Approved Starship Nyctophage-class Wraith Drone Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create a next generation, predatory droid starfighter for the Kainate, designed for autonomous combat using advanced Sith alchemy, bioengineering, and dark technology to hunt, destroy, and instill fear in the enemies of the Kainate.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Nyctophage-class Wraith Drone Mk. I
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron
  • Bloodwrought Plating
  • Crucivane Hull Frame
  • Umbricore Hull Liner
  • Sith Blackstone Crystalline Reinforcement

• Classification: Predatory Droid Starfighter
• Length: 14 Meters
• Width: 9 Meters
• Height: 4 Meters
• Armament: Very High
  
  • Painwave Fang Mk. I [1] (Hull-Mounted)
  • Drazhul Shardpulse Blaster Mk. I [2] (Hull-Mounted)
  • Vor'Kar Talon Cannons Mk. I [2] (Wing-Mounted)
  • Phantasmal Ripper Cannons Mk. I [2] (Underslung)
  • Shriekfang Swarm Pod Mk. I [1] (Underslung, Between Phantasmal Ripper Cannons)
• Defenses: High
  
  • Aegis of Shadows Shield Generator Mk. I
  • Nullheart Core Mk. I
  • Reinforced Bloodwrought Plating
  • Gravebind Hull Mesh Mk. I
  • Bloodlock Transponder Mk. I
  • Specterfield Null Mantle Mk. I
  • Carrion-Key Counter-Mechu Hardening Mk. I
  • Black Veil Egress Weave Mk. I
• Squadron Count: Very High (20 per Squadron)
• Maneuverability Rating: High
• Speed Rating: Very High
• Hyperdrive: No

• Sith Life Support System: A bio-alchemical system that supports the Nyctophage's organic neural core during flight, ensuring optimal functionality of the bio-organic components. It sustains the craft's internal processes, even in extreme combat conditions or Force Corrupted zones.
• Autonomous Combat Matrix: A self-aware, predatory AI that allows the Nyctophage to operate independently of a pilot, using tactical algorithms and psychological analysis to hunt and destroy enemies with maximum efficiency.
• Sith Communications Array: An encrypted system capable of secure transmissions and emotion-coded signals to disrupt enemy communications or morale. The array can also synchronize the Nyctophage with other drones in a Packlink formation.
• Sith Navigation System: This system combines advanced star mapping, Force Augmented navigation, and hyperspace routing based on Sith ritual star charts to help the Nyctophage navigate through both conventional and Sith specific routes.
• Integrated Flight Stabilization Matrix: Micro-thrusters and bloodsteel-threaded servos maintain highly responsive maneuvering and ensure smooth flight even during the most intense engagements.
• Reinforced Sensor Package: A multi-spectral sensor suite that integrates advanced thermal, electromagnetic, and Sith-aura resonance detection, capable of detecting Force Sensitive entities and tracking enemies across a variety of wavelengths.
• Magno-Clamp Undercarriage & Docking Interface: Modular landing clamps designed to anchor the Nyctophage onto capital ships or space stations, ensuring stability during dockings in low gravity or non-atmospheric conditions.
• Data Blackout & Malediction Lattice: A failsafe system designed to purge all internal data and disable the Nyctophage's systems in case of capture or interception. This system also renders the ship's systems unusable by enemy forces, cursing their recovery efforts. This directly interfaces with the vessels Bloodlock system.
• Void-Ward Hull Laminate: An alchemical laminate designed to protect the hull from corrosive atmospheres, ion storms, and psychic distortion caused by the presence of opposing Sith forces.

