Approved Tech Oblivion Diadem Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create a superior Sith neural-integration interface for Kainate vessels and starfighters, replacing all conventional neurocrowns.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Oblivion Diadem Mk. I
• Modularity: Yes - Limited (Field density, feedback harmonics, and frequency layering can be customized for ship, fortress, or mobile applications.)
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Bloodsteel Channel Nodes
  • Crucivane Containment Ribs
  • Obsidian Fiber Wiring
  • Synth-Neuronal Mesh
  • Shadow Resin Seals

• Neural Ascendancy Link: Establishes a true neural bridge between user and vessel, not simply reading thought but syncing intent and reaction into one reflex arc. The result is instantaneous command latency across any integrated system.
• Cognitive Phase Modulation: The Diadem allows fine control over Immersion Depth, from light synchronization (awareness of body retained) to full immersion (complete neural projection). A pilot on a speeder or gunship might use low immersion for physical maneuvering, while a dreadnought's ship-operator can merge completely into their assigned system.
• Task Partitioning Array: Enables true neural multitasking. Users can compartmentalize thought-streams, dividing focus between multiple ship functions, such as flight control, weapons management, and communication relays, without degradation in precision. The Diadem's secondary neural cores allocate and harmonize these distinct mental threads automatically.
• Distributed Sensory Overlink: Integrates the user's sensory cortex with vessel telemetry, allowing perception of vibration, pressure variance, and shield resonance as tangible sensations. Experienced pilots describe it as feeling the ship breathe beneath them.
• Pain-Loop Calibration: Converts damage feedback into sharpened lucidity rather than distraction. As the ship suffers, the pilot's clarity intensifies, creating a cruel paradox: pain as focus, agony as control.
• Emotional Conversion Harmonics: The Diadem translates the user's emotional energy into operational efficiency, rage sharpens targeting, fear heightens reaction speed, serenity stabilizes systems. It thrives on Sith emotional volatility, refining passion into mathematical precision.
• Void-Resonant Insulation: Crucivane structural veins grant immense protection from ion and EMP interference. Instead of severing the link, such energy feeds harmlessly into passive bleed channels.
• Collective Synchrony Protocol: A Kainate ship's bridge crew can operate multiple linked Diadems, forming a networked control lattice under a commanding node. Through this ritual alignment, helm officers, gunnery specialists, sensor operators and more act as extensions of the same will, a single consciousness directing an entire vessel.
• Cognitivist Failsafe Ritual: In the event of overload, built-in rune-anchors suspend the user's neural imprint in crystalline memory nodes. These "echoes" can later be analyzed, rebuilt, or re-merged into successor users by the Shadow Mind.

• Perfect Reflex Concordance: Converts thought to motion instantly, eliminating delay. In combat, pilots maneuver with predatory precision, turning Sith ships into living weapons of intent.
• Adaptive Emotional Amplification: Instead of impairing focus, dark emotion strengthens signal fidelity. Rage, sorrow, ambition, all serve as stabilizers, harmonizing with Sith instinct.
• Multitasking Mastery: Unique neural architecture allows operators to control several functions or systems simultaneously, excelling in multi-crew coordination or single-pilot multitasking.
• Modular Integration: Scales from a starfighter interface to a dreadnought. Capital ship operators can control subsystems such as engines, sensors, or weapon grids through shared neural channels.
• Psychic Command Network: Collective link harmonizes crew under one dominant consciousness, most often their commanding Sith, allowing nearly telepathic coordination without verbal command.
• Dark Energy Conversion: Converts excess psychic strain and ion interference into operational current, effectively weaponizing disruption itself.

• Overload Hazard: Emotional excess or prolonged psychic feedback can push the user's neural pathways beyond stability, inducing synaptic burn-out or complete personality collapse. In extreme cases, the pilot's consciousness bleeds into the Diadem's systems, leaving behind an echo that continues fighting long after the body has died.
• Dependency Formation: Extended use conditions the brain to rely on the Diadem's feedback harmonics, eroding the pilot's sense of self and detachment. Detachment often results in phantom sensations, feeling a ship's engines in their chest, hearing targeting systems whisper even in sleep.
• Force Nullification: While under Force Nullification, the Diadem loses all emotional amplification and harmonic feedback, reducing it to an interface just beyond standard neurocrowns.
• Limited User Compatibility: Only individuals with strong mental discipline can survive full synchronization; lesser minds either burn out or lose individuality within minutes. Some of these failures linger inside the Diadem's containment crystals as flickering data-ghosts, eternally replaying their last moment of command.

Forged within the black halls of Malsheem, the Oblivion Diadem Mk. I was the Shadow Mind's answer to the flawed limitations of galactic neurocrowns. Where lesser technologies merely interpreted thought, the Diadem translates identity itself. It does not connect pilot and machine, it merges them.

The first prototypes were tested in a closed setting aboard Malsheem, proving capable of fusing pilot and craft into a seamless killing instrument. From there, the design expanded, scaled through modular anchor nodes to link bridge officers aboard dreadnoughts and stations. Now, a ship's command deck can act as a choir of minds, each bound to a central consciousness that directs the vessel like a single entity.

Constructed from Crucivane framework, veined with Bloodsteel conduits, and sealed with Obsidian fiber, the Diadem is both artifact and technology, a living circuit that feeds upon its user's emotion. The wearer's heartbeat synchronizes with the ship's reactor pulse, creating a duality of life, a commander's will beating in unison with a warship's heart.

Crew who don the Diadem describe an awakening: systems breathing, hulls flexing, weapons hungering. Their sense of self expands until ship and soul become indistinguishable. The influence spreads through psychic bleed, binding entire crews into instinctive harmony. Calm brings precision. Fury brings speed. Despair brings silence.

Yet, this unity exacts a cost. The longer the bond persists, the weaker the line between pilot and machine becomes. Veterans report hearing reactor hums in their sleep, seeing stars move behind their eyelids. Some have never removed their Diadems at all, choosing instead to remain eternally integrated.

The Oblivion Diadem Mk. I is more than an interface; It is the manifest will of the Kainate, a conduit through which Sith domination becomes literal. Each crown bears the same inscription within its inner ring:

"The vessel bends, the will ascends."

 

[Krass Wyms]

Darth Prazutis

diadems are usually so nice and pretty

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