Darth Strelok
Ori'ramikad Tree
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Intent: To create a rare form of tree that can be used to make or reinforce armor that Mandalorian smiths can learn to make and sell to whomever. Any Mando faction can cultivate it, though its an expensive process.
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Canon: N/A
Links:
Mandalorian Steel
Concordian Cedar
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Ori'ramikad Tree (Taung War Oak)
Homeworld: Mandalore, Concord Dawn
Other Locations: Any planet with a harsh climate will be a suitable place. Most common in formerly or currently occupied Mandalorian territories
Classification: Tree
Average Growth Cycle: Six years to reach maturity, though it will continue slowly growing for years afterward. From a seed, it slumbers for a full year after being planted, areas heavy tectonic activity are best as the vibrations stimulate it as it sprouts. The first six months are crucial in determining whether it will reach maturity since roughly seventy-five percent of the sproutlings do not survive the six month maturation period. The ones that do violently burst through the soil one day looking for all the world like a wooden spear.
The "spear" grows tall and after thirteen days past sprouting, it begins producing resin over its body, followed by slow expansion and harsher, more gnarled wood growing through and eventually the sapling being covered in a layer of golden resin that is completely poisonous to the touch. This will end with the tree to be covered by another layer of wood. Lumps develop on the final outer layer, which blackens as it reaches full maturity. Upon death of the tree shortly after, a special chemical reaction in the resin takes place, resulting in complete petrification in minutes. The bark turns a sterile white marked with gold strands of resin, though it is still useful, if not more so, once it reaches this point.
Viability: It needs to be planted in an area of harsh, arid soil and severe tectonic activity for best growth and strength. Ori'ramikad trees need very little water to survive, about an hour of moderate rainfall can keep it fed for weeks. Arborist have noted that burying dead flesh by its roots or spilling warm blood from a carcass stimulates the tree and makes its surface more even and smooth for harvest, though those are not a requirement for its survival or full maturation.
Description: A fully grown example resembles a giant, lumpy bonsai tree with lumpy overgrowths of bark and obsidian leaves. At death the wood turns a clinical white, and so do the leaves.
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PHYSICAL INFORMATION
Average height: Fifty Meters full grown
Average length: Fifty meters
Color: Black, like obsidian.White with gold resin streaks as dead wood.
Nutritional Value: You would not swallow a beskad, so you should not eat any part of this tree, because its tough fibers and untreated resin will treat your insides just like a beskad would. Death from ingestion of any part of the ori'ramikad tree is long and painful. And typically inevitable
Distinctions: The Plant is characterized by its intimidating presence, jet black on the brightest of days, and there seems to be no difference in color in regional growths, only in the number of branches. (Six for Mandalore, five for everywhere not Mandalore) When used to strengthen or make armor, its extremely resistant to kinetic impact and possesses energy resistance, both of which depend on where it is grown. Armor made from trees grown on Mandalore always have the highest level of resistance in both categories
Strengths:
I admire its purity: The tree is capable of absorbing severe kinetic impact, even stopping vibro-tools specifically designed to cut tough bark. When used to make armor, or enhance armor, the result is a product that has extreme resistance to vibration or kinetic impacts from large impacts, its wood attuning to the exact frequency of the impact and absorbing the energy and disipating it. The Tree on Mandalore produces armor and upgradescapable of taking the blow of a vibromace or high caliber rifle round, while the resin provides a duraplast like energy resistance when refined into an amber-like substance. The trees on Mandalore always produce the strongest results and in character, Mandalore grown trees always produce double the quality of non-Mandalore trees. (Same resistance as Mandalorian steel to lightsabers and other damage, with the same functional properties as Concordian Cedar, but applied to kinetic damage instead of blasters)
Lightweight: The harvested results always produce armor of extraordinarily lightweight in comparison to others, even in the light armor category. A man wearing medium armor has the mobility and dexterity of someone wearing light armor, while someone wearing heavy armor has the mobility of someone in medium armor. Light armor feels like you might as well be wearing a body glove.
Energy resistant: The resin when treated and bonded to the wood makes it about as resistant as duraplast.
