Unreviewed The Nightbox

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

Intent: To provide a reward for those participating in the Kashyyyk story for the Covenant.​

Image Source: X​

Canon Link: NA​

Permissions: NA​

Primary Source: Sleight Box | Hiding Cube | Nightshadow | Expedition Kashyyyk​

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Manufacturer: Various contracted manufacturers of Triarch Consolidated Holdings​

Affiliation: The Sith Covenant | Triarch Consolidated Holdings​

Market Status: Closed-Market​

Model: The Nightbox​

Modularity: No, though every Nightbox is manufactured to specification.​

Production: Minor​

Material: Duraplast, nightshadow, electronics, holographic and gravitational technology.​

SPECIAL FEATURES

Stealth: Nightshadow and sensor bafflers conceal the contents from conventional scanners, gravitational compensators make the container register at its expected empty weight, and holographic technology makes the interior appear empty during cursory visual inspection.​

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Variable: Every Nightbox is built to order, ranging from pocket-sized cases for electronics to cargo containers capable of hiding exotic animals. Versions intended for living cargo can include atmosphere, temperature, and other life support systems.​

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Lifetime Supply: Rather than receiving a single Nightbox, Arris Windrun , Astra Sadow , Lily Rhodes , Vess Sadragen , Parvati , Silara IX and Zorath have been granted permanent access to the program for supporting the Dark Consortium's expansion of illegal logging and bio-fauna farming on Kashyyyk. Whenever they need another, the Consortium will have one manufactured to their specifications.​

STRENGTHS

Full-Spectrum Coverage: The Nightbox can simultaneously fool conventional scanners, weight checks, and cursory visual inspections, making it extremely effective against normal customs procedures.​

Varied: Nightboxes can be built in almost any practical size and configured around whatever their owner intends to transport, including living cargo.​

WEAKNESSES

One Goal: It is still just a durable box that hides things. It offers no special protection to whatever is inside if the Nightbox is shot, crushed, or destroyed.​

Not Infallible: The contents are concealed, not intangible. Physical probing, dismantling the container, specialized anti-stealth equipment, or a sufficiently invasive search can expose them. The Nightbox also does not protect someone sensing its contents through the Force.​

Powered Trickery: Much of the Nightbox relies on active technology. Ion weapons, EMP effects, severe electrical damage, or a depleted power supply can compromise its gravitational and holographic systems, although the nightshadow lining will continue to interfere with some scanners.​

DESCRIPTION

The Nightbox was developed during the Dark Consortium's expansion into Kashyyyk. Moving illegally harvested timber was easy enough, but getting rare biological material and exotic fauna through increasingly suspicious customs officials proved considerably harder. Existing smuggling technologies were combined into a single container capable of fooling scanners, weight checks, and cursory visual inspections.​

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Nightboxes are built to order through the different companies connected to Triarch Consolidated Holdings and can range from pocket-sized cases to environmentally controlled freight containers for living cargo. They are highly effective against ordinary customs procedures, but they do not actually make their