The Countess of Khemost
- Intent: To Sub a Unique heavy Armor
- Image Source: https://www.deviantart.com/magnus1781/art/IJ2-Batman-Gotham-Ghost-915911372
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Heavy Armor
- Manufacturer: Antony Bloodscrawl (Deceased)
- Affiliation: Lancelot Io
- Market Status: Closed Market
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: Yes
- Production: Unique
- Material: Armorweave, Duraplast, Plasteel, Cortosis weave Durasteel, Stealth Electronics
- Classification: Multi-purpose
- Weight: Heavy
- Resistances
- Energy: High
- Kinetic: High
- Lightsabers: High (Gauntlets, Torso only)
- Vibro: Low
- Other: EMP/Ion: High
- Acid: None
- Electricity: High
- Heat: Very Low
- Cryo: Very Low
- Biological (Disease/Radiation): High
- Magnetics: Extreme
- Built in Holographic Projector Doubler Suit Tech, enabling wearer to project a holographic doppelganger if themselves to draw away enemy fire
- Built in Holographic Cloaking Unit, rendering wearer practically invisible if activated
- Built in Stealth Field Reinforcement visor in mask
- Built in Sound Dampening Stealth Unit
- Built in Thermal Distorter
- Antidote Synthesizer on tool belt
- Miniature Disruptor Generator on tool belt
- Built in breath mask
- And they said I was paranoid: it's rather telling that this armor is so intact given its Jedi Armor from the Clone Wars. It's been heavily upgraded from typical Jedi Armor to resist most typical battlefield threats, even threats it was not logical to expect to face, such as Lightsabers. This would end up saving it's original owner's life many times after Order 66 occured, especially considering the Antidote Synthesizer custom made for the armor's utility belt, which has been significantly upgraded with more high quality parts to work three times faster than normal
- Stealthy: Another reason it's designer survived to old age was because he knew how to vanish when he had to, confounding pursuers for years and decades after The Clone Wars Ended. It's been fitted with multiple exotic stealth systems. It possesses a back up Holographic Cloaking Unit which is recharged continuously by user body heat and a Sound Dampening Stealth unit which is recharged by constant movements, and a Thermal Distortion System to fool Droid sensors and stealth field reinforcement tech in the helmet to better see through these fields and to regulate them better, making the user harder to detect. Lastly, it possesses Hologram doubler tech, which allows the user to make a full color hologram of themselves at a 7 meter distance.
- No sense of barriers: Miniature Disruptor Generator allows the user to pass through magnetic shields as well as grant immense resistance to magnetic effects
- Outdated: It's systems, while very well preserved are still dating back all the way to the Clone Wars, and thus it's Electronics, are prone to the occasional, random short out for thirty seconds once or twice a day per use
- Temperature: It's age means it's vastly less resistant to temperature based Weaponry than it used to be
- Repair Issues: Given its exotic Electronics, you are not fixing it with some random, off the shelf kit, and repairs will take several times longer, and consume more resources than normal
- Conditional protection: It's Lightsaber resistance is Limited to the arms and torso
- Acid: Acid eats right through it
- Vibro: Only scant resistance to Vibroweapons
- Conditional stealth: It's Holographic Cloaking System only works if user is standing still, and It's Sound Dampening System needs constant movement to maintain power. If idle for more than a minute, it'll shut down and needs a minute to boot back up. It's Thermal Distorter can only function for thirty seconds at a time before needing another thirty to recharge. And only one stealth system can be used at a time.
Antony Bloodscrawl was a Jedi who served in The Clone Wars, faithfully serving the Republic for a time. But he refused to be around the Clones unless left with no other choice, a fact he was routinely criticized for only for those Jedi to be met in turn with his scathing condemnation of the Jedi Order's unquestioning acceptance of them to begin with, citing what he felt was the sheer lunacy in accepting an army they literally didn't know about until Obi-Wan Kenobi reported on them, as well as the fact they were cloned from an individual who died in the employ of Count Dooku. All of these facts in his mind instantly disqualified the Clones for trust, but his own aggressive philosophy, shown in his extensive use of stealth systems in his armor, troubled Jedi who felt Antony's mindset made him too comfortable with deception and his intense mistrust bordered on fear, which was a path to the Dark Side. All of this combined to make the Jedi incredibly hesitant to listen to Antony in the end.
Antony received only the grimmest vindication when Order 66 was enacted, and his paranoia was further vindicated when his extensively modified armor allowed him to evade or survive some of the most serious threats The Galactic Empire could throw at him, and in some very apocryphal accounts whose sourcing cannot be trusted, the exotic armor even allowed him to successfully escape a pursuing Darth Vader, which, if true, would make him one of the only Jedi to survive an encounter with the Fallen Anakin. (Though in all accounts it's only barely and only through exploiting all stealth systems to escape Vader)
Antony would live to see the end of the Galactic Empire after spending years in hiding, dying of old age on Ession, but not before marrying and having two children, who he passed this armor to on his deathbed. Once the last of the Old Bloodscrawl Family, Antony ended up being the first of the new Bloodscrawls (Of whom Laertia Io is directly descended from) that went forward into the Gulag Era and so vindicated was he in his precaution-taking that his headstone (long since lost) read "A Jedi must never give into Fear, but a Jedi is also a fool if they don't budge a little for Paranoia. Ask my friends from the Clone Wars whether or not I was right."
The creature that now imitates Arianna, upon learning of Laertia's connection to the Bloodscrawls, stopped at nothing to acquire the armor through means she has still refused to disclose, but upon the creation of Lancelot, Arianna received permission from Laertia to give her grandson this splended example of why you should always be suspicious about mystery armies you don't remember your organization ordering the creation of.
The symbol at the center of the armor is the Bloodscrawl Family Crest, called the Fanged Chevron, It's horned appearance is a distinct style native to Ancient Ession, blended with the sensibilities of Clone Trooper Armor, ironically.
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