Shadow Hand


- Intent: To create an advanced Sith targeting visor for use in Kainate starships, armor systems, and heavy weapons platforms, enabling superior visibility and tracking in visually obscured environments.
- Image Source:
- Click - ChatGPT by Me
- Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A

- Manufacturer:
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Nightglass Targeting Visor Mk. I
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Bloodpane Composite Lense
- Reinforced Sith Blackstone
- Crystalline Obsidian Circuitry
- Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Frame
- Runic Inscription Layer (internal)

- Bloodpane Optics: Integrates red-tinted, Sith lenses with clarity-enhancing properties that resist light distortion and scatter.
- Runic Silhouette Tracking Matrix: Sith tracking matrix designed directly into the inner surface of the visor enhance tracking of hostile silhouettes through darkness, smoke, fog, or minor illusions.
- Sith Threat Identification: The system is attuned to fluctuations in hostile intent, allowing subtle highlights of Force-active threats within a limited range.
- Environmental Adaptation: Rapidly adjusts visual overlays in dense atmospheres, ash storms, or dim-lit interiors for optimal contrast.

- Enhanced Tracking in Obscured Conditions: Excels in visually degraded or supernatural environments, such as battlefields covered in smoke, fog, or illusions.
- Force Attuned Threat Awareness: Can visually highlight Force-sensitive enemies or illusion-based obfuscation, depending on the user's Force attunement.
- Sith Resilience: The visor is resistant to standard EMP, glare-based blindness effects, and light-scattering flash countermeasures.

- Force Nullification Vulnerability: Loses metaphysical and threat detection capabilities in Force-dead zones or when affected by Force Light.
- Sith-Specific Interface: Effectiveness is significantly reduced for non-Sith users; full threat awareness functions require a dark-side-aligned pilot or gunner.
- Overload Susceptibility: Intense visual noise (such as overlapping metaphysical illusions or conflicting Force presences) can temporarily disorient the system or delay response time.

The Nightglass Targeting Visor Mk. I is a specialized Sith visual augmentation system created to answer one of the Shadow Armada's recurring needs, reliable visibility in atmospherically or otherwise visually obscured battlefields. Standard targeting HUDs fail in environments riddled with extreme smoke cover, illusory effects or other anomalies. Designed and produced by Malsheem Hypernautics under the oversight of the Shadow Mind, the Nightglass Visor serves as a critical upgrade for Sith pilots, gunners, and high-command operators within the Kainate.
Built from Bloodpane, the crimson-tinted glass used in many Kainate systems, the visor integrates a Runic Silhouette Tracking Matrix, a lattice of Sith inscriptions that enable the lens with the ability to visually isolate threats by interpreting hostile intent and projecting a subtle highlight around fast-moving enemy. This effect is further reinforced by internal Crystalline Obsidian Circuitry, which stabilizes visual processing and synchronizes with Sith data.
Though invaluable in the heart of Kainate fleet engagements and citadel defense corridors, the system is not without limitations. It is tuned to function best when paired with a Sith user. When exposed to force nullification, the runic enhancements deactivate, and the visor behaves as a high end but conventional targeting HUD. Even so, the Nightglass Visor has proven itself time and again, particularly during skirmishes in dense nebulae, corrupted temple vaults, and asteroid fortresses. To wear the Nightglass is to see with Sith eyes, piercing deception, smoke, and shadow alike with the clarity of hate-honed precision.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create an advanced Sith targeting visor for use in Kainate starships, armor systems, and heavy weapons platforms, enabling superior visibility and tracking in visually obscured environments.
Canon Link:
N/A
Permissions:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
N/A
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate
Model:
Nightglass Targeting Visor Mk. I
Modular:
No
Material:
Bloodpane Composite Lense Reinforced Sith Blackstone Crystalline Obsidian Circuitry Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Frame Runic Inscription Layer (internal)