Unreviewed Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka Obelisks

[Darth Caedes]

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Materials:
  • Construction Materials
    • Chanlon Ore
    • Phobium Ore
    • Hfredium Ore
      • Havod Alloy
    • Aurodium Ore
    • Barab Ore
    • Hyperbaride Elements
  • Protective Materials
    
    • Hibridium Ore (cloaking)
    • Cortosis Ore (coating)
    • Corintium Ore (frame)
    • Phrik Alloy (coating)
  • Force Sensitive Materials
    
    • Lignan Ore
    • Lignan Crystals (core)
    • Kyber Crystal (core)
    • Blue Stone (core)

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Obelisk artifacts capable of maddening intelligent civilizations, and ultimately causing spontaneous undead outbreaks.
• Artifacts seem to have a deeply intelligent functionality to them, capable of communicating over vast distances with one another using a unique telepathic language.

"The Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka signal doesn't just reanimate the dead, as did the King's original spell. It manipulates us into spreading the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka throughout the galaxy. And now we too have been unwittingly spreading this galactic virus from planet to planet, civilization to civilization. Spreading the will of the Dark Side...!"
—Senior Advisor of Project Winokka

STRENGTHS

• Signal Emission: By design, all Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka emit a similar, highly concentrated electromagnetic signal, which also shows up as a Force-related transmission, and is capable of affecting both dead and living organic matter. Known only to a select few, the ultimate source of the signal comes from Darth Caedes himself (who bears scarification resembling the glyphs observed on the artifact's exterior) with the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka receiving the Sith Lord's "master signal" via carrier wave and re-broadcasting it according to will. Through this carrier wave, the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka can communicate (independent of input) with each other across incredible distances, and are able to coordinate and act as one despite being separated by several thousand light-years. These signals are also known to cause interference with advanced technologies such as communications equipment. Conversely, when coming into contact with the minds of living beings, the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka signal is able to induce a form of creeping dementia (after progressive, prolonged experience). Affected individuals may experience hallucinations which increase in potency over time, in many cases visions of their dead loved ones or illusions fabricated from other memories, which always push them into aiding the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka's agenda of proliferation in one way or another. Most of those afflicted are simply deemed to be undead fodder, with the signal eventually driving the victim(s) into a state of paranoia or rage, making them carry out homicidal or suicidal actions and thus create corpses for the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka to reanimate and control.
• Ominous Intelligence: The Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka display a nearly sentient ability to control the organic matter they transmit to, using the electro magnetic signals as well as intrinsic Forceful properties. This intelligence seems to be outlined and dictated through use of runes and glyphs carved across the artifact's exterior, however can be further augmented and directed with the willful input of Darth Caedes himself. When an Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka pulses, it broadcasts a compulsion similar to the Tsaiwinokka Hoyakut magick out into a given environment (spanning miles), which can trigger reanimation in deceased beings. Eventually, this will alter dead tissue within a certain radius on a cellular level, ultimately creating the Jen'ari infection (in otherwise uninfected flesh) and subsequently initiating an undead outbreak. Typically, in order to ensure that the contagion spreads faster, these artifacts will raise a specialized creature known as the Jen'ari, which has the ability to rapidly infect victims. Unlike the Jen'ari of Korriban, however, the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka strain and reanimation process mutates the corpses (rearranging skin, skeletons, and muscle) in order to create grotesque abominations of flesh and infection. Despite the apparent intelligence of the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka, the resulting creatures largely behave as little more than animals with an insatiable drive to hunt and gather biomass (with some exceptions). This intelligence has shown an advanced ability to dominate and repel or instruct undead from many origins (whether Blackwing, spirits from the Netherworld of the Force, or Sithspawned horrors, etc.).
• Safe Zones: During/amidst an outbreak, the signal also creates a vast field of protection around the respective Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka, which keep the undead from getting close to the artifact by forcing them into dormancy; this allows the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka to protect themselves from the wanton destruction often associated with the Jen'ari and other undead strains, and lets the strange artifacts similarly protect those living beings of interest to and deemed useful in the completion of their proliferation agenda. These safe zones can vary in size, and have been modified through use of more and more sophisticated exterior runes and abjuration magicks to encompass vast spaces, capable of shielding entire communities and cities from the otherwise apocalyptic effects of an undead outbreak. Of note, an Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka has displayed the ability to change the size of its own projected safe zone; sometimes spanning miles, other times spanning no more than 10 meters (roughly 32 feet). In those rare cases, it has been hypothesized that this tactic is employed by an Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka desiring to draw a certain individual(s) nearer to its base, hoping to impart knowledge or increase the exposure to its domineering telepathy, and thereby gain tighter control over potentially useful victims.
• Murakami Initiative: First deployed on the planet Odacer-Faustin, origin world of the Blackwing Virus, the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka have displayed a remarkable capacity to interact with, dominate, and even mutate undead infected with the virus (or its many variants). Instructed by a Murakami Orchid during the creation process of the obelisk's exterior runes, these artifacts have the innate ability to gain a level of control over the afflicted Blackwing victims. Moreover, undead related to the virus are unable to come within miles of the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka, and have been noted to gradually become enthralled by the artifacts emission signals. With prolonged exposure, undead and the afflicted from any strain of similar creature will fall into the abhorrent worship of the obelisks, serving to enact their design.

