Approved Starship Gorvahn-class Heavy Sith Starfighter Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create a heavy assault starfighter for the Kainate, designed for intense warfare, capital ship strikes, and mine deployment, complementing the Xarûl-class in the Shadow Armada.
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• Manufacturer:
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Gorvahn-class Heavy Sith Starfighter Mk. I
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron
  • Bloodwrought Plating
  • Sith Blackstone Crystalline Reinforcement
  • Bloodpane (Cockpit Viewport)

• Classification: Heavy Starfighter
• Length: 18 Meters
• Width: 11 Meters
• Height: 5 Meters
• Armament: Very High
  
  • Abyssal Lash Cannon Mk. I [6] (Wing-Mounted)
  • Seeker Missile Rack Mk. I [2] (Wing-Mounted)
  • Variable Mine Layer:
    • Bloodtide Lure Mine Mk. I
    • Hexfire Charge Mk. I
    • Kyberburst Mine Mk. I
    • Netherflare Mine Mk. I
    • Shadowwell Entanglement Mine Mk. I
    • Strainlash Tensor Mine Mk. I
    • Wraithshock Proximity Mine Mk. I
• Defenses: High
  
  • Aegis of Shadows Shield Generator Mk. I
  • Nullheart Core Mk. I
  • Reinforced Bloodwrought Plating
  • Gravebind Hull Mesh Mk. I
  • Bloodlock Transponder Mk. I
  • Specterfield Null Mantle Mk. I
• Squadron Count: Average (12 per Squadron)
• Maneuverability Rating: High
• Speed Rating: High
• Hyperdrive: Yes (Class 0.33)

• Sith Life Support System: A self-contained, atmospherically adaptive life support array capable of sustaining humanoid and Sith variant pilots within vacuum, toxic atmospheres, and Force Corrupted environments. Integrated into the Gorvahn as the Sarcostel Life Preservation Array Mk. I, with expanded alchemical filtration chambers to resist sustained exposure to corrosive or necrotic miasmas encountered during siege operations.
• Sith Targeting Computer: A reinforced, ritual-enhanced targeting core that fuses standard sensor telemetry, predictive combat heuristics, and reactive Force echo threading. In the Gorvahn, this system is hardened against electronic disruption and paired with a dedicated heavy ordnance fire-control node for coordinated torpedo and cannon strikes against capital ships.
• Sith Communications Array: Encrypted hyperwave and subspace communications suite woven with whisperstone-laced crystals. Transmits secure data, emotion-coded Sith command impulses, and Fearburst Command Bursts, capable of inducing panic and confusion among nearby enemy crews during assault runs.
• Sith Navigation System: An advanced navigational core blending traditional astronavigation with ritual star-mapping, Force-attuned hyperspace recognition, and Umbral Gate plotting compatibility. The Gorvahn includes deeper premonition libraries designed to predict blockade maneuvers and interdiction zones.
• Sith Inertial Compensators: Advanced gravimetric dampeners integrated with pain-suppression glyphs, enabling pilots to endure brutal acceleration and sustained high-G turns. The Gorvahn's variant is reinforced for heavier mass and higher inertia, with alchemical supports to preserve skeletal integrity during bombardment dives.
• Sith Ejection System: A dual-phase escape system employing a sacrificial-phase null-glyph and a stasis cocoon. On ejection, the pilot pod seals itself within an alchemically hardened shell and a Soul-Sever Ward to trap the pilot's essence for later ritual reclamation. This ensures no Sith knowledge is easily lost in defeat.
• Integrated Flight Stabilization Matrix: Micro-thrusters, occult-balanced reaction wheels, and bloodsteel-threaded auto-trim servos enable smooth handling despite the Gorvahn's mass. Drift correction and vector control are optimized for attack runs and rapid course corrections under fire.
• Dark-Sync HUD Interface: A symbiotic cockpit canopy projection fusing tactical overlays, threat prioritization runes, and spectral enemy trails. In the Gorvahn, the HUD emphasizes capital ship target profiles, critical subsystem highlighting, and bombardment approach vectors. Responds to pilot rage, fear, and instinct as valid command inputs.
• Reinforced Sensor Package: Multi-band sensor array combining standard motion, thermal, and electromagnetic detection with Sith-derived aura resonance mapping and void-anomaly tracking. The Gorvahn's suite is tuned to identify capital ship energy signatures and detect hidden hull breaches for precision targeting.
• Autopilot / Return Protocol Subsystem: Failsafe nav-pilot imprinted with the pilot's blood signature. If incapacitated or slain, the Gorvahn can autonomously retreat to preselected coordinates, jettison excess payloads, and engage its Abyssal Counter-Pursuit dispersal maneuvers to avoid interception.
• Data Blackout & Malediction Lattice: Integrated self-nullification lattice designed to purge memory cores and overload systems with darkside ignition pulses if capture is imminent. This not only renders the Gorvahn unsalvageable but leaves the wreckage steeped in a corruptive miasma, complicating recovery and demoralizing salvagers.
• Magno-Clamp Undercarriage & Docking Interfaces: Heavy-duty modular clamps reinforced with Sith pressure runes to lock onto capital ship hulls or fortress landing pads. Specifically designed to remain anchored during extended bombardment cycles or null gravity boarding operations.
• Atmospheric Entry & Sealing System: Equipped with layered ablative plates forged in Sith crucibles and adaptive re-entry shielding. The Gorvahn is capable of terminal descent insertions through heavily irradiated or volcanic atmospheres without compromising hull integrity.
• Ordnance Bay Management Suite: Given the Gorvahn's heavy payload, this system coordinates loading, priming, and sequencing of diverse warheads and torpedoes. Features a Ritual Load Sequencer that harmonizes munitions with the targeting computer for optimized salvos.
• Void-Ward Hull Laminate: A specialized alchemical laminate applied to key hull sections to resist corrosive atmospheres, and ion storms, ensuring systems stability during siege operations in hostile sectors.

