Shadow Hand


- Intent: To create a dark side-infused rail weapon that fires sacrificially empowered shard-bolts designed for maximum carnage and precision.
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- Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A

- Manufacturer:
- Malsheem Automated Factories
- Shadow Mind
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Bloodtide Shard Rail Mk. I
- Modularity: Yes (Customizable alchemical core for different shard compositions, as well as scopes, underbarrels, and side rail attachments)
- Production: Limited (Used by Kainate elite troopers, fortress turrets, and terror squads)
- Material:
- Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Casing
- Blood-etched Sacrificial Coils
- Shikkari Sacrificial Essence Chambers
- Pain-Amplifier Crystal Lining
- Sith Rune Circuitry

- Classification: Magnetic / Alchemical Weapon
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Crystallized shard-bolts infused with dark side energy and sacrificial blood
- Ammunition Capacity: Average (30 Shots per magazine)
- Effective Range: Long
- Rate of Fire: Average
- Damage Output: Very High
- Recoil: Average

- Sacrificial Shard-Bolts: The weapon fires alchemically forged shard projectiles soaked in blood and pain essence, each one vibrating with raw dark side malice.
- Flechette Detonation: Upon impact or proximity to bio-signatures, the shard detonates into hundreds of alchemized flechettes that home toward weak points and exposed joints.
- Essence Tracker: Shards are tuned to trace the aura of fear or injury, subtly guiding themselves toward the most vulnerable or panicked targets.
- Pain Echo Payloads: Striking targets creates psychic echoes of pain, disrupting Force-sensitive concentration and stunning lesser minds.
- Ritual Charging Capability: When integrated into a dark side nexus or used during ritual slaughter, the weapon can gain overcharged properties for a limited time.

- Anatomical Shredder: Targets are torn apart by intelligent flechettes that seek organs, nerves, and vulnerable points. These micro-shards are tuned to prioritize vulnerable anatomy with terrifying precision.
- Dark Side Resonance: Grows stronger in areas saturated with death, pain, or suffering. The more carnage in the environment, the more violently the weapon resonates.
- Disruptive vs. Force-Users: Pain echoes and aura-targeting effects make it especially dangerous to Force-sensitives. Even minor glancing hits can destabilize Force focus or induce disorientation.
- Hard to Block: Shard bolts and flechettes are fast and partially metaphysical, fired at hypersonic velocity, bypassing some lightsaber defenses and shields. This makes traditional countermeasures unreliable against the weapon's full effect.

- High Recoil: The weapon kicks with extreme force upon firing, often requiring mechanical stabilization or physical enhancements to wield accurately.
- Force Dampening Resistance: In Force nullification zones, such as those created by ysalamiri or void talismans, the weapon's metaphysical targeting weakens, but it retains its physical lethality and flechette functionality.
- Ammunition: Each magazine contains custom-forged shard-bolts that are time-consuming to produce and replace. These are heavier ammunition that limits the amount that can be carried.

The Bloodtide Shard Rail Mk. I is a grim innovation in Sith warfare, an alchemical, handheld railgun that weaponizes pain, blood, and fear. Each bolt fired is a shard of agony, propelled at hypervelocity and alchemically tuned to shatter, rupture, and tear upon contact. Forged in sacrificial rites by the alchemists of the Shadow Mind and empowered with dark rituals under the guidance of Darth Prazutis, it is not simply a projectile weapon but an instrument of unmaking.
When fired, the weapon emits a shriek, not of metal, but of tormented souls. The crystalline shard pierces flesh or armor, and with a psychic snap, detonates into razor flechettes guided by the scent of pain and panic. Entire squads have collapsed in horror as shots scatter death across a formation. Mounted on fortress ramparts, used by terror squads, or employed by elite Kainate infantry, the Bloodtide Shard Rail spreads fear and suffering wherever it roars. It is a tool of atrocity, meant to break bodies and minds alike, and serves as another terrifying armament in the arsenal of the Kainate.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a dark side-infused rail weapon that fires sacrificially empowered shard-bolts designed for maximum carnage and precision.
Canon Link:
N/A
Permissions:
N/A
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate
Model:
Bloodtide Shard Rail Mk. I
Modular:
Yes
Effective Range:
Long Range
Rate of Fire:
Selective Fire
Material:
Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Casing Blood-etched Sacrificial Coils Shikkari Sacrificial Essence Chambers Pain-Amplifier Crystal Lining Sith Rune Circuitry
Ammunition Type:
Crystallized shard-bolts infused with dark side energy and sacrificial blood
Ammunition Capacity:
Average
Damage Output:
Very High
Recoil:
Average
Ranged Class:
Other