Ashin Cardé Varanin
Are you on the square?
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Training equipment
- Image Source: Pain box, Dune
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Electrical safety (Ohio State U), tonkutaji
- Manufacturer: Ashin Varanin (design), Bard Independent (manufacture)
- Affiliation: Closed market
- Model: Midvanot ('for greater power' in an old Zuguruk technical dialect)
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: Turadium, steristeel, electronics, major electrical insulation
- Miniature cap drain
- Trains lightning better than anything currently available
- Only trains this skill relative to the student's hand, one hand at a time
With very few exceptions, Force training tools fit comfortably under the heading of 'a ball.' Impatient with the available offerings, Ashin Varanin designed and commissioned this specialized tool to teach better use of lightning.
Ashin's formal education ended at fourteen and only resumed in much later life. For a good portion of her career, she failed to understand the effects of precise amperage changes on humanoid bodies. The midvanot allows a Force-user to train for precise effects - lightning that can burn, stun, jolt, incapacitate, or kill. Importantly, it teaches that the most powerful lightning is not the most lethal.
To use the midvanot, the user places their hand inside and generates Sith lightning, Jedi Electric Judgment, Ionize, etc. - an electrical attack. A miniaturized cap drain consumes the energy harmlessly. Insulation keeps the outside of the box from conducting current.
A small holo-display with an intuitive visual user experience assesses the amperage - the volume of electricity being generated.
Around 10 milliamps, an average humanoid target would feel a painful shock. Around 20 mA, pain would be higher and they would find breathing difficult and would start experiencing muscle paralysis. Around 75 mA, pain would be higher and they would be unable to breathe. The range from 100 to 200 mA is lethal. Above 200 mA, the heart stops but can usually be restarted, and the target is severely burned and knocked unconscious.
These values can vary significantly by species; the user can adjust the midvanot to simulate the electrical vulnerabilities of a variety of species.