• Control & Pilot Integration Systems:
  
  • Pain Link Coordination Suite Mk. I
  • Wraith Command Casket Mk. I (Fighter Variant)
  • Oblivion Cortex Relay Mk. I
  • Wraith Sense Threat Processing Unit Mk. I
  • Nightfang Targeting Visor Mk. I
  • Trazkhaal Harmonizer Mk. I
  • Vrahlgeist Symbiote Node Mk. I
  • Shadow Mind Auxiliary Control Core Mk. I
• Cybersecurity Systems:
  • Vyraksh Ward Casket Mk. I
  • Noctucrypt Mindveil Network Mk. I
  • Mazkyr Anomaly Scrambler Node Mk. I
  • Ironveil Ghost Cortex Mk. I
  • Pyrekhaz Containment Halo Mk. I
  • Eclipsion Seal Protocol Mk. I
  • Ravager Loop Inflection Trap Mk. I
• Electronic Warfare & Disruption Systems:
  • Nazrûl Disruption Core Mk. I
  • Runesliver Harmonics Array Mk. I
  • Reaper Shroud Countermeasure Suite Mk. I
• Life Support Systems:
  
  • Sarcostel Life Preservation System Mk. I
• Networking & Sensor Systems:
  • Ebon Psicom Array Mk. I
  • Nether Eye Combat Sight Network Mk. I
  • Shadowlink Omni-Resolution Array Mk. I
  • Sovereign Link Command Array Mk. I
• Power, Biology, & Dark Systems:
  • Soulfire Reactor Node Mk. I
  • Hemophage Conductor Web Mk. I
  • Onslaught Surge Drive Mk. I
  • Fleshcoil Maintenance Web Mk. I
  • Gloomcore Thermal Dissipation Grid Mk. I
• Propulsion & Hyperdrive Systems:
  
  • Voidflare Ion Engines Mk. I
  • Eclipse Pattern Maneuvering Jets Mk. I
  • Umbral Gate Hyperdrive Mk. I
• Weapons & Ordnance Systems:
  
  • Bloodhail Ordnance Conductor Mk. I
  • Nightcoil Vector Matrix Mk. I

• Siegebreaker Ordnance Capacity: The Gorvahn can carry an exceptional payload of heavy warheads, including but not limited to Voidlance Torpedoes, Dreadflare Missiles, and Red Spiral Missiles, allowing it to crack capital ship armor and overwhelm hardened targets in concentrated salvos. The Multi-Caliber Warhead Racks and integrated modular systems allow the Gorvahn to adapt for anti-capital strikes, siege suppression, or heavy escort duties without structural modification.
• Reinforced Hull and Layered Armor: Its alchemized Sarrassian Iron plating, Void-Ward Laminate, and internal bloodsteel lattice grant the Gorvahn remarkable durability against kinetic impacts, energy weapons, and corrosive environmental hazards.
• Integrated Sith Systems: Every aspect of the Gorvahn's avionics, targeting, and life support is enhanced through Sith alchemy and darkside engineering, providing improved resilience to electronic warfare, superior tracking of Force-sensitive enemies, and enhanced pilot survivability.
• Persistent Area Denial: The starfighter's combination of incendiary, corrosive, and gravitic ordnance, combined with precision delivery systems, makes it uniquely effective at disabling exposed systems and denying repair crews access to critical zones. Additionally, the inclusion of a dedicated mine layer enables it to establish lethal denial zones and trap escape corridors, further reinforcing its deadly battlefield control role.
• Psychological Warfare: The Gorvahn radiates dread by design: harmonic wail emitters, fearburst comm pings, and an imposing silhouette combine to shatter morale and sow confusion among enemy squadrons and crews.
• Advanced Shield Disruption: Its specialized warheads and synergistic fire protocols can weaken, stagger, or momentarily collapse local shielding, enabling follow-up strikes from allied forces.
• Resilience to Salvage & Capture: Between the Bloodlock, Data Blackout Lattice, and spectral self-immolation systems, captured units become unusable husks or curses to those who dare try.

