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For a Sword[Forging Thread]

Valik

Professor of Alchemy
Valik awoke to his lab on Korriban. Though he was previously stationed on Dromund Kaas, he thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere of Korriban. The old Sith tombs, the old Sith Tech, the scrolls of magic and alchemised swords all lying about. At least for those brave or stupid enough to brave the depths and beasts hidden in the tombs. Speaking of magics, alchemy, and Sith Tech, Valik was supposed to get an order today. He rose from his bed, put on the least ragged clothes he could fin, then checked his datapad for an order.

Requisition Order: Mass Produceable Sith Sword

It seemed Vibroblades weren't enough anymore. Valik opened the req order and looked inside. It had no further instructions, only a deadline and what they wanted the cost of production to be. A few hours of alchemizing per sword along with the normal components.. Valik smiled. It was no simple order. In all honesty, for anyone with a talent for Alchemy making a "Sith Sword" was an easy, although tedious process. The materials weren't exactly something you could just buy off the shelf, but with Dromund Kaas, Korriban, and Ziost all being Sith Territory the supplies were easier to obtain than was normally possible.

Valik began mapping out the process of making a sword with Sith Alchemy, and initially found the task as impossible. At least if one were to build a normal sword. So then, the task was to make an abnormal sword that worked as well the average one. How could he drastically reduce the materials needed while still keeping functionality?
 

Valik

Professor of Alchemy
After a couple of hours the answer became obvious to Valik. So obvious that he nearly kicked himself for not realizing it sooner. An entire sword took a while to alchemize, but alchemizing individual shards of metal was relatively quick and easy. Better surface area to volume ratio and less metal to deal with in the first place were the primary reasons. So, Valik's new plan, in essence, was to effectively bind a bunch of small pieces of alchemized metal and put in them in a chain. The chain would be attached to a rod, the 'inside' of the sword so to speak, and then a motor contained in the handle would make the chain filled with Sith Alchemized metal rotate at high velocities, similar to a vibroblade.

Valik spent the rest of the night sketching various designs and shapes of how to fit the motor in the handle, what the most efficient shape of the blades would be both from a combat and production standpoint, and contemplated how "mass-produced" such an item would really be. Valik expected to fall short of "mass-produced", but making one for every officer and melee specialist was actually pretty feasible considering the Empire's current resources and funding. Normally falling short of the mission parameters was unacceptable for a scientist of the Sith, but Valik had learned they gave Valik the most impossible circumstances they could, so even if he failed he would give them the best results possible. They would more than pleased with his design.
 

Valik

Professor of Alchemy
Valik found that it took him approximately one hour and seventeen minutes to alchemise the teeth for one blade. A little longer than he had hoped for, but the empire had a few alchemists. If ten alchemists could fill five chains a day then the empire could build nearly over 1500 in a month, which would be more than enough.

Valik attached the chain to a motor, and then spent about a half an hour configuring the motor to take the energy pack of a blaster rifle as a power source. The energy pack had enough juice to sustain the motor for nearly a lifetime, as instead of forming a bolt of pure energy and throwing it hundreds of meters all it had to do was turn a gear at high velocities. Valik had to make sure it wouldn't go too fast, as otherwise the blade would be too unwieldily.

After spending the next few hours putting the parts together, a process to be done later in a factory, Valik raised up his new blade. It was heavy, especially considering Valik's less than formidable strength, but at just at 3 kilograms it should be usable by Sith Melee Troopers. If Mandalorian Beskad's were two kilos, then the Sith Soldiers could use a three kilo blade Valik reasoned. It's time to test this baby out. Valik thought to himself as he turned the machine on, making the chain, and thus his little Sith Alchemized teeth, buzz and whir, completing several hundreds of revolutions a minute. Valik struggled to turn the machine off before he fell forward and cut his floor from the force generated, and barely managed to stop it. Perhaps pursuing physical strength had it's uses after all. Valik thought for only a moment, then discarded such foolishness. The mind was a far greater power than strength, and Valik had proven it with his creation here.

Valik took out his datapad and sent copies of the schematics and instructions to the Empire. A few Sith Alchemists could make the teeth and Sienar Army Systems could easily manufacture the rest parts he used for the motor, hilt, 'inner blade'(which was really just a gear used to the turn the saw), and together his creation would be expensive, but still semi-mass produceable.

Good work. Valik received a message back as he checked his datapad, nothing more, nothing less. But it was not the appreciation of the Empire that fueled Valik to work, but the work itself that brought him satisfaction.
 

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