Darth Ventus
BANSHEE TECH
† OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION †
- Intent: Specialized navigation and avionics system created for Banshee Tech starships
- Image Source: Markus Brackelmann
- Canon Link: Navigation Computer, Ozyly-esehembo
- Permissions: None
- Primary Source: None
† PRODUCTION INFORMATION †
- Manufacturer: Banshee Tech
- Affiliation:
Viktor
, Banshee Tech - Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: None
- Modularity: None
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Vessel: Forged Sith Alchemized Orichalum
- Organic Material: x1 Ozyly-esehembo Brain, IX Serum
- Electrical Systems: x1 Borg Construct Aj Cybernetic, x1 Synoptic Teacher Computer-Brain Interface, x1 Simplified Nav Computer, x4 Astrogation Buffers, Vonium Circuits and Electronic Components
- Power Source: x4 Diatium Power Cells, x1 Lignan Ore
- Fail-Safe Systems: Chepatite Impact Explosives on Strategic Components and Elements, Dragon's Breath inside Brain
† SPECIAL FEATURES †
- Shadow-walker Initiative: Equipped with a level of precognition from the ozyly-esehembo's latent Force abilities as well as extreme cybernetic enhancements for processing calculations and storing navigational data, the Shadow-walker Navigation System wields great predictive abilities in the area of space travel. Not only is it able to rapidly calculate navigational data to induce subtle manipulations to maximally optimize the hyperdrive engine during hypertravel, it also serves as an extremely effective avionics assistant in expertly maneuvering the starfighter.
† STRENGTHS †
- Pathfinders of the Unknown: Trained from birth to be navigators for the Chiss Ascendancy to navigate the Unknown Regions, the core of the Shadow-walker Navigation System bolsters an impressive ability to instantly calculate optimal hypertravel routes, initiate hypertravel, and reduce hypertravel times significantly. The navigation system is also able to deftly navigate dangerous hyperspace conditions and adaptively respond and react to such events.
- Precognitive Agility: The Force abilities of the ozyly-esehembo brain is able to sense and react to unseen perils in normal space, a facet extremely useful for starships operating at extreme levels of maneuverability and speed. The intense computing power of the Shadow-walker Navigation System is able to rapidly calculate force projections and object velocities of hundreds of targets simultaneously, plotting the ideal sublight course in various scenarios.
† WEAKNESSES †
- Perilous to Lightning: Like any electrical system, the navigation system is significantly affected by EMP/Ion attacks. Its sensitive and delicate electrical parts are shielded from kinetic and energy damage from most traditional starship weapons due to its Sith Alchemized Orichalum vessel, but ionizing energies will pass right through the metallic barrier.
- Perfidious Device: Due to its deep connection with the Dark Side of the Force, Light Side Force Abilities affect the Shadow-walker Navigation System directly. The entire system defaults to its minimal and oversimplified baseline navicomputer along with segments of the brain's cybernetics, hindering the system significantly. Any Force abilities directly affecting the in-place Force Bond or Mnemotherapy will drive the Navigation System into complete insanity, with unforeseen and often completely catastrophic consequences.
† DESCRIPTION †
By forcibly removing the brain of an Ozyly-esehembo and forcing complete obedience with Castellan Restraints, Mnemotherapy, and a completely one-sided Force Bond, the perfect navigation system was born.
Viktor Corvus first encountered the Chiss during his voyages into Unknown Regions, seeking chance encounters with rare Sith artifacts or remnants that may have stumbled across the area. As the farthest region away from the center of galactic governance, he sought to avoid the prying eyes of others and sought knowledge and power where few wandered into. He met his first ozyly-esehembo, or sky-walker in Galactic Basic, relatively early on, detecting their presence in the Force. The Chiss Ascendancy's former iron grasp in their native region led to frequent patrols and checkpoints, and the starships most often relied upon the ozyly-esehembo for navigating the perilous hyperspace conditions. His marauding ways were well established at this point, and he quickly captured and enslaved several ozyly-esehembo to assist in his thorough exploration of the area.
He had little thought of them past glorified organic astromechs until he noticed that past a certain age, the ozyly-esehmebo lost their connection to the Force and became quickly useless. As the Chiss Ascendancy now avoided crossing paths with Viktor at every point due to the numerous besieged and raided convoys, patrols, and checkpoints he ransacked in his quest for knowledge, he required a more permanent solution. Early iterations attempted to preserve the ozyly-esehembo's Force abilities by tethering them to Lignan power sources or Sith alchemizing them into Sithspawn, but the resulting madness and Dark Side corruption left them shambling and mindless monsters unable to fulfill their role as any half-competent navigators.
He finalized onto the point of completely removing the brain and freezing its age-point with advanced cybernetics and medical technology by the upkeep and high degree of failure left it unviable. Thus, he sought ancient Sith magic to improve the process, resulting in the creation of the Shadow-walker Navigation System. The process first involved extracting and isolating the Chiss brain within a basic neural interface, flooding the unconscious mind with IX serum, eradicating any non-essential memories and completely replacing any and all neural content with navigational data and processing matrices. In parallel, a Sith acolyte would force an enslavement Force-bond onto the mind and apply mnemotherapy, distilling the personality and mental characteristics of the subject into that akin to a droid, lifeless and logical. After these steps were completed, the brain could then be enhanced with a Borg Construct Aj cybernetic along with secondary databanks in the form of astrogation buffers. Finally, the basic neural interface was transplanted into a Sith alchemized vessel of Orichalum, powered by Lignan ore to reinforce the Force bond and continuously apply subtle mnemotherapy to keep the brain compliant, but also prevent the subject's usual descent into madness. As a final touch, Castellan Restraints were put in to ensure that even with interference from another Force User, the navigation system would continue to operate, impeded heavily by the interference but not to the point of being completely unfunctional.
The former husks of the ozyly-esehembo were reclassified and renamed into diminutive designations based on their former names: for example, those of the Nurodo family may have been renamed as Uro or Odo allowing the brain for some level of self sentience necessary to tether it to some minimal level of sanity but without enough recognition or similarity to raise any level of self-awareness.
In order to ensure that this sick and twisted process was left uncovered, an even stronger failsafe mechanism was imbued into the entire system: not only were the standard Chepatite Impact Explosives embedded in the entire design, but also a vial of Dragon's Breath was surgically inserted into the core tissue of the brain. This ensured the complete destruction of the entire navigation system if compromised in any fashion, whether it be through remote activation or the brain's own awareness of any potential tampering or irregularities.
All in all, the strong predictive Force abilities of the ozyly-esehembo serve to greatly improve the navigation and avionics of any starship it is installed on, not only serving as the best navigators available in the galaxy but also very highly rated guidance systems for operating with extreme maneuverability or speeds. Despite its ethical flaws, it serves as one of the most effective, energy efficient, and finally compact forms of navigational systems available on the market.
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