• Control & Pilot Integration Systems:
  
  • Nythraxû Hive Core Mk. I
  • Pain Link Coordination Suite Mk. I
  • Wraith Sense Threat Processing Unit Mk. I
  • Trazkhaal Harmonizer Mk. I
  • Graveslit Aligner Mk. I
• Cybersecurity Systems:
  
  • Vyraksh Ward Casket Mk. I
  • Noctucrypt Mindveil Network Mk. I
  • Mazkyr Anomaly Scrambler Node Mk. I
  • Ironveil Ghost Cortex Mk. I
  • Pyrekhaz Containment Halo Mk. I
  • Eclipsion Seal Protocol Mk. I
  • Ravager Loop Inflection Trap Mk. I
• Electronic Warfare & Disruption Systems:
  
  • Dreadskin Field Mk. I
  • Nazrûl Disruption Core Mk. I
  • Runesliver Harmonics Array Mk. I
  • Reaper Shroud Countermeasure Suite Mk. I
  • Shadow-Phase Countermeasure Suite Mk. I
  • Wraith Shroud Projector Mk. I
• Life Support Systems:
  
  • Sarcostel Life Preservation System Mk. I
• Networking & Sensor Systems:
  
  • Ebon Psicom Array Mk. I
  • Nether Eye Combat Sight Network Mk. I
  • Adaptive Targeting Matrix Mk. I
  • Shadowlink Omni-Resolution Array Mk. I
  • Sovereign Link Command Array Mk. I
• Power, Biology, & Dark Systems:
  
  • Soulfire Reactor Node Mk. I
  • Hemophage Conductor Web Mk. I
  • Onslaught Surge Drive Mk. I
  • Fleshcoil Maintenance Web Mk. I
  • Gloomcore Thermal Dissipation Grid Mk. I
  • Scream-Sink Resonance Dampers Mk. I
  • Ashen Seal Isolation Grid Mk. I
• Propulsion & Hyperdrive Systems:
  
  • Voidflare Ion Engines Mk. II
  • Eclipse Pattern Maneuvering Jets Mk. I
  • Nightcloak Emissions Veil Mk. I
  • Umbral Grav-Repulsion Grid Mk. I
• Support & Recovery Systems:
  
  • Bone-Latch Recovery Hooks and Void-Sled Skids Mk. I
• Weapons & Ordnance Systems:
  
  • Bloodhail Ordnance Conductor Mk. I
  • Nightcoil Vector Matrix Mk. I

• Autonomous and Predatory Intelligence: Deep at the heart of the Nyctophage is its techno-organic brain, the Nythraxû Hive Core Mk. I, a semi-sentient fusion of Sith alchemy and AI, combining the lethal predatory instincts of the Nythraxû with advanced machine intelligence. This hybrid mind processes combat data with ferocious efficiency, evolving in real-time based on enemy actions, adapting to changing conditions, and making tactical decisions on the fly. The Nyctophage thinks and reacts like a living predator, instinctively knowing when to pursue, feint, or strikebased on its enemies' weaknesses. In addition, it seamlessly accepts commands from Kainate officers, Eternal Rule Sith, and can even be overridden remotely or controlled from Kainate vessels or installations.
• Psychological Warfare Mastery: The Dreadskin Field Mk. I, Wraith-Shroud Projector Mk. I, and Painwave Fang Mk. I work in unison to disorient and destabilize the enemy. This combination causes overwhelming panic, confusion, and fear. With sensor illusions, hallucinations, and psychic dissonance, the Nyctophage makes it impossible for the enemy to focus, leading them to make mistakes and misallocate resources. The Dreadskin Field creates an untraceable aura of dread, while the Wraith-Shroud fills the battlefield with false targets. The Painwave Fang turns the agony it causes into a deadly weapon, while amplifying fear through psychic resonance.
• Highly Maneuverable and Agile: The Nyctophage boasts state-of-the-art flight stabilizers and an autonomous control system that enables it to execute aggressive dogfighting maneuvers with devastating effectiveness. Its techno-organic nature makes it uniquely suited to handle extreme G-forces without losing agility or precision. Even under intense battle conditions, it can perform sharp turns, high-speed evasions, and rapid strikes that would be difficult for even the best pilots with ease, leaving enemies unable to track or engage effectively.
• Coordinated Swarm Tactics: The Hive Core Neural-Link allows multiple Nyctophages to act as a single unit, functioning as a pack that anticipates and supports each other. With this coordination, the Nyctophages can execute complex tactical maneuvers, overwhelming enemies from multiple angles and forcing them into untenable positions. Whether its baiting with one drone while others flank, or launching a coordinated assault, the Hive Core ensures that the Nyctophages are always in perfect synchronization, adapting instantly to changing circumstances.
• Energy Siphoning Technology: The Painwave Fang doesn't just inflict pain, it feeds on it. The Nyctophage can drain ambient energy from the agony it inflicts on its enemies, using it to power its weapons and regenerate shields during combat. This self-sustaining mechanism ensures that the Nyctophage can amplify its attacks without depleting its energy reserves, turning the suffering of its foes into strength for itself. The Painwave Fang becomes more than just a weapon; it is a battery, it is dark technology in its purest form that grows stronger as it feeds on the terror it causes.

