Approved Tech Blackcore Laminate

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create an inner hull liner material designed for Sith vessels in the Kainate, offering internal protection, dark side resonance control, and ritual energy insulation.
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  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Darth Prazutis
  • Shadow Mind
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Blackcore Laminate
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Obsidian Fibercloth
  • Ritual-Sealed Alloy Mesh
  • Blackblood Resonance Suppressant
  • Dark Resin Coating
  • Bloodsteel Thread Reinforcements

• Shock Dampening Core: Absorbs trauma from concussive blasts, internal feedback, and kinetic breaches, providing ships with incredibly high tensile strength. It significantly reduces cascade damage during internal explosions or hull-breach shockwaves, shielding critical systems and stabilizing compartments in crisis conditions.
• Ritual Energy Buffer: Contains, grounds, and redirects Force-based energy within a vessel to prevent psychic overflow. This ensures that even volatile rituals, Force-enhanced weapon discharges, or alchemical reactions remain localized and non-destructive.
• Black Mantle Insulation: Prevents Force surges or ritual misfires from cascading through internal systems. By diffusing arcane currents before they reach sensitive subsystems, it acts as an arcane circuit breaker for the ship's spiritual and technical infrastructure.
• Darkside Containment Fielding: Limits the bleed of dark energy into crew areas or unprotected systems. This protects non-Force-sensitive personnel from long-term exposure, hallucinations, or spiritual corrosion caused by prolonged contact with Sith enchantments.
• Structural Stabilizer Layer: Reinforces junction points, corridors, and bulkheads from internal damage. It provides added integrity during stress events such as high-velocity maneuvers, boarding detonations, or Force shockwaves impacting the ship's core.

• Dark Resonance Shielding: Prevents internal Sith rituals or sorcery systems from damaging ship systems or harming crew due to psychic feedback. It absorbs and neutralizes volatile arcane discharges, ensuring ritual chambers and Force-reactive tech can function at peak intensity without endangering the vessel.
• Shock and Trauma Absorption: Greatly reduces the risk of internal fractures or cascading damage from internal explosions or external weapon impacts. Its layered structure disperses energy evenly across bulkheads and corridors, drastically minimizing the chances of chain-reaction failures during combat.
• Dark Side Compatible: Blackcore is attuned to the dark side and enhances the performance of dark side vessels and components layered above it (like Bloodwrought Plating or Void Plating). It acts as an occult foundation, amplifying Sith enchantments and ensuring seamless metaphysical conductivity for Force-based systems embedded throughout the ship.

• Ritual Saturation Over Time: Extended exposure to high ritual energy may require the liner to be ritually purged. If neglected, spiritual buildup can lead to instability, or the manifestation of residual echoes within crew-occupied sections.
• Void Sensitivity: The force elements of the liner weaken when exposed to Voidstone or Ysalamiri. In such environments, its arcane functions weaken significantly, leaving only its physical durability intact and rendering its dark side enhancements inert.
  

Blackcore Laminate is the Kainate's premier inner hull liner material, the dark spinal fluid of its warships, the unseen but indispensable nervous system beneath the skin of shadowed steel. Forged in the ritual choked foundries of Malsheem by the Shadow Mind Division, it was not merely manufactured, it was willed into form through a malevolent process, sacrificial resonance, and spiritual computation. Its original purpose was clear: to contain, insulate, and empower the growing tide of Force based warfare, psychic interfacing, and ritual combat the Kainate pioneered across the stars.

Right at its core, Blackcore Laminate is a layered blend of sorcerously treated materials: ritual-sealed fibercloth, designed to contain emotional echoes; alchemical trauma-absorption gel, capable of drinking in shockwaves and spiritual discharge; and Bloodsteel threading, woven into conductive vascular patterns, enabling controlled energy flow between systems. Unlike standard starship insulation, Blackcore Laminate is alive with intention. It doesn't just protect, it responds, binding with dark rituals, resonating with Sith spellwork, and shielding sensitive crew and systems from harmful internal feedback or metaphysical recoil.

This makes it a critical backbone of all elite Kainate vessels. While Bloodwrought Plating and Void Plating form the external wrath of these ships, Blackcore is the internal harmony, the stabilizing hum of dark equilibrium that ensures neither sorcery nor sabotage devours the ship from within. It is found in every corridor, ritual chamber, and critical junction, lining the walls of pain-dens, encasing the conduits of Force-reactive weapons such as Painwave Emitters and Obliterators, and shielding the minds of those unlucky enough to serve near Sith command nexuses.

Beyond defense, Blackcore is also a tool of internal control. By regulating the bleed of Force energy within the vessel, it protects Sith rituals from corrupting systems or unleashing uncontrolled storms. If a battle meditation chamber erupts in sudden feedback, or if a dreadnought fires a metaphysically charged weapon too frequently, Blackcore prevents the resulting energy discharge from cascading through life support or structural integrity layers. Its darkside compatibility ensures it enhances, rather than suppresses, the function of layered components such as Screaming Void Plating or pain-linked fire control relays.

However, the material is not without cost. It is difficult to produce, requiring ritual conditioning and attunement. In areas deprived of the Force, such as Voidstone contaminated fields or ysalamiri bubbles, its spiritual containment qualities go silent, leaving only its physical reinforcement. Worse still, Blackcore can become spiritually saturated in prolonged or violent deployments, accumulating echoes of trauma, madness, or sacrificial energy. When left unchecked, this buildup risks turning the ship itself into a haunted, volatile space, necessitating ritual purging or complete replacement to prevent instability, and yet no Kainate dreadnought, cruiser, or Sith sanctum dares go to war without it. Blackcore Laminate is not just insulation. It is the unseen lattice of fear and function, the binding flesh of dark war machines. It is the reason a Kainate ship can channel the fury of the Force without fracturing from within. In silence, it suffers. In shadow, it endures. It is the nerve beneath the steel, the spine beneath the wrath, and the ever-whispering soul of Sith warcraft.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

Very cool sub again.

Approved.