Useful even in death: Petrified wood reaches an energy resistance rivaling mandalorian steel. Offworld examples of petrification achieve this, but their durability to lightsaber blows is less.
Multi-Purpose:The wood, when properly cut, can be fitted around handles, such as staves, or even used to make special lightweight vibroswords. Often weapons crafted from this wood are highly prized heirlooms & ceremonial, given to outsiders over beskar as tokens of esteem and trust.
Weaknesses:
Situational strength: The oak if grown elsewhere simply will never be as strong as the stuff on Mandalore. The conditions may be proper for it to survive, with those trees bearing five branches being the strongest, decreasing in strength with less. Two branch trees barely offer more protection than run of the mill light armor, though it retains its extraordinary light weight.
High maintenance: Armor made from the wood must be regularly treated in the oak resin of its species to retain its kinetic resistance properties once harvested. Overlays or underlays using it must have a light amount applied every six months, to help the wood retain its molecular properties as well as its energy resistance.
Vong Vulnerable: The wood seems almost allergic to anything vong shaped, and Amphistaff venom eats through it in rapidly, the energy field around an amphistaff similary slicing through it as a lightsaber through durasteel or duraplast
Requires experienced harvesters: Only Mandalorians bear the secrets of proper wood harvest, upgrading, creation, and repair. But even they have trouble, as the wood even under the best conditions is difficult to work, and must be cut with special tools with monomolecular edges and shaped painstakingly, and an improper working can render it all unusable.
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HISTORICAL INFORMATION
There is no record of this species before the Gulag Plague. It was first discovered in an underground forest, and the metalsmiths discovered it kinetic absorbance properties, producing specialized armor pieces excellent for surviving either blunt force trauma or armor piercing rounds, with the resin granting it limited energy resistance. Difficult to properly cultivate even for experts, the armor made from this is often ceremonial, finding more use in upgrades for other armors. But for those who can afford it, Taung War Oak offers excellent kinetic and energy protection for what it is. The wood, however, is uniquely vulnerable to vong tech, giving some Mandalorian smiths a suspicion that the species is the remnants of a former Vong project.
28811033_10100473295674685_1022888688_o.
Intent: To create a rare form of tree that can be used to make or reinforce armor that Mandalorian smiths can learn to make and sell to whomever. Any Mando faction can cultivate it, though its an expensive process.
Image Credit: How to properly source your images
Canon: N/A
Links:
Mandalorian Steel
Concordian Cedar
jAL2QOU.png
GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Ori'ramikad Tree (Taung War Oak)
Homeworld: Mandalore, Concord Dawn
Other Locations: Any planet with a harsh climate will be a suitable place. Most common in formerly or currently occupied Mandalorian territories
Classification: Tree
Average Growth Cycle: Six years to reach maturity, though it will continue slowly growing for years afterward. From a seed, it slumbers for a full year after being planted, areas heavy tectonic activity are best as the vibrations stimulate it as it sprouts. The first six months are crucial in determining whether it will reach maturity since roughly seventy-five percent of the sproutlings do not survive the six month maturation period. The ones that do violently burst through the soil one day looking for all the world like a wooden spear.
The "spear" grows tall and after thirteen days past sprouting, it begins producing resin over its body, followed by slow expansion and harsher, more gnarled wood growing through and eventually the sapling being covered in a layer of golden resin that is completely poisonous to the touch. This will end with the tree to be covered by another layer of wood. Lumps develop on the final outer layer, which blackens as it reaches full maturity. Upon death of the tree shortly after, a special chemical reaction in the resin takes place, resulting in complete petrification in minutes. The bark turns a sterile white marked with gold strands of resin, though it is still useful, if not more so, once it reaches this point.
Viability: It needs to be planted in an area of harsh, arid soil and severe tectonic activity for best growth and strength. Ori'ramikad trees need very little water to survive, about an hour of moderate rainfall can keep it fed for weeks. Arborist have noted that burying dead flesh by its roots or spilling warm blood from a carcass stimulates the tree and makes its surface more even and smooth for harvest, though those are not a requirement for its survival or full maturation.
