Eternal Father
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Flesh out the Dark Lord's warship
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- Starship Name: Blade of Fate
- Starship Model: Darr Itah-class Grand Battlecruiser
- Classification: Military
- Homeport: Bastion
- Travel Route: The Blade of Fate transports the Dark Lord to the front lines of military engagements conducted by the New Sith Empire
- Affiliation: The Sith Empire
- Crew Complement: Heavily Manned
- Notable Crewmembers:
Odo Quiroga - Chief Interrogation Specialist - Arala Se - Clone Dark Jedi Enforcer
- Tammuz Ra - Voss Mystic Oracle
- The August Sentinel - Robotic Envoy
- Doctor Vain Jar'He - Grand Gene-Surgeon
[*]Accessibility: Access to the Blade of Fate requires a series of complicated access codes only grantable by the Dark Lord's administration, and is generally given to those whom the Dark Lord trusts such as his inner council.
[*]Description: As one of the last Darr Itah Battlecruisers in existence, the Blade of Fate is a wondrously unique warship identified by its sleek utilitarian design and bristling armament. Designed for advanced ship-to-ship combat capabilities, it also serves as a symbol of the Dark Lord's might as the mere sight of the warship heralded doom and destruction for the enemies of the New Sith Empire. The vessel featured a sunken superstructure which was heavily defended by several clusters of turbolasers and point-defense turrets to protect the command bridge from ill-fated run-ins with starfighters attempting to score a one-hit kill on the battlecruiser's bridge. The ship also possessed both lateral auxiliary starboard and port hangar entrances, with hangar flight control bridges overseeing activities in both bays, while the primary hangar bay was located on the vessel's underbelly.
INTERNAL DEFENSES
- The Blade of Fate is guarded by a regiment of twenty five hundred Blackblade Guardsman alongside ninety five hundred regular Imperial Stormtroopers who were housed in an expansive barrack complex near the bow of the ship, while the Blackblades enjoyed a more compact barrack near the senior command domiciles.
- Many of the warship's corridors are equipped with lockdown bulkheads which work off of an automated system, but can also be manually activated. When activated the bulkeahds will seal/cordon off the targeted area from intrusion, allowing other security measures to be enforced against intruders.
- Retractable auto-blasters in the walls, bulkheads, and floors.
- Biometric Scanners that feed back into a tracking system that monitors all personnel on board and provides a three dimensional display of known bio signatures and potential "unknowns".
- Ray Shields that can be used to entrap entire hallways or wall off other areas of the ship, and is typically used when the lockdown bulkheads fail.
- Magnetic ceiling traps coupled with electromagnetic field generators that can pull in and then disable electronic devices such as blasters, lightsabers, and even droids. A secondary function for the trap exists as well, and the electromagnetic field can be substituted with pure electricity that can stun, incapacitate, and possibly even kill organics caught in the arcing energy.
- Command Bridge - The bridge of the Blade of Fate was designed to resemble most other Imperial bridges, with a single elevated walkway surrounded by sunken data pits with the entire outerwall lined with bordered transparisteel viewports that afforded an entire one hundred and eighty decrees line of sight. Towards the back of the bridge was a command throne typically reserved for the commander of the vessel when the Dark Lord was not currently present on the bridge, and further beyond that was a holotable between two sets of blast doors that allowed officers to communicate with other personnel and analyze ship or troop movements.
- Darth Carnifex's Qabbrat - A meditation chamber designed to channel the Force and strengthen the occupant's connection. Carnifex purposefully modeled it after a throne room, with a massive black iron throne serving as the singular resting spot for meditation. The chamber is lit only by gloomy braziers that glow with an unnatural emerald flame, and the walls had been constructed out of smoothed basalt with thick slabs of aurodium arranged in the shape of Sith Runes in between them. The throne also possesses a communication rig and holonet transceiver, allowing Carnifex to talk with anyone in the galaxy.
- The Brig - The dungeons of the Blade of Fate are notorious as the place where Jedi go to die thanks to Carnifex's fierce hatred of the rival Force sect and his penchant for kidnapping Jedi from battlefields. The multi-leveled brig is complete with detention cells that were roughly four paces in length and large enough to hold at least two individuals, and larger interrogation cells with accompanying instruments of torture and S1 Medical Droids. The cells had cots to accommodate slumber and ceilings that disappeared into darkness, while the walls had a barren black-gray finish intended to impress upon a captive the hopelessness of their situation. Corpse disposal was achieved via incinerators that fed into the vessel's trash compactors.
- Combat Arena - A large thirty by twenty meter chamber dedicated to the honing of the Dark Lord's lightsaber skills and force abilities. The walls of the arena can be altered to mimic terrain and conceals hidden auto-blasters, pitfalls, and other manufactured dangers to keep the arena's occupants on their toes at all times. An adjacent chamber serves as storage for modified EG-5 Jedi Hunters that can be enhanced with the programmed personalities of the galaxy's most famous Jedi and even several Sith, allowing the Dark Lord to compare his might with that of a simulated enemy.
The Blade of Fate was originally one of the One Sith's Darr Itah-class Battlecruisers, and had seen battle under a different name and under a different commander during the destructive Great War that ravaged the Core Worlds and Inner Rim. The dreadnought was personally responsible for the pacification of Bilbringi VII who had risen up in defiance of the One Sith Empire while its gaze was turned towards the Republic. The warship attacked the asteroid with a small flotilla of frigates and corvettes and ultimately was successful in bringing the system to heel, but not before firing on a great deal of the asteroid's surface resulting in the death of several hundred individuals.
When the One Sith Empire collapsed in on itself, the ship became part of one of the warlord factions who set themselves up in the fragmented Core. Its original name was wiped from history and it was renamed the Fist of Metellos in accordance with the warlord fief's capital. The Fist of Metellos fought many skirmishes against rival warlords and Alliance battle groups before being nearly gutted during the Battle of Pantolomin, and was presumed lost when its captain made a hasty hyperspace jump while the vessel was being hammered from all sides.
The Fist of Metellos was inevitably found listing through empty Imperial Space by the Sith Ascendancy, and was tugged to Yaga Minor to undergo repairs. The Ascendancy's Warmaster, Darth Carnifex, desired the ship for himself and had his current ship, the Ruination, scuttled with its most important features ( such as the A.X.I.O.S. combat artificial intelligence ) removed and installed into the new vessel. Taking the ship as his new flagship, the Warmaster renamed the warship the Blade of Fate.
Even after the Sith Ascendancy evolved into the New Sith Empire the Blade of Fate still served as Carnifex's, now the Dark Lord of the Sith, flagship and symbol of his Imperial might.
