Unreviewed Force-Resistant Kestrisaur Leather

[Sahan Dragr]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create a specialized form of treated Kestrisaur hide that retains a limited portion of the animal's physiological Force-dead properties for use as a material in future Factory submissions.
• Image Source: N/A
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source:
  • Gaht'yc Kuryida'edee | Kestrisaur
  • Kuryida Edee

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Sahan Dragr & Kyr'bes Buy'ce
• Affiliation: Sahan Dragr ; Clan Dragr; Kyr'bes Buy'ce; The Iron Covenant
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Force-Resistant Kestrisaur Leather
• Modularity: No. The finished leather can be cut, layered, stitched, dyed, or otherwise incorporated into equipment in the same manner as conventional leather, but the material itself is not modular.
• Production: Semi-Unique
• Material: Properly harvested Kestrisaur hide, specialized non-reactive tanning and preservation compounds.

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Treated biological leather
• Color: Naturally pale, grey, or brown; may be dyed. Sections may retain the Kestrisaur's white or grey insulating down if desired.
• Force Interaction: Resistant to direct manipulation through the Force; does not produce a Force-nullification field.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Specialized harvesting and preservation techniques retain a limited remnant of the Kestrisaur's physiological Force-dead nature after death.
• The treated leather resists Force abilities attempting to directly seize, move, deform, tear, crush, or otherwise manipulate the material itself.
• When incorporated as a continuous layer into equipment, the leather can interfere with direct Force manipulation that must act upon or pass through the material in order to affect the protected component beneath it.
• A fully continuous enclosure impedes direct Force interaction in both directions, isolating the enclosed space from outside Force perception and manipulation.
• Does not project a Force-nullification or Force-suppression field.
• Does not suppress a Force-user's connection to the Force.
• Does not make the wearer or anything merely touching the leather Force Dead.

STRENGTHS

• Physiologically Force Dead: Properly treated Kestrisaur leather retains a limited echo of the living animal's unusual biology. Direct Force manipulation of the material is substantially more difficult than manipulating ordinary leather, cloth, or comparable biological materials.
• Versatile Material: Once properly preserved and tanned, the leather can still be worked much like conventional heavy leather and used for clothing, armor backing, belts, gloves, boots, pouches, covers, bindings, and other equipment.

WEAKNESSES

• Not a Nullification Field: The leather does not radiate an anti-Force effect, suppress nearby Force powers, sever anyone from the Force, or render its wearer Force Dead. With partial coverage, a Force-user remains perfectly capable of targeting uncovered portions of the wearer, exposed equipment, surrounding objects, or the environment.
• Direct Interaction Only: Its unusual resistance applies primarily when a Force ability directly interacts with or must pass through the leather. It offers no special protection against indirect attacks such as telekinetically thrown debris, manipulated terrain, collapsing structures, blasts of displaced air, or other effects that simply strike the material through conventional physical force.
• Coverage Matters: A strip, belt, glove, decorative patch, or other limited amount of Kestrisaur leather protects only itself and whatever lies directly behind that coverage. Wearing a small amount does not provide generalized resistance to Force abilities.
• Difficult to Preserve: The Force-dead property deteriorates rapidly if the hide is harvested, cured, repaired, or altered incorrectly. Ordinary Kestrisaur leather possesses none of these special Factory effects; only hide processed using the specialized preservation method described here retains them.
• Two-Way Barrier: The leather's Force resistance works in both directions. While partial coverage does little to impede a wearer's own use of the Force, completely enclosing a Force-sensitive individual within a continuous layer of the material prevents or severely impedes them from projecting Force abilities or senses through it. The wearer remains connected to the Force and may still use abilities upon themselves or within the enclosed space, but the world beyond the leather may effectively appear Force Dead to them.
• Rare Material: Kestrisaurs themselves remain uncommon, and only a portion of harvested hides survive the delicate preservation process with their unusual properties intact. Force-resistant Kestrisaur leather is consequently very rare.

DESCRIPTION

The hide of the Gaht'yc Kuryida'edee, better known as the Kestrisaur, had been used as leather on Kestri for some time before its more unusual properties were understood. Like the creature from which it came, ordinary Kestrisaur hide was thick, durable, and well suited to the frigid environment of its homeworld. Sahan Dragr himself had made use of conventional Kestrisaur leather in clothing and equipment without initially attempting to preserve anything beyond its mundane physical qualities.

Further study of the species revealed that the Kestrisaur's Force-dead nature was not merely a spiritual condition. Derived from the Vong-modified biology of the original Kuryida Edee, the trait was physically expressed throughout the animal's body. Although most of this unusual quality disappeared shortly after death and was ordinarily destroyed completely by conventional tanning, traces could remain within the structure of the hide.

Through careful experimentation, Sahan developed a harvesting and preservation process intended to prevent those traces from being lost. The hide must be removed without extensive damage and treated quickly with non-reactive preservatives before undergoing a slow curing and tanning process designed to disturb its biological structure as little as possible. Even then, not every piece is successful, and an improperly prepared hide becomes nothing more than ordinary Kestrisaur leather.

Successful material retains only a fraction of the properties possessed by the living animal. The resulting leather is unusually resistant to direct interaction through the Force, making it difficult to telekinetically grasp, move, twist, tear, crush, or otherwise manipulate the material itself. When used as a continuous protective layer, this property can also complicate Force techniques attempting to directly manipulate something through the leather.

This effect should not be confused with true Force-nullifying substances such as void stone. Force-resistant Kestrisaur leather emits no field and suppresses nothing around it. Someone wearing only partial coverage, such as a jacket made from the material, remains present within the Force and can still be directly affected through areas not protected by the leather, as well as struck by indirectly manipulated objects or subjected to environmental effects created through the Force.

If an individual is completely enclosed within a continuous layer of Force-resistant Kestrisaur leather, however, direct Force interaction through that barrier becomes severely impeded in either direction. An outside Force-user cannot readily reach through the leather to directly seize, choke, influence, sense, or otherwise affect the enclosed individual without first overcoming or bypassing the material. Likewise, a Force-sensitive individual enclosed within the leather cannot readily project Force abilities or senses through it toward the outside world. They remain connected to the Force within the enclosed space and may still use abilities upon themselves or other things contained inside, but the world beyond the leather may effectively appear Force Dead to them.

This isolation does not prevent indirect physical effects. Objects hurled with telekinesis, collapsing structures, manipulated terrain, displaced air, fire, debris, or similar phenomena can still strike an enclosed individual normally. Likewise, a small patch or partial garment made from the material grants no generalized protection to the object or individual carrying it. The unusual property exists within the treated leather itself rather than extending outward from it.

Because of the scarcity of Kestrisaurs, the difficulty of successfully retaining the trait, and the potentially valuable applications of Force-resistant biological material, Force-resistant Kestrisaur leather is produced only in very small quantities.