Shadow Hand
- Intent: To create a Kainate exclusive heavy breaching bomb designed for use against capital ships, fortress complexes, and orbital installations, weaponizing Sith alchemical compression and structural destabilization to achieve catastrophic internal collapse.
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- Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer:
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Spinebreaker Charge Mk. I
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Bloodsteel Alloy Core Lattice
- Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Shell
- Echo-Resonant Shock Matrix
- Sith Compression Seals
- Crushed Dark Stabilizer Mesh
- Ritual Runic Inlays
- Directional Fracture Detonation: The Spinebreaker's core is a tri-vector compression seal designed to focus explosive force into a downward and outward breaching cone. Upon impact, it strikes like a piledriver from orbit, folding armor plating inward, pulverizing bracing struts, and punching through bulkheads in one decisive blow. Unlike wide-area explosives, every joule of force is driven deep into the target's frame, leaving a clean entry wound that opens into catastrophic internal failure.
- Seismic Echo Pulse: A fraction of a microsecond after detonation, the bomb releases a powerful seismic resonance. This pulse moves like a tremor through decks, hull spines, and mounting arms, turning existing stress lines into fatal fractures. Turrets sheer away from their sockets, gantries twist like broken limbs, and primary keel beams split along their length, causing crippling damage. The sensation is as if the ship itself groans in agony before collapsing under its own weight.
- Rune Anchor Shell: The outer casing of alchemized sarrassian iron is etched with deep-bore anchor sigils that bind the device's destructive geometry to the mass of its target. On impact, these sigils lock the bomb into the target's momentum and density profile, ensuring that even if the ship is maneuvering, the force disperses exactly where it will do the most damage. Mobile vessels suffer no less than stationary ones, there is no "glancing blow" with a Spinebreaker.
- Gravitic Course Correction Nodes: Concealed within the bomb's frame are gravitic micro-thrusters capable of making minute trajectory adjustments mid-drop. These nodes operate without the telltale signatures of standard propulsion, allowing the Spinebreaker to subtly shift in-flight to match target movement or environmental drift. This ensures the charge strikes at the optimal point of impact for maximum breaching efficiency, even against maneuvering or evasive targets, without betraying the bomber's position.
- Bloodsteel Alloy Shrapnel Core: Inside the charge lies a woven lattice of Bloodsteel microshards, each alchemically charged with stored kinetic potential. When the core collapses, these shards erupt in a synchronized storm through every breach the blast has created, ricocheting down corridors, stripping compartments bare, and turning every rupture point into a killing wound. Survivors describe it as a "razor dust storm" that arrives after the blast, ensuring the wound never closes.
- Incredible Breaching Power: Purpose-built to sunder structural backbones, the Spinebreaker can collapse dorsal spines, snap keel beams, and tear out main power conduit trunks. Even a single detonation can deliver a crippling blow to capital ships rendering them unable to maneuver or cause a fortress tower to list and fall.
- Lingering Structural Collapse: The delayed seismic echo is not an afterthought but a second strike, one that arrives after the initial breach. Bulkheads buckle, hallways collapse, entire superstructures crumble. The seismic wave effect guts the interior of ships.
- Fortification Killer: Where conventional munitions flatten walls, the Spinebreaker undermines them. Its anchored breach wave and resonance matrix pull planetary fortresses, shield towers, and static defense platforms down from within, dragging their own reinforced weight into the collapse.
- Ineffective Against Active Shields: The device must physically contact its target for its anchoring sigils and seismic pulse to function. Against vessels or installations with fully active shielding, its yield is wasted on shield contact. Bomber wings must coordinate with strike groups to drop shields before release.
- Force Nullification: The anchoring sigils weaken under force nullification. When exposed to Force Nullification, the device still detonates but functions as a conventional breaching bomb, losing the full destructive punch it normally has.
The Spinebreaker Charge Mk. I is the Kainate's heavy breaching bomb, a weapon forged not for indiscriminate destruction, but for the deliberate murder of structure itself. Dropped from the bomb bays of tactical bombers, it is designed to land with precision, and detonate in a way that drives a hammer through the vulnerable interior of ships gutting them.
Its initial detonation is a tightly-focused, downward-pressing fracture pulse that drives deep into the frame, not out into open space. Armor folds inward, support beams snap, and critical mounts shudder under the impact. But the true killing stroke comes with the seismic echo, a harmonic wave that ripples through the target, tearing open microfractures, collapsing decks, exploiting every hidden weakness. Towers fall. Entire superstructures collapse. Whole compartments crumble as if struck by invisible fists.
The alchemized sarrassian iron shell, engraved with deep-bore anchor sigils, ensures that the device's destructive geometry aligns perfectly with the target's mass, regardless of movement. Inside, a lattice of Bloodsteel microshards waits to erupt, carried on the shockwave into every breach the blast has created. Survivors often speak of the shrapnel storm more than the blast itself, a lethal haze that strips a compartment of machinery, life, and hope alike.
Ships that survive a Spinebreaker strike rarely fight the same way again. Their decks sag. Their frames creak. Their crews remember the moment their vessel seemed to cry out and give way beneath them. For fortresses and orbital platforms, the aftermath is worse, the collapse is visible from space, a slow, inevitable sinking into ruin.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a Kainate exclusive heavy breaching bomb designed for use against capital ships, fortress complexes, and orbital installations, weaponizing Sith alchemical compression and structural destabilization to achieve catastrophic internal collapse.
Canon Link:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
N/A
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate
Model:
Spinebreaker Charge Mk. I
Modular:
No
Material:
Bloodsteel Alloy Core Lattice Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Shell Echo-Resonant Shock Matrix Sith Compression Seals Crushed Dark Stabilizer Mesh Ritual Runic Inlays
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