Unreviewed Nefaron's Tailored Blight-Serum

[Helix]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create a radical life-extension treatment for Darth Nefaron
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Helix Privateers
• Affiliation: Darth Nefaron
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: N/A
• Modularity: Yes
• Production: Unique
• Material:
  
  • Customized Tarnaci Blight matter

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Designed specifically for one user
• Extends the user's lifespan

STRENGTHS

• Necromorph: This serum permanently transforms the user into a unique form of Blightspawn, providing a variety of beneficial effects and resistances. These include heightened wound healing, largely-halted biological aging, increased resilience to a number of harmful effects, and a tendency to not stay dead...

WEAKNESSES

• Walking Corpse: The serum effectively freezes the body as it is at the time of administration. It cannot repair any significant structural damage that existed before its use. Likewise, it cannot protect the user from complete bodily destruction, or from being frozen or otherwise incapacitated.

DESCRIPTION

Developed in the wake of the disastrous events of the Battle of Thyferra, this is a uniquely-tailored strain of the Tarnaci Blight intended for Nefaron's unusual physiology.

While it cannot heal Nefaron's pre-existing injuries in their entirety, it can bolster his crumbling body and alleviate some of its frailties, while guarding against any future Force-based disabling.

Usage of the sample will heavily and permanently mutate the user's physiology; its effects are largely irreversible barring the creation of a similar specialized treatment. Virtually every cell is torn apart and rebuilt in new and terrible configurations, and the user will forever walk in the twilight between life and death.

Still, neither the user's mind nor Force-sensitivity will be negatively affected by the experience, and they will retain full control of their faculties (or at least as much control as they possessed previously).

Most notably, the strain provides tremendously-accelerated natural healing, to a point. The user's non-disabling wounds will close with frightening speed, failing to leave behind so much as a scar.

More serious injuries, such as major organ damage or missing limbs, are also no serious inconvenience in the long term. The user is no longer dependent on most bodily systems to function in any case, and as with most Blightspawn, their blood is replaced with poisonous Atter.

Should the user lose an arm, a leg, or even suffer decapitation, these portions will regrow over a period of approximately 48 hours. In the lattermost case, the user's "dead" body will simply reanimate with a dramatic lurch, as their alien physiology resumes operation.

As the user is (technically speaking) not a living thing as more sane and conventional science might understand the term, they are not significantly impeded by most harmful environmental effects. These can include poisons, diseases, radiation, vacuum, extremes of environmental temperature, and most chemical or biological weapons.

As noted previously, the serum will not repair any injuries that existed prior to its use; any missing limbs, scars, or disfigurements remain permanently. However, it does grant the user the ability to largely ignore the negative consequences of such injuries. For example, previously life-threatening wounds that were held at bay by other means (such as Force usage) no longer pose any significant threat, and the user need not expend continuous effort in this regard any longer.

The serum does not, however, grant immortality. The user may be slain by comprehensive or complete bodily damage/destruction, particularly in regards to fire or heat-based weaponry. On the other extreme, while even the bitterest cold cannot kill the user, cryonic weaponry can potentially force them into a sort of suspended animation, likely incapacitating them for an extended period if they should fail to escape.