Akestos
Surge Lord
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: An Acidic liquid and gas, that effects non Hive creatures only, leaving hive structures and creatures unaffected. Also a potential seed for fungal hive infestation.
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Primary Source: Xenoboric Acid | Trauger Gas | Trifaraleen Gas | Acid Storm
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Name: Centax Purifier
Manufacturer: The Hive Mind | The Swarm's Will
Affiliation: Factions: SwarmSurge | Closed Market
Homeworld: Undisclosed Hive Planet, Classified Designation: D12
Production: Minor
Modularity: No
Ingredients: Solidified and Cooled D13. Adding Extreme Pressure and Extreme Heat. Then undisclosed Hive Chemicals.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Classification: Liquid or Gas
Method of Consumption: Inhalation or Contact
Average Life: Affecting an organism or surface for twenty minutes. However, when concentrated in a lake or pool, it can remain in the environment at rest for years. In an atmosphere it might last for a storm front or two, then dissipate as it gets diluted naturally. In a sealed container the centax purifier will happily exist until opened for decades if not longer.
Nutritional Value/Allergies/Side Effects/ Purpose: Death. Purging. Exterminus.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Strengths:
+Does not effect Hive Creatures. It is made out of their own hardened minerals. D13
+Can be used in Hive Creatures or Bio-Technology as a weapon. Eating away at metal or living tissue.
+Hard to defend against, like the Hive itself, the Liquid is unpredictable. It has a tendency to just explode randomly or drift on the air.
+Prone to growing very strange fungus, and smaller secondary growths over a period of a few weeks.
Weaknesses:
-The weather can pick it up and move it, if it's not stored carefully, damaging a biosphere. This is in many cases harmful to the Hive that benefits from a sustained and balanced biosphere. With enough it can form into storm clouds if ill-used, but unless the Hive is completely disconnected it isn't going to keep producing the stuff and harm its own food source.
-Unstable. The Acid is prone to doing things it isn't supposed to. Sometimes it'll get somewhere the Hive doesn't want internally, others it can cool a surface unnaturally making Hive growth difficult, and others still it can just explode in certain environments without warning.
-The Acid can easily be used by other factions or individuals if they have a dead Hive at their feet and a good chemist on hand.
-Chemically Inert Surfaces help protect the wearer well, but might not shield them entirely, especially against any secondary explosive reactions.
-Prone to growing very strange fungus, and smaller secondary growths. Also a weakness depending on what and where.
-As with some acids. It can be treated simply with water, then dressed and eventually bacta applied to heal.
DESCRIPTION
Pale green liquid and orange gas. Made from the Hive itself D13, the vast majority of Hive creatures are unaffected by the acid, as it is their own bodily fluids and minerals taken from evaporation. Produced in specialist hive structures by super-heating the mineral form of D13 after it has hardened, then combining it with other as yet unclassified hive produced chemicals, often the evaporated liquid from the creature's themselves. This is generally done by lava levels of heat and extreme pressure like a volcano might produce. Stored finally in a gas or liquid form depending on what the Hive requires. The natural D13 is the stable and hardened mineral form, whereas the Centax Purifier is Darth's gift upon the greater galaxy, or rather Kiara Keth's influence upon the man. Awakening from her tomb at the sacking of Eshan, her talent for Sith alchemy and bioengineering has led to many terrible creations continued in her dead brother's name.
Created on Byss. Like many One Sith creations, the acid has long been taken by the greater Swarm as its own. Maybe that was the intent, maybe not. Either way the Hive has almost full control of the substance now, but so does anyone with a good eye for chemistry and a dead hive at their feet. Which are slowly becoming easier to find, certainly not common yet, but easier to locate. It requires a fair-sized hive to start producing more advanced hive structures in a biosphere. You won't find this acid appearing out of someone's back garden, but you might over a region if the weather was warm, the air dry, the storm clouds were rising and drones were pouring out of the ground.
Treating acid burns is well known to doctors, this is no different. Flush the acid off with water, then bandage with dressing and eventually heal with bacta once the patient is stable if possible.
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