Approved Ranged Weapon Cataclysm Axial Lance Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create an axial beam cannon for Kainate tactical bombers and elite assault craft, delivering devastating localized damage to capital ships and space stations through dark beam technology.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Cataclysm Axial Lance Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron
  • Bloodwrought Plating Internal Housing and Insulation
  • Bled Kyberite Conductor Array
  • Bloodhowl Crystal Matrix
  • Bloodsteel Wiring Veins

• Classification: Axial Beam Cannon
• Size: Large
• Weight: Heavy
• Ammunition Type: Vessel-core integrated energy, channeled through kyberite arrays and Bloodhowl crystal resonance
• Ammunition Capacity: Small
• Effective Range: Battlefield
• Rate of Fire: Very Low
• Damage Output: Very High
• Recoil: None

• Blight Charged Beam: The Lance emits a concentrated beam of crimson energy infused with virulent Sith blight, an alchemized corruption designed to unravel physical cohesion at the molecular level. Upon contact, this energy scorches hull plating, sears through dense composite armor, and triggers internal resonance collapse. Rather than exploding targets, the beam corrupts them from within, causing once-solid alloys to rot, warp, and implode under stress. Against capital ship hulls or fortified emplacements, it delivers a localized plague of entropy, slow, surgical, and irreversible.
• Kyberite Blight Conduit Core: At the core of the weapon lies a shattered kyberite cluster, scarified by Sith ritual and bound in blood-conducting circuitries. This core does not merely channel energy, it infects it. Through pain-tuned modulation anchored to Kainate command signatures, the core transmutes reactor-fed power into a howling discharge of weaponized malevolence. Each blast carries not only brute force but encoded agony, giving the weapon its infamous shriek and its capacity to sear through sanity as well as steel.
• Bloodhowl Crystal Matrix: Set along the length of the internal barrel in armored conduction filaments, these dark-forged crystals serve as amplifiers of psychic anguish. Born from Sith alchemical rites and bathed in battlefield suffering, the Bloodhowl Crystals resonate with torment, literal screams trapped in crystal form. When the weapon fires, the matrix releases this psychic pressure in a sub-audible scream that disorients sensors, overwhelms targeting relays, and causes unshielded crews to experience nausea, vertigo, or panic. The matrix's harmonic feedback ensures that each shot is not just a physical attack, but a spiritual violation.
• Harmonic Breach Focusing Array: Forgoing crude singularity compression, the beam is shaped and intensified through a series of force bound bled kyberite rings and ritual convergence lenses. These finely tuned components collapse and narrow the beam into a surgical cutting lance, one attuned to the vibrational frequency of armor composites and power conduits. Rather than brute-force vaporization, it employs harmonic disintegration, shattering defensive cohesion by creating microscopic instability waves that ripple through the target's mass, bypassing conventional plating, carving through to destroy from within. This method of breach leaves no cauterization, only unraveling ruin.

• Capital-Class Breach Weapon: While not capable of obliterating ships in a single strike, the Cataclysm Axial Lance excels in surgical devastation. Its focused beam is ideal for breaching hardened compartments and weakening areas, such as shield generators, targeting arrays, or internal hangar decks. With a single well-placed shot, it can cripple critical systems, leave vessels open to follow-up strikes, or disrupt formation integrity in a fleet engagement.
• Blight-Infused Impact: The energy released by the Lance is not simply destructive, it's corruptive. Laced with Sith blight and amplified by pain-tuned kyberite, the beam continues to erode molecular cohesion even after initial contact. This lingering energy plague can cause hull plating to warp, stress points to fracture, and insulation layers to rot, creating cascading failures long after the shot has passed.
• Psychic Disruption Field: Upon activation, the weapon radiates a low, predatory scream, part audible, part psychic, that distorts comm frequencies, sensor fidelity, and battlefield awareness. To nearby enemies, it's a soul-rattling wail that masks the beam's charge and trajectory until mere moments before impact. Weaker crews may experience momentary disorientation, targeting delay, or even full psychological recoil, amplifying the weapon's terror factor in combat.

• Extremely Low Rate of Fire: The Lance is not a rapid-fire weapon, but a ritual engine of destruction. Each shot demands complete harmonic alignment, kyberite attunement, and energy synchronization across dozens of systems ensuring each shot is carefully placed by vessels containing the lance. These steps cannot be rushed.
• Force Nullification: The Lance's operation is deeply tied to Sith rites and Sith systems, particularly the Bloodhowl crystal matrix and kyberite harmonics, which rely on ambient dark side resonance to stabilize and focus the beam. When under Force Nullification, the weapon's ritual bindings falter. Targeting becomes erratic, the beam may disperse prematurely, or the weapon may experience a weakened charge process.

The Cataclysm Axial Lance Mk. I is the apex of Kainate precision weaponry, an axial beam cannon designed to dismantle them piece by piece. It represents an evolution in brute force beam cannons of the past, evolving instead into a Sith aligned instrument of surgical, ritualized destruction. It is an advancement in the Kainate's alchemical pursuits.

Forged in the dark depths of Malsheem by the Shadow Mind, the Lance harnesses a corrupted core of kyberite shards, ritually scarred and bonded through alchemical pain-weaving. Bound within an arcane lattice of Bloodhowl crystals, the weapon converts raw energy into a concentrated stream of crimson radiance, blight-charged, psychically resonant, and horrifying to behold. Its scream can be felt in the soul before the beam is even seen.

Firing the Lance is an ordeal in itself. The host vessel must reroute power away from defensive systems and allow the beam's harmonic focusing array to collapse energy through Force bound kyberite lenses. The discharge that follows is an anguish tuned blade, piercing reinforced bunkers, weapons hardpoints, and reactor walls with devastating efficiency. Even the hardest armor experiences agony at the corrosive touch of the lance. The beam is less a thermal burn and more a molecular unmaking, exploiting resonance frequencies to tear matter apart.

However, such power comes at a cost. The system is slow it cannot fire in rapid succession; each shot must be carefully placed and purposeful. Furthermore, it is bound to the darkness, its power derived not from science alone, but from the suffering and ritual attunement of the Sith and their dark technology within. When under Force Nullification where those bindings are severed, the Lance weakens, losing its renowned efficiency until removed from such fields.

More than a weapon, the Cataclysm Axial Lance is a declaration. A single blast can silence a starfighter bay, sever a corridor, or blind a capital ship's sensor suite, carving doom into the hull of ships and priming them for execution. In the hands of a Kainate tactical bomber, it becomes a scalpel of ruination designed to carve judgment into the bones of giants.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

As usual, amazing sub.

Approved.