Shadow Hand

- Intent: To create a superior, Sith exclusive cybersecurity network and encrypted data rerouting system for use in advanced Kainate vessels.
- Image Source:
- Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A

- Manufacturer:
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Noctucrypt Mindveil Network Mk. I
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Ghostcoil Lattice
- Echoquartz Node Webbing
- Bloodsteel Encryption Seals
- Alchemized Codebone Lattice
- Ritual-Bound Shadow Memory Strata

- Bloodpoint Cipher Web: Constantly randomized encryption pathways via "bloodpoint" coordinates rooted in the pilot's aura and bound will. This ensures no two starfighters transmit data the same way, making intercepts meaningless unless bound to the originating pilot.
- Echo-Bleed Transmission Veil: Transmits and receives data cloaked as corrupted ambient chatter or "ghost signal bleed." Enemy systems perceive all outgoing traffic as meaningless distortion, often mislabeling vital Sith commands as background void static.
- Dead Node Memory Vaults: Hosts critical data within dark phased "dead nodes" nearly invisible to conventional slicing tools and sensor sweeps. These nodes are only accessible during specific pilot-matched resonance cycles, otherwise appearing as void anomalies or system noise.
- Dark Intent Intrusion Filter: Integrates with Sith AI to preemptively detect infiltration attempts by interpreting hostile data "intent." Before a foreign signal breaches a barrier, its emotional or tactical signature is interpreted like a lie, triggering countermeasures before code entry.
- Glyph-Imprint Cognitive Firewalls: Advanced reactive firewalls that fracture slicer cognition or compel false signal interpretation via illusion-triggered glyphs. Slicers report hallucinations, corrupted vision, or data reshaped to appear as benign when facing these defense matrices.
- Fractured Transmission Overlay: Highly resilient to signal triangulation or packet tracing due to spatially fractured transmission layers. Communication packets travel via non-linear paths, echoing across dark fractures, incredibly tough to correlate or locate.
- Nullburst Contingency Glyphs: Self-sealing ignition glyphs purge memory and code strands if breach thresholds are approached. This process sears through both data and circuitry at the system owners discretion, leaving nothing but residual spiritual burn patterns in place of critical systems.
- Ghostcoil Cloak Nodes: Reinforced by Ghostcoil resonators that mask the very existence of outgoing signals from passive surveillance. Long-range scans struggle to even detect that a transmission occurred, as the resonance fields suppress spatial and energy footprints alike.

- Untraceable Comms: Masks not just the content of transmissions, but their presence, outgoing/incoming traffic appears as astral noise.
- Anti-Slicing: Standard slicer intrusion methods incredibly difficult to locate, intercept, or decode the system's data nodes due to dark separation.
- Preemptive Sabotage Protocols: If tampering is sensed, the system self-corrupts and deploys targeted psychic feedback loops, risking mental disruption in Force-sensitive slicers.
- Integration with Sith Systems: Perfectly harmonizes with Sith command architectures such as the Shadow Mind, allowing seamless comms continuity across fleets and void installations.

- Force Nullification: Operates at significantly reduced efficiency in ysalamir fields or voidstone, where its spiritual encryption lattice loses cohesion.
- No External Compatibility: Non-Kainate systems, even Sith-aligned ones, cannot interface without complete reconfiguration and ritual integration.
- High Maintenance Complexity: Requires soul-key rebinding, data offering renewal, and ritual cleansing to maintain full functionality across extended deployments.

The Noctucrypt Mindveil Network Mk. I is the pinnacle of Sith-developed information concealment and metaphysical cybersecurity. Designed by the Shadow Mind division under Darth Prazutis' directive, it reflects the Kainate's doctrine that no signal, no presence, and no thought should ever be left vulnerable to enemy eyes.
This system bypasses traditional slicer-countermeasure paradigms by rejecting mechanical logic in favor of esoteric misdirection and encrypted soul-path routing. All communications and internal data transmissions are obscured through rerouting across "bloodpoint" vectors, quantum-fixed anchor points tied to the will and aura of the Sith user. These signals are fractured into incongruous patterns that resemble ghostly background noise or corrupted system anomalies, making them indistinguishable from ambient void static.
What truly separates the Noctucrypt from lesser VPN systems like TunnelNet is its use of dead nodes, storage caches hidden within the net. Not only are they incredibly difficult to find, but they also cannot be known to exist unless accessed by the correct security clearance. If a breach attempt is sensed, the system retaliates through corruption sigils and, if needed, by triggering a short burst of neuro-disruptive feedback that can stun or even knock out a slicer.
It's more than secure. It's nearly impregnable.
For Kainate operations, this allows dark vessels like it, to remain in total information silence without ever being deaf. It can communicate across corrupted hyperspace or enemy-monitored space lanes without even the suggestion that data is being transmitted. Entire battle strategies can unfold across this system's psychic threads with no conventional trace, a gift of darkness and dread to the war doctrine of the Kainate.
This is not merely a VPN.
It is a silence with a soul.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a superior, Sith exclusive cybersecurity network and encrypted data rerouting system for use in advanced Kainate vessels.
Canon Link:
N/A
Permissions:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
N/A
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate
Model:
Noctucrypt Mindveil Network Mk. I
Modular:
No
Material:
Ghostcoil Lattice Echoquartz Node Webbing Bloodsteel Encryption Seals Alchemized Codebone Lattice Ritual-Bound Shadow Memory Strata
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