Description: A fully grown example resembles a giant, lumpy bonsai tree with lumpy overgrowths of bark and obsidian leaves. At death the wood turns a clinical white, and so do the leaves.
jAL2QOU.png
PHYSICAL INFORMATION
Average height: Fifty Meters full grown
Average length: Fifty meters
Color: Black, like obsidian.White with gold resin streaks as dead wood.
Nutritional Value: You would not swallow a beskad, so you should not eat any part of this tree, because its tough fibers and untreated resin will treat your insides just like a beskad would. Death from ingestion of any part of the ori'ramikad tree is long and painful. And typically inevitable
Distinctions: The Plant is characterized by its intimidating presence, jet black on the brightest of days, and there seems to be no difference in color in regional growths, only in the number of branches. (Six for Mandalore, five for everywhere not Mandalore) When used to strengthen or make armor, its extremely resistant to kinetic impact and possesses energy resistance, both of which depend on where it is grown. Armor made from trees grown on Mandalore always have the highest level of resistance in both categories
Strengths:
I admire its purity: The tree is capable of absorbing severe kinetic impact, even stopping vibro-tools specifically designed to cut tough bark. When used to make armor, or enhance armor, the result is a product that has extreme resistance to vibration or kinetic impacts from large impacts, its wood attuning to the exact frequency of the impact and absorbing the energy and disipating it. The Tree on Mandalore produces armor and upgradescapable of taking the blow of a vibromace or high caliber rifle round, while the resin provides a duraplast like energy resistance when refined into an amber-like substance. The trees on Mandalore always produce the strongest results and in character, Mandalore grown trees always produce double the quality of non-Mandalore trees. (Same resistance as Mandalorian steel to lightsabers and other damage, with the same functional properties as Concordian Cedar, but applied to kinetic damage instead of blasters)
Lightweight: The harvested results always produce armor of extraordinarily lightweight in comparison to others, even in the light armor category. A man wearing medium armor has the mobility and dexterity of someone wearing light armor, while someone wearing heavy armor has the mobility of someone in medium armor. Light armor feels like you might as well be wearing a body glove.
Energy resistant: The resin when treated and bonded to the wood makes it about as resistant as duraplast.
Useful even in death: Petrified wood reaches an energy resistance rivaling mandalorian steel. Offworld examples of petrification achieve this, but their durability to lightsaber blows is less.
Multi-Purpose:The wood, when properly cut, can be fitted around handles, such as staves, or even used to make special lightweight vibroswords. Often weapons crafted from this wood are highly prized heirlooms & ceremonial, given to outsiders over beskar as tokens of esteem and trust.
Weaknesses:
Situational strength: The oak if grown elsewhere simply will never be as strong as the stuff on Mandalore. The conditions may be proper for it to survive, with those trees bearing five branches being the strongest, decreasing in strength with less. Two branch trees barely offer more protection than run of the mill light armor, though it retains its extraordinary light weight.
High maintenance: Armor made from the wood must be regularly treated in the oak resin of its species to retain its kinetic resistance properties once harvested. Overlays or underlays using it must have a light amount applied every six months, to help the wood retain its molecular properties as well as its energy resistance.
Vong Vulnerable: The wood seems almost allergic to anything vong shaped, and Amphistaff venom eats through it in rapidly, the energy field around an amphistaff similary slicing through it as a lightsaber through durasteel or duraplast
Requires experienced harvesters: Only Mandalorians bear the secrets of proper wood harvest, upgrading, creation, and repair. But even they have trouble, as the wood even under the best conditions is difficult to work, and must be cut with special tools with monomolecular edges and shaped painstakingly, and an improper working can render it all unusable.
jAL2QOU.png
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
There is no record of this species before the Gulag Plague. It was first discovered in an underground forest, and the metalsmiths discovered it kinetic absorbance properties, producing specialized armor pieces excellent for surviving either blunt force trauma or armor piercing rounds, with the resin granting it limited energy resistance. Difficult to properly cultivate even for experts, the armor made from this is often ceremonial, finding more use in upgrades for other armors. But for those who can afford it, Taung War Oak offers excellent kinetic and energy protection for what it is. The wood, however, is uniquely vulnerable to vong tech, giving some Mandalorian smiths a suspicion that the species is the remnants of a former Vong project.
