Approved Tech Qazûr Weave

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To submit Qazûr Weave, a Sith alchemized flesh-metal submaterial used as the inner mesh and binding matrix for Umbral Guard armor and weapons.
• Image Source:
  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source: N/A

• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Qazûr Weave
• Modularity: Yes - Can be layered, cut, or tailored to fit armor undersuits, weapon grips/shafts, gauntlet interiors, collar rigs, and harness systems. Core function (fleshbound pain / conduction matrix) cannot be removed without destroying it.
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Bloodsteel Channel Nodes
  • Threaded Necrotic Tissue Strands
  • Ossified Myomer Bundles
  • Sith Runes
  • Trace Quantities of Sith Blackstone Dust and Bled Kyber Slivers

• Fleshbound Pain-Conduction Matrix: Qazûr Weave is a true flesh-metal hybrid, a necrotic lattice that binds into the wearer's pressure points and muscle groups over time, turning their nervous system into a disciplined instrument. Through alchemical runes and tissue-linked hooks, it can channel precisely targeted pulses of pain initiated by armor systems, command sigils, or ritual triggers, reinforcing conditioning by punishing hesitation and sharpening focus under stress. It does not heal or restore flesh, Its purpose is to ensure that the wearer's own nerves are a lever of obedience and a training tool, not a weakness.
• Force and Sorcery Conduction: The micro-filaments of Bloodsteel and embedded kyber slivers inside Qazûr Weave form a stable conduction lattice for dark-side energies, letting hatred, fear, and ritual power ride the mesh like current along a wire. In armor, this allows defensive wards, terror-auras, and fear-based techniques to be distributed evenly and synchronized across a formation, while in weapons, it stabilizes sorcerous charges and dark side effects, letting them be channeled into the blade without catastrophic feedback. The weave effectively converts armor and arms into integrated components of a single Sith ritual circuit.
• Behavioral Reinforcement Layer: Inscribed across the weave at a microscopic scale are simple but brutally effective runes, mandates like obey, hold, kill, guard, that define the behavioral "grooves" of whoever wears it. When keyed to control sigils or authorized command icons, the weave can inflict sharp agony, induce numbing calm, or push the wearer into a cold executioner focus, always making absolute compliance the path of least resistance. This does not fully override free will, but it constantly shapes it, turning duty into the only state that feels truly tolerable.
• Shock and Impact Diffusion: Physically, Qazûr Weave functions as a living shock web beneath harder armor layers, converting otherwise lethal impacts into survivable trauma. Its bone-like myomer strands and necrotic fiber mesh help distribute kinetic force, redirecting the energy of shrapnel, blunt strikes, and nearby detonations across a wider surface rather than allowing it to focus on a single catastrophic wound. While it will not stop a lightsaber or a direct headshot on its own, when paired with rigid outer plating it materially improves survivability under sustained small-arms fire and battlefield blast conditions by bracing and subtly repositioning the wearer at the moment of impact.
• Ritual Memory and Imprinting: Over time, the runes and tissue of Qazûr Weave "remember" what they have endured, absorbing echoes of pain cycles, battlefield stresses, oaths sworn, and rites performed while it is worn. Veteran suits and weapon-wrapped cores develop a palpable presence in the Force, feeling heavy with judgment and history, and tend to pull future wearers back toward the same patterns of discipline and obedience that were carved into them before. This ritual memory can be scorched away or fractured by sustained Light-side cleansing or prolonged exposure to null fields, which may leave the weave inert or subtly unstable, but intact it serves as both a mnemonic scar and a legacy of terror.

• Executioner Integration: Qazûr Weave is purpose-built as the inner skeleton of elite Sith arms and armor, designed from the outset to sit beneath warplate like the Umbral Aegis and within hafts of weaponry, where it ties wearer, armor, and weapon into a single system. In that role it enhances control, responsiveness, and survivability all at once, making it the definitive submaterial for elite combat units and other hand-picked instruments of the Dark Lords will.
• Pain, Discipline, and Focus: By linking directly into the wearer's nervous system and routing controlled pulses of agony or numbing calm through its alchemized tissue and filaments, Qazûr Weave provides a built-in method of enforcing discipline and sharpening focus. Commanders can use it to punish hesitation, reinforce training under stress, and push operatives into a cold executioner mindset, making it ideal for units whose entire psychology revolves around obedience and relentless duty.
• Enhanced Physical Resilience: As a flesh-metal mesh beneath rigid armor, Qazûr Weave substantially improves a wearer's ability to survive battlefield punishment by diffusing shock, heat, and shrapnel across a wider area. Its bone-like myomer strands and necrotic fibers brace the body at the moment of impact, making blaster fire, explosions, and blunt trauma less likely to cause catastrophic single-point failure, especially when combined with high-grade outer plating.
• Optimized Force and Sorcery Conduction: The Bloodsteel micro-filaments and embedded kyber traces inside Qazûr Weave allow dark-side energies, fear, hatred, death-touched sorcery, to flow cleanly across the mesh without destabilizing the wearer. This turns armor and weapons into living components of larger Sith rituals, enabling formation-level wards, synchronized fear auras, and stable channelling of dark side effects where lesser materials would arc, misfire, or tear their users apart.

