Unreviewed Onyx Swarm Nanoforge Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create a Sith engineered nanofabrication system that replaces traditional nanoforges with swarm-based technomantic fabrication arrays, used across Kainate foundries, research stations, and ritual construct labs.
• Image Source:
  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Primary Source:
  • Nanoforge

• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Onyx Swarm Nanoforge Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Hive-Nodes
  • Black Cipher Neural Conduits
  • Bloodsteel-Nanite Suspension Gel
  • Null-Glass Control Visor
  • Ritual-Linked Command Processor Array

• Onyx Swarm Fabrication Matrix: At the heart of the system lies a suspended swarm of microfabrication drones, Onyx Swarm nanites, that operate as a modular, adaptive collective. Each drone is equipped with micro-forges, precision atom-depositors, and alchemical infusion ports, enabling them to deconstruct raw material and reassemble it into tailored components with nanoscopic precision.
• Technomantic Command Protocols: These swarms are guided by technomantic logic-cores and dark-side-encrypted command glyphs. Through this fusion of Sith programming and ritual-linked processors, the nanoforge can imprint Sith aligned structures into every item created, including layered circuitry, ritual node channels, or dark sigils invisible to standard scanners.
• Self-Upgrading, Self-Healing Nanites: The Onyx Swarm drones carry a limited regenerative subroutine, allowing them to cannibalize defective units or raw matter to self-repair and even iterate their own internal processors. Over time, the swarm optimizes its protocols through accrued task memory and can slightly enhance its own precision and durability through exposure to complex templates.
• Anti-Tamper Resilience Architecture: Where older nanoforges were vulnerable to intrusion or reprogramming, the Onyx Swarm's glyph protected conduits, Null Glass data relays, and bloodsteel logic-junctions make them resistant to slicing, corruption, or signal hijacking. Any unauthorized access attempt triggers a swarm fragmentation defense, scrambling internal systems and erasing fabrication patterns.
• Ritual Circuitry Weaving: One of the Onyx Swarm's most advanced capabilities is its ability to weave micro scale ritual channels into equipment during construction. These allow Sith operators to pre-embed latent glyphs, Force conductive alloys, or dread resonance paths directly into the molecular structure of a blade, armor weave, or talismanic shell.
• Precision Hybrid Material Assembly: The nanoforge excels at combining organic and inorganic substrates, producing advanced components such as neural linked armor membranes or cybernetic interface nodes. Its ability to blend soft tissue analogues and bloodsteel derivatives is unmatched by civilian fabricators, making it essential for Kainate field enhancement gear and experimental cyber-alchemy.

• Swarm-Based Fabrication Superiority: Unlike traditional nanoforges with static emitters, the Onyx Swarm operates as a coordinated cloud of self-moving, self-tasking nanites. This grants it superior coverage, adaptability, and redundancy, allowing fabrication tasks to continue even if individual units are damaged or isolated during operation.
• Integrated Ritual Infrastructure: The ability to inscribe ritual circuits directly during the assembly process transforms this nanoforge into more than a manufacturing tool, it becomes a foundation for Sith domination through artifact standardization. Items produced can bear embedded glyphs of control, dread reinforcement, or Force channeling lattice without needing post-fabrication tuning.
• High Resilience to Technological Subversion: Its architecture is designed from the ground up to withstand slicing, backdoor tampering, or viral infection. The bloodsteel laced conduits and Null Glass control arrays act as natural data insulators, while swarm memory is fragmented and decentralized, minimizing exploitable vulnerabilities.

• Requires Sith Technicians for Complex Patterns: Despite its sophistication, the Onyx Swarm still relies on Kainate operators for ritual designs. Attempting to fabricate advanced Force attuned constructs without proper ritual calibration leads to catastrophic misprints, material collapse, or swarm failure.
• Weakness to Force Nullification: As with most Sith systems, the ritual linked logic arrays and glyphic embedding functions cease to operate within nullificatrion. While basic fabrication remains high functionality, its efficiency is severely weakened in such areas.

The Onyx Swarm Nanoforge Mk. I is the culmination of the Kainate's ambition to escape technological stagnation and reinvent even the smallest tools of creation. Where traditional nanoforges were limited to simple replication, the Onyx Swarm was born from a need for ideological fabrication, the ability not just to build, but to embed Sith dominance into the very bones of every object it touches. Another cog in the machine of progress driving the Kainate forward beyond all others.

Developed within the dread laboratories of Malsheem and refined in Nexul Station's volatile workshops, the system draws from decades of Sith alchemical research, technomantic engineering, and swarm logic experimentation. Instead of fixed construct heads, it deploys a semi-sentient cloud of nanites encoded with ritual blueprints and encryption-glyphs. These nanites function as a living forge: they adapt, evolve, and obey Sith will.

Beyond simple function, the Onyx Swarm infuses every bolt, blade, or plate it fabricates with potential. The microcircuitry it weaves is not only for power conduction but for glyphic channels, hidden resonance, or control anchors. It has revolutionized Sith production lines, enabling field-ready fabrication of dark artifacts, ritual-conductive armor components, and experimental hybrid constructs without the need for lengthy post-processing.

Yet power comes at a price. The swarm struggles to maintain high operations under nullification, and its advanced functions demand continual ritual calibration. But to the Kainate, this is not a limitation, it is control. No tool leaves the forge unshackled. In a galaxy built on industry, the Onyx Swarm is not merely an innovation, it is an evolution of purpose, where fabrication becomes domination.