Approved Tech Gravemantle Impact Field Generator Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create a Sith forged successor to the anticoncussion field, designed to protect Kainate vessels and installations from kinetic, concussive, and physical impact by transforming absorbed energy into a controlled, resonant counterforce.
• Image Source:
  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Gravemantle Impact Field Generator Mk. I
• Modularity: Yes - Limited (Field density, feedback harmonics, and frequency layering can be customized for ship, fortress, or mobile applications.)
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Bloodsteel Channel Nodes
  • Crucivane Containment Ribs

• Gravimorphic Resonance Layering: The Gravemantle Field uses overlapping gravitic ripples that flex under impact rather than resist, creating a shock-dispersal "mantle" that redirects concussive energy into the surrounding field network. The result is a distortion that absorbs explosions and projectile strikes without transmitting destructive force to internal hulls.
• Dark Pressure Conversion Matrix: Instead of merely nullifying impacts, the Gravemantle converts kinetic energy into stored gravitic compression within Bloodsteel channels. This "wound pressure" is slowly bled into the ship's power grid, reactors, or weapon capacitors, literally feeding off what strikes it.
• Echo-Dampening Subfield: The generator emits a controlled harmonic that dulls local sensor returns and diffuses reflected energy patterns rather than erasing them. It doesn't conceal a vessel but instead creates a softened zone of signal distortion that makes readings hazy, imprecise, and delayed. The effect is comparable to interference from charged dust or subspace turbulence, subtle, not total. To nearby instruments, it manifests as a "dead tone" where readings grow faint or sluggish, forcing recalibration and slowing lock-on times. Pilots still perceive the vessel visually, but scanners register it with unsettling irregularity, as if it exists half a second out of sync. The psychological side-effect persists: many describe the sensation as space holding its breath before something catastrophic.
• Runic Reflex Alignment: Embedded runic matrices react in microseconds to incoming fire, momentarily warping field density around localized impacts. This gives the shield a "living" quality, appearing to flex and breathe as it endures bombardment.
• Psychoresonant Aftershock: When struck with sufficient force, the field releases an inverted harmonic burst that transmits through the enemy's sensors and crew interfaces, causing vertigo, nausea, or momentary disorientation, a dark "backlash" of pain and fear.
• Containment Harmony Integration: Fully compatible with other Sith systems such as the Nullheart Core, Aegis of Shadows Shield Generator, and Woundforged infrastructure, the Gravemantle can synchronize its harmonic pulse with other fields, layering protective geometries into a unified defense grid.

• Superior Kinetic Absorption: Far exceeds conventional anticoncussion fields by absorbing and redistributing concussive force through harmonic resonance, dramatically reducing structural stress.
• Energy Conversion Efficiency: Converts absorbed kinetic energy into stored gravitic potential that can recharge power systems or weapon capacitors.
• Layered Resilience: Multiple resonance strata allow the field to resist overlapping impacts from sustained bombardment without destabilization.
• Psychological Warfare: The field's active hum and reactive pulse create an aura of dread during combat, unnerving enemy crews while synchronizing Sith forces through rhythmic resonance.
• Silent Defense: Suppresses acoustic and energy signatures when active, granting Kainate vessels reduced detectability during defensive operations.

• Feedback Overload Risk: Excessive or unvented stored kinetic energy can cause resonance feedback, damaging internal systems or detonating power relays.
• High Energy Demand: The Gravemantle's self-reactive system draws massive power during prolonged engagements, potentially overtaxing smaller vessels.
• Force Nullification: Loses reactive and resonant qualities while under Force Nullification; functions only as a crude concussion buffer until restored to an active field environment.

The Gravemantle Impact Field Generator Mk. I represents the Kainate's definitive replacement for archaic anticoncussion fields, a fusion of Sith alchemy, gravitational science, and ritual engineering. Conceived in the depths of Malsheem, the project was born from Darth Prazutis' decree that no wall, no bulkhead, and no hull should ever merely resist destruction. It should feed on it.

Where conventional systems diffuse impact energy into nothingness, the Gravemantle drinks deeply of it, capturing each blow within a self-adjusting web. As impacts strike, the field flexes and ripples like living muscle, converting trauma into power. The kinetic fury of a rail slug, the eruption of a torpedo blast, all are transmuted into the fuel of Sith endurance.

The field's unique hum is unmistakable: a low, resonant growl that fills corridors and decks, synchronizing with the pulse of the ship. Sith crews describe it as the heartbeat of their vessel, a living mantle that shields them in war and demands tribute in return. To outsiders, the sound is a suffocating dread, as if space itself resents their presence.

In fleet combat, the Gravemantle's psychological influence is profound. Enemy scanners experience distortions, and their crews report fleeting nausea or dread as the harmonic ripples touch their hulls. In close quarters, ships appear wreathed in heat-haze distortion, their silhouettes shimmering with predatory menace.

At the core of each generator lies a system that transforms absorbed energy into stored gravitational pressure. This power is then rerouted to shield relays, weapon capacitors, or ritual conduits, ensuring that every strike against the Kainate is repaid tenfold. It is said in the forges of Malsheem that the Gravemantle is not merely a field, it is the reflection of Sith philosophy in energy form. That which does not break the Sith strengthens them.

 

[Renn Vizsla]

Lovley submission, just have a few things for you, Darth Prazutis


This reads very much like a near-perfect stealth to me. Can you reword this section or reduce the production scale to reflect this aspect?

Echo-Dampening Subfield: The generator produces a secondary harmonic that suppresses electromagnetic backscatter and gravitic reverberation, creating a zone of inert distortion around the ship. To sensors, comms, and scanning arrays, this void registers as absence, a dead patch of space where no reflections return and no energy seems to echo back. Pilots describe it as "silence" because even their own instruments return nothing but blank, depthless void. The effect induces instinctive unease, as if space itself were holding its breath.

The relevant section of the Restricted Materials section of the factory rules:

Stealth technology is defined as any technology which will block or prevent something from being detected. While cloaking is a form of stealth technology it is not the only form of stealth technology available. Technology which allows an object to remain visible but prevents it from being seen on scanners then it is also a form of stealth technology.

Can you please link these submissions as well?

Nullheart Core, Aegis of Shadows Shield Generator, and Woundforged infrastructure

 

[Darth Prazutis]

Renn Vizsla

Done.

 

[Renn Vizsla]

I appreciate working with me, everything looks good to me, Darth Prazutis

Approved