• Dependence on the Force: While Qazûr Weave remains physically durable in any environment, its more esoteric functions, behavioral reinforcement, focus induction, and dark-side energy conduction, are heavily dependent on an active connection to the Force. While under Force Nullification, those aspects are drastically weakened or silenced, reducing the weave to a high-quality but otherwise non-mystical underlayer.
• Psychological and Neurological Cost: Long-term use of Qazûr Weave exacts a serious mental toll on anyone not rigorously indoctrinated, as its constant capacity for pain cycling, nerve linkage, and behavioral steering can blur the lines between self, duty, and punishment. Unprepared wearers may suffer from dissociation, intrusive phantom agony, or eventual breakdown, making the material unsuitable and potentially dangerous outside of tightly controlled cadres like the Umbral Guard.
• Resource Intensive, Fragile Supply Chain: The manufacture of Qazûr Weave is slow, ritual-heavy, and highly dependent on specific Kainate infrastructure, requiring fresh organic tissue, carefully prepared Bloodsteel, and active dark nexuses under expert alchemists' control. Any disruption to those forges or ritual sites can sharply curtail production, ensuring the material can never be mass-issued and remains vulnerable to targeted strikes on its supply chain.
• Difficult and Risky to Remove Once Bonded: Once Qazûr Weave has fully integrated with a wearer over time, its hooks and tissue links become so entangled with musculature and scar networks that removing it safely demands careful surgical work and alchemical unbinding. Attempts to rip it out quickly or crudely can result in nerve damage, scarring, chronic pain, or permanent sensory loss, making both adoption and abandonment of the material a serious, long-term commitment.

Qazûr is an old Sith term for judgment or verdict, the moment when all pleas end and the sentence falls. Qazûr Weave is the material embodiment of that idea, and its origin lies not in some forgotten forge or nameless cult, but in the direct, deliberate works of Darth Prazutis himself.

The earliest prototypes were conceived in the aftermath of the purges and wars that reshaped Dromund Kaas, when the Shadow Hand began to formalize his vision of an executioner corps that could never flinch, never break, and never mistake mercy for strength. Dissatisfied with existing alchemical armors and battle-suits that merely protected or empowered, Prazutis set out to create something that bound, a second skin that would fuse flesh, pain, and obedience into one indivisible system. Within the depths of the Sith Citadel and the hidden crucibles of the Shadow Mind, he conducted iteration after iteration. Weaves that consumed their wearers outright, meshes that drove minds to gibbering instability, lattices that screamed in the Force but could not hold their form. What survived those failures became Qazûr Weave.

At a glance, Qazûr Weave looks like a tight, matte-black bodysuit or a wrap of fine, close-linked mail. Closer inspection reveals the horror of its construction: tiny, petrified cords of what was once living tissue braided with micro-filaments of Bloodsteel, all marked with microscopic runes that seem to crawl if stared at too long. The pattern is not random, It follows grim geometries and sigil-logic authored in the Shadow Hand's own hand, a written theology of control etched into every thread. Crimson tracer-lines pulse faintly when touched by a Force-sensitive hand or splashed with blood, like veins answering the call of a distant heart.

It is never worn lightly. It is never given casually. Each piece of Qazûr Weave is produced in limited runs under direct Kainate oversight, its rituals signed and sealed with the Shadow Hand's mark. Lesser Sith may copy fragments of the process, may attempt crude imitations or derivative flesh-metal meshes, but true Qazûr Weave is recognized by its resonance in the Force and by the simple fact that it does not leave Kainate hands unless Prazutis wills it.

For the Umbral Guard, Qazûr Weave is their second skin beneath the Umbral Aegis, and the Qazûr Execution Pike holds it at its core. Through it, the Guard feel their own pain sharpened into focus, their fear converted into obedience, their loyalty anchored to the Shadow Hand like shackles they have chosen to lock. Every nerve that touches the weave becomes part of a circuit he designed: a feedback loop where dread is harnessed, suffering is weaponized, and hesitation is burned out of existence.

To don Qazûr Weave is to accept that your nerves are no longer solely your own; they now answer to the pattern Darth Prazutis wrote. They belong to the verdict.

 

[Krass Wyms]

Looks awesome

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