Shadow Hand
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a new, vile form of Beskar for use in future submissions.
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- Manufacturer: Darth Prazutis, Death Watch
- Affiliation: Death Watch Super Commandos, The Sith Empire, Closed-Market
- Model: Tal'Beskar, Mandalorian Blood Steel
- Modularity: Can be made into armor, weapons, etc.
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Classification: Alloy
- Weight: Heavy
- Color: Dark Silver, Accentuated by Blood Red
- Resistances:
- Energy (And other Blaster type weapons): Very High
- Kinetic: Very High
- Lightsabers: Very High
- Force: High
- EMP/Ion: None
- Sonic: Low
- Durable: Just like the original alloy Tal'Beskar maintains its high tolerance to extreme forms of punishment including energy weapons, lightsabers, and even kinetic attacks.
- Resistant to the Force: Due to the vile process used to create such a horrific alloy involving Mandalorians afflicted with the Pazhkic'Dau, Tal'Beskar has an innate resistance to force based attacks.
- EMP/Ion: While it is a formidable metal much like its original form, it has no innate resistance to effects produced by EMP or Ion weapons on its own.
- Sonic: It has been proven that Tal'Beskar falls short when faced against sonic attacks, users need to take this into account when forging arms and armor out of it.
- Force Resistance: A double edged sword for anyone who uses this as part of a suit of armor, use of the force is significantly hampered while using this alloy.
- Production: Due to the complex nature of this alloy, it takes significantly longer to create than the original alloy.
Tragedy.
The roots of such a sadistic creation are found only in the aftermath of the Sith Empire's insidious betrayal of the United Clans of Mandalore during Operation Hammerfall. The siege came without warning and it was the death knell of Mandalorian prominence on the galactic stage. But that wasn't the end of their troubles. To exact their ultimate vengeance against their longtime foe, the Sith Empire began the systematic destruction of the Mandalorian population and their culture. A string of Anti-Mandalorian laws were passed, and the then Shadow Hand enacted a horrific genocide called Operation Decimation in complete secrecy, resulting in the deaths of countless millions in death camps or the mining shafts used to strip mine beskar en masse out of the planets core.
The empire had found itself with an overabundance of both Mandalorians and their precious metal. Now stripped of their rights and status as living beings they were subject to the whims and wills of this butcher. The Shadow Hand began a series of experiments that sought to improve upon the natural state of Beskar to no avail, to this end he turned to the Dark Side of the Force. The solution came in the form of the Mandalorians themselves. Those with the strongest wills that could not be broken, those who refused to surrender even in the face of annihilation were sent to him. These individuals were considered especially dangerous thanks to the parasite Pazhkic'Dau within their bodies. They were encased in their own suits of Beskar'kandar, that was then stripped of everything beyond the base metal. The still living Mandalorians were subject to a despicable process blending alchemy and fire that liquefied the individual in question.
It had been a far greater success than he ever anticipated. Not only did the alloy keep its original strength, but the horrific nature of the parasites involved in the process resulted in the alloy becoming much like the Terentatek, highly resistant to force based attacks. The project was complete and now satisfied with his new creation, he bestowed upon it the name Tal'Beskar and trained the first class of Death Watch smiths in its creation. It was immediately put into production as the new material that the Sith aligned Super Commandos created their arms and armor out of.
Mandalorian Blood Steel.
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