• Force Nullification Exposure: When exposed to fields of Force Nullification and access to the dark side removed, several systems revert to baseline functionality or lose their advantages, reducing the fighter's effectiveness to just above the level of traditional designs within its field.
• Maintenance Intensive: The unique biological, alchemical, and semi-sentient components demand expert Kainate technicians for repair, recalibration, and ritual rebinding. Inoperable by outsiders or even standard Sith crews.
• Reduced Maneuverability Under Heavy Payload: When fully loaded with heavy ordnance, the Gorvahn's otherwise excellent maneuverability decreases, and remains this way until payload is partially expended.

The Gorvahn-class Heavy Sith Starfighter Mk. I stands as the culminating achievement of a transformative military doctrine envisioned and meticulously executed by Darth Prazutis, the Shadow Hand of the Kainate. Since the inception of his military modernization program, the Dark Lord sought to reinvent every aspect of the Kainate Shadow Armada, systematically pushing technological innovation, operational doctrines, and strategic dominance far beyond what friend, foe, or rival could conceive. The Gorvahn-class epitomizes this relentless pursuit of perfection, an uncompromising statement of Sith supremacy and technological mastery, engineered specifically to render conventional starfighters obsolete by comparison.

In the earliest stages of the Kainate's rise, initial forays into heavy fighter design revealed great promise yet exposed critical limitations. While armored strike fighters had proven capable of delivering punishing assaults on enemy corvettes and frigates, evolving enemy defenses and increasingly sophisticated countermeasures began to erode their battlefield superiority. Recognizing these constraints, Darth Prazutis initiated a dual-track strategy aimed at addressing all operational shortcomings, tasking the Shadow Mind with developing two distinct yet complementary starfighter classes: one for agile interception and psychological terror, the other, a devastating siege craft capable of overwhelming heavily fortified positions, entrenched defenses, and capital ships with unmatched firepower.

This second, siege-oriented project, designated Project Obsidian Shroud, would ultimately give rise to the Gorvahn-class. Inspired by and building upon the revolutionary systems and successes demonstrated by its nimble counterpart the Xarûl-class, the Gorvahn incorporated refinements and adaptations specifically tailored for prolonged siege engagements. Kainate engineers augmented life support systems, enabling pilots to endure prolonged exposure to corrosive environments and sustained bombardments. Targeting and ordnance management were elevated beyond anything previously achieved, allowing real-time trajectory adjustments to heavy missile salvos, overwhelming defensive grids through sheer tactical precision.

Advanced electronic warfare suites and cybersecurity protocols, proven in other cutting-edge Kainate vessels, were further evolved for the Gorvahn, ensuring the craft's survivability and resilience against even the most sophisticated enemy interference. Simultaneously, robust defensive systems prevented any possibility of technological salvage should the craft fall into enemy hands, reinforcing the Kainate's operational security and technological advantage.

Yet, in crafting the Gorvahn, Darth Prazutis explicitly rejected any notion of multi-role versatility. The starfighter was deliberately specialized, engineered exclusively to close with large enemy vessels, destroy them through coordinated, relentless bombardment, during intense dogfights, and withdraw swiftly to rearm for subsequent engagements. Its design represented a direct rebuke of conventional military thinking, which considered such extreme specialization impractical or strategically limiting. Instead, the Gorvahn exemplified Darth Prazutis' vision of Sith warfare, redefining battlefield dominance through singular purpose and devastating execution.

Field trials conclusively demonstrated the validity of Prazutis' approach. When paired with the fighter craft developed alongside it, Gorvahn-class starfighters executed strikes that seemed inconceivable by traditional military standards. At Aurcaris Deep, the combined power of the Xarûl-class and the Gorvahn-class formations erased an entire rebel cruiser squadron within mere minutes, shattering enemy morale and laying bare the unprecedented technological leap achieved by the Kainate.

Upon formal acceptance into the Shadow Armada, Darth Prazutis proclaimed the Gorvahn-class a decisive turning point in galactic warfare, declaring: "Where the Xarûl is our blade, the Gorvahn is our hammer. Together, they prove beyond all doubt that the Kainate now stands utterly alone atop the galaxy."

The deployment of the Gorvahn-class took key steps towards cementing the Kainate's position as the supreme galactic power, reinforcing Darth Prazutis' grand strategy: by accomplishing what others dismissed as impossible or inconceivable, the Kainate ensures its perpetual dominance, forever leaving rivals, allies, and enemies alike hopelessly in its wake. The successes of the Gorvahn were so great that the Xarûl-class was swiftly adapted to include the technological innovations crafted during the conception of the Gorvahn, swiftly rolled out for deployment across the fleet.

 

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Darth Prazutis

Amazing sub again!

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