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Tech Review Nethersteel

Manufacturer: Darth Prazutis Shadow Mind
Type: Material
Market Status: Closed Market
Production: Semi-Unique
Weight: Heavy
Size: Large


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  • Intent: To create a unique Sith alchemical material known as Nethersteel for use in Kainate technology, weapons, armor, and dark side constructs.
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  • Manufacturer:
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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
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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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Darth Prazutis Darth Prazutis

I'm pulling this submission since I'm not entirely clear on some of hte powers of this submission, and I don't actually see an explanation in the sub.

I'm referring to the reality anchoring. Can you point me to a canon example of what you're trying to achieve here? Or some explanation of how this works?
 
John Locke John Locke

Hi there, thank you for the quick feedback, I appreciate the chance to clarify. I'd like to explain the "Reality-Tethered" trait in more detail so it's clear what's intended and what isn't. This trait is not meant to be a blanket immunity to all reality-altering effects, nor is it trying to break balance. It's grounded in the same metaphysical logic that appears throughout Star Wars lore, especially with Sith alchemy, void-forged materials, and Force nexuses.

What "Reality-Tethered" Means: This trait represents how Nethersteel, when forged through dark side-saturated rituals and void ichor, becomes metaphysically "anchored." That is:
  • It resists minor illusions, perception warping, or localized space-warping tricks.
  • Its presence is difficult to phase out, cloak, teleport, or distort via Force illusions or low-grade spatial manipulation.
  • It is resistant to being misperceived, displaced, or overwritten by minor reality-tampering effects.
It does not mean:
  • Immunity to conventional Force powers (telekinesis, lightning, etc.).
  • Resistance to true high-level dimensional manipulation or game-breaking Force abilities.
  • Any form of Force nullification like ysalamiri or Void Stone.
Inspiration and Precedent:
  • This draws from several established lore elements, such as:
  • Void Stone (used in canon and on Chaos) which resists the Force and warps perception.
  • The Yuuzhan Vong, Exegol, and Malachor, locations that warp space, gravity, light, and sound due to Force saturation, and mirroring the effect such people have on the force in a unique way. Just like how Jedi illusions slip off the Yuuzhan Vong because of their unnatural Force absence, illusions or spatial tricks fail to grip Nethersteel because it's locked into place by Sith void-forging.
  • Sith alchemy precedents where materials gain resistance to Force illusions, spatial tricks, or external manipulation.
Nethersteel is forged with:
  • Void ichor from corrupted nexuses
  • Sacrificial essence from Sith rituals
  • Sith Rune-Inscribed Blackstone, which serves as a metaphysical stabilizer
All of this justifies the flavor: it's a material anchored to reality, refusing to yield to manipulation or illusions, but still well within reason and limitations. Thank you again for the consideration.
 
Darth Prazutis Darth Prazutis

Could you show me the links or sources you're using to establish your inspiration and precedence?

The wookie page on voidstone for example doesn't mention anything about altering perception. The article on Exegol doesn't mention anything about warping light, time or space.

The powers and limits do make sense, I'm just looking to see the basis of this.
 
John Locke John Locke

Thank you for the clarification request! The perception, spatial, and metaphysical influences come from a few different inspirations across canon and Chaos precedent:
  1. Exegol (Canon Visual & Narrative Precedent): While the Wookieepedia article doesn't explicitly say it, The Rise of Skywalker depicts Exegol as a world steeped in heavy spatial and metaphysical distortion, with unnatural storms, Sith rituals clouding perception and sensors. This visual presentation informs the "anchoring to reality" concept, similar to how Sith environments resist or warp conventional laws. In the Rise of Skywalker: Visual Dictionary (Pablo Hidalgo), it describes Exegol as cloaked, linked to "unnatural" energies and the dark side's influence over physical and metaphysical space. In the Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition (Novelization by Rae Carson), It portrays Exegol as deeply tied to Sith ritual and dark side alteration of space, where "the very world itself" is shaped by Sith sorcery. In the Secrets of the Sith (Canon Reference Book), it reinforces the planet as a site of unnatural Sith experiments, where ritual, matter, and space are bound, further implying reality manipulation.
  2. Yuuzhan Vong Tech (Legends / Canon-Adjacent): Vong biots and materials are known for being invisible to sensors and often "anchored" outside the Force, resisting many standard detection or manipulation techniques. Nethersteel draws thematic influence from that concept while staying firmly Sith.
  3. Obsidian Voidshards (Chaos Canon): A misstep on my part, I should've referenced this instead. It's a previously approved material of mine used similar dark side ritual processes to create visual and metaphysical interference, disrupting perception. Nethersteel expands this idea from crystal shards to a larger scale, armor-grade alloy. I've also further refined the submission to better reflect where this comes from, and elaborated on how it intersects with the alloys abilities.
 

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