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.
• Deployed/installed on enemy/neutral worlds as a weapon, resulting in an undead outbreak.
• Deployed/installed on allied worlds as a specialized defense, resulting in a safe zone known to repel undead from city-wide territories.

"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 his will. Along this carrier wave, the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka can communicate with each other across incredible distances. Owing to this, they have been observed to coordinate and act as one, despite being separated by several thousand light-years. They do this by syncing with one another and adjusting their signal emissions so as to trigger calamity all at once. 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). Their methodology resembles the use of Force magicks like Summon Fear and similar compulsion techniques. Affected individuals may experience hallucinations which increase in potency over time. In many cases, these visions are of their dead loved ones or illusions fabricated from other memories, often pushing them into aiding the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka's agenda of proliferation. In some cases, these bouts of hallucinatory madness result in the creation of new obelisks. Reports detail the insides of homes within which every wall space is crowded with nonsensical script and complicated math. Most of those afflicted are simply deemed to be undead fodder by the obelisks' rune-guided intelligence, with the signal eventually driving the victim(s) into a state of paranoia or rage, and compelling them carry out homicidal or suicidal actions (thus creating corpses for the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka to reanimate and control). Additionally, these signals are also known to cause some unreliable interference with certain technologies, like standard communications equipment.
• 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 to do so. 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 begin to 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). These obelisks display the ability to dominate or instruct undead from across a broad array of strains and origins (whether Blackwing, spirits from the Netherworld of the Force, or some other manner of Sithspawned horror).
• 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 (a kind of passive, standing state). This allows the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka to protect themselves from the wanton destruction often associated with the Jen'ari and outbreaks from other undead strains. Furthermore, it allows the strange artifacts to protect the living beings around them (aiming to preserve those 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, and assimilating into the twisted hordes.

WEAKNESSES

• Head of the Serpent: The obelisks' transmission waves are observed to have manipulative and transmutive effects when coming into contact with dead and undead cells. All cells of this nature are gradually animated and sustained by the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka's carrier wave and Force powers. Without the signal, these creatures cease to exist immediately and degenerate into an organic sludge of their former hosts' DNA. This marks the biggest difference between Jen'ari awoken by the King of Korriban, Darth Caedes, and those "imitations" raised by the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka. Korriban's Jen'ari are predicted to persist long after the King's death, whereas the Úmaiar Jen'ari strains last only as long as the obelisks' which raised them. Beyond this, the resulting Úmaiar spawn vary greatly in appearance from more humanoid zombies, mutating into accursed approximations of life. Some cultures, therefore, view these Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka strains of undead as separate altogether from Korriban's Jen'ari (which hold a very honored cultural presence on that world), instead adopting their own names for the creatures and often creating mythologies wherein the artifacts are deified or made into God-like constructs, said to 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 obelisks' outer shell. Although the effect is a creeping one, the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka will reach across great distances and begin to work their coersive 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 a walking dead apocalypse, and call it "becoming one." The smartest and most useful report "seeing the design," receiving the command to build more obelisks; 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 timeline once deployed on unprepared worlds; 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. As a result, glyphs and protective wards have been discovered which nullify the artifacts' maddening effects, and are put to use in areas where the Úmaiar Tsaiwinokka are installed as defensive emplacements within home territories (thus creating safe zones free of undead activity, without most of the maddening effects. 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.

 

[Darth Caedes]

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