• Force Nullification: The Nyctophage's core systems, like the Dreadskin Field and Painwave Fang and more, rely heavily on psychic resonance and dark energy manipulation. As a result, they are significantly weakened while exposed to Force Nullification, rendering the ship weajer in these environments. While still formidable, without the ability to draw on the dark, its offensive and defensive systems falter, reducing the effectiveness of its fear tactics and pain-based weapons.
• Morality: The Nyctophage is not simply a weapon; it is the manifestation of the Kainate's darkest ambitions, a twisted hybrid of bioengineering and Sith alchemy designed to maximize suffering and destruction. Its very existence is an abomination, created through forbidden practices, the harvest of sentient minds, and the perversion of natural life. Using it, or even merely deploying it in battle, tarnishes the soul of any who command it.
• Specialized Maintenance: The alchemical and ritualistic systems integrated into the Nyctophage, such as the Painwave Fang and Wraith-Shroud Projector, require specialized maintenance by Kainate technicians. Without these rituals, the ship's systems begin to degrade over time. Sith technicians and ritual specialists must ensure that the bio-organic components remain in peak performance, or else the ship will lose its edge and potentially malfunction in the heat of battle.

The Nyctophage-class Wraith Drone Mk. I represents the culmination of a grand campaign, the Shadow Hand's relentless drive to shatter the barriers of possibility and reforge the Kainate into an unstoppable engine of war. Where others built fleets, Darth Prazutis built legacies. His hand guided the evolution of every vessel that came before, the Xarûl-class Sith Starfighter, the Gorvahn-class Heavy Sith Starfighter, and the Velakorr-class Sith Tactical Bomber, each one a refinement of death, a perfected iteration in the Kainate's ascension. But the Nyctophage is not an iteration. It is a revelation. The culmination of an unholy synthesis of flesh and machine, mind and horror, precision and madness.

No longer would the Kainate rely upon the flawed relics of the Ashwing-class Superiority Drone or the deranged brilliance of the Shadow Droid programs of old. These predecessors were weapons, effective, yes, but they were still machines of constraint, limited by programming, by fear of what true autonomy might unleash. The Nyctophage was the rejection of those limits, the transcendence of that cowardice. It was born from the Eternal Rule's mandate: to surpass all rivals, to make the Sith not only immortal in will, but inevitable in dominance.

Deep at the heart of this monstrosity lies the Nythraxû Hive Core Mk. I, a living neural consciousness grown in the abyssal crucibles beneath Malsheem, suspended in alchemical fluid, and woven into a lattice of Bloodpane and runic circuitry. It is neither artificial intelligence nor organic being, it is something in between, a techno-biological will that dreams in code and bleeds in logic. It does not calculate; it hunts. Its every decision is instinct sharpened into algorithm, its every reaction the echo of predatory hunger. It feels the battlefield, smells fear through telemetry, and learns from every moment of agony it causes.

The Nyctophage was designed not merely to win dogfights but to orchestrate dread as doctrine. The Dreadskin Field Mk. I and Wraith Shroud Projector Mk. I render its presence a terror in itself. on enemy sensors, ghost squadrons multiply, distorted faces flicker in feed data, screams resonate through comm-channels. Crews break before they ever see the fighter that hunts them. To the victims, there are always more of them than there are. Every contact could be real, every shadow could be death. And when it strikes, it does so with the merciless precision of the Adaptive Targeting Matrix Mk. I, anticipating panic before it even manifests.

