E T E R N A L - E M P R E S S
- Intent: Artificially made souls into golems or constructs. Making it easier for the alchemist / sorcerer to give soul to such objects.
- Image Source: Object
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Prosperian Soulstone
- Manufacturer: Ingrid L’lerim-Vandiir via Spear and The Primyn Group | Darth Xanesh (contributed)
- Affiliation: The Sith Empire | The Eternal Empire | Greystone Mercantile & The Cat’s Paw | Lord of the Sith
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Avesime Vele | Artificial Soul
- Modularity: No. (Yes, while shaping the soul; after the soul is complete it can no longer be modified.)
- Production: Minor * (simple minded souls) | Limited * (complex minded souls) | Limited * (Force-sensitive/user souls)
- Material: Soul | Dark side energies | Synthetic crystal
*Note: Since many factions / groups are affected, it should be seen as a shipment made of a new kind of medicine. They produce relatively much, but for many places. Groups and organizations need to consider what they really want to use it for because they don’t know when they will get another shipment and how much.
- Artificial Soul: The name might be a little deceptive because it’s not a completely artificial soul, it’s more about someone breaking a soul into pieces or tearing it up and then “growing” a new soul out of existing shards. The process takes a lot of energy and during a ritual these pieces can be “programmed” to so-called appropriate parameters. These new souls will be nowhere near mirroring the personality traits of the original soul, for the process completely removes everything from the old personality, and during the making the soul acquires a new personality. Roughly ten artificial souls can be made from one soul.
- Soul from Anywhere: Any soul can be used for this (i.e., quite accurately the soul of an intelligent life form), but these souls can be obtained from anywhere, taken out of a Holocron or any alchemized object where a soul was binding to it, brought back from the Netherworld, or just ripped out of a living person. However, the stronger the soul, the harder it is to tear it to pieces, but it may not work (for very strong Force Users, PCs / NPCs).
Note: In the case of a PC or NPC with a submission, the owner's consent is required. - Method of Use: During the “shaping”, that is, during the growth of the soul, the character of the artificial soul can also be planned and made. These artificial souls can be divided into three different categories:
- Simple minded souls: They are simple souls but perfectly obedient. In each case, they are made to obey their owner. These are excellent simple soldiers, loaders, guards, bodyguards. They are perfect for any task that doesn’t require much thought. From then on, their use and additional advantages / disadvantages depend on the body in which they are placed. Not very communicative, mostly quiet, they resemble a personality growling at all things.
- Complex minded souls: They are already much more like a sentient personality. They are communicative, they can think, although their way of thinking may seem a bit slow. They may seem completely intelligent, although they may have problems with social norms and social behaviour, they can still talk to them, although they will talk almost only about what interests them. They may already be able to perform laboratory tasks, record data, analyze not very complex information and data. That is, it can be a good auxiliary workforce under any circumstances.
- Force-sensitive/user souls: They are the same as Complex minded souls, only they can use Force at a minimal level. It will never be more than limited / weak telepathy, very little telekinesis, and more than being able to perceive the Force in another (living being or object).
Note: It is important to note that these will never become a complete person or personality; they will always be incomplete. They are perfect for their task, but no one should expect a complex personality from them. They are like a person with Asperger-syndrome or a mild symptomatic autism.
- Living for a task: At the time of creation, “growth”, they also determine what role the given artificial soul will perform in the future. As a result, they can be made for completely individual tasks, it all depends on the customer.
- Reusable: The artificial soul crystal can be removed from one “body” / construct at any time and put to another, provided the crystal is not damaged or destroyed.
- Compatible: These artificial souls can be incorporated into essentially any golem, construct, and machine or alchemical creation. Thus, they can be widely used. And it’s easier to use them than to capture a demon for the same purpose.
- Resistant: Although the crystal is not made with alchemy, it is nonetheless more resistant so that it does not perish immediately when damaged. Of course, one can still destroy it immediately with enough firepower or the right weapons.
