Approved Tech Fearburst Warhead Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create a Sith-designed warhead that weaponizes fear itself, delivering psychological devastation to Force sensitives, AI, and organic crews through a fear pulse.
• Image Source:
  
  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source: N/A

• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Automated Factories
  • Shadow Mind
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Fearburst Warhead Mk. I
• Modularity: Yes (Can be loaded into different Kainate missile platforms)
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  
  • Bloodsteel Casing
  • Sacrificial Crystal Core
  • Fear Pulse Resonator
  • Internal Rune Circuitry
  • Emotion-Amplifying Soul Cage

• Fear Pulse Detonation: On impact, the warhead releases a metaphysical burst of raw, unnatural terror across a spherical area.
• Sacrificial Crystal Core: Contains imprinted dread from victims sacrificed during forging, used to amplify the emotional shockwave.
• AI Disruption Field: Droids and automata suffer temporary processing errors due to trauma coding interference.
• Force Sensitives Targeted: Jedi and other Force users are especially vulnerable, experiencing personal nightmares, helplessness, and fear paralysis.
• Silent Dread Signature: The effect builds before the missile even strikes, causing mild anticipatory anxiety in Force sensitives tracking its approach.

• Panic Weaponization: Causes temporary breakdowns in squad coordination, control systems, and Force-based techniques.
• No Direct Fire Needed: Damage is psychic, not kinetic, useful even when ships cannot be physically hit.
• Psychological Suppression: Especially devastating to unshielded crews, Jedi strike teams, and meditation-based command structures.

• No Physical Damage: It lacks any real structural or kinetic output, ineffective against armor, hulls, or heavily shielded targets.
• Friendly Fire Hazard: The fear pulse has no allegiance; friendly Force users and crews in proximity may suffer.
• Force Nullification: All metaphysical effects are canceled in Force-dead zones or under Voidstone interference, reducing it to inert shrapnel.

The Fearburst Warhead is not a weapon of destruction. It is a weapon of unraveling. Developed in the nightmare foundries beneath Malsheem and laced with the psychic residue of countless sacrifices, this unique Kainate payload trades structural damage for metaphysical terror. The heart of each warhead is a crystal core bound with distilled dread, extracted during ritual slaughter, refined through Sith sorcery, and imprinted with the very sensation of fear.

Upon detonation, the warhead releases an omnidirectional fear pulse that fractures morale, cripples focus and stuns the will to fight. Jedi report seeing their own deaths. Droid AIs freeze in glitching feedback loops. Crews drop tools and clutch their heads. The battlefield becomes not a place of action, but of paralysis.

Though it leaves no mark on hulls, its true damage is etched in the minds of those who survive. Where the Fearburst falls, courage flees.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

Another cool sub.

Approved.