Shadow Hand
- Intent: To create a unique Sith alchemical material known as Nethersteel for use in Kainate technology, weapons, armor, and dark side constructs.
- Image Source:
- Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
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- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Nethersteel
- Modularity: Yes (Can be used in weapons, armor, structural reinforcement, or arcane implements)
- Production: Semi-Unique
- Material:
- Sith Rune-Inscribed Blackstone
- Alchemized Sarrassian Iron
- Dark Side Ichor
- Refined Stygian Triprismatic Polymer Flakes
- Sacrificial Essence Residue
- Refined Obsidian Voidshard Dust
- Null Light Reflection: Nethersteel reflects no natural or artificial light. It absorbs ambient energy in its vicinity, casting a "void halo" around it. This renders it nearly impossible to detect through visual or passive scans, making it ideal for stealth or psychological warfare applications.
- Force Resonant: The alloy serves as a powerful conductor of dark side energy. It naturally amplifies Sith rituals and strengthens abilities cast through or around it, making it invaluable for relics, ritual tools, and dark altars. The material resonates with fear, domination, necromancy, and agony-based Force abilities. It doesn't just conduct power, it magnifies it, allowing weapons or structures forged from it to act as dark amplifiers.
- Oblivion-Hardened: Nethersteel is highly resistant to lightsabers, energy weapons, and Force-based corrosion or entropy. Its molecular structure is reinforced by void ichor and sacrificial energy, rendering it nearly impervious to disintegration or metaphysical decay. Reinforced through multiple dark rites, Nethersteel surpasses even Beskar or Phrik in terms of durability. It can endure pressure extremes, directed energy, and battlefield wear with virtually no degradation.
- Reality-Tethered: Through dark binding rituals, spell runes, and the inclusion of Obsidian Voidshards, Nethersteel is highly resistant to phasing, teleportation, cloaking, and similar distortion techniques aimed at bypassing or tampering with it. This makes it ideal for reinforcing structures, weapons, or systems that must remain rooted and unyielding to hostile manipulation. However, when ritually attuned to a Sith or aligned wielder during the forging process, Nethersteel may selectively suppress these resistances, allowing the user to cloak, phase, or teleport while carrying or wearing the material. This attunement must be deliberate and symbiotic; otherwise, the tethering remains absolute.
- Sith Alchemized Durability: Forged through ancient Sith rites and saturated with sacrificial essence, Nethersteel is among the most durable alchemical alloys in existence. It surpasses Phrik and Beskar in sheer toughness, withstanding high pressure impacts, energy surges, and sustained battlefield wear with terrifying resilience. Its density and void forged integrity make it exceptionally hard to crack, cleave, or degrade.
- Dark Side Conductor: Nethersteel acts as a potent conduit for dark side energy, naturally amplifying powers rooted in fear, hatred, necromancy, domination, and more. When used in weapons, armor, or ritual implements, it enhances the potency of Sith spells and techniques cast through or near it. This property makes it especially suited to cursed relics, dark altars, and sacrificial artifacts and more designed to channel or intensify arcane forces.
- Anti Manipulation Properties: Through ritual-anchoring, embedded Voidshard particles, and glyph bound reinforcement, Nethersteel is extremely resistant to cloaking, teleportation, phase-shifting, and more. It maintains a fixed presence that resists displacement or corruption through various means. However, if ritually attuned during its creation, a Sith user may suppress these properties to allow cloaking or teleportation without conflict, binding the steel to their will rather than letting it passively anchor itself.
- Extreme Weight: The alloy is extraordinarily dense. Equipment or armor made from Nethersteel is heavy and demands augmentation to wield effectively in large volumes.
- Force Dependent: Under Force Nullification, Nethersteel loses much of its alchemical enhancements and resilience to manipulation. This makes it vulnerable to conventional attack when cut off from the Force.
Forged in the forbidden depths of Malsheem by Darth Prazutis, Nethersteel is more than a material, it is a boundary. Designed not only to endure, but to defy manipulation, the alloy was created to serve as both weapon and ward against forces that could easily manipulate the world around it. The forging process involves immersing rare Sith metals and alchemical reagents into siphoned void. These are then infused with ritual essence extracted from executed heretics, tethering the material to fixed spatial points through inverted Obsidian Voidshards, crystals whose native instability has been alchemically reversed. Through this, the alloy becomes anchored, resilient against being cloaked, shifted, phased, or teleported through.
This makes Nethersteel critical to the containment protocols utilized at the most critically important labs, and stations of the Kainate. Where many of the greatest horrors are locked away in cages, within barriers lined with this material. Without it there to contain such entities it may spell disaster as they break containment. It is utterly black, reflecting no light, as if forged from the skin of a dead star. Its aura radiates oppressive stillness; droids misfire near it, Force sensitives sense the edge of void. Only powerful Sith, trained to resist the abyss, may wield it without succumbing to its weight, literal and spiritual. In the war machines of the Kainate, Nethersteel has become synonymous with absolute control. Wherever it is forged, reality obeys. There is no bypass, no retreat.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a unique Sith alchemical material known as Nethersteel for use in Kainate technology, weapons, armor, and dark side constructs.
Canon Link:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
N/A
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate
Model:
Nethersteel
Modular:
Yes
Material:
Sith Rune-Inscribed Blackstone: A metaphysical core component, engraved with ancient runes to bind and stabilize the dark energies coursing through the alloy. Alchemized Sarrassian Iron: An ancient Sith-forged metal renowned for its resilience and dark side receptivity, now reforged as the backbone of Nethersteel. Dark Side Ichor: Viscous, ritual-infused fluid harvested from corrupted nexuses, alchemically bonded into the alloy to serve as a conduit for Sith sorcery. Refined Neuranium Flakes: Provides natural resistance to detection and energy dispersion, enhancing the metal's stealth and distortion properties. Sacrificial Essence Residue: Bound from dark rituals involving pain and death, granting Nethersteel its haunting aura and will-warping presence. Refined Obsidian Voidshard Dust: Ground remnants of Force-disruptive crystal used to stabilize the alloy's metaphysical anchor.
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