Unreviewed Oracular Veil

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: Create a dress/outfit for Avulsuna seers in the Kainate.
• Image Source: Niyara - Duchess from Another Universe - Edited by A Phoenix
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions:
  
  • Solar Ray Shielding (OM)
  • HPI - Skuggalegt P-pattern Stealth Polymer (X) - See: Full Permissions Tab
  • Transparent Shield Weave (N/A)
  • Liquid-Aenite Mineral Compound (X)
  • Grappling Glove (Generic) (OM)
  • Gauntlet Comp (OM)
  • Sanguine Power Cell (X) - See: Permissions Tab
  • FAE/C-03 BioMedical Support System (N/A)
  • Ironveil Ghost Cortex Mk. I (The Kainate)
  • FAE/A-07 Energized Neck Piece (N/A)
  • FAE/S-12 "Dream Sight" Combat Sensor System Mk. II (N/A)
  • NZ MTS "Bloodhound" [Magnetic Targeting Sensor] (X) - See: Permissions Tab
  • Shadowlink Omni-Resolution Array Mk. I (The Kainate)
  • Void Eye Sensor Array Mk. I (The Kainate)
  • FAE/S-06 Reactive Targeting Matrix (N/A)
  • FAE/S-07 Symbiotic Ghost Link (N/A)
  • FAE/S-13 Unified Engagement Network (N/A)
  • FAE/S-11 Universal Communication Matrix (N/A)
  • Ebon Psicom Array Mk. I (The Kainate)
  • FAE/A-14 Energized Foot Gear (N/A)
  • FAE/C-05 Infiltration Suite (N/A)
  • "PureSucculent" Filtration Straw (OM)
  • 'Stimtrients' (OM)
  • Legion Ration Pack (OM)
• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer:
  
  • Artificer’s Collegium - Creation
  • First United Astral Engineering - Design Schematics
• Affiliation:
  
  • Daella
  • Aeryndra Shaelyth
  • The Kainate
    
    • Avulsuna
• Market Status: N/A - Closed-Market
• Model: N/A
• Modularity: Yes
  
  • Systems may be stripped or replaced as needed or desired.
  • Various Accouterments and Aesthetic Alterations
    
    • May be fabricated into virtually any type of garment for the wearer, but typically takes the form of a dress or robes.
  • Compatible with various control suites and networking systems.
  • Energy Shield Attachment Point
  • Various Misc. Equipment
  • Universal Fittings
    
    • Intended wearer’s body is scanned and a fabricator produces an outfit tailored to their exact physical profile.
    • Limited resizing via programmable matter.
• Production: Semi-Unique
• Material:
  
  • Conformal Echani Shield Projector Array - Garment-Integrated Coverage Only
    
    • Triple Phase Integrated Shield System
      
      • Solar Ray
      • Particle
      • Thermal
  • Phrik-Ostrine Composite Armorweave - Primary Construction
    
    • Photo-Reactive Coating - Overcoating
    • Skuggalegt P-pattern Stealth Polymer - Undercoating
    • Synthetic Norris Root Staining
    • Self-Sealing Properties
  • Energized Transparent Shield Weave - Transparent Skintight Underlayer
    
    • Photo-Reactive Coating - Overcoating
    • Skuggalegt P-pattern Stealth Polymer - Undercoating
  • Polyweave - Utility Pack
    
    • Photo-Reactive Coating - Overcoating
    • Skuggalegt P-pattern Stealth Polymer - Undercoating
  • Reifflex Cellular Padding - Comfort
  • Taozin Skin Node - Universal
  • Liquid-Aenite Coating - Sensitive Components and Electronics
  • Seoularian Crystal Lattice
  • Wild Force Shard
  • Aurodium - Internal Circuitry and Electronics
  • Programmable Matter - Various Applications

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Energized Outfit
• Weight: Very Light
• Resistances:
  
  • Energy: Extreme
  • Kinetic: High
  • Lightsabers: Very High
  • Sonic: High
  • Weaponized Acid / Corrosives: Low
  • Electromagnetic / Ion / Electronic Disruption: Extreme
  • Tensor: Very Low
  • Weaponized Radiation: Low
  • Weaponized Cold: Average
  • Weaponized Heat: Extreme
  • Force Light: Very High

