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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
The text is formatted as a guidebook, with a table of contents and page numbers. The text includes simple line illustrations, short descriptions of uses and technical details, and sources for materials.
CONTENT INFORMATION
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The text is believed to have been created during the 400 Year Darkness, an era when the collapse of the galactic economy resulted in technology being thrown back centuries. Starships especially had to be carefully constructed due to unreliable and unstable reactor systems, and their size was limited due to the destruction or abandonment of many major shipbuilding worlds. As well, the lack of large and wealthy factions created a shortage of investment heavy products including rare metals and force-related goods.
Recently the text was recovered by a private salvage team operating in the reaches of Wild Space, contained within a hulk bearing still active war droids that may have dated back even further than the Gulag Virus itself. The artifact was then restored to its original state and is intended for auction through the means provided by the rise of Underworld Credits.
- Intent: Create an object based on a conversation on the SWRP Chaos discord server and give the modern galaxy a link to the 400 Year Darkness
- Image Credit: N/A
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Banned & Restricted Items List, Timeline 835 ABY, Starship Template [OLD], Technology Template, How to build a starship
- Media Name: On the creation of objects and spacecraft at this time
- Format: Book
- Distribution: Unique
- Length: Short
- Description: A “book” consisting of incredibly thin but durable sheets of beskar imprinted with words in archaic galactic basic. The book describes guidelines on the construction of items and ways of obtaining materials and is dated 492 ABY.
- Author: Unknown, though the material suggests it was a Mandalorian.
- Publisher: Unknown
- Reception: May have been more widespread near the date of publishing, but is now centuries outdated and only valued as an archeological artifact.
The text is formatted as a guidebook, with a table of contents and page numbers. The text includes simple line illustrations, short descriptions of uses and technical details, and sources for materials.
CONTENT INFORMATION
- Section 1: Materials acquisition
- This section details ways to acquire rare materials and technologies, the means are outdated and often strange.
- “Beskar has been sought after for millennia as the ideal metal for crafting wargear. The most reliable way to obtain Beskar that has not been cut with by-product metals is a raid on Mandalore itself, either through theft or illicit mining operations. Recommended sites for mining include...”
- “Orbalisks are a risky investment, while they provide significant protection they also require extensive dark-side rituals involving bizarre poetry...”
- Section 2: Starship classifications and weapon loadouts
- This section refers to the creation of starships given the regressing technology of the time period, including diagrams and charts of the relation between reactor efficiency and weapons loadouts.
- Section 3: Notes on the production of handheld weapons
- This section gives images and instructions on the creation of weapons ranging from vibroswords to blaster weaponry.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The text is believed to have been created during the 400 Year Darkness, an era when the collapse of the galactic economy resulted in technology being thrown back centuries. Starships especially had to be carefully constructed due to unreliable and unstable reactor systems, and their size was limited due to the destruction or abandonment of many major shipbuilding worlds. As well, the lack of large and wealthy factions created a shortage of investment heavy products including rare metals and force-related goods.
Recently the text was recovered by a private salvage team operating in the reaches of Wild Space, contained within a hulk bearing still active war droids that may have dated back even further than the Gulag Virus itself. The artifact was then restored to its original state and is intended for auction through the means provided by the rise of Underworld Credits.
