Shadow Hand
- Intent: To create an advanced Kainate exclusive Sithspawn species engineered as elite living controllers for warships, installations, and complex technological systems, enhancing Sith alchemical and technological capabilities.
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- Name: Nythraxû ("Will-Bound" in Sith)
- Designation: Sentient [Overminds] | Semi-Sentient [Controllers]
- Origins: Darth Prazutis | Dromund Kaas
- Average Lifespan:
- Controllers: 25 years
- Overminds: 500 years
- Estimated Population: Scattered (Kainate warships, installations, and sanctums)
- Description: The Nythraxû are darkly engineered Sithspawn brains, sustained within alchemized bio-chambers and linked directly into warship systems, defensive grids, and infrastructure. They are unmistakably Sith constructs, pulsating brains encased in crimson-black Bloodpane chambers lined with crystalline circuitry, glowing dimly with dark-side energy. Controllers are smaller, purpose-grown control nodes, while the vast Overminds are larger, immobile command brains embedded deep within Kainate dreadnoughts or citadels, whispering telepathic commands and coordinating entire fleets.
- Breathes: Nutrient-enriched Alchemical fluid (no traditional atmosphere).
- Average Height of Adults:
- Controllers: 15-40 cm
- Overminds: 0.5-75 meters
- Average Length of Adults:
- Controllers: 20-45 cm
- Overminds: 1-120 meters
- Skin Color: Dark grey, crimson-black veins visible beneath translucent membranes.
- Hair Color: N/A
- Distinctions:
- Entirely bioengineered brains, alchemically enhanced with superior cognitive processing capabilities.
- Physically immobile, sustained entirely by integrated machinery and alchemical support systems.
- Overminds continually grow larger, increasing in cognitive and metaphysical potency with age.
- Controllers serve strictly as living organic command nodes, incapable of rebellion or independent action without directives from an Overmind or a Sith commander.
- Races:
- Controllers: Smaller, mass-produced control nodes, handling starfighter coordination, turret targeting, and facility monitoring.
- Overminds: Immense, ancient beings acting as strategic commanders and network coordinators, able to telepathically command numerous controllers simultaneously.
- Force Sensitivity: High (Engineered to be highly attuned to the dark side.)
- Unparalleled Cognitive Speed: Capable of instantaneous tactical calculations, system optimizations, and strategic decision-making far beyond conventional systems.
- Direct Machine Integration: Directly control and optimize technological systems, such as weapons, shield grids, navigation, and starship coordination, through bio-alchemical interface.
- Advanced Telepathic Networking: Overminds efficiently command numerous Controllers, coordinating entire fleets or vast installations seamlessly.
- Force Resilient: Enhanced resistance to conventional mental attacks through Sith alchemy and bioengineering, particularly strong in Overminds.
- Stationary and Vulnerable: Physically vulnerable if life-support systems are compromised; especially vulnerable to Ion/EMP attacks disabling support machinery.
- Susceptibility to Force Light: Vulnerable to strong blasts of Force Light, causing severe injury or death.
- Logic-Bound Thinking: Struggle to predict highly irrational or emotionally driven enemy tactics without Sith guidance.
- Diet: Nutrient-rich alchemical fluids continually fed through integrated support systems.
- Communication: Telepathic communication, integrated comms systems using Sith encrypted transmissions.
- Technology Level: Exceptional knowledge of Sith alchemy, bioengineering, and starship/installation technology through direct interface; reliant on external maintenance by Sith trained specialists.
- Religion/Beliefs: Indoctrinated belief that their sole existence and purpose is absolute service to the Sith and the Kainate, reinforced through dark programming and imprinting from birth, worship the Sith Dyarchy as gods.
- General Behavior:
- Controllers remain perpetually in states of monitoring or active system operation.
- Overminds display intricate strategic thought processes, obsessively plan for contingencies, and often indulge in philosophical musings regarding obedience, existence, and power, although they remain unwaveringly loyal to the Sith hierarchy.
The Nythraxû represent the apex convergence of Sith alchemy, genetic exploitation, and strategic technological doctrine, a culmination of centuries of forbidden knowledge sharpened into terrifying utility. Forged in the hidden sanctums of the Kainate, they are the answer to a question Sith philosophers and warlords have asked for generations: How can consciousness itself be weaponized to enforce dominance across fleets, fortresses, and entire warfronts? Their creation was not merely an experiment in biomancy, it was a doctrinal mandate issued by the Shadow Hand, Darth Prazutis, and brought to life by the sinister minds of the Shadow Mind technopriests and genetic warlocks beneath the Sith Citadel of Dromund Kaas and in the deeper, abyssal laboratories of Malsheem. Where the Tsudakyr were once a crude but functional species of mental drones, semi-sentient brain-creatures embedded in systems, their limitations soon became intolerable to the ambitions of the Kainate. They were flawed: limited in Force sensitivity, slow to adapt to warfare, and prone to deterioration over long-term deployments. The Nythraxû were not built to supplement them. They were built to replace them.
The genesis of the Nythraxû began with a brutal process of forced genetic fusion and alchemical augmentation. Neural tissue and cognitive patterning were harvested from a blend of high-value targets: captured Jedi, genius Arkanians, Nagai tacticians, Yammosks (biological war-coordinators of the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong), and Sith Lord remnants extracted from ancient holocrons. Each sample brought strategic brilliance, metaphysical sensitivity, and raw cognitive potential into the mix. These were combined through the darkest rites of Sith alchemy, creating neural amalgamations steeped in hatred, calculation, and unwavering loyalty.
The resulting beings were not born, they were forged. Each was cultivated in Bloodpane chambers, alchemized birthing cradles formed of obsidian glass, ritual bone, and crimson circuitry. There, in sacrificial fluid and under the watch of Sith overseers, the Nythraxû minds developed into two castes. The Controllers, compact and efficient, served as living system cores embedded into weapons batteries, command bridges, or communications nexuses. The Overminds, meanwhile, grew vast and ancient, immobile beings entombed deep within the command sanctums of dreadnoughts, space stations, or fortified bastions.
The Overminds coordinate entire warfronts with ease, their telepathic webs stretching across fleets through encrypted bio-alchemical relays. Controllers respond instantly to commands or combat stimuli, adjusting shielding, rerouting power, issuing kill orders, all without delay, emotion, or fatigue. Through their combined presence, a Kainate vessel or installation does not react like a machine, it thinks, it adapts, and it hunts. Despite their overwhelming potency, the Nythraxû are not without flaw. Their bodies are entirely dependent on support systems, alchemical fluids, neural stabilizers, containment rituals, and mechanical infrastructure. Should these systems fail, they die. They are also exceptionally vulnerable to Force Light, which not only sears their dark alchemical bindings but may unravel their minds completely, leaving even the mightiest Overmind a twitching, catatonic husk.
Yet for all these risks, the Kainate considers them more than worth the price. Nythraxû do not question orders. They do not betray. Their minds are etched with dark compulsion: serve the Sith, serve the Dyarchy, serve the will of power. Controllers act as extensions of their Overmind's logic. Overminds serve as strategic reflections of the Sith who forged them. Some even whisper their masters' decrees as sacred scripture, interpreting every command as divine will. To the Sith, these creations are the final answer to inefficiency, chaos, and rebellion: life sculpted purely for obedience, domination, and war. A thinking mind not burdened with freedom but liberated by absolute submission. Thus, in the vast shadows of the Kainate's war engine, the Nythraxû do not merely exist, they endure as the very will of Sith supremacy, encased in flesh, sealed in glass, and fed by blood.