Approved Tech Black Veil Egress Weave Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create a Kainate exclusive, hull-mounted, short-burst egress veil that breaks target locks during defensive maneuvers and preserves low-profile signatures on the Velakorr-class Sith Tactical Bomber.
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  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Black Veil Egress Weave Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Bloodsteel Filament Veil Projectors
  • Alchemized Shadow-Ink Soot Canisters
  • Lignan-Doped Phase Crystals
  • Bloodpane Micro-Prism Baffles
  • Hexphase Capacitor Banks
  • Sigil-Wire Control Lattices
  • Gravitic Shear Vanes
  • Ebonwell Thermal-RF Sink Couplers
  • Ashen-Seal Isolation Stubs
  • Phase-Noise Microfoil Reservoirs

• Shadow Bubble Projector: Hull flush emitters generate a tight sphere of light-eating particulate shell that persists for just over a second during hard break turns. The shell collapses inbound illumination across visual and common sensor bands, which forces trackers to coast on stale data during their next sample. The interval is tuned for egress timing so the bubble appears, breaks lock confidence, and is gone before friendly optics are affected.
• Shadow-Ink Chemistry Package: The veil is formed from an alchemized soot that coagulates at ignition and then photobleaches on command. During bloom it drinks radiance across a wide spectrum while remaining non-reactive to engine exhaust and thruster wash. When the pulse expires, a quench tone disassembles the particulate into inert motes that leave no persistent cloud or sensor stain.
• Edge-Sheath Phase Band: Lignan-doped microcrystals create a refractive sheath along the bubble's rim so the veil bends returns around the craft instead of back into its own sensors. This stabilizes the edge profile at high roll rates and prevents cockpit glare or HUD washout. The phase band also softens specular spikes from weapons ports and bay lips, which keeps the bloom uniform.
• Veil-Wake Shear: Gravitic shear vanes tug a thin ribbon of shadow behind the bomber as the bubble collapses. That trailing wake corrupts doppler and ladar fit for a fraction of a second, causing pursuit fire to lead the wrong space even after the main bloom ends. The effect is subtle but repeatable, especially against fire-control that relies on short refresh cycles.
• Omen-Tick Timing Core: A hardened, deterministic oscillator inside the Sigil-Wire lattice gates capacitor release independent of external clocks or navigation feeds. The core rides internal kinematics and threat-rate cues, which means the veil triggers exactly on seeker refresh moments even under heavy jamming. Timing jitter remains low enough to straddle most guidance loop resets.
• Ember-Sink Purge Cycle: Ebonwell Thermal-RF Sink Couplers open the instant the veil drops, drawing residual heat and RF into tuned channels. A brief counter-pulse scatters remaining micro-soot away from the intake path so the bomber does not ingest its own veil. This housekeeping prevents signature spikes and keeps engine health uncompromised between repeated blooms.
• Ashen-Seal Projector Isolation: Each projector head rides on its own isolation stub tied to the Ashen-Seal grid. If a head is damaged by flak or arc flash, the stub trips and fences the fault before it can touch flight controls or magazines. Remaining heads continue to cycle with graceful degradation rather than total loss.
• Calibrated Bloom Geometry: Crews can select a micro-bloom radius between approximately thirty and eighty meters and choose aft-biased or lateral-biased shaping. Smaller, aft-tight blooms suit crowded formations and hangar sprints, while broader, lateral blooms favor knife-fight exits near heavy point-defense. Geometry presets are stored per aircraft to match squadron tactics.

• Target-Lock Breaker: By removing usable returns during a critical sample window, the Weave forces guidance to drop track or guess. Pursuit predictors lose valid lead and point-defense timing falters, giving the bomber a clean heartbeat to disappear off the solution.
• Spectral Suppression with Fast Cleanup: The soot drinks light and common sensor illumination while the photobleach quench guarantees the veil does not linger. The bomber gains the benefits of a deep shadow without dragging a plume that others can chase.
• Egress Control Without Heavy ECM: The Weave lowers profile and breaks lock quietly, which complements Kainate doctrine that values disciplined absence over noisy deception.
• Survivable Architecture: Projector isolation, fast sink purge, and edge-sheath protection keep the system safe under flak and heat. Even when damaged, the Weave remains partially available, so egress windows still exist under pressure.

• Force Nullification: In Force Nullification environments the soot binding and phase bias weaken. Blooms become thinner and shorter, and hardened seekers may ride through the shadow without losing confidence. Crews conserve charges in null and rely on pure kinematics until clear.
• Finite Duty Cycle and Consumables: Each bloom drains Hexphase banks and shadow-ink canisters that must be serviced between sorties. Rapid, repeated activations can saturate sinks and shorten bloom quality, and careless use risks momentary obscuration of wingmen if geometry is not selected correctly.

The Black Veil Egress Weave Mk. I was engineered to master the most lethal second of a bombing run, the instant when every tracker re-samples and every gun tries to burn the departing craft from the sky. It is the latest innovation out of Shadow Mind, built on the proven effects of the Black Veil Bomb Mk. I. Bloodsteel projectors flash a shell of shadow-ink around the Velakorr, much in the same way its unleashed in the bombs, the edge is held taut by phase-crystal bands, and gravitic vanes pull the bubble aft so the pilot's view remains clear. Within that heartbeat, seekers stare into noise, predictors lose faith in their lead, and the bomber has already rolled out on a new vector.

Chemistry, timing, and discipline define the system. The soot is a purpose-built particulate that comes alive at ignition and then obediently dissolves on the quench. The Omen-Tick core gates the release to the enemy's refresh rhythm, not to a clock they can jam. As the bloom falls, Ebonwell swallows heat and RF before a signature can form, and a thin wake of shaped shadow pulls pursuit fire offline for just long enough. If flak clips a projector, Ashen-Seal isolation fences the fault and the remaining heads keep working.

The Weave is not a cloak and not a cure-all. In null zones its binding weakens, and its banks and canisters are finite. What it provides is a repeatable, engineered absence that belongs to Sith craftwork: a second of absolute night in which the machine is exactly where the enemy cannot prove it is. For ships carrying it this second is the difference between a strike that ends with a tally and a strike that ends in fire.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

As always, amazing sub.

Approved.