WEAKNESSES

• Head of the Serpent: All cells infected by the Jen'ari virus in this way are animated by the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka's carrier wave; without the signal, the creatures cease to exist and degenerate into an organic sludge of their former host's DNA. This marks the biggest difference between Jen'ari awoken by the King of Korriban, Darth Caedes, and those raised by the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka; seeing as Korriban's Jen'ari (and those infected by that original strain, thereafter) will only cease to function when the King himself falls to the final death. Some cultures, therefore, view these Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka strains of the undead as separate than Korriban's Jen'ari, adopting their own names for the creatures, and sometimes creating stories wherein the artifacts are deified or made into God-like constructs which transmit the will of the Dark Side of the Force.
• Madness: Once completed, the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka become a conduit for unstable and manipulative Force energies. The behaviors and principles for this control are largely determined by the sorceries and runes covering the obelisk's outer shell. Although the effect is a creeping one, the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka will reach across great distances and begin to work their magick. Notably, individual's who are Force Sensitive (particularly those aligned with the Light Side) have an easier time repelling the maddening effects of these artifacts. What begins as sleepless nights, exhaustion, and the subsequently elevated levels of aggression, becomes bouts of paranoia and bizarre obsessive behaviors. Finally, intense memory loss and vivid hallucinations drive the affected individuals to commit acts of murder and treachery. Many report seeing "what's to come," describing the onset of the walking dead apocalypse, "becoming one." The smartest and most useful report "seeing the design," receiving the command to build more; sometimes awakening from bouts of mania having scrawled these designs across walls using blood and broken fingernails. These effects create territories of inevitable chaos and horror, which largely sacrifices any level of intentionality, nuance, or precise control over operations utilizing these constructs. In fact, the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka have a completely unpredictable timelines once deployed; largely dependent upon where they end up, and how resilient the minds are of the individuals within proximity. Notably, members aligned and sensitive to the Dark Side of the Force are not immune to these maddening effects, in fact quite the opposite, and have to undergo specialized training in order to better resist the invasive nature of the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka. These artifacts are extremely dangerous, and often precede calamity. Handle with extreme caution.

DESCRIPTION
The appearance of the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka echo old imperial philosophies, pertaining to undeath and the afterlife: all things intertwine at the end to become one, in death. These artifacts were created by the Sith Lords Taeli Raaf and Darth Caedes based on designs originally found in the Dark Side Nexus on Korriban. The concept of "unity after death" is reflected by the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka's shape, which mirrors strands of a DNA helix, with two spires twisting around each other upwards to become one. The complicated stone-alloy surface of every Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka is also covered in symbols which rely heavily on the circle form, representing "circle of life" themes.

The signal from a Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka gradually causes those around it to experience hallucinations and dementia, sending the living into madness. Many become obsessed with protecting the artifacts and may even begin to worship it, while others enter a paranoid and delusional state, causing homicidal and suicidal actions as influenced by the Dark Side of the Force. These deaths ultimately pave the way for the creation of dead bodies intended for raising, while those who are more intelligent or possess a stronger willpower may instead be made to "see" codes, blueprints and instructions for the creation of new Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka obelisks. This has led to entire, primitive civilizations creating their own apocalyptic cultures revolving around the instilled delusions of the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka.

Eventually, the signal begins to transmit magicks adjacent and inspired by the Tsaiwinokka Hoyakut spell, originally cast by Sith King, Dathka Graush. This contagion's genetic code is written in a glyphic, old imperial variant of the Ur-Kittât language on the artifact's exterior shell, and will reanimate the cells and tissue of deceased lifeforms within the range of the area of the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka's influence, twisting their corpses into nightmarish, monstrous Jen'ari variants that are built solely for the purpose of killing other living beings and infecting them.