Its arsenal is not simply destructive, it is sadistic. With weapons empowered by the Bloodhail Ordnance Conductor and Nightcoil Vector Matrix, it rends through hulls with deliberate cruelty, feeding the Hemophage Conductor Web that powers its fury. Each act of destruction strengthens it, each pulse of agony quickens its reflexes. When the Painwave Fang latches onto a target, it transmits pure torment back to the Hive Core, which translates that psychic feedback into enhanced aggression and combat clarity. Where a human pilot might tire or hesitate, the Nyctophage only grows more precise, more alive.

And yet, for all its terror, it remains disciplined, a predator on a leash of code and command. Through the Sovereign Link Command Array and Grave-Current Datacord, the Shadow Mind can commune with entire swarms of Nyctophages as if they were limbs of a single organism. When unleashed en masse, they hunt in silence, pack-coordinated, communicating through shared pulse-thought and sensory bleed. Entire fighter screens vanish before realizing they've entered the kill-field.

In doctrine, the Nyctophage is more than a war machine. It is the manifestation of the Shadow Hand's grand rearmament, the spearhead of a new era in the Shadow Armada, a campaign not only to dominate the battlefield, but to redefine what warfare means. Under Darth Prazutis' vision, the Kainate's fleets have become an extension of the Sith psyche: emotion weaponized, fear industrialized, and consciousness itself turned into a weapon.

Where the Xarûl pioneered adaptation, the Gorvahn mastered firepower, and the Velakorr perfected ritual precision, the Nyctophage transcends them all. It is the final stage in the Sith's evolution of control. A living nightmare of steel and blood, self-learning, self-healing, and self-aware. To the Kainate, it is a triumph. To its enemies, it is a harbinger. When its red eyes flicker to life in the dark void, it is already too late.

In the dark heart of the void, beneath the shadow of Dromund Kaas, the Nyctophage-class Wraith Drone was finally unleashed, a creation borne not of mere conquest, but of the Eternal Rule's absolute mandate. The first battle in which it was tested was a blood-drenched confrontation on the fringes of the Stygian Caldera. The Shadow Armada, under the direct command of Darth Prazutis, stood at the vanguard of this terrifying new weapon's debut. A large force of Mandalorian Holdouts, had gathered in an attempt to strike at the heart of the Kainate's growing power.

With the Nyctophages deployed, their presence on the battlefield obliterated enemy cohesion before a single shot had been fired. The Dreadskin Field overwhelmed sensors and scrambled communications, distorting the attackers' visual and radar data, making them see phantom squadrons moving through the stars. Horrifying spectral images, distorted faces, disembodied screams, flashed through enemy HUDs and comm channels, sowing panic and disarray across the ranks. The Wraith Shroud Projector multiplied the illusion, as if the Kainate's forces were far greater, far more terrifying than they truly were.

As the enemy's morale faltered, the Nyctophages moved in with predatory precision. The Painwave Fang, empowered by the suffering it created, tore through hulls and shields, the drone's weapons fired with inhuman clarity, while the Adaptive Targeting Matrix calculated weaknesses in real time, exploiting every gap in the enemy's defense. Squadron after squadron of Nyctophages, guided by the Hive Core, swooped in from unexpected vectors, coordinating through telepathic Packlink protocols that sent the enemy into disarray.

By the time the enemy flagship was reduced to a smoldering wreckage, the battlefield was a testament to the Kainate's new philosophy. Not just destruction, but the mastery of fear. Those who survived the onslaught would speak of the Nyctophage as something alive, something that could feel the terror it inflicted, that anticipated the movements of its prey and savored every agonizing moment of the hunt.

The Shadow Hand, Darth Prazutis, watched from the shadows as his creations brought forth the final triumph of his vision. To ensure its continuing secrecy all survivors were put to death. This was only the beginning, the Nyctophage had arrived, and with it, the Kainate's supremacy was assured. The galaxy, unprepared for such a force, would never again know peace. One thing was certain this was only the beginning.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

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