Hansen
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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION- Intent: Create a Lightsabre resistant sword for Whisperer to put her on more of an equal footing with Padawan-level force users from other Orders while creating some unique and tailored towards themselves and their preference for traditional melee and martial fighting.
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- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: Force Pike
- Manufacturer: Order of Ren
- Model: Praetorian Gladius
- Affiliation: First Order, Order of Ren, Whisperer
- Modularity: Yes (Sheath + Pommel Design)
- Production: Unique (Whisperer)
- Material: Leather, Rubber, Phrik.
- Classification: Electro-Plasma Sword
- Length: 85cm (o/a), 68cm (Blade). Small
- Weight: 1kg (Very Light)
- High-Traction Grip: The weapon's grip is designed for maximum adhesion and makes it difficult to disarm a user trained in the use of the weapon far beyond average.
- Power Pack: Gladius blades feature a power pack within the weapon's hilt to provide a method of ignition for the weapon's plasma filament.
- Armour Piercing: The Gladius' edge provides the weapon capability of slicing through common and even exotic body armor constructed from Titanium or Duraplast with varying difficulty depending on the thickness of armour and material's properties.
- Devastating Injuries: With a blade that burns at about 2,000 degrees celsius oftentimes when slicing through tough armour the Gladius won't cauterize its' victims wounds causing grievous and demoralising injuries.
- Blaster Bolts: While it possesses armor-piercing characteristics not dissimilar from the lightsabre it cannot reflect around blaster bolts or other projectiles. A projectile slamming into a gladius will have the force of that impact translate into the weapon.
- Thick Doors & Armour: Burning at a modest two-thousand degrees celsius the blade unlike a lightsaber cannot cut through thick blast doors or armoured fighting vehicle armour, leaving its use limited to armoured infantry or unarmoured targets. Exotic armour that is constructed from Phrik or Songsteel are completely impervious to the Gladius
The Praetorian Gladius is a weapon utilized by the Praetorian known as "whisperer" either as a main weapon or secondary weapon to augment their melee capabilities as it is long enough to have a significant reach but be short enough that it can be sheathed on their belt and concealed beneath robes. The Gladius in its entirety is constructed from Phrik so as to make it resistant to lightsabre strikes as lightsabres are often wielded by force users hostile to the First Order and even the Knights of Ren. The Blade's edge glows with red plasma as a result of a pair of magnets contained within the hilt placed on either side of blade to create a magnetically contained filament of plasma shaped around the blade's edge that can be used for cutting through armour worn by infantry. Compared to a lightsaber the Gladius ignites and burns at a temperature far lower and as a result has greater difficulty cutting through tough armour on the part of wielder but inflicts far more demoralising and grievous wounds that are not cauterised; veins, arteties and organs near the wound site can experience flash vaporisation of their contents sending the victim into shock while also experiencing blood loss with a corresponding reduction in blood pressure that leads to shock and death by cardiac arrest. While an opponent struck with a lightsaber might be instantly killed or rendered unconscious a victim of the Praetorian Gladius will usually be left fully conscious and with the excruciating pain of its superheated blade passing through them and have to face their own traumatic haemorrhaging before entering shock; A casualty of this description is likely to demoralise any co-assailants at the sight of seeing their comrade weep and cry out in agony. The weapon is a modest 85 centimeters long overall with a blade length being just 68 centimeters at the widest point of the weapon it measures across 7 centimeters.
