Romi Jade
Braze moved to the holo table and brought up his Welcome Mat project, the same one he had previously given to Miss Jade.
PROJECT WELCOME MAT
Designation: Blackwall Access Study
Status: Ongoing Analysis
Summary
The Blackwall is a layered border defense integrating fleet interdiction, hyperspace disruption, Force-regulated navigation, and total information lockdown.
Unauthorized approach frequently results in interception or loss.
Stormseeds maintain a volatile navigation environment. Stable routes exist only where passage is sanctioned. Entry typically requires approved corridors, direct authorization, or possession of a Waystone aligned to Sith pathing.
Access is determined by recognition.
The
Intergalactic Trade Network, built by
Locke and Key Mechanics in partnership with the
Trans-Galactic Partnership, compresses transit time between participating systems and channels movement through controlled hubs.
Circumvention Capabilities Under Study
Transit Authentication Emulation
Operational concept: Convince the door you belong.
Replicates the clearance profile used by authorized vessels. If the border expects a recognized signature, the system attempts to reproduce it.
Authorized passage relies on recognition objects: keyed vessels, Waystones, or Sith pathfinding instruments that carry an identity accepted by the border architecture. The method in question studies how the system determines something belongs.
Recovered examples in my custody provide reference material in the forms of ships that have been granted passage through the wall and are keyed for such. Each device broadcasts identifying signals and permissions. The system reads these markers to decide whether passage is allowed.
The objective is replication without original ownership. These traits can be reproduced; a fabricated token may be interpreted as legitimate traffic. The wall is not overcome; it is satisfied.
In practical terms: produce something the gate believes it recognizes as a pass key.
Localized Force Suppression
Operational concept: Move quietly enough to pass unnoticed.
Reduces the detectability of ship and crew within regions monitored through Force attunement.
Certain materials derived from the
Hollowite stone produce a null field comparable in effect to ysalamiri phenomena. Inside the radius, Force interaction fails rather than distorts. The effect behaves as Force-environmental silence.
Observed properties include:
- Continuous emission. The aura remains active unless the source is fully sealed within appropriate containment.
- Extreme rarity of viable material.
- Force-sensitives perceive the absence and may treat it as a warning sign.
- Abilities weaken near the boundary and cease closer to the source.
- Greater mass produces wider coverage.
Operational intent is penetration. The null field prevents Force phenomena from manifesting within its radius. Where the material is present, the sustaining influence of the barrier cannot function.
Sections of the storm that rely on continuous Force expression would therefore fail locally, opening a transient corridor through otherwise impassable regions.
Node Transit Structures
Operational concept: Arrive where no door exists.
Develops
independent insertion pathways that bypass sanctioned corridors and do not require authorization.
Research explores fixed nodes linked through prepared attunements, allowing displacement of a vessel or personnel between two anchored locations. Concepts draw upon known applications of Force translation, spatial folding, and ritualized transfer methods. Movement would occur by transition rather than traversal, avoiding the border entirely.
Reference Links
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Braze let the display settle for a moment, pale light washing across his features before he glanced back toward Miss Jade.
“I have in my possession a ship keyed with access signatures that allows travel between controlled points. Conveniently, I believe the
Mud Duck can fit through the network gates.”
His fingers moved over the controls, shifting a few lines of data across the holo surface.
“I copied those signatures onto another vessel I acquired and used them to reach the Citadel, where I convened with
Darth Carnifex
.”
He tapped another line, isolating the transit lattice and the flow of commercial routes pressing toward Sith space.
“The ITN, provided by
John Locke
, offers a strong commercial traffic framework and movement through the hypergate system to arrive near Sith territory. Ship size restrictions do apply, but operatives can be moved through it with relative ease. He is fairly reasonable and would likely be a useful person, or service, to work through if the goal is getting someone across.”
Braze’s gaze dropped back to the projection, thoughtful and measured.
“I have acquired a few sets of codes. What I did, using a ship someone stole from the Sith, was spoof the access signatures and transfer them onto another stolen vessel; in that case, a Skipray Blastboat.”
He drew two fingers through the air, overlaying one signal pattern atop another.
“I simply decoded the algorithm used in authorized ship signatures and reproduced something comparable to a Sith wayfinder, keyed for the same purpose.”
His hand lowered at last, and the room fell quiet save for the low hum of the table.
“The wall does not always need to be broken. Sometimes it only needs to be convinced you belong.”
