Shadow Hand


- Intent: To create a frontline Kainite Star Destroyer incorporating Sith technology, including all of the new systems I created exclusively for the Kainate.
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- Headers -
Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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- Manufacturer:
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Umbraxis-class Star Destroyer
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Hull and Armor Plating:
- Screaming Void Plating - Primary Outer Plating Layer
- Bloodwrought Plating - Secondary Reinforcement Layer
- Hull Liner:
- Blackcore Laminate - Primary Hull Liner
- Netherward Lattice - Secondary Hull Liner
- Structural Reinforcement:
- Sarrassian Iron-Impervium Composite
- Tal'Beskar Critical Reinforcement
- Viewport Material:
- Bloodpane Viewports
- Interior Systems & Protection:
- Turadium Blast Doors
- Agrinium Radiation Baffles
- Dallorian Alloy Heat Sinks
- Hull and Armor Plating:

- Classification: Star Destroyer
- Length: 2,000 meters
- Width: 1,100 meters
- Height: 500 meters
- Armament: Very High
- Vorrn-Type Heavy Turbolaser Mk. I [60]
- Dorsal: 36
- Ventral: 24
- Xarnak Torment Caster Mk. I [40]
- Dorsal: 16
- Ventral: 24
- Throsk-Type Ion Cannon Mk. I [36]
- Dorsal: 18
- Ventral: 18
- Varkesh Pattern Dreadflak Cannon Mk. I [32]
- Dorsal: 16
- Ventral: 16
- Wraithfire Web Emitter Mk. I [192]
- Dorsal: 96
- Ventral: 96
- Abyssal Lash Cannon Mk. I [80]
- Dorsal: 40
- Ventral: 40
- Shriekfang Swarm Pod Mk. I [36]
- Dorsal: 18
- Ventral: 18
- Dreadcore Impactor Mk. I [12]
- Dorsal: 6
- Ventral: 6
- Vorrn-Type Heavy Turbolaser Mk. I [60]
- Defenses: Very High
- Primary Shield Array
- Secondary Shield Array
- Armor Plating
- Primary Shield Array
- Hangar Space: Average
- Hangar Allocations: 12 Squadrons
- Starfighters: 8 Squadrons
- Support Craft: 4 Squadrons
- Maneuverability Rating: Low
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive: Yes
- Hyperdrive: Class 0.33 Hyperdrive

- Full Suite of Capital-class Systems: Including advanced life support, sensors, communications, tractor beams, navigation, and targeting.
- Sith-Aligned Environmental Systems: Life support is reinforced against radiation, breaches, and biohazards. The air carries ionized incense and black ozone, cycling through Bloodsteel-veined vents that double as ritual conduits.
- Gravity Anchors: Gravity is maintained through advanced systems, including harmonic nodes encoded with Sith technology. Minor surges may occur during intense Force activity.
- Sith Astrogation & Sensors: Navigation and sensor systems are enhanced to detect hyperspace eddies, Force anomalies, and ritual interference. Data is filtered through predictive software for early threat avoidance.
- Encrypted Command Systems: Command lines use Sith-scripted encryption and voice-activated glyphs. Orders and data are routed through advanced systems including Obsidian Nerve Relays, linking bridge and key systems.
- Tractor Beams: Reinforced dorsal and ventral tractor beams.
- Base Shielding: Molecular and ray shields provide initial protection, glowing crimson-black when struck. Integrated with more advanced shielding systems in the vessel's defenses.
- Hangar Systems: Designed to hold up to 12 starfighter squadrons and supporting craft. Hangars are fortified and atmospherically sealed for rapid deployment and defense.
- Interior Layout: The ship features brutalist and cathedral-like corridors, blood-vein lighting, and blackstone architecture. Sith runes and shrines are built into key chambers for ritual use and meditation. Sith triumphs are depicted in scarlet script.
- Reinforced Structure: Hull and frame are built with specially treated Sith materials, resistant to heavy fire and built to endure prolonged combat.
- Automated Repair Systems: Integrated maintenance drones and self-repair nodes handle damage control. Linked to pain-based feedback through the Shadow Mind network for rapid response.

- Power & Energy Systems:
- Primary:
- Secondary:
- Tertiary:
- Compact Fusion Generators & Solar Ionization Conversion Modules with Retractable Agrinium Collection Arrays
- Primary:
- Command & Coordination Systems:
- Cloning Systems:
- Countermeasures:
- Animated Metal Sealant
- Anti-Ordnance EM Probes (Long-Range)
- FAE/S-05 ECM Array
- FAE/S-15 EPM Array
- FAE/S-07 Offensive Retention System
- Missile Deactivation Transmitter (Short-Range)
- Null-series Gravity Well Neutralizer
- Defensive & Shield Systems:
- External Components:
- Ablative Energy Current Hull Component
- Decentralized Deflector Shield Projection System
- Grappling Mag-Cable Launchers
- Xandret Shield System
- Organic Systems:
- Tsudakyr Hivemind
- Sensor & Targeting Systems:
- Propulsion & Maneuvering Systems:
- Production Systems:
- Psychological Warfare Systems:
- Abyssal Suppression & Agony Weapons:

