Approved Ranged Weapon Vorrn-Class Hexlaser Battery Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To create a dark side-alchemized turbolaser system for use on space stations and select Kainate vessels, blending traditional firepower with psychic terror.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Kainate Bio-Alchemical Engineers
  • Malsheem Shipwrights
  • Shadow Mind
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Vorrn-Class Hexlaser Battery Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Semi-Unique (Deployed across select capital ships, dreadnoughts, and fortified Kainate strongholds)
• Material:
  • Sith Rune-Inscribed Blackstone
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron
  • Ritual Bloodmetal Linings
  • Obsidian Focusing Coils
  • Void-Sick Plasma Conduits

• Classification: Sith-Alchemized Hexlaser Battery
• Size: Very Large
• Weight: Very Heavy
• Ammunition Type: Alchemized plasma cells charged with pain-ritual energy
• Ammunition Capacity: Average
• Effective Range: Extreme (Designed for long-range anti-capital fire)
• Rate of Fire: High
• Damage Output: Very High
• Recoil: None (Fixed emplacement)

• Fires corrupted plasma bolts lined with residual psychic pain. Each shot is infused with the lingering torment of sacrificial rites, making the very energy scream as it travels through space.
• Impact causes minor psychic dissonance and nausea in organic targets inside vessels. The sensation is akin to a sudden, invasive scream inside the skull, overwhelming enough to stagger even battle-hardened troops.
• Bolts leave afterimages resembling twisted faces and howling silhouettes. These spectral visages flicker across vision and sensor displays alike, as if the weapon itself remembers every soul it has claimed.
• Integrated into Kainate standardized ritual conduits, enabling amplified psychic discharge on any compatible vessel or installation. This modular enchantment allows for rapid deployment across the fleet, spreading the weapon's nightmarish influence without extensive reconfiguration.
• Resistant to redirection or energy diffusion due to alchemical hardening. Its dense ritual lattice ensures the plasma bolt remains cohesive, making deflection, dispersion, or rerouting virtually impossible.

• Psychic Splash Effect: Even near misses can disorient enemy crew and cause short-term debilitation. These discharges ripple through bulkheads and hulls as eerie wails, triggering vertigo, migraines, or hallucinations among organic personnel within proximity.
• Dark Side Infusion: Resists jamming, countermeasures, and energy dampening fields. The alchemical binding of pain-ritual energy renders each shot partially metaphysical, making them difficult to divert or suppress through conventional means.
• Fear Factor: The terrifying visual and psychological effects sow panic across enemy decks. Twisting faces and howls burned into sensor logs and crew memory have led to mutinies, breakdowns, and entire squadrons hesitating before re-engaging.

• No Effect on Droids/Non-Organics: The psychic impact is largely ineffective against droids or inorganic crews. While the bolts still cause physical damage, the weapon's fear-based secondary effects are entirely nullified against artificial minds, making it less effective against droid fleets or automated installations.
• High Ritual Maintenance: Requires occasional blood-ritual recharge to retain its full effectiveness. Without proper upkeep, the weapon's alchemical circuits can degrade over time, reducing both bolt cohesion and the intensity of its psychic dissonance.
• Heavier Power Draw: More taxing on the station's power network than conventional turbolasers. In prolonged engagements, this can force power rerouting or temporary firing pauses to prevent overload of local grid nodes or ritual conduits.
• Force Suppression: While the Vorrn-Class Hexlaser still functions as a conventional energy weapon in Force-dead environments (e.g., under the influence of ysalamiri, void stone, or Sever Force), its psychic and metaphysical effects are significantly dampened. In such zones, the weapon loses its dissonance-inducing properties, functioning more like a standard turbolaser in terms of psychological impact.

The Vorrn-Class Hexlaser is the standard heavy energy battery of elite space stations and vessels, reimagined through the brutal lens of Sith alchemy. What began as simple turbolasers have been transfigured by pain-crafting rituals and bound spirits of agony, each cannon lined with etched runes and saturated with ritualistic malice. Their barrels are blackened and jagged, like the maw of some ancient predator.

Firing streaks of searing red-black plasma at a rapid pace, these weapons don't just destroy, they disrupt. The moment a Vorrn bolt screams across the void, it trails psychic echoes, phantom screams and flickers of torment that assault the senses of nearby living beings. Shields may block the heat, but not the terror.

Crew hit directly by these blasts often fall into seizures, nausea, or flee their posts in confusion. Even hardened veterans have been known to falter when these lances carve across their hulls. These batteries are a symbol of the Kainate's philosophy: it's not enough to win the battle, one must break the mind.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

Another cool sub, please try to not abuse it.

Approved.