Approved Tech Erebus Vivarium Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To create a state-of-the-art Sith hyperbaric/regen chamber combining advanced life-support, alchemical healing, and dark-side assisted regeneration for wounded Kainate personnel.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Erebus Vivarium Mk. I
• Modularity: Yes
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  
  • Pyroclast Alloy Heat-Lining
  • Bloodsteel Filament Conduits
  • Crucivane Structural Ribs
  • Hemophage Conductor Web
  • Synth-Tissue Beds and Nanoweave Dressings

• Pressurized Life-Sea: A sealed, hyper-pressurized chamber that combines super-oxygenation with microplasma infusion and alchemized nutrient mists, accelerates tissue repair by stabilizing cellular matrices while the Hemophage web draws minimal ambient life-energy to catalyze growth. In practice, burns knit faster, grafts take more readily, and hemorrhage is stilled within a single session.
• Hemophage Conductor Weave: A lattice of Bloodsteel-threaded microfilaments that gently siphons excess trauma energy and redirects it into controlled regenerative pulses. This conductor does not "steal" life to kill, it converts raw suffering and system entropy into focused repair energy, fueling sutures, clot formation, and cellular reconstitution. It can be inverted to do the opposite, and drain life until nothing remains.
• Runic Biostitch Array: Etched Pyroclast sigils project nanoscopic stitching fields that encourage scar tissue to align along stress lines, reducing adhesions and improving long-term mobility. These arrays also act as ritual anchors permitting a limited level of dark-side attunement to accelerate recovery when administered by a trained alchemarch or Sith surgeon.
• Somatic Resynchronizer: A neural interface that rephases damaged motor and sensory maps while the subject remains sedated. For force attuned or cybernetically augmented patients this can restore coherence to prosthetics, rebind synaptic grafts, and purge short-term neural shock.
• Breath of the Abyss Module: The Vivarium can create a contained, concentrated Ashes of Malachor, and Bota infused air pocket (safely contained in Pyroclast), allowing certain scarred, weakened patients, or those whose lungs are compromised, to draw breaths without mechanical respirators, and strengthen Force Users force abilities. This is short, risky, and ritual-dependent, but invaluable for stabilization.
• Adaptive Thermal Matrix: The chamber's core uses Pyroclast's temperature-reactive properties to modulate heat precisely at wound sites, warming to promote perfusion, then drawing heat to harden dressings when needed.
• Shadow Mind Sync: When networked to a Shadow Mind node, the Vivarium can share anonymized healing telemetry, create biologic templates of ideal recoveries, and invoke patterned ritual sequences that improve outcomes across other Vivaria.

• Rapid Triage & Regeneration: Significantly reduces time to stable condition for severe burns, deep tissue trauma, and nerve grafting when compared to conventional hyperbaric units.
• Multi-Domain Utility: Functions as emergency battlefield triage, long-term surgical suite, and neural rehab station, suitable for hangar bays, medical cathedrals, or flagship infirmaries.
• Synergy with Sith Techniques: When operated by a trained alchemarch or medic, the Vivarium's runic arrays and Hemophage conductor raise success rates of grafts, prosthetics, and complex biomending.
• Integrated Containment: Self-sanitizing, hermetic, and able to isolate infectious or energetic taints (short term) via pyrogenic purge cycles and Bloodsteel filters.
• Controlled Life-Energy Harvest: The chamber can harvest extremely small, regulated amounts of vitality from sacrificial mediums (ritual feedstock) to jumpstart repairs, permitting miracles that inert tech cannot match, useful when conventional energy stores are low.

• Force Nullification: When placed under Force Nullification, the Vivarium's ritual anchors and Breath of the Abyss module fail; regenerative rates collapse to those just beyond that of a conventional hyperbaric unit.
• Ethical & Psychological Cost: Use of Hemophage conduction and ritual feedstock requires suffering or sacrifice to reach peak performance; prolonged dependence corrodes the patient's psyche and can create addiction to the chamber's effects.
• Ritual Maintenance: Runic plates and Bloodsteel filaments require periodic re-activation via sacrificial temper-cycles and alchemical tuning, if neglected, efficacy falls and the chamber can produce scarred or malformed tissue.

Forged within the darkest wings of Malsheem's depths, the Erebus Vivarium Mk. I was commissioned by the Shadow Hand to give the Kainate an edge no mundane navy could replicate: the capacity to return broken warriors to the fight faster, to re-stitch shattered corpses into instruments of war, and to preserve assets that would otherwise be lost. Once more the Shadow Mind came throuh with what would become known as the Erebus Vivarium Mk. I. Where normal hyperbarics simply stabilized breath and patched burns, the Vivarium rewrites biology under pressure and ritual; it is as much a surgical cathedral as a lifesaving device, a place where technology and sacrament collapse into the same terrible purpose.

A patient slides into the capsule on a synth-tissue bed, the door seals, pressure rises, and a faint low harmonic begins, not audible so much as felt, a calibrating heartbeat the runic array reads and leans upon. Oxygen and alchemical nutrient mists flood tissue while the Hemophage conductor threads its microfilaments into damaged vasculature, converting trauma into focused repair pulses. Pyroclast sigils crackle as the Runic Biostitch Array projects microscopic seams that guide scar formation along stress lines, and the Somatic Resynchronizer links to motor centers and neuroprosthetic nodes, aligning signals and encouraging graft integration; when lungs are destroyed the Breath of the Abyss module can be invoked by a certified operator to provide a sequence of Force-tolerant air so repair can begin where ordinary respirators would fail.

Aboard a Kainate vessel, Vivaria are triage anchors: pilots are repaired and returned in hours rather than days, limb grafts that would have failed hold fast, and Force-scarred agents once judged liabilities are reborn as operational assets. The Shadow Mind harvests and integrates vivarium telemetry into fleet-wide healing templates, raising success rates across vessels; in forward hospitals the Vivarium's existence alters behavior, soldiers take greater risks because return is possible, and captors can be "healed" into obedience. The machine is therefore both practical medicine and strategic leverage: A morale tool, a force-multiplier, and a coercive engine.

The Vivarium's miracles come with ritual cost. Its Hemophage conductor performs best when fed ritual feedstock or ambient agony, and the Pyroclast runes must be periodically re-tempered to prevent lattice collapse; neglected, the system yields malformed or scarred outcomes. Psychologically, those who pass through the chamber often carry marks of treatment, phantom burns, synesthetic memories of the chamber's hum or the taste of pressure, small residues the Kainate can treat as talismans of devotion or use as levers of control. Practically, Force Nullification blunt the Vivarium's ritual anchors and collapse its accelerated rates to just above conventional hyperbaric performance.

Deployed variants reflect those limits and uses: the Fleet Vivarium Mk. I is hardened for carrier bays and flagship infirmaries with enhanced containment and moderate throughput; the Field Crucible Mk. I is mobile with reduced capacity and optimized triage; the Ritual Hallow Mk. I is a stationary large scale unit reserved for sanctums, able to perform extended ritual runs and large-scale healing and neural reconditioning when resources allow. Survivors treated in the Vivarium often declare they "heard" engines in their bones, a deserter haunted by memory residue, a Shadow Mind template that requires the blood of a noble house as catalyst, or a Vivarium whose success becomes political leverage.

Erebus Vivarium Mk. I is intentionally dreadful: a medical miracle for the Kainate that carries with it ritual upkeep, moral cost, and a clear vulnerability to Force-nullification. It is a tool of resurrection that leaves traces, debts, and stories in its wake.

 

[Krass Wyms]

Darth Prazutis

Nicely made

Approved