Unreviewed Sable Weave Loom Engine Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To replace standard garment fabricators with a Sith engineered textile manufacturing system that weaves armor ready fabrics, occult garments, and various other cloth materials for the Kainate.
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  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Sable Weave Loom Engine Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Framing
  • Bloodsteel Fiberweb Feedstock
  • Whisperthread Composite Spools
  • Bloodpane Weft Crystals (Control Lattice)
  • Darkweft Sacrificial Mesh Layer

• Occult Pattern Integration Loom: The loom's primary matrix is inscribed with a sequence of reactive occult pattern codices, programmatic instructions burned into its control crystals using Sith ritual calculus. These codices allow the machine to embed symbols of concealment, dominance, or dread directly into the weave of the garment. This process renders every fabric it produces spiritually resonant and combat-functional, capable of enhancing the psychological impact of Sith regalia or dampening enemy morale through sheer presence.
• Integrated Micro-Shield Filament Embedding: The engine includes a filament micro-thread injection array, which can fuse concealment fibers and micro-reactive shield threads into the layers of cloth it creates. These micro-shield inclusions provide baseline kinetic or energy resistance and can be tuned during production for stealth suits, sorcerous robes, or flexible tactical uniforms. While not suitable for full battlefield protection, this reinforcement significantly improves survivability against glancing strikes and low-energy discharges.
• Darkweft Reflex Spindle Drive: The internal spindles of the loom are driven by a unique system that responds to ritual harmonics and blood-fed control circuits. The entire assembly adjusts production style, thread tightness, and glyph alignment based on keyed Sith inputs, allowing it to create tailored products at exceptional speed. This allows the engine to fulfill large-scale orders for officer uniforms, ritual garb, and fieldwork armor fabric in a fraction of the time required by traditional means.
• Bioform Impression Scanner: A sophisticated, Sith alchemized body scanning module embedded in the Loom Engine. Upon activation, the scanner performs a rapid full-spectrum sweep of the individual's biological structure, mapping skeletal framework, musculature, unique alien morphologies, cybernetics, and even surface Force auras. This allows the Loom to instantly generate an exact anatomical imprint, which becomes the foundation for precision-tailored garments, armor, or ritual vestments.
• Anatomical Clothing Matrix: A vast ever-expanding databank of galactic species, including Sithspawn and non-standard lifeforms, woven into the Loom Engine's design database. This matrix contains adaptive garment blueprints and templates meant to accommodate exotic alien biology, from Mon Calamari moisture glands to the additional limbs of a Codru-Ji or the chitinous plating of a Verpine. Combined with the Bioform Impression Scanner, this allows the Loom to tailor not just the size, but the style, function, and cultural fit of an outfit or armor.

• Automatically Produces Combat-Ready, Alchemically Imbued Textiles: Unlike standard garment-fabricators that produce only neutral, utilitarian fabrics, the Sable-Weave Loom Engine can produce textiles already integrated with Sith influenced enhancements. Each piece of clothing or armor component it weaves may be imprinted with ritual alignments and fortified against elemental or environmental threats. This eliminates the need for post weaving enchantment or manual alchemical reinforcement, allowing factories to equip operatives directly from production lines with functional, dark empowered gear.
• Supports Stealth, Sorcery, and Command Doctrine Uniforms: The engine is capable of switching between various weaving protocols designed for different branches of Kainate service: Field stealth units, Force wielding operatives, high ranking Sith lords and more. It adjusts its weaves to produce garments that are optimized for sensor-absorption, ritual attunement, or ceremonial impact. This modularity ensures Kainate infrastructure is not just outfitted in force, but in style and function aligned with its many doctrines of war, control, and influence.
• High-Speed Production: Thanks to its reflexive spindle drive and blood-coded programming interface, the Loom Engine outpaces civilian fabricators by a wide margin, considered far superior in every way. When linked to Sith systems it can produce fully woven armor-cloth in minutes, with glyph arrays aligned precisely to the individual. This speed allows facilities like Nexul Station, Malsheem, and warships to remain operationally independent in outfitting their various units, military forces, or even apprentices on short notice.

• Requires Blood-Fed Circuitry for Full Functionality: The loom's interface and pattern logic circuits are keyed to function through blood-fed control lines. This ensures security and Sith-only operability, but introduces operational dependency on organic sacrifice, biomatter, or ritual components. If these are not supplied or fail due to sabotage or battlefield attrition, the loom will only produce basic, unenhanced cloth.
• Highly Susceptible to Force Nullification: Like many Sith aligned technologies, the Sable-Weave Loom Engine relies on the presence of the dark side to power its alchemical infusion process and pattern recognition systems. Under Force Nullification, its functions degrade swiftly, leaving only the base weaving process operational. While still capable of producing rudimentary fabric, its efficiency is greatly reduced, and its ability to introduce Sith enhancements is rendered inert, negating its greatest advantages.

The Sable-Weave Loom Engine Mk. I emerged from the Kainate's desire to sever dependence on simple civilian garment fabricators, which were unable to meet the demands of a war machine steeped in Sith doctrine. Standard production models could not embed Force-reactive sigils, integrate ritual reinforcement, or meet the precise fabric specifications required for modern warfare. In response, the Shadow Mind, under directive from the Shadow Hand, developed the Loom Engine as a total replacement, a system forged not just to produce garments, but to clothe dominion in thread and dread alike.

The Loom Engine's early prototypes were tested aboard Malsheem, where the production of command robes and Crownguard uniforms could be fine tuned in closed, ritual-controlled environments. From there, it was refined through the Kainate's blackweave trials, learning how to pattern armor-tapestries with integrated concealment filaments and force conductive alignments. Every bolt of cloth the machine produces is born already aligned with Sith teachings, each fold a lesson in authority, each seam a boundary of dominance.

Beyond its technical strengths, the Loom Engine carries symbolic importance. Its ability to mass-produce uniforms embedded with fear, secrecy, and control reflects the Kainate's transformation of war into ritual. It evolves beyond the simple, civilian utility of the garment fabricator and replaces it with a device capable of dressing an empire in black flame and crimson fury. Where others clothe simple soldiers, the Kainate equips weapons.

Now in widespread use across Nexul Station, Malsheem, and Kainate warships, the Sable-Weave Loom Engine is a cornerstone of the Sith war economy. Where its threads fall, loyalty is expected, and defiance is unwoven.