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 showed up as a Force-related transmission, and is capable of affecting both dead and living organic matter. Through this carrier wave, the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka can communicate with each other across incredible distances, and were able to coordinate and act as one despite being separated by several thousand light-years of distance. These signals is 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 dementia that manifests itself in different ways depending on how the individual brain responds to it. Affected individuals experience hallucinations, 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 some way. Most of those afflicted are simply deemed to be undead fodder, with the signal driving the victim into a state of paranoia or even 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 through, using the electro magnetic signals as well as intrinsic Forceful properties, leading to different effects depending on what is being broadcast at the time. This intelligence seems to be outlined and dictated through use of runes and glyphs carved across the artifact's exterior. When an Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka pulses, it broadcasts a compulsion similar to the Tsaiwinokka Hoyakut magick out into a given environment, 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 and initiating an undead outbreak. Typically, in order to ensure that the contagion spreads faster, a specialized creature known as the Jen'ari, which has the ability to rapidly infect victims. 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).
• 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, as well as those living beings of interest to and deemed useful by the artifact in the completion of its 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 settlements from the otherwise apocalyptic effects of an undead outbreak.

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.

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.