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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Name: Odojinya Nerve Agent
Manufacturer: Tephrike
Affiliation: Tephrike
Market Status: Closed-Market
Modularity: Vapour or liquid form. Gas can be released through a variety of ways.
Production: Limited
Material: Chemicals and Pharmaceutical Components.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Classification: Nerve agent
Method of Consumption: The nerve agent can be absorbed through the skin, eye contact or via respiration. Moreover, people can be exposed to Odojinya if they touch or drink water that contains it. The same applies to touching or eating food contaminated with the nerve agent. It is also possible to become exposed to the vapour by touching contaminated clothes or inhaling the gas from them. People can also be exposed to the nerve agent in its liquid form by swallowing it, getting it on their skin, or in their eyes.
Average Life: Its acute effects last up to a day and that if death does not result the chronic effects can last for months or years. Under average weather conditions, Odojinya can last for days on objects that it has come in contact with. Under very cold conditions, it can last for months on objects.
Nutritional Value/Allergies/Side Effects/ Purpose: It is a chemical weapon. As such it has no nutritional value.
Purpose:
Early symptoms of exposure via skin contact are, among others, muscular twitching and local sweating in the exposed area. Nausea, and vomiting ensue shortly thereafter. Early symptoms of exposure to vapour include a runny nose, constricted pupils, chest tightness, abdominal pain, muscle cramps, eye pain, slow heart rate and shortness of breath. These symptoms can manifest within seconds. As a result of stimulation of nerve cells in the brain, victims become agitated and confused.
As a nerve agent, Odojinya disrupts a victim's a nervous system. Nerve impulses are continuously transmitted, and thus muscle contractions do not cease. Symptoms get worse over time. Unless quickly treated, the victim loses control of their bodily functions. This is accompanied by effects such as involuntary salivation, tearing of the eyes, loss of control over one's bowels, gastrointestinal pain and vomiting will be experienced. Stimulation of muscle cells causes cramping followed by weakness and paralysis.
The victim may also suffer from blisters, as well as burning of the eyes and lungs. The next phase encompasses muscle jerks, followed by epileptic seizures. Exposure to high doses may result in loss of consciousness, cardiac arrest, coma, convulsions, respiratory failure, paralysis or seizures and similar. The victim typically dies due to weakness of breathing muscles and disruption of the breathing centre within the brain.
Of course, the victim may receive successful treatment before succumbing or the dose may be too low to be fatal. However, the effects of exposure may be long lasting, depending on the degree and length of exposure. Survivors can suffer from chronic neurological damage and other psychiatric effects. Examples are tiredness, blurry vision, declined memory, sleeplessness, hoarse voice, palpitations, and eye strain.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Highly toxic and versatile. Can be released through a variety of delivery methods.
- Odourless and tasteless.
- As a nerve agent, it can be absorbed through a variety of ways.
- The Odojinya Nerve Agent is a highly toxic nerve agent h a high fatality rate. The potentially fatal dose is very low, and its effects are rapid, which means that the window for treatment is limited. Moreover, a person who has received treatment and recovered may still experience long-lasting symptoms such as paralysis, muscle weakness and pain. In its vapour form, it is also frighteningly good at slithering through small openings.
- As a nerve agent, it can be deployed in both liquid or vapour form and people can be exposed to it in a variety of ways. Thus it is not sufficient to avoid inhalation in order to prevent exposure. In the case of visible Odojinya liquid contact on the skin, the exposed person should wash it off immediately.
- Wearing an airtight, fully sealed biohazard suit or equivalent sealed armour obviously provides protection against gas...provided there is no breach.
- Recovery is quite possible if a person receives a small dose and quickly gets treatment. Skin contact takes longer to take serious effect than inhalation. The liquid form is less likely to be lethal and takes longer to kill than the vapour.
- Immorality aside, the use of this weapon also imposes military constraints. If one, for example, uses the gas to break an enemy stronghold on the frontline, the residue of the attack will also create an obstruction for one's own allies. This is a problem for operations that rely on mobility and manoeuvre warfare. Similarly, poisoning the water supply is a problem...if one has to drink said water.
- For obvious reasons, it is ineffective against droids.
- Averse wind currents can obviously cause the gas to disperse...or move in directions one does not want it to go.
DESCRIPTION
Chemical weapons such as nerve gas are, without a doubt, horrific. In this modern day and age, their efficacy is somewhat limited by technological advancement in modern galactic warfare. However, this is not the case in environments such as the war-torn Dark Age world of Tephrike. The absurdly named 'Greater Sith Imperium', led by the human supremacist Disciples of the Vader, has an active chemical weapons programme...and it does not exist just for 'deterrence'.
The Vaderites have made active use of nerve gas in 'counterinsurgency operations' that constitute genocidal massacres. Aircraft dropping chemical bombs have rained death upon towns held by the Dominion of Light or the Republican Guard. Chemical nerve agents have also been used to murder inmates of concentration camps and prisoners of war. The Odojinya Nerve Agent is one of these weapons. Designed by the Chemical Warfare Service of the Imperial Army, it was first tested on Twi'lek prisoners who had been designated 'useless eaters' because malnutrition, disease, abuse and backbreaking forced labour had destroyed their health.
The nerve agent saw extensive use during the 'cleansing' of Chios. This was accompanied by deportations and mass shootings to make Chios 'habitable for human settlement'. Thousands of Togruta, Gungan and Nautolan villages were razed, and their inhabitants were either killed or deported. It was later used during the Great War with the Dominion, such as in the blood and mud-soaked trenches of the Battle of Grimwater Swamp. This turned out to be a miscalculation because the Dominion had its own chemical weapons programme, and was more than able to launch retaliatory strikes with chemical munitions of its own. Odojinya has also been used to poison political dissidents and defectors.
As a nerve agent, Odojinya prevents a vital enzyme from functioning. As a result the body eventually tires, and the victim is no longer able to breathe. It can be absorbed through skin and eye contact as well as inhalation. Moreover, contact with contaminated surfaces, water, food and clothes can also cause exposure. This makes it highly dangerous. The symptoms depend on how much Odojinya the victim has been exposed to, how they were exposed, and for how long. The same applies to how lethal it is and how quickly it can kill. The nerve agent possesses no perceivable odour or taste, which means a victim may not know what they have been exposed to until signs and symptoms manifest.
Someone who has been exposed to a low or moderate dose may experience, among other things, abnormally low or high blood pressure, blurred vision, chest tightness, diarhea, difficulty breathing, nausea, eye pain, eye tearing, excessive sweating, muscle cramps, nausea, abdominal pain, runny nose, tremors, slow heart or rapid breathing within seconds of exposure.
Even a small drop of the nerve agent on the skin can cause sweating or muscle switching in the area of exposure. Exposure to high doses may result in loss of consciousness, cardiac arrest, coma, convulsions, respiratory failure, paralysis or seizures and similar. Respiratory failure may lead to death. The vapour form of Odojinya is the most lethal and kills the fastest. In liquid form, it could be released into the water supply or be employed to poison someone's food.
For obvious reasons, chemical weapons factories and storage facilities used for this weapon are tightly guarded. Nonetheless, occasionally there are...leaks. Or rebel forces or Dominion agents manage to raid one such facility to steal canisters of nerve gas, and unleash vengeance. Unauthorised possession is punishable by death in the Imperium. It would be such a shame if a chemical weapons' storage facility was compromised, especially one near a water treatment plant. Such a shame.
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