Heir to the Throne
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A personal weapon for Katrine Van-Derveld
- Image Source: Tumblr
- Canon Link: Chakram
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: Chakram
- Manufacturer: House Verd, Incorporated, Darth Metus, Katrine Van-Derveld
- Model: N/A
- Affiliation: Katrine Van-Derveld
- Modularity: No
- Production: Unique
- Material: Songsteel
- Classification: Chakram, bladed melee weapon
- Size: Small
- Weight: Very Light
- Very High Resistance to Blasters and Lightsabers
- One-Handed Weapon: The chakram is a weapon wielded with one hand and when thrown properly, becomes a sharp dangerous weapon but because of it’s bladed edges, it could be used in hand-to-hand combat.
- Very High Resistance to Lightsabers and Blaster Bolts: Songsteel can withstand combat against lightsabers and can deflect blaster bolts.
- Comes home: The way it works is that when thrown by someone capable wielding it, it returns back to the thrower, who then requires skills to catch it again. Alternatively, telekinesis could be used to call it back if it gets stuck.
- Dangerous: As a circular bladed melee weapon, the Chakram could potentially be as dangerous to the wielder as it is on the target if untrained.
- Tedious in Forging: Because songsteel is difficult in forging and shaping and also a rare material, repairs would be extremely difficult.
- Piercing Weapons: Slugs and other piercing weapons with enough speed, weight etc. can cause different degrees of damage to the weapon.
- Luminescent Silver: Songsteel has beautiful reflecting properties but in reality, it could easily be seen and would give away Kat's position with ease when on her or in her hand.
Katrine thrives on being unique sometimes and because of that, when she had begun working with the design for her armor, she also gained an idea for a unique weapon to go along with. The two don’t necessarily have to go together yet once the idea had sprung to life, the design had to be completed.
As she normally did, Katrine went to her Uncle Isley with her design, explaining the purpose of the weapon. While he’s more of a two lightsabers type of man, he’s never denied her anything she wanted and recommended she use songsteel for its material in order to create a weapon capable of withstanding lightsabers and blasters, suggesting she visits their Viceroy of Science Rex Taff because he would be able to lead her in the right direction of acquiring it. As luck would have it, Rex had the material at hand, previously gifted to him, and gave it to her (thread).
Returning to her Uncle, he began working with her on forging the weapon. The work was primarily done by Darth Metus, with Katrine assisting in order to learn. Songsteel proved to be tedious in forging but the end result was an elegant but dangerous weapon, one that required a lot of practice from Katrine since while she’d trained with a number of melee weapons throughout her childhood was still unique in its design for her and thus more dangerous than any of the other ones previously used.
