a mild beacon for the lightside. When ignited, this effect is significantly increased. While tranquility pours out from this, it also amplifies the users presence to other force users around them.
[+/-] Specific to user: While the initial imbuement of the stone is not specific, once a healer or wielder uses the crystal to amplify their abilities, it forms a spiritual conduit. Following that, their presence is required for the crystal to properly work for saber or meditation.
[+/-] Susceptible to heat damage: The natural untreated color of this crystal is either light blue, green, or yellow. However, should the lightsaber be exposed to high heat for too long, the chemical bonds will deform and the color will shift to deep violet blue.
DESCRIPTION
The nature of this crystal is that, in its natural form, it's a relatively common stone. Often considered a poor mans version of Sapphire, the chemical properties of the crystal rarely allow for any form of color purity. While working on Sulon and tending to the backlot of various forests and canyons, Gabe discovered a cavern repository of these such stones. Similar to how he treated the cache originally found on Ord Vaug, Gabe used a sustainable form of harvest that involved picking a choosing those crystals which showed the highest form of clarity. Based on his knowledge of gemology, he knew that the reasoning for such appearance was either due to a reduction in chemical imperfections or stress during formation. Either way, with eyes filled with blues and yellows and greens, he got underway.
While he has never laid eyes on the Ankarres Sapphire, he has worked extensively with the Ankarres Trees and the various derivatives. Setting his mind towards replicating the original and legendary stone, Gabe got to work with the basic properties of Jal Shey Imbuement. With the lattice structure of the Zoisite crystals, it was evident that while his bar was set high for the imbuing process, this would be a more profound imbuement than what he was used to with wood grains, honey, or even meteorite gibeon. As such, he set out to instill certain and necessary healing properties to aid those who leaned towards the lightside. Because of the nature of the Galactic Alliance, being often militarized and carrying the more passionate forms of Jedi, Gabe sought to purposely instill a sense of tranquility while he was at it.
The first step was to craft a replicated sense of healing, pulled from his experience with Ankarres Wood, Relit Vandal, and Avalore Eden. The idea wasn't to give the ability for healing but more magnify the users natural or learned ability. In that way, he was able to bypass the limitations of his knowledge, in regards to healing. This came from personal experiences, ingrained into the crystal. Following that, he instilled the calming sense of tranquility that he so often puts into his many crafts. However, because of the nature of the stone to be malleable in regards to imbuement, this ability transcends the user and disperses around them. Similar to a beacon or aura, the wielder not only finds themselves focused by a warm sense of peace, but they press that upon those around them.
While the stone is intended to be used in a lightsaber, it can also be used as a centering or focus stone similar to the Kasha stones. In that way, it serves as a point of tuning and centralization that can be used by an individual or a small group.
The limits of the crystal are self evident upon initial use. First and foremost, the crystal is brittle and without proper protection within the lightsaber, even blunt impact against the cylinder can shear the lattice structure. Because of the potency of this crystal, the lightsaber requires additional modifications to the diatium power cell. Alternatively, the user can just adjust to requiring occasional replacement of the traditional component. And once the crystal has been used as force conduit, it becomes specific to the user and requires their presence for future activation.
