Shadow Hand

- Intent: To create a unique Sith alchemical material known as Nethersteel for use in Kainate technology, weapons, armor, and dark side constructs.
- Image Source:
- Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
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- Manufacturer:
- Darth Prazutis
- Shadow Mind
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Nethersteel
- Modularity: Yes (Can be used in weapons, armor, structural reinforcement, or arcane implements)
- Production: Semi-Unique
- Material:
- Sith Rune-Inscribed Blackstone: A metaphysical core component, engraved with ancient runes to bind and stabilize the dark energies coursing through the alloy.
- Alchemized Sarrassian Iron: An ancient Sith-forged metal renowned for its resilience and dark side receptivity, now reforged as the backbone of Nethersteel.
- Dark Side Ichor: Viscous, ritual-infused fluid harvested from corrupted nexuses, alchemically bonded into the alloy to serve as a conduit for Sith sorcery.
- Refined Stygian Triprismatic Polymer Flakes: Provides natural resistance to detection and energy dispersion, enhancing the metal's stealth and distortion properties.
- Sacrificial Essence Residue: Bound from dark rituals involving pain and death, granting Nethersteel its haunting aura and will-warping presence.
- Refined Obsidian Voidshard Dust: Ground remnants of Force-disruptive crystal used to stabilize the alloy's metaphysical anchor.

- Null-Light Reflection: Reflects no light and absorbs ambient energy around it, creating a dim "void" halo. Its surface appears as a fracture in space itself, rendering it impossible to detect through visual or passive energy-based scans.
- Force Resonant: Conducts and amplifies dark side energy, acting as a ritualistic conduit. Nethersteel naturally channels malevolent power, enhancing Sith sorcery and strengthening rituals cast through or around it.
- Oblivion-Hardened: Resistant to lightsabers, conventional weapons, and Force based corrosion or decay. Forged in void-ichor and saturated with sacrificial energy, its molecular structure rejects disintegration, incineration, and most forms of arcane entropy.
- Reality-Tethered: Nethersteel is metaphysically tethered through Sith alchemy, making it resistant to minor reality-warping effects such as illusions, spatial distortion, temporal manipulation, and displacement. It cannot be easily cloaked, teleported, phased through, or systems overridden by Mechu-deru that utilize it or similar techniques. This anchoring makes it exceptionally stable, ideal for secure structures, cursed relics, and weapons that must resist both sorcerous and technological interference. The alloy's stability is bolstered by refined Obsidian Voidshards, whose warping nature has been inverted and alchemically grounded to form a fixed anchor-point in space-time. This makes the material difficult to distort, phase-shift, or confuse through Force illusions, spatial warping, or high-intensity sorcery.

- Sith Alchemized Durability: Nethersteel is reinforced through ancient Sith rites, rendering it stronger than even Phrik or Beskar. It resists extreme pressure, energy-based attacks, and battlefield degradation with terrifying resilience.
- Dark Side Conductor: The metal is a natural channel for dark side energies. It strengthens powers rooted in fear, domination, necromancy, and agony, making it ideal for cursed weapons, artifacts, and ritual implements.
- Anti-Reality Properties: Extremely resilient to illusions, cloaking, teleportation, and spatial manipulation. Nethersteel maintains an absolute metaphysical presence, its highly resilient to being phased through, displaced, or corrupted by reality-warping abilities. Mechu-deru, folding tech, and perception-altering effects used on things made with it often fail against it.

- Light Side Vulnerability: Can be weakened by powerful Light Side purification.
- Extreme Weight: Difficult to work with; requires powerful servos, augmentation, or brute strength to wield if used in large constructs.
- Force Dependent: Loses many of its properties in ysalamir fields or void zones where the Force is suppressed.

Forged in the heart of Malsheem's depths by the Shadow Hand Darth Prazutis, Nethersteel is a rare and sacred metal among the Kainate. Unlike other Sith alchemical alloys, Nethersteel is not merely forged, it is anchored into reality through rituals that bind pieces of the Force warped void into physical form. It is said that the forging process includes submerging base materials in void ichor harvested from Force nexuses and binding them with the echo of suffering taken from long-dead Sith.
It is impossible to polish, reflects no light, and appears as if the night sky itself has been shattered and hammered into form. The material is favored in the construction of newer Kainate weaponry, artifacts, and structural reinforcements where total domination is necessary. Nethersteel has become increasingly integrated into the war machines and sacred tools of the Sith Dyad's powerbase.
Nethersteel embodies the metaphysical essence of the Kainate's philosophy, resistant, consuming, and immovable. Its presence alone can cause droids to misfire, lesser beings to tremble, and Force sensitives to feel as though they stand on the edge of nothingness. Only the most powerful Sith may wield it, and only with the will to suppress the abyss it contains.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a unique Sith alchemical material known as Nethersteel for use in Kainate technology, weapons, armor, and dark side constructs.
Canon Link:
N/A
Permissions:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
N/A
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate
Model:
Nethersteel
Modular:
Yes
Material:
Sith Rune-Inscribed Blackstone: A metaphysical core component, engraved with ancient runes to bind and stabilize the dark energies coursing through the alloy. Alchemized Sarrassian Iron: An ancient Sith-forged metal renowned for its resilience and dark side receptivity, now reforged as the backbone of Nethersteel. Dark Side Ichor: Viscous, ritual-infused fluid harvested from corrupted nexuses, alchemically bonded into the alloy to serve as a conduit for Sith sorcery. Refined Neuranium Flakes: Provides natural resistance to detection and energy dispersion, enhancing the metal's stealth and distortion properties. Sacrificial Essence Residue: Bound from dark rituals involving pain and death, granting Nethersteel its haunting aura and will-warping presence. Refined Obsidian Voidshard Dust: Ground remnants of Force-disruptive crystal used to stabilize the alloy's metaphysical anchor.
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