Approved Ranged Weapon Dreadcore Impactor Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To develop a powerful, Sith alchemized Mass Driver Cannon for Kainate warships capable of unleashing devastating kinetic strikes enhanced by metaphysical impact effects.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Automated Factories
  • Shadow Mind
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Dreadcore Impactor Mk. I
• Modularity: Limited (System can be scaled for dreadnoughts, capital ships, or fixed emplacements; internal components like gravitic coils or chambers may be swapped, but core alchemical design cannot be altered.)
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron
  • Cursed Dreadcoil Slugs
  • Sith Blackstone
  • Gravitic Rift Coils
  • Dark Energetic Components

• Classification: Mass Driver
• Size: Large
• Weight: Heavy
• Ammunition Type: Ritually forged kinetic slugs
• Ammunition Capacity: Large
• Effective Range: Battlefield
• Rate of Fire: Average
• Damage Output: Very High
• Recoil: High

• Kinetic Cataclysm: Dreadcoil Slugs pierce shields and hulls with brute force and alchemical reinforcement.
• Metaphysical Echo Pulse: On impact, each slug releases a spiraling wave of psychic disruption, causing momentary disorientation and willpower suppression across affected vessels and Force sensitives.
• Soul-Tethered Ammunition: Forged with bound strands of soul-essence, Dreadcoil Slugs resonate with spiritual trauma, leaving lingering zones of unease and mental fatigue.
• Hullbreaker Role: Optimized for crippling capital ship components such as engines, bridges, or shield nodes through direct-impact precision.
• Red-Black Void Trails: Each shot leaves behind visible gravitational ripple-trails, marking its path with visual and Force disturbing wake.

• Devastating Impact: Designed to punch through armor, shields, and structural weak points.
• Force Suppression: Impact echoes disrupt Force-based senses, precognition, and coordination temporarily.
• Fear Weaponization: Prolonged use leaves a psychological scar on enemy fleets and crews.
• Low Signature in Transit: Kinetic rounds are harder to detect and counter mid-flight than energy beams.

• Requires Stabilization: Cannot be fired in high-speed maneuvers without risk of damaging the platform.
• No Splash Damage: Focused damage, not effective against swarms or fighters.
• Extreme Recoil: Requires specialized mountings, making it impractical for small craft or mobile turrets.
• Force Nullification: While still physically functional, the Dreadcore loses its echo pulse and psychological effects within Force dead zones or nullification fields.

The Dreadcore Impactor is the Kainate's signature mass driver system, designed not just to destroy, but to scar. The latest in its bleeding edge technological development led by the Shadow Hand Darth Prazutis, coordinated by the Shadow Mind. Each slug fired from this monstrous cannon is forged from Cursed Dreadcoil Slugs, engraved with runes of entropy and sealed through sacrificial rites. When launched by gravitic rift coils, the slug becomes a missile of doom, screaming silently through space until it tears into its target.

But the devastation doesn't end with impact. The moment of contact releases a metaphysical echo, a pulse that sends waves of fear, confusion, and psychic disarray through enemy systems and Force users nearby. It unravels discipline, crashes sensor feeds, and leaves ship crews struggling to reorient as their minds reel with flashes of dread and anguish. The Dreadcore is rarely deployed in mass. It doesn't need to be. A single battery is enough to dominate a front. Ships bearing these weapons are often surrounded by silence, not because they are unseen, but because all who see them remember.

Where the Dreadcore Impactor fires, order dies.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

Very cool sub again!

Approved.