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Left Arm Sleeve
  
  • Grappling Device - Forearm
• Right Arm Sleeve
  
  • Gauntlet Comp - Forearm
    
    • Linked with all onboard systems.
• Universal Components and Features
  
  • Oversight Computer Brain - System Unification and Governing Functions
  • Energy Shield Attachment Point
  • Miniaturized Sanguine Power Cell
  • Mk. V Flexibility Enhancement
  • Dynamic Traction Node Array
    
    • Traction grip nodes composed of programmable microstructures (nano-scale articulated filaments) are embedded just beneath the outfit’s outer layer on the palms, forearms, and soles, if these areas are covered by the garment. At rest, these nodes sit flush. However, when engaged, the nodes reconfigure their texture in milliseconds, changing from smooth to high-friction grip patterns tuned to the surface beneath. Passive micro-sensors in the palms, forearms, and soles continuously scan texture, hardness, and thermal conductivity of whatever they touch, to identify the surface type. Profiles include ice (microscopic spike protrusions), polished alloy (micro-suction and gecko-inspired molecular adhesion), loose gravel (splayed, high-surface area treads), and yet more. After contact, the programmable surface resets back to smooth mode, shedding dirt, ice, or debris automatically. Self-cleaning transpires via vibrational micro-displacement, preventing buildup that would compromise performance.
    • The traction grip nodes can bias their friction in one direction, allowing for active grip enhancement.
  • FAE/C-03 BioMedical Support System
    
    • Life support and medisensor / bioscanner functions only.
  • Stealth Systems
    
    • Thermoguard System
    • Blue Witch
    • Mirror Construction
  • Self-Repair System - Programmable Matter
  • AEGIS Nanoarray
  • Ironveil Ghost Cortex Mk. I
  • D-Baffling System
  • Integrated Gravity Pulse Generators
• FAE/A-07 Energized Neck Piece
  
  • FAE/S-12 "Dream Sight" Combat Sensor System Mk. II - Updated Version
    
    • NZ MTS "Bloodhound" [Magnetic Targeting Sensor]
    • Shadowlink Omni-Resolution Array Mk. I
    • Void Eye Sensor Array Mk. I
    • Defense Software
    • Uprated Life Scanner - Anti-Stealth Properties
  • FAE/S-06 Reactive Targeting Matrix - Updated Version
  • FAE/S-07 Symbiotic Ghost Link
  • FAE/S-13 Unified Engagement Network
  • FAE/S-11 Universal Communication Matrix
  • Ebon Psicom Array Mk. I
  • Sonic Neutralization and Sound Dampening System
    
    • Can be activated to allow the user to speak without being heard by those around them (most often used for transmitting vocal communications in a compromised environment). Can also render inaudible any sounds made from the user’s mouth and nose (breathing, sneezing, coughing, etc.).
• Boots
  
  • FAE/A-14 Energized Foot Gear
    
    • Jetboot thrusters removed.
• Utility Pack
  
  • FAE/C-05 Infiltration Suite
  • Spare Molecular Disruptor Mirror Storage Cells - Additional Equipment
  • Survival and Sustainment Kit
    
    • Medpac
    • Multitool
    • Ion Flares
    • "PureSucculent" Filtration Straw
    • Stimtrient Capsules
    • Legion Ration Packs - 60 Packs
      
      • Packs compressed and shrunken within a molecular disruptor mirror cell.
    • Compact Molecular Disruptor Drinking Canteen - 30 Liter Liquid Capacity
      
      • Liquid compressed and shrunken within a molecular disruptor mirror cell.
    • Reserve Power Cells - Rylith and Diatium
  • Typically strapped onto one or both legs.
• Force and Magic Enhancements
  
  • Talisman of Concentration
    
    • Amplifies the user’s ability to manipulate the Force and to channel large quantities of Dark Side energy.
  • Sith Runes
    
