Approved Ranged Weapon Xarnak Cataclysm Array Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To create a semi-unique, high-end variant of the Xarnak Torment Caster, an overwhelming plasma torpedo system that not only ignites targets in alchemical black flame, but catalyzes chain reactions of hull destabilization, environmental corruption, and psychological collapse. Reserved for dreadnoughts and bastions like Nexul Station.
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  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Kainate Bio-Alchemical Engineers
  • Malsheem Shipwrights
  • Shadow Mind
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Xarnak Cataclysm Array Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Semi-Unique (Mounted only aboard Nexul Station, Dreadnought-class warships, flagships, elite siege platforms, or pivotal installations)
• Material:
  • Sith Rune-Inscribed Blackstone Launch Vaults
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Reinforcements
  • Nethersteel Torpedo Racks
  • Hellbite Ignition Spirals
  • Entropic Core Catalysts
  • Amaranth Crystal Fire Modulators

• Classification: Heavy Plasma Torpedo Array (Alchemized / Metaphysical)
• Size: Very Large
• Weight: Very Heavy
• Ammunition Type: Cataclysmic black flame plasma torpedoes infused with molecular disruption and dark side entropy
• Ammunition Capacity: Large
• Effective Range: Extreme
• Rate of Fire: Very Low
• Damage Output: Extreme
• Recoil: None

• Cataclysmic Torpedoes: Each warhead erupts into a massive black inferno that devours hull integrity and creates expanding molecular disruption zones.
• Entropy Cascade Effect: Secondary reactions destabilize neighboring systems and structures, causing ripple damage throughout impacted vessels.
• Reality-Bleed Shockwaves: Impact detonations may cause spatial distortions and metaphysical anomalies, temporarily scrambling time perception and coordination.
• Persistent Shadowfire: Black alchemical fire clings, spreads, and resists extinguishment, continuing to consume structure long after initial hit.
• Fearstorm Resonance: The visual and psychic trauma induced by a Cataclysm hit can trigger ship-wide morale breakdowns or catatonia in Force-sensitive individuals.
• Spellweave Sync Amplification: When connected to a Sith Spellweave Relay, torpedoes may trigger simultaneous psychic bursts across other linked systems.

• Devastation-Class Siege Weaponry: Designed to destroy superstructures, flagships, or even breach hardened orbital fortifications.
• Enduring Area Denial: Black flame continues to burn across hulls and environments, creating no-go zones in space or on impacted installations.
• Unnatural Dread Weapon: Weaponized fear and metaphysical suppression layered into the detonation, breaking will before the hull.
• Chain-Reaction Damage: Strikes may destabilize neighboring ships, platforms, or defense systems caught within the entropy field.
• Dark Side Empowerment: Torpedoes grow more volatile in dark side-saturated regions or during active rituals.

• Extremely Slow Reload: Each torpedo requires extensive ritual preparation and fire channeling before deployment.
• Low Ammunition Reserve: Torpedoes are massive and rare, few are carried at once.
• Risk of Feedback: If the launch system is damaged mid-preparation, it may cause feedback within the vessel.
• Not Suited for Small Craft: Entirely ineffective against nimble targets, this is siege-tier devastation.
• Force Light Suppression: Intense Light Side interference or purification rituals can snuff out the black flame or negate its entropy effects.
• Detectable Signatures: The spiritual presence of each launch is immense and can be tracked from vast distances by Force-sensitives.
• Force Nullification: In Force dead zones or areas suppressed by ysalamiri, the metaphysical effects of the Cataclysm Array are inert. While the torpedo's physical impact remains devastating, it loses its entropy cascade, distortion, and fear-inducing psychic resonance, diminishing its battlefield dominance.

The Xarnak Cataclysm Array Mk. I is the apex of Sith plasma torpedo warfare, a siege weapon built not to breach a hull, but to erase its existence entirely. Developed in the infernal depths of Nexul Station and installed only aboard the Kainate's most terrifying war engines, the Cataclysm Array is the embodiment of slow, inevitable ruin. It is the latest in unprecedented technological developments by the Kainate to push its military forces far ahead of all others.

Each torpedo is immense and layered with alchemical inscriptions, entropic cores, and fire modulation lenses that ensure its ignition is not simply explosive, but transformative. Upon detonation, black flame spreads across matter like an infection, consuming bulkheads, rupturing decks, and gnawing at the atomic structure of anything nearby. Fire spreads as shadow and heat, accompanied by dread-laced telepathic echoes that break the minds of those who witness it.

Entire defense grids have collapsed after just one launch, as panic and collapse ripple from the weapon's impact zone outward. In Sith rituals, the torpedoes may serve as foci for battlefield domination, turning each detonation into a metaphysical shockwave. Only the greatest vessels of the Kainate may bear the burden of the Cataclysm Array. And those who face it? Never forget.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

Cool sub again!

Approved.