It's My Turn
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To make a signature weapon for Mevia Vizsla. An ancient, long lost blade to parallel her sister Elise's.
- Image Source: Here.
- Canon Link: N/A.
- Permissions: N/A.
- Primary Source: Soul Steel, Fear Blades.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Unknown. Records date back to many potential smiths from the era of the Mandalorian Empire.
- Affiliation: Elise Vizsla .
- Market Status: Closed-Market.
- Model: Chaab'kad, "Fear Blade."
- Modularity: No.
- Production: Unique.
- Material:
- Beskar hilt, cross guard, and inner blade rod.
- Soul Steel and Ionite blade.
- Heavy sheath made of beskar, internally lined with Vong leather.
- Permafrost crystal gem inlay in the crossguard
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Sword, Beskad, Hand-and-a-half Sword.
- Size: Average.
- Weight: Heavy (in sheath)/ Average (sword itself.)
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Craftsmanship:
- The hilt and cross guard of Jetii'Kyramud are made of solid beskar. The heavier beskar hilt means that it could be used as a bludgeoning tool (half-swording and murderstoke techniques). Furthermore, Soul Steel's effects do not extend beyond the blade.
- A beskar rod is within the Soul Steel blade. This increases the weapon's durability and strength.
- The scabbard is made of mostly beskar, with a thin Vong leather lining inside the sheath. This Vong leather can nullify Jetii'Kyramud's Soul Steel effects, but is not strong enough to nullify anything beyond the sword itself when sheathed.
- A permafrost crystal is ornamented in the handle, adding a frosty, misty glow to the blade. Aesthetic only.
- The sword model is a Hand-and-a-half sword.
- Soul Steel Properties:
- Soul Steel has better kinetic durability than Durasteel, but is worse than a generalized restricted material.
- Soul Steel has better energy and thermal resistance than Duraplast, but is worse than a generalized restricted material.
- Soul Steel is a lighter weight-per-mass than Alusteel.
- Soul Steel has a roughly comparable lightsaber resistance to phrik.
- The blade glows a grim blue when unsheathed.
STRENGTHS
- Soul Steel: The Soul Steel blade is naturally imbued with the Dark Side of the Force. This unique metal is charged with emotions of excitement and resolve, as well as fear and panic. This makes the sword itself distracting and disturbing to Force Users, making it a perfect anti-Force User weapon. The Ionite inlay adds additional effects as well. The sword can penetrate shielding and produces an electrical, shocking effect when it makes contact with technology or organics.
- Corrupted: Naturally charged by the Dark Side of the Force, Lightside Force Users will struggle even more from Jetii'Kyramud's emotional effects, as well as its natural corruption.
- Mighty: Soul Steel, and especially Beskar, are remarkable and resilient metals. Jetii'Kyramud can take more kinetic, plasma, and even lightsaber strikes than the common metals of the galaxy.
- Versatility: The hand-and-a-half sword design of Jetii'Kyramud is versatile in every way. It is suitable for both stabbing and slicing. It is balanced in a way that allows for both one and two handed use. It can also be perfectly used in half-swording techniques.
- Power Off: There is a thin Vong leather lining inside the sword scabbard. Whenever sheathed, the effects of the Soul Steel blade are negated completely. This allows the sword to be carried casually, alongside Force Users, without Force Users getting a migraine or panic attack.
- Offensive Scabbard: The sheath of Jetii'Kyramud is made of beskar. The hefty sheath can be clipped to the sword and used to transform it into a heavy bludgeoning tool, or to withstand more damage and act as a pseudo shield. However, the soul steel's effects are negative if Jetii'Kyramud is sheathed.
WEAKNESSES
- Soul Steel: Soul Steel's Force Imbued nature and properties make Jetii'Kyramud a living hell for Force Users to attempt to weild. The emotions emitted from the blade are too distracting, distressing, and debilitating for a Force User to withstand. Of course, a Force Sensitive could use this sword, but not very effectively. When Jetii'Kyramud is in its scabbard, it can be used by a Force User without any side effects as long as it remains in its sheath.
- Corrupted: Naturally charged by the Dark Side of the Force, Light Side Force Users will struggle even more from Jetii'Kyramud's emotional effects, as well as its natural corruption.
- Light In The Darkness: A Light Side Force power such as Wall Of Light, or a Light Side Nexus or Field, could nullify Soul Steel's effects the same way Force Nullification can.
- Softer Edges: Soul Steel itself is quite powerful, capable of withstanding lightsabers - but not to the same degree as beskar. In a similar manner to phrik, if soul steel is directly placed against a lightsaber blade or repeatedly beaten by a lightsaber, the Soul Steel can shatter and melt. The Beskar rod in the center, obviously, will remain undamaged as beskar does. But the blade potentially being melted and chipped can certainly be a problem, and even make Jetii'Kyramud dangerous for its weilder.
- Power Off: There is a thin Vong leather lining inside the sword scabbard. Whenever sheathed, the effects of the Soul Steel blade are negated completely. Whenever the sword is sheathed, even in combat, the effects of the Soul Steel are negated completely.
- Not A Lightsaber: Sadly, neither soul steel or beskar can cut through solid metal plating and surfaces. If used as a bludgeoning tool, however, the scabbard or handle could dent metal.
DESCRIPTION
One of the Chaab'kad "Fear Blades" crafted during the days of the Mandalorian Empire, this sword was crafted by a smith unremembered; and bestowed upon a Mandalorian unremembered. Unremembered, as in, he himself is unsure of what his identity was anymore. This particular Mandalorian was loyal to Ra Vizsla and his allies in the Sith Empire, fighting side by side with Dark Side evils and betraying his own vode.
When the Mandalorian Union liberated Mandalore from Sith rule, this individual fled back to his overlords like the dog he was. And yet, despite losing everything he had fought for at Ra Vizsla's side, he still had more to lose. Darth Carnifex gave him and other survivors of Mandalore's takeover a "gift." This gift was to transcend mortality, and to be stronger than ever before as reward for their undying loyalty.
Of course, this gift turned out to be a curse.
His soul had been ripped from his body, stuffed inside a crystal, and placed within a cybernetic machination of metal and electronics. He indeed was stronger than before, and he indeed had escaped mortality... but at the cost of his humanity.
As the decades went on, serving Darth Carnifex with relentless loyalty, he slowly forgot who he was... what he was, even. He was human soul trapped inside a cybernetic body, oppressed under programming despite having a human will. Perhaps, he thought to himself, he deserved it for what he had done in life. But as his insanity grew, and he lost sight of a life before this one, he had one thing remaining at his side. He had one object to remind him that he had been something more, long ago.
His sword.
Even after all this time, the Chaab'kad that he had been gifted with long ago was still his own. With this sword, he fought forever onwards as a slave to the Sith regime's will. He took all his rage, all his pain, and delivered it unto whoever he was ordered to tenfold. And it went on and on, on and on, for decades.
Until, one day, he was ordered to kill living Mandalorians invading Sith territory. Whatever year it was, whatever era it was, all his memory could clearly see was the golden glimmer of a beskar'gam and an enraged Mandalorian. He was bested by the young, living warrior. He dropped his sword, relinquishing the last of his life, as he finally was freed from the living hell he thought would last an eternity. As his robotic consciousness faded away, and as his soul faded into the Netherworld, the garbled gibberish was faintly heard from his vocalization device.
"Vor entye..."
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