    • Inscribed with Sith Runes that ward against Force Light, Golden Flash, Purification, and other offensive Light Side powers.
  • Touch of the Kiin'Dray
    
    • Applies a binding force to hands or feet, allowing the user to hold in an unbreakable grip or ascend a cliff face.
  • Seoularian Crystal Lattice
    
    • The Seoularian crystal lattice forms a neural-responsive network. Each crystal acts as a discrete conduit, may be attuned to a specific mental command. When the wearer initiates two (or more) Force abilities, the lattice partitions the mental load, routing each power through separate crystals. The crystals’ natural responsiveness to mental energy prevents the abilities from merging or interfering, allowing the wearer to sustain multiple Force powers simultaneously without increased cognitive strain or feedback.
  • Wild Force Shard Conduit Core
    
    • Acts as an external reservoir, resonating with and amplifying the ambient Force independently of the wearer’s own stamina. The shard passively fuels active powers, channeling raw energy directly into each ability. This circumvents Force fatigue entirely, allowing the wearer to sustain Force abilities repeatedly with negligible exhaustion, as the crystal bears the metabolic cost, leaving the individual’s own Force reservoir virtually untouched.

STRENGTHS

• Energy Aegis: The combination of triple-phase Echani conformal shields, energy sinks, norris root staining, and Transparent Shield Weave gives the outfit extreme resistance to blasters, disruptors, plasma, particle weapons, electrical attacks, ion weaponry, and stun effects. Against most ranged energy threats, the wearer can remain fully mobile under sustained fire.
• Lightsaber Resistance: The norris root-treated phrik-ostrine composite armorweave provides elite-tier resistance to lightsabers. This is a notable advantage in close-quarters engagements against lightsaber-wielders.
• Light Shield: Sith runic enhancements provide stunning resistance to offensive Light Side Force powers, which are particularly deadly to Dark Side Force wielders and Sithspawn.
• Extreme Thermal Tolerance: Ostrine incorporation and thermal shielding allow the wearer to operate in environments with intense heat, fire, or plasma exposure. Directed flamethrowers, thermal detonator shock-heat, and heat bloom are far less lethal than they would be to conventional armor.
• Storm Chaser: Liquid-aenite electronic treatment, solar ray shielding, and the AEGIS nanoarray make the outfit extraordinarily resilient to ion weapons, EMP grenades, and electronic warfare. This prevents catastrophic system shutdowns common to advanced armor systems.
• Deceptive Coverage: The silhouette and visible exposed skin (depending on the garment's coverage) disguises the outfit's true defensive capabilities. The Transparent Shield Weave and conformal shielding may cause opponents to misjudge target vulnerability, potentially driving poor tactical decisions.
• Wallflower: The Oracular Veil is a multi-spectrum concealment platform designed to defeat visual perception, electronic sensing, biometric tracking, and battlefield acoustics simultaneously. Its stealth profile is layered, redundant, and adaptive. Its core strengths include near-total visual obfuscation via the photo-reactive coating, sensor and scanner suppression via the stealth polymer and the mirror masking system, electronic surveillance defeat via the Blue Witch sensor jammer, thermal/infrared invisibility via the thermoguard system, concealment from metaphysical senses via the taozin node, and acoustic erasure via D-baffling.
• Metaphysical Supercharger: For all intents and purposes, the Oracular Veil supercharges the wearer’s user of the Force. The Seoularian Crystal Lattice partitions mental focus, enabling seamless simultaneous use of multiple powers without cognitive interference. At the same time, the Wild Force Shard Conduit Core acts as an external reservoir by drawing ambient energy to fuel Force powers indefinitely, bypassing personal fatigue and allowing for sustained, multi-layered Force application without exhaustion.
• Self-Sustaining: Programmable matter enables gradual self-repair, sealing penetrations and microfractures after combat. While not instantaneous, it dramatically increases operational longevity during extended campaigns.