- Quick learner: They are able to quickly learn new things in the category in which they were created. For example, a soul created for combat can quickly learn to use a new weapon, or an office worker will quickly learn a new language, etc.
- Without a “body”: Without any body, they are just crystals. They cannot be used in lightsabers or any other device/object. They are only useful in a controllable body. They can be used for this one thing, they are made for this purpose.
- Can’t change: Because they are, so to speak, artificially created, their character and task in which they have proficiency do not change. They won't either later, they can't. For them, there is no such thing as character development.
- Mental defence: Because they are not a complete person or personality (souls), their mental protection is also much lower than that of an average intelligent living being. Abilities, mind tricks, illusions, mental attacks that affect the mind or soul are much stronger and more effective. Complex minded souls and Force-sensitive / user souls are slightly more protected than Simple minded souls.
- Light: Because they were created with Dark Side Force, they are also much more strongly affected by Light Side effects. Note: Nevertheless, they do not feel like a dark side creature.
- Weird feeling: In the Force you can immediately feel that something is wrong with these souls, that they are freaks, abominations. A Force User can immediately tell that they are not real souls. A Darksider might find it wonderful, but for a Lightsider, it certainly seems like a horrible truncation and a mockery of life.
- Destroying: If the crystal is damaged or destroyed, the soul within it will also be destroyed. Since these are not real souls, they do not even end up in the Netherworld, i.e. if one is destroyed, it is final. It cannot be repaired or resurrected.
- Force-sensitive souls: Force Sensitive artificial soul is very difficult to make and create, as almost every torn soul will be non-Force Sensitive due to the effect of growth. It is very, very rare to manage to keep the soul shard as a Force Sensitive.
- Force-nullification: In an area where there is no Force, for whatever reason (an effect caused by a living being or an object) the Artificial soul does not work. In that case, it is just a crystal, going to a resting / dormant state until they are back to a place where there is Force.
Ingrid was another experiment where she tried to bring Adrian Vandiir back into the ranks of the living. She tried to use the knowledge she learned about the Prosperian Soulstones. Since the soul of the Sith Lord is also in pieces, she was concerned with putting the soul together when, in a failed experiment, she created souls that could be formed from the soul shards. The artificial souls thus created were not really usable for much at first. Since Ingrid had never created constructs or golems before, she asked
Ardana Vorco
for help in the Primyn Group. With the help of the Sith Lord, they found out what these artificial souls are good for.With Xanesh’s help, they also managed to work out a way to “program” these souls to be fit for the task their future owner would want them to be. This is how the three different groups were created first, and then the job design came into being. Special templates were made for this, i.e. different spells, which Ingrid herself had already written. With the help of these, it was possible to create the appropriate “personality” for the various Artificial Souls, so that they could be prepared for a task that the customer wanted.
Since the new soul does not remember anything from the original soul, and even the original character disappears, so all artificial souls start with a clean sheet, empty, only the direction is given for what they will be good at. Fortunately, they learn very quickly in the direction programmed into them, so they can quickly become great fighters, guards, support staff, and so on. As a result, they will become relatively more widespread in the near future among alchemists and sorcerers who can be great at using them.
Through Spear and The Primyn Group, The Eternal Empire and The Sith Empire are the ones who can use and access it in the first place. Because of the Spear and HPI Consortium the Greystone Mercantile and The Cat’s Paw are also there, because HPI Consortium pays them with these artificial souls in exchange for the Phigu, and through them and through The Primyn Group, the Lord of the Sith can also access them.
However, the making and production of artificial souls, rather their growth, is a slow process and requires more power, which is why it has not become widespread and mass-produced. Thus, anyone who acquires such a soul is advised to carefully bet on what they want to use it for because stocks are limited. However, due to compatibility, there are many possibilities for use. In essence, only imagination can prevent someone from trying to put artificial soul into a golem, machine, or alchemical construct.
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