Approved Ranged Weapon Xarnak Torment Caster Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To design a limited-production Sith alchemized plasma torpedo launcher for Kainate vessels and installations, utilizing black flame warheads that inflict both physical and metaphysical destruction.
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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 Torment Caster Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited (Deployed aboard Kainate capital ships, siege-class vessels, and fortified installations)
• Material:
  • Sith Blackstone Launch Bays
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Housing
  • Void-Fused Plasma Containment Units
  • Hellbite Ignition Runes
  • Molecular Disruption Coil Arrays

• Classification: Heavy Plasma Torpedo Launcher
• Size: Large
• Weight: Very Heavy
• Ammunition Type: Alchemized plasma torpedoes filled with black flame and dark side reactive compounds
• Ammunition Capacity: Average
• Effective Range: Long
• Rate of Fire: Low
• Damage Output: Very High
• Recoil: None (Fixed Emplacement)

• Black Flame Payloads: Upon impact, torpedoes erupt into black sorcerous fire that burns even in vacuum. These flames cling to surfaces and persist.
• Molecular Destabilization: Warheads contain enchantments that erode molecular cohesion on impact, causing hull corrosion and armor degradation over time.
• Fearful Impact: The unnatural fire is visually terrifying, creating shadowy infernos that disturb morale and inspire dread.
• Vacuum Adherence: The sorcerous black fire continues burning even in hard vacuum, making it highly effective for space-based sieges.
• Dark Side Reactivity: Gains potency in dark side-saturated environments, synergizing with Kainate ritual infrastructure.

• Siege Class Hull Damage: Highly effective at breaking down enemy armor and superstructures with prolonged exposure.
• Persistent Damage: Black flames linger, continuing to corrode impacted areas and stressing repair systems.
• Morale Impact: The haunting, aberrant fire causes fear and hesitation in enemy crews and observers.
• Ritual Amplification Compatible: Can be empowered further when linked to Sith Spellweave Relay Networks.

• Slow Reload Time: The torpedoes require careful handling and ritual activation between launches.
• Ineffective vs. Fast Targets: Not optimized for small ships, fighters, or highly mobile craft.
• Force Light Vulnerability: Can be neutralized or weakened by concentrated Light Side energy or Force purification.
• Limited Ammunition: Moderate payload capacity requires strategic deployment.
• Visible Trajectory: Bright energy trails make torpedoes easier to track and target with point defense.
• Force Nullification: In areas where the Force is suppressed, such as in the presence of ysalamiri or void fields, the black flame's metaphysical properties are diminished. While the torpedo still causes physical damage and ignition, its lingering dread effects, molecular destabilization, and dark side synergy are drastically weakened.

The Xarnak Torment Caster Mk. I is a heavy plasma torpedo system engineered by the Kainate to rain horror and devastation across enemy hulls. Unlike conventional torpedoes, each Xarnak warhead is a metaphysical weapon, forged in Sith alchemical vats and ignited by Hellbite Runes to produce fire that burns not only matter, but memory, fear, and will.

When launched, the torpedoes leave trails of burning shadow, crackling through space with palpable malevolence. Upon impact, they erupt in writhing black fire, eating away at hull plating and superstructure alike. The warhead's destabilizing enchantments begin gnawing at the molecular integrity of the target, causing systems to rupture, plates to sag, and structural cohesion to fail.

The visual spectacle of these detonations is a psychological weapon on its own. Entire formations have hesitated upon witnessing the shadow-blaze engulf a cruiser. With proper ritual support, the caster's effects may be intensified, causing enemy decks to scream as the tormented fire sinks in.

Used sparingly but to terrifying effect, the Xarnak Torment Casters are favored by siege vessels and capital ships needing to instill fear while melting steel. Where standard torpedoes breach, the Torment Casters unmake.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

Cool sub again!

Approved.