Approved Ranged Weapon Varkesh Pattern Catastrophe Flak Array Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To create a semi-unique, elite flak system for dreadnoughts and fortresses of the Kainate, delivering wide-area physical and psychic suppression.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Automated Factories
  • Shadow Mind
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Varkesh Pattern Catastrophe Flak Array Mk. I
• Modularity: Yes (Can be adjusted for fortress or dreadnought installation)
• Production: Semi-Unique
• Material:
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron
  • Rune-Inscribed Blackstone
  • Blood-Forged Aurodium
  • Dark Energetic Components

• Classification: Mass Driver Assisted Flak Cannon
• Size: Very Large
• Weight: Very Heavy
• Ammunition Type: Saturation Flak Shells inscribed with binding runes and pain-reactive triggers
• Ammunition Capacity: Very Large
• Effective Range: Extreme
• Rate of Fire: Very High
• Damage Output: Extreme
• Recoil: None

• Saturation Ritual Flak: Fires massive saturation waves of alchemized shells embedded with binding runes, Force-breaking resonance, and psychic shatter pulses. Each salvo floods space with flak designed not only to destroy hulls, but to collapse the morale and willpower of those caught in the blast.
• Razor-Shrapnel and Metaphysical Static: Shells detonate into clouds of razor-edged shrapnel and Force-distorting static that scrambles spiritual senses. Pilots and Force users alike are bombarded by both physical debris and waves of chaos that blind instincts.
• Mass-Driver-Assisted Saturation Shells: Each flak shell is accelerated via embedded gravitic rails or magnetic induction coils to ensure detonation speed and kinetic coverage against high-speed threats. This allows saturation bursts to reliably intercept fast-moving missiles, strike craft, and boarding pods in deep vacuum.
• Fear Pulse Overload: Each burst unleashes rippling waves of pain, hallucinations, and fear paralysis that linger in the impact zone. These effects can stagger enemy pilots and crush concentration under a tide of torment.
• Echoes of Sith Torment: Blood-Forged Aurodium and runes within each shell project echoes of bound Sith agony into the Force. This disrupts battle meditation and causes mental backlash in Force-sensitives near the impact zones.
• Autonomous Ritual Firing: Fully functional without living crew when linked to a Sith Overseer, Dark Command Core, or sacrifice-fed relay. The array may continue firing even if the surrounding crew is dead or incapacitated.
• Overlapping Denial Corridors: Can be fired in staggered bursts to create crisscrossing "no-go zones" of flak and dread. Used in this pattern, it can choke entire corridors of space around a ship or fortress.
• Metaphysical Harmonics: Emits a persistent hum of low-frequency dark resonance, unsettling to allies, maddening to enemies. The very presence of the array presses into the mind, eroding calm long before it fires.

• Full-Spectrum Suppression: Physically and mentally cripples enemy strike forces across wide areas. Flak bursts tear through hulls while psychic pulses collapse discipline, coordination, and willpower en masse.
• Capital-Scale Area Denial: Ideal for defending critical warships or installations from boarding or swarms. Its overlapping fire patterns and saturation range create lethal "kill zones" that deny approach to all but the most hardened or reckless forces.
• Psychic Warfare: Causes hallucinations, fear paralysis, and focus breakdown in exposed pilots. Even Force users suffer from fragmented visions, delayed reactions, and intrusive mental echoes of torment after exposure.
• Ritual-Automated Function: Can fire without crew using Sith bindings and internal relays. This allows the system to continue operating in environments ravaged by battle, sabotage, or total crew loss, ensuring the wrath of the Kainate never ceases.

• Immense Power Demand: Must recharge after extended barrages and places strain on dreadnought or fortress reactor cores. Sustained use can limit other systems or draw power away from shields and weapons.
• Collateral Disruption: Friendly Force users may be impaired within its area of effect. The psychic howls and Force feedback loops do not differentiate between ally and enemy.
• Unmistakable Presence: Emits a Force signature like a screaming wound, easily sensed by powerful Force users. Powerful Force users will feel its presence before they ever see it.
• Force Nullification: While its physical flak remains effective, Force-null zones or Voidstone interference suppress the Catastrophe Array's psychic howls and metaphysical effects. This significantly weakens its battlefield psychological dominance in anti-Force contexts.

The Varkesh Catastrophe Flak Array Mk. I is the Kainate's ultimate flak-based suppression system, deployed exclusively on dreadnoughts and major fortresses. Building upon the already lethal Varkesh Dreadflak framework, the Catastrophe Flak Array elevates the concept into an instrument of total strategic denial, unleashing not just destruction, but spiritual obliteration.

Each shell is fired using mass-driver acceleration coils, propelling it at immense velocity before it detonates mid-space. Within each round lie binding runes, ritual screams, and Force-disruptive energy cores. When these shells explode, they create a churning maelstrom of razor shrapnel and psychic torment. Pilots report losing vision, experiencing shared hallucinations, or falling into momentary mental collapse. Even experienced Force users find themselves shaken, unable to maintain focus amid the screams of the damned.

Infused with Rune-Inscribed Blackstone and Blood-Forged Aurodium, the system radiates a dark aura. Its autonomous firing protocols, guided by Sith overseers or bound rituals, allow it to operate even if the crew is slain. With overlapping fire zones, it can saturate entire corridors of space with metaphysical suppression and physical lethality, creating "no-go zones" where nothing, physical or spiritual, survives.

Where lesser flak defends, the Catastrophe Flak Array dominates. It is not merely a defense system, it is a weaponized ritual of fear, despair, and forceful denial. To face it is not simply to face death, it is to be unmade by the will of the Kainate.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

Very cool sub again!

Approved.