Approved Tech Blightburst Torpedo Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create a specialized corrosion warhead for Kainate starfighters and strike craft, designed to disable enemy systems and compromise hull integrity through alchemical corrosive dispersal.
• Image Source:
  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Blightburst Torpedo Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Casing
  • Bloodsteel Internal Baffles
  • Sith Alchemical Corrosive Compound Core
  • Reinforced Obsidian Alloy Seals

• Alchemical Corrosive Payload: The warhead houses a pressurized canister of engineered corrosion agents derived from Sith alchemical refining processes. Upon detonation, the payload ruptures outward in a directed dispersal cone, spraying surfaces with a volatile compound that eats through most known durasteel and composite hull materials in seconds. This effect is particularly effective at disabling exposed turrets, power conduits, or structural braces.
• Void Echo Residue: After dispersal, the chemical cloud leaves behind a lingering haze of corrosive particulate that continues to degrade surfaces for up to thirty seconds. Ships or stations struck by the Blightburst often require emergency containment protocols to prevent further structural weakening.
• Dark Disruption Field: Integrated micro-runic emitters activate during dispersal, releasing a low-frequency energy wave that briefly scrambles local targeting sensors and creates ghost readings on short-range scanners. This effect is designed to mask follow-up attacks during the confusion.

• Severe Corrosive Damage: The Blightburst's chemical payload can rapidly strip away hull plating, neutralize exposed weapons, and compromise airlocks or hangar doors. Even partial exposure weakens armor enough to make targets more vulnerable to subsequent fire.
• Area Denial Utility: The residual corrosive cloud can persist in the impact zone, effectively denying access to repair teams or boarding parties for critical moments. This allows Kainate forces to exploit breaches without immediate countermeasures.
• Electronic Disruption: The built-in disruption field momentarily scrambles scanners and targeting feeds, buying precious seconds for Sith pilots to reposition or mask their attack vector.

• Limited Blast Radius: Unlike conventional explosive warheads, the Blightburst's damage is confined to the area directly coated by the corrosive agent. Targets outside the dispersal cone remain largely unaffected.
• Short-Lived Cloud: While potent, the corrosive cloud dissipates quickly in open vacuum or high-atmosphere environments, reducing effectiveness if not used at close range.
• Force Nullification Susceptibility: In areas affected by Force Nullification, the Blightburst's disruption field loses potency. Without this energy pulse, targeting sensors and scanner arrays remain fully operational, allowing defenders to maintain lock-on and coordinate countermeasures without interference.
  
  

Forged in the vaulted manufactories beneath the Malsheem, the Blightburst Torpedo Mk. I reflects the Kainate's philosophy that destruction should not only be immediate but should deny the enemy any chance to recover. Where plasma torpedoes burn and concussion missiles shatter, the Blightburst seeps and corrodes, unmaking both steel and confidence in a single seething cloud.

Development of this warhead began after Kainate tacticians observed that conventional bombardments often left critical systems intact long enough for defenders to organize repairs or counterassaults. In response, Shadow Mind engineers devised a dispersal mechanism capable of pressurizing and projecting a dense mist of alchemical corrosion compounds. These agents were inspired by ancient Sith plagues that dissolved armor and scorched battlefields, refined for modern deployment and controlled release.

The Blightburst does not explode in a traditional sense. Instead, it splits along pre-stressed seams, releasing its payload in a directed arc that clings to surfaces and immediately begins to digest them. On impact, decks and hull sections buckle and darken, their internal structure flaking away into a pitted ruin. Secondary systems often fail as conduits and sensor relays are eaten from within.

Though the warhead requires care in transport and handling, Sith pilots prize it for its unique role: a tool not only of damage but of lasting sabotage. In the moments after impact, while alarms shriek and emergency bulkheads seal, the Blightburst leaves its mark, a spreading wound that no enemy easily forgets.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

As usual, amazing! I'd like to ask you to add the usual Force suppression/nullification weakness to the weaknesses.

 

[Darth Prazutis]

MANIAC Done!

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

Thank you!

Approved.