Shadow Hand

- Intent: To develop a unique Sith-alchemized hull material derived from Bloodsteel for Kainate capital ships, dreadnoughts, and elite vessels.
- Image Source:
- Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A

- Manufacturer:
- Malsheem Automated Factories
- Shadow Mind
- Darth Prazutis
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Bloodwrought Plating
- Modularity: No (Each hull is specially forged through Sith ritual; altering components risks corrupting the metaphysical integrity.)
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Bloodsteel (Base)
- Sacrificial Binding Resin
- Dark Energetic Components

- Ritually Bound Armor: Forged through prolonged Sith rituals, every panel of plating is imprinted with sacrificial energy, enhancing its great resilience and dark side resonance.
- Pain Echo Layering: On impact, the hull emits minor psychic disturbances, making it painful or nauseating to target with Force-based scans or battle meditation.
- Sensor Warping Aura: The hull subtly interferes with enemy scanners, appearing blurred, larger, or displaced in sensor readouts.
- Fear Pulse Feedback: Direct strikes may trigger a retaliatory metaphysical burst, disrupting coordination among nearby Jedi or Force-sensitive units.
- Dark Side Amplification: Any dark side ritual, Sith sorcery, or alchemized system tied to the hull performs with greater potency.

- Incredible Durability: Bloodwrought Plating resists all manner of high-yield turbolasers, missile strikes, and ramming impacts due to its dense alchemical layering.
- Metaphysical Defense: Force users attempting to scry, scan, or target the ship will experience feedback, especially if unprepared.
- Dark Side Synergy: Sith rituals, battle meditation, and metaphysical systems (like Painwave Emitters or Catastrophe Arrays) operate more efficiently through the hull.

- Force Nullification Zones: In areas devoid of the Force (Voidstone interference, Force-dead zones), the platings metaphysical and amplification traits are suppressed, becoming little more than tough metal.
- Corruption Risk: Prolonged exposure to the ship without protective shielding may cause hallucinations, spiritual degradation, or influence among weaker crew.
- Production Difficulty: Requires blood sacrifices, Sith rituals, and dark matter forging, rendering it impossible to mass-produce.

Forged within the bleeding forges of Malsheem, Bloodwrought Plating began as the personal creation of the Shadow Hand, Darth Prazutis, who forged the first sheets in a ritual that bent pain and blood to his will. It was a feat of Sith alchemy unmatched in recent history, armor that did not just protect, but devoured, reflected, and returned the anguish of war a hundredfold. From that terrifying prototype, the Shadow Mind took the design and, through endless calculation and dark replication, scaled it for widespread integration across the entire Kainate fleet.
Bloodwrought Plating is no mere hull, it is an affliction given form. Derived from Bloodsteel and reinforced with Sith sorcery, it is a metal that pulses with metaphysical violence. Vein-like rune etchings twist across its surface, etched into the crimson-black alloy with sacrificial resonance. Each panel is ritually bound, not just forged, and every ship bearing it carries the spiritual weight of the rituals that created it.
When struck, it does not ring, it screams. Not through sound, but through the Force. Its metaphysical echo spreads waves of nausea, fear, and mental distortion. Jedi falter. Force sensitives feel their stomachs twist. Pilots report their vision blurring and their targeting systems faltering. Even non-Force users experience pressure, a vague but growing sense that they are being watched by something cold, ancient, and hungry.
While it was once reserved for elite dreadnoughts, Bloodwrought has become a signature element of Kainate starship design. It wraps battlecruisers, destroyers, and strike vessels alike, turning them into shrines of Sith supremacy. Vessels armored in Bloodwrought don't just engage in battle, they announce the presence of the Dark Side incarnate. Wherever they appear, fear takes root before the first shot is ever fired.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To develop a unique Sith-alchemized hull material derived from Bloodsteel for Kainate capital ships, dreadnoughts, and elite vessels.
Canon Link:
N/A
Permissions:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
N/A
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate
Model:
Bloodwrought Plating
Modular:
No
Material:
Bloodsteel (Base) Sacrificial Binding Resin Dark Energetic Components