Approved Tech Dravath-pattern Agony Throne Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To create a dedicated Sith interrogation / information-extraction apparatus for Kainate vessels, installations, etc that thematically aligned with the Vhaldris Eternity Cage and Zalath Stasis Crucible.
• Image Source:
  • Click - ChatGPT by Me
  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source: N/A

• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Dravath-pattern Agony Throne Mk. I
• Modularity: Yes - Sensory input modules, chemical delivery rigs, and certain rune sub-arrays can be swapped for species-specific or mission-specific packages; the core neural lattice, Suppression halo, and restraint frame are fixed.
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Reinforced Crucivane and Woundforged Plating
  • Sith Blackstone Core
  • Bloodsteel Conduit Lattice
  • Crucivane and Woundforged Plating
  • Umbraplast Shielding Plates
  • Qazûr Weave Inlay
  • Internal Sith Rune Matrices

• Tri-Axis Restraint Frame: Multi-point locking restraints at wrists, biceps, ankles, throat, and torso; can tighten to immobilize even enhanced or non-standard anatomies. Microscopic barbs and shock nodes prevent leverage escapes.
• Force Suppression Halo: A crown-like emitter array behind and above the head generates a localized anti-coherence field around the subject's mind and upper spine, blunting concentration and disrupting Force channeling without fully nullifying the environment.
• Dravath Pain-Web: Layered Bloodsteel conduits and Qazûr glyphs in the armrests, seat, and spine column project controlled arcs of pain, ranging from needling nerve-fire to whole-body agony, without automatically causing permanent physical damage.
• Neural Echo Harvester: Sith Blackstone core and Qazûr Weave "listen" to the subject's neural activity. Surface thoughts, emotional spikes, and fragmented memories can be skimmed, recorded, and replayed as ghost-echoes for interrogators or linked scry-lenses.
• Memory Flaying Circuit: Using focused pulses through the halo and pain-web, interrogators can "pluck" specific memories and force the subject to relive them in heightened detail, looping or distorting them to break resistance.
• Perception Cage Suite: Integrated holo-projectors, sonic emitters, and olfactory injectors combine with minor illusion glyphs to fabricate entire sensory scenarios, mock executions, drowning, burial alive, re-enacted failures, or false rescues.
• Micro-Stasis Lock: A low-grade temporal drag field can partially slow the subject's perception of time while sessions continue at normal pace externally, stretching minutes into hours for the captive.
• Eternity / Zalath Integration Ports: Standardized hardpoints and runic couplings allow direct link-up with Vhaldris Eternity Cages or Zalath Stasis Crucibles, prisoners can be transferred in or out while remaining under continuous suppression and monitoring.
• Warden Safeguards & Kill-Switches: Remote lockout, emergency sedation injectors, and lethal overload options are built into each throne, ensuring that in the event of a breach, the subject can be silenced permanently rather than allowed to escape.

• Purpose-Built Breaker: Combines physical immobilization, targeted Force-suppression, and psychological warfare to crack even highly trained Jedi or Sith, especially when used in conjunction with Vhaldris/Zalath systems.
• Precision Torture Without Automatic Mutilation: Pain-web and memory circuits are finely tunable, allowing interrogators to push subjects to the edge repeatedly without necessarily destroying the body, ideal for long, drawn-out extraction campaigns.
• Deep Cognitive Access: Neural echo harvesting and memory flaying provide crude but effective pathways into a captive's mind, enabling cross-checkable intel (emotional spikes, imagery, recurring names/places) even before verbal confession.
• Doctrinal Integration: Built to dovetail with the Kainate's broader prison architecture. Movement between Eternity Cages, Zalath Crucibles, and Dravath Thrones keeps high-value prisoners under uninterrupted control.

• Force Nullification: Requires a stable, high-output power feed and dark-side saturation. When exposed to Force Nullification the effectiveness of the throne is drastically reduced.
• Morality: Cruelty is forged into the very fabric of what a Crucible is. Designed to both contain and torture inhabitants locked within, there is no doubt to most galactic governments this is an abomination of creation.
• Sith Technology: Forged through a distinctive blend of advanced dark technology and alchemy, this creation is uniquely Sith and Kainate in origin. It can only be forged and maintained in environments conducive to handling its needs.
• Overzealous Operators = Broken Assets: Improper use of the memory flaying and perception cage suites can render prisoners catatonic, incoherent, or permanently dissociated, useless for further interrogation or political display.

The Dravath-pattern Agony Throne Mk. I was designed for a simple purpose. Where the Vhaldris Eternity Cage and Zalath Stasis Crucible hold prisoners, the Throne breaks them.

Darth Prazutis conceived the Dravath pattern after a series of campaigns left him with enemies who would not yield under conventional methods, Jedi Masters who could compartmentalize their fear, Sith defectors hardened by years of back-stabbing politics, and warlords whose sense of self was welded to entire worlds. Merely inflicting pain was inefficient, information had to be peeled from them, their narratives dismantled one memory at a time.

The Throne looks, at a glance, like a monolithic chair grown from obsidian. The seat and back are slabs of Sith Blackstone veined with Bloodsteel, carved with spiraling glyphs that suggest hourglasses, open eyes, and shackled hearts. Restraint bands fold out from hidden recesses, clamping wrists, arms, ankles, and throat into place. Behind the head, a segmented halo unfolds with a soft, insectile click, its inner surface lined with faintly glowing sigils and tiny, needle-like projection nodes.

Once a captive is secured, the Dravath Throne begins by denying them control. The suppression halo blunts their ability to focus, the pain-web "reminds" their nerves that defiance carries a cost. But unlike crude torture rigs, the Throne is listening as much as it is hurting. The Qazûr inlays and Blackstone core capture neural echoes, flickers of imagery, names that spike adrenaline, half-formed emotional responses. Interrogators can review and replay these echoes, matching them against questioning and adjusting their line of attack accordingly.

When direct questions fail, the perception cage suite is brought fully online. Sounds, smells, and ghostly images seep into the captive's awareness: the creak of a starship strain before explosion, the scent of a childhood home burning, the faces of allies screaming or turning away in disgust. With a gesture at the control console, the interrogator can loop one moment, the failure, the fear, the guilt, until the subject's resistance begins to crumble and their need to correct the narrative spills into confession.

The Throne's micro-stasis lock serves as the final twist of the knife. Sessions that last an hour outside may stretch into half a day of relentless pressure for the prisoner. They are never permitted to disassociate fully, their body cannot move, but their awareness is kept painfully sharp, cycling between jabs of pain, crushing emotional reliving, and the thin, poisonous hope that a true answer might buy them even a few minutes of merciful silence.

In practice, prisoners destined for the Dravath pattern are cycled between containment and interrogation. Suspended in a Vhaldris Eternity Cage or Zalath Stasis Crucible, then brought, still suppressed and disoriented, to the Throne for extraction, before being sealed away again. Escape is nearly unthinkable without outside intervention, even if a captive somehow overcomes the chair's restraints, they still sit at the heart of a room designed entirely around their helplessness.

Among Kainate personnel, the Agony Throne is spoken of with the same mixture of respect and dread as the Eternity Cage and Zalath Crucible. For enemies of the Shadow Hand, its name has begun to spread in fearful whispers: Dravath, the place where resistance is not merely punished, but painstakingly unwoven until nothing is left but obedience, madness, or silence.

 

[Krass Wyms]

Nicely made

Approved