WEAKNESSES

• Acerbic Affliction: Weaponized acids, molecular solvents, and exotic corrosives can bypass or degrade organic components such as the norris-stained layers. Sustained exposure can permanently damage the dress if not neutralized quickly.
• Minimal Tensor Resistance: While optimized to mitigate damage from most forms of energy-based assaults, tensor weapons are indeed the exception. In firing compressed tractor beam waves, they can bypass most of the dress’ defenses and affect the wearer’s body at a cellular level, with the potential to cause severe injury.
• Shield Projector Fragility: The Oracular Veil is a high-tech combat outfit that depends in large part on its electronics for its defensive prowess. Thus, should its electronics be overloaded, disabled, or impaired, the outfit’s ability to protect the wearer will suffer in turn. In such a case, the miniaturized intrinsic shield array and the Transparent Shield Weave might suffer malfunction. Since these systems are linchpins to the outfit’s resistance against disruptors (the protective material by itself is unable to adequately defend against this weapon type as solid materials can not be proofed against disruptors), these weapons will likely pose an especially mortal threat to the wearer in the event of system failure.
• Single Point of Failure: The energized neck piece concentrates critical sensors, shielding control, and life support functions. Severe damage to this component can compromise head and neck defense more quickly than a traditional helmet would.
• Limited Radiation Protection: The outfit lacks dedicated radiation shielding. Prolonged exposure to ionizing radiation, nuclear fallout, or stellar emissions remains dangerous, particularly if shield power must be conserved.
• Slow Self-Repair Cycle: Programmable matter repairs are gradual. Severe damage incurred in rapid succession cannot be immediately undone and may accumulate during prolonged engagements. It goes without saying that the programmable matter will not be able to effect repairs during most live confrontations.
• Metaphysical Dampening: If left unprotected within Force-null zones, the Oracular Veil's Force and magic enhancements will be disabled or suffered reduced efficacy depending on the nature of the Force-nullifying/dampening threat.

DESCRIPTION
Created in extremely limited numbers for select individuals, the Oracular Veil is a protective, energized outfit meant to be worn by the seers and oracles of the Kainate Avulsuna. Fully designed for combat, the outfit typically has the appearance of elegant robes or a dress, but its functions mimic that of high-grade, Force-enhanced power armor. In this, the outfit has several overlapping layers of protection.

The first layer is the Echani shield projector array, which projects overlaid solar ray, particle, and thermal shielding that is integrated directly into the garment. From here, the garment’s construction is norris root-treated phrik-ostrine armorweave, which provides stunning resistance to energy weapons, heat, and kinetic force. Below this lies a Transparent Shield Weave undersuit, which forms an invisible, skintight lattice of miniaturized energy shield projectors that protects every area with the exception of the head, even if those areas are seemingly exposed by the cut of the outfit. When energized, it provides deceptive yet formidable protection that is seamlessly integrated into the outfit’s overall defensive architecture.

Beyond its physical defenses, the Oracular Veil is engineered as a Force-amplification and control system, transforming the wearer into a sustained conduit of Dark Side power. At its core rests a Wild Force Shard Conduit, an external reservoir that resonates continuously with the ambient Force. This shard feeds active abilities directly, allowing prolonged or repeated use of high-intensity powers with minimal fatigue. In effect, the wearer operates with a near-independent energy supply, enabling relentless casting without the typical decline in precision or strength.

Working in tandem with this is the Seoularian Crystal Lattice, which forms a neural-responsive network woven throughout the garment. Each crystal node acts as a discrete processing channel for Force commands, allowing multiple abilities to be executed simultaneously without interference. Where most Force users must divide their concentration and risk instability in the process, the lattice partitions cognitive load, maintaining clarity and preventing destructive feedback between concurrent powers. This makes the wearer exceptionally dangerous in complex engagements, capable of layering offense, defense, and utility techniques in perfect parallel.

The Talisman of Concentration further refines this system, sharpening the wearer’s mental focus and enhancing their capacity to channel vast quantities of Dark Side energy with precision. Complementing this are Sith Runes inscribed into the garment’s structure, which act as metaphysical wards against Light Side techniques such as purification or radiant bursts, dampening their efficacy before they can fully manifest.

These systems elevate the Oracular Veil from protective attire into a fully integrated Force-multiplication platform, where defense, endurance, and supernatural capability operate as a single, unified whole.