Approved Tech Bloodhail Ordnance Conductor Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create an advanced Sith ordnance management and targeting system for Kainate starfighters and assault craft, enabling precise warhead sequencing, rapid cycling, and adaptive targeting logic.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Bloodhail Ordnance Conductor Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Framework
  • Obsidian Memory Lattice
  • Crystallite Targeting Nodes
  • Bloodsteel Conduction Filaments

• Ritual Targeting Nexus: A central guidance node engraved with a labyrinth of Sith runes and tuned to the ship's fire control systems. It compiles sensor data, predictive impact modeling, and targeting solutions into a single output stream, allowing the pilot to designate multiple targets and stagger salvos in precise intervals. This targeting information is updated in real-time, constantly recalibrating trajectories to exploit sudden openings in enemy formations.
• Seething Relay Racks: The Bloodhail integrates an armored ordnance carousel and auto-loader channels capable of rotating a full suite of warheads into firing position within seconds. Each launcher is slaved to the Conductor's control matrix, enabling the pilot to sequence high-speed salvo launches without manual intervention. When operating at maximum throughput, the racks emit a low, pulsing resonance, likened by Kainate crews to a heartbeat before the kill.
• Adaptive Homing Protocols: Every missile cued by the Bloodhail receives an encrypted command packet embedding the latest target vectors and evasion predictions. As the warhead approaches its mark, these packets can reprogram seeker heads mid-flight, pivoting guidance to track shifting targets or secondary objectives. This function is particularly effective when countering decoy dispersals or abrupt course changes.
• Sith Safeguard Layers: Fail safes etched into the core logic of the Bloodhail prevent sympathetic detonations, misfires, or accidental launch during violent maneuvers. The safeguards can override launch sequences if reactor output drops below safe thresholds, ensuring the vessel's survival takes precedence over ordnance expenditure.
• Aegis Command Interlocks: An embedded layer of hardened signal relays and anti-intrusion nodes, the Aegis Command Interlocks continuously verify the integrity of warhead control signals against external override attempts. When hostile deactivation commands, such as those from a missile deactivation transmitter, are detected, the interlocks trigger a failsafe cipher rotation, re-arming the ordnance and severing any unauthorized control handshake. This system can also deploy decoy command packets to confuse or overwhelm enemy transmitters, ensuring that munitions remain active through the terminal phase of flight.

• Total Ordnance Mastery: The Bloodhail allows the pilot to manage large volumes of warheads simultaneously, coordinating launch timings, target assignments, and mid-course corrections with exceptional precision. Even in chaotic engagements, the system maintains a clear hierarchy of target priorities and load sequencing, removing the burden of micromanagement.
• Rapid Cycling and Reload: Seething Relay Racks can cycle fresh ordnance into position faster than most conventional autoloaders. This advantage enables Sith pilots to maintain overwhelming offensive pressure, saturating point-defense grids with relentless salvos.
• Dynamic Seeker Adaptation: The Adaptive Homing Protocols ensure that even if an enemy deploys countermeasures, every missile can recalculate its path in-flight. This significantly improves hit probability against evasive or jamming equipped vessels.
• Resilience to Conventional Missile Deactivation: The Bloodhail's Aegis Command Interlocks make it exceptionally difficult for enemy vessels to neutralize missiles via conventional deactivation transmitters. Even advanced countermeasures must contend with layered encryption handshakes and decoy command loops, forcing adversaries to rely on hard-kill point defense rather than remote override.

• Thermal Load Accumulation: The ordnance racks and relay channels generate intense heat when launching repeated volleys. If cooling cycles are ignored, the system may enter forced cooldown or trigger automated shutdown to prevent damage.
• Force Nullification: While primarily mechanical and computational, the Bloodhail's runic targeting lattice can be partially disrupted by Force nullification fields. In such conditions, the predictive targeting logic loses accuracy, requiring manual correction or simpler fire modes.

The Bloodhail Ordnance Conductor Mk. I was born of the Kainate's unrelenting pursuit of total battlefield control. During the protracted campaigns of the Shadow Armada, Sith tacticians observed that even the most advanced starfighter hulls and devastating weapon arrays were constrained by a single limitation: the pilot's ability to manage ordnance under fire. Conventional fire control suites could not keep pace with the Kainate's doctrinal emphasis on saturating defenses with coordinated, adaptive salvos.

Determined to solve this, the Shadow Mind convened a conclave of alchemists, engineers, and combat analysts beneath the depths of Malsheem. Their goal: create a system that could not only manage every warhead in a fighter's arsenal, but also anticipate enemy maneuvers, adapt in real time, and reload faster than any conventional solution. The result was the Bloodhail, a lattice of crystallite targeting nodes woven through a reinforced Sarrassian iron framework, all guided by a predatory intelligence as cold as the void itself.

The Bloodhail was first tested aboard Kainate starfighters assigned to the infamous assault on the Xolaro Wastes. Pilots reported that it felt as though the ship itself had become an extension of their will, missiles launching in precise sequence, seeker heads pivoting toward new victims without a thought, and fresh ordnance sliding into place before the last contrail had faded. In less than an hour, a fortified convoy was reduced to drifting wreckage, testimony to the power of a unified mind guiding an arsenal without pause.

Yet the system's brilliance comes with consequence. Each overtaxed cycle raises heat until cooling grids strain to maintain integrity. Even so, for those who accept the discipline and cost, the Bloodhail Ordnance Conductor offers the ultimate weapon: a means to turn an entire starfighter's payload into a single, unstoppable assault, delivered with the precision only the Sith can claim.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

This one is cool too!

Approved.