The Dead God
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create storage containers for exceptionally dangerous, or otherwise rare artifacts.
- Image Source: Here.
- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer:
Design: Blackwell Industries - Production: Akure Executive Interstellar
[*]Affiliation: Closed-Market
[*]Model: The Black Box
[*]Modularity:
- Optional Material Changes
- Interior Cushioning
- Various Aesthetic Changes
- Personalized Inscriptions or Inlays
- Various Sizes & Shapes
[*]Production: Semi-Unique
[*]Material:
- Standard Structure: Alchemized Quadranium Frame
- Interior: Alchemized Terentak Leather Cushions
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Extremely Sturdy Construction
- Force Based Locking Mechanism
- Contains / Hides Force Based Artifacts
- What's In The Box?
The box itself is extremely sturdy, built of alchemized quadranium and the blood, sweat, and tears of a number of well trained alchemists. This allows the container to hold up against all but the strongest of blows, ensuring whatever is within remains safe and sound regardless of who attempts to open it. Add on the force based locking mechanism, and you have a storage container that is not only difficult to break, but nearly impossible to 'hack' through conventional means, and even most force means.
[*]Birthday Present
- While the device is certainly a very viable storage container for an aging dirty magazine collection, it is more well focused as a transportation measure for deadly or otherwise powerful artifacts of all types. Absorbing the force energies of anything up to the legendary Darkstaff, the container can not only nullify their aggrandized power, but hides any force measure of them for the prying eye. No sensory data of what is within gets out, only what can be assumed from its exterior and shipping list.
Weaknesses:
- With Great Storage, Comes Great Weight
Unless you get a box the size of a small ring, meant to hold exclusively that, any of the containers are extremely heavy. The mixture of their already sturdy construction, matched with the alchemization that adds to such a weight makes them nearly impossible to simply lug around without some sort of load bearing equipment. For instance, a regular footlocker might weigh only a few kilograms, but a 'Black Box' equivalent will weigh upwards of twenty, with ease. Any higher, and it will only increase exponentially.
[*]Complicated Key
- While the Force Lock is certainly a very strong feature, the actual elements of the lock revolve around a very personalized ritual that can take upwards of a minute to perform; occasionally asking for the blood of its recipient. This means that should someone be ambushed while their infamous 'super sword' is in the box, it isn't very likely they'll have the chance to get it out in time to actually use it. This means it is almost exclusively used for high risk transportation where you couldn't afford anyone knowing of the artifact within.
DESCRIPTION
As force creations, artifacts, and every manner of force sensitive items became common place, there is an ever pressing desire for some form of artifact hauling device to be made; one that will not only keep Sith Lord's present safe, but to help transport the exceptionally dangerous ones that might possess everyone around it at any given moment. This was where the creation of 'The Black Box' was started, in solving one of the rising issues within the Galactic Market.
By speaking to one of the largest corporations in the galaxy, and one of the foremost experts on large scale production of alchemized items; a design was built and handed off by the hands of Darth Maliphant himself, heavily in part for his own need to transport extremely dangerous artifacts such as The Telos Holocron in secrecy. This need to protection and secrecy made the storage container;
The first and foremost aspect of the box is its ability to nullify the effectiveness of force related items. By utilizing its own force alchemization, it draws upon the theoretical styling of Ysalamiri; taking what makes them great and doing the same. By creating an internalized 'force nuetral bubble' active only when the device is closed, it effectively disables any artifact within it. This is done so long as is required, before being opened once more.
The second aspect of it, is its dedication to security. While the device can be open and closed by anyone, an established ritual actually locks the device; effectively melding the metal at its opening and activating what lies within. The ritual to open and close these vary on the lock, and what is established by its owner; however they can have an almost innumerable amount of variations and options, residing most predominantly in the Force.
All together, this makes for a very strong, sturdy design capable of holding even the most dangerous artifacts in relative security, with only the most dedicated thiefs able to actually steal from one, often taking entire warehouses of dedicated machinery to get into the alchemized metal exterior. Filling a niche market, The Black Box has quickly become a favorite amongst Sith Lords, and Jedi who don't care where it came from, leave alone the rising needs of Cartels specializing in laundering artifacts.