- Ritual-Integrated Command Architecture: Powered by Sith relic-tech such as the Shadow Mind Integration Node, Wraith-Command Casket, and Voidlink Cortex, the vessel responds with terrifying precision to its commander's will, often before verbal orders are issued.
- Overwhelming Armament: Armed with a devastating spread of custom Kainate weapons, ranging from Xarnak plasma torpedoes to Dreadflak batteries, the vessel is capable of obliterating targets across multiple ranges and combat types. Pound for pound it is among the strongest in its class, even considered a class of its own.
- Advanced Sith Systems: The ship's targeting, coordination, and dark warfare subsystems are deeply entangled with dark technology. These include Pain-Link Coordination, Nether-Eye Combat Sight, and Hemophage Conduits that enhance reflexive defense and enemy disruption.
- Layered Defenses and Shielding: Reinforced by the Aegis of Shadows Generator, standard shielding, and Sith alloy hull plating, the vessel boasts incredible survivability against both conventional and exotic attacks.
- Psychological Warfare Platform: With systems like the Fear-Broadcast Projector and Painwave emitters, this destroyer doesn't just damage, it demoralizes. Enemy morale can collapse before hull integrity does.

- High Ritual Maintenance Demand: Many of the ship's core systems require regular upkeep or tuning from specialized Sith engineers. Prolonged separation from the Force or Sith personnel may degrade performance.
- Force-Dead Zone Vulnerability: In areas devoid of the Force (e.g., Ysalamiri fields, void nexuses), dark systems like the Shadow Mind, Fear Broadcast, and Painwave Emitters suffer diminished function or shut down entirely.
- Limited Hangar Capacity: While well-defended and armed, the ship sacrifices broader carrier capabilities, fielding fewer squadrons compared to other destroyers of similar size.
- Heavy Profile, Low Agility: Despite advanced maneuvering systems, the ship is still a large, heavily armored destroyer with limited agility compared to cruisers, frigates, or corvettes.
- Signature Detection During Active Operations: When systems like the Painwave, Fear Broadcast, or Voidflare Engines are active, the ship emits distinct energetic signatures, making stealth or low-profile operations difficult.

The vessel known as the Umbraxis, first of its class, represents the dawn of a new era in galactic warfare, an apex predator birthed from the crucible of ambition, ritual, and boundless innovation. Designed under the direct supervision of Darth Prazutis, the Shadow Hand and Elysian Grandeval Mortarch of the Kainate, this warship is the inaugural product of a vast military renaissance: the Kainate Rearmament Doctrine. With the Eternal Rule as its lodestar and the technological stagnation of the galaxy as its crucible, this ship is the first to fully integrate every facet of Kainate crafting genius, dark warfare, and advanced starship engineering into a single, unified war platform.
Where the old Sith Orders relied on borrowed frames and repurposed systems, this destroyer is Kainate through and through, each hull plate specially treated in dark forges, each circuit laced with Bloodsteel, and every system bound carefully with darkness. It is not simply a warship; it is a cathedral of annihilation, designed to channel fear, domination, and despair as integral components of its combat strategy.
Internally, the ship's structure is as much a Sith temple as a vessel of war. Its corridors echo with the low chant of harmonic gravity anchors, and its command centers are enshrined with ritual shrines, dread meditation chambers, and sith scripture panels. The Obsidian Nerve Relays and Shadow Mind Integration Node bind captain, crew, and ship together in a cognitive web of total synchronization. Officers issue orders swiftly to both ship and crew, while the Wraith-Command Casket permits high lords to become one with the vessel itself during major engagements.
Every subsystem is a reflection of this unholy integration. The Voidflame Core powers the vessel with unstable dark fusion energy, while the Sacrifice-Fed Relay channels ritual pain into surges of power. The Hemophage Conductor Web siphons lifeforce from the dying to reinvigorate its shielding and systems. On the offensive end, the destroyer is bristling with exotic Kainate weapons like Xarnak Torment Casters, Painwave Emitters, and Dreadcore Impactors, optimized to both destroy and unravel the minds of enemy crews.
The Fear-Broadcast Projector saturates hostile communications with terror and hallucinations, while Nether-Eye Targeting Systems track all manner of targets with frightening ease. All the while, decks pulse with blood-vein lighting, and the warship's signature Bloodpane viewports shimmer with crimson, unsettling those who dare to gaze upon it from beyond.
Despite its power, the vessel has limitations. Its dark systems are vulnerable in specific areas or under specific effects, and its operation requires highly trained Sith personnel to maintain the constant ritual calibration demanded by its dark design. While its agility is limited, and it sacrifices some hangar capacity in favor of a massive armament and systems density, this was never meant to be a flexible fleet asset, it is a spearpoint, a vessel of ritualized extermination meant to lead the charge, a main ship of the line for the fleet.
This star destroyer, the first of its breed, is not a successor to the star destroyers of old. It is a repudiation of them. It is war reimagined through the lens of absolute control, dread, and Sith supremacy. It is the Kainate's declaration that the age of imitation is over, and the age of annihilation has begun.
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