Shadow Hand


- Intent: To create a devastating flak cannon system for Kainate warships that provides anti-fighter, anti-missile, and area denial coverage.
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- Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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- Manufacturer:
- Malsheem Automated Factories
- Shadow Mind
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Varkesh Pattern Dreadflak Cannon Mk. I
- Modularity: Yes (Can be scaled or integrated in different ship hull sizes)
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Alchemized Sarrassian Iron
- Sith Blackstone Shard Cores
- Dark Energetic Components

- Classification: Mass Driver Assisted Flak Cannon
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Alchemized flak shells, inscribed with Sith runes
- Ammunition Capacity: Very Large
- Effective Range: Battlefield
- Rate of Fire: High
- Damage Output: Very High
- Recoil: None

- Shrapnel Bursts and Metaphysical Static: Flak shells detonate into clouds of deadly shrapnel and metaphysical static. These blasts scatter both physical fragments and spiritual interference, creating lethal clouds that disrupt senses and movement.
- Mass-Driver-Assisted Flak Shells: Each shell is accelerated via compact gravitic rails or magnetic launch systems to ensure effective detonation range and velocity against high-speed threats in vacuum.
- Psychic Howl Detonation: Explosions emit psychic howls that disorient pilots and nearby Force sensitives. These metaphysical screams cloud thought and reflex, throwing enemy formation cohesion into disarray.
- Saturation Zones of Fear and Pain: Saturation bursts create localized zones of fear and pain. The weapon's area denial isn't just physical, it induces dread that compels enemies to break off before breaching the perimeter.
- Adaptive Anti-Strikecraft Coverage: Effective against missile swarms, starfighters, and boarding craft. Optimized tracking and burst pattern systems ensure no vector of approach is left unguarded in the defensive grid.
- Overlapping Denial Patterns: Can be fired in overlapping patterns to form walls of denial around key ship sections. These bursts create mobile "walls" of destruction and confusion that protect vital ship sections or critical approach corridors.

- Area Denial: Saturates entire approach vectors with lethal flak clouds. These flak bursts create shifting kill zones that make coordinated strike runs nearly impossible and force enemy formations to scatter.
- Force Disruption: Shrapnel interferes with Force perception and battle meditation. The lingering static of Sith Blackstone distorts precognition, making Force-based piloting and command coordination unreliable.
- Panic Inducer: Explosions produce metaphysical screams that sow disarray among attackers. These psychic howls strike at the mind and soul, causing hesitation, fear, and emotional instability across enemy ranks.
- Reliable Defense: Effective against swarms and strike craft attempting close-range attack or boarding. With mass-driver velocity and saturation coverage, the system delivers consistent performance in protecting key ship sections and fleet anchors.

- Short Effective Range: While effective across battlefield ranges, the flak is primarily suited to intercept fast-moving threats within a mid-range envelope. It lacks the reach and targeting power to effectively strike long-range bombers or distant capital ship systems.
- Collateral Risk: Saturation flak can interfere with friendly units or Force users caught in the blast radius. The metaphysical effects and dense shrapnel clouds do not discriminate, making close-quarters defense coordination hazardous.
- Not Pinpoint Accurate: Designed for coverage, not precision. The wide-area bursts sacrifice targeting specificity, making them unsuitable for precision strikes or tight formation control.
- Force Nullification: While the physical flak detonation remains intact, Force-dead zones and Voidstone interference dampen the weapon's psychic screams and metaphysical static, reducing its psychological and spiritual effectiveness.

The Varkesh Pattern Dreadflak Cannons are brutal anti-fighter and anti-missile flak guns developed for the warships of the Kainate's Shadow Armada. Firing alchemized shells inscribed with Sith runes, each round detonates mid-air into a deadly storm of shrapnel infused with sith blackstone that resonates with dark side energy, unleashing metaphysical static that blinds precognition, and muddle the clarity of Force sensitive minds.
What makes the Dreadflak truly feared are the howls, the ghostly screams of Sith sacrifices bound into the munitions. Every shell detonation is accompanied by a psychic scream, causing panic, nausea, and confusion in nearby crews. Especially effective against lightly-armored targets and spiritual formations, the Dreadflak is a nightmare to pilots and attackers alike.
While its close-range saturation can't hit long-distance targets, it makes the approach to any Kainate vessel a suicidal endeavor. Especially when fielded in batteries or defensive clusters, the Varkesh Cannons create a wall of death around their ship, making boarding or strike runs nearly impossible. A semi-unique version, the Varkesh Catastrophe Array, is occasionally mounted to dreadnoughts and fortresses for full-spectrum battlefield denial.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a devastating flak cannon system for Kainate warships that provides anti-fighter, anti-missile, and area denial coverage.
Canon Link:
N/A
Permissions:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
N/A
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate
Model:
Varkesh Pattern Dreadflak Cannons Mk.
Modular:
Yes
Effective Range:
Battlefield
Rate of Fire:
Automatic
Material:
Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Sith Blackstone Shard Cores Dark Energetic Components
Ammunition Type:
Alchemized flak shells, inscribed with Sith runes
Ammunition Capacity:
Very Large
Damage Output:
Very High
Recoil:
None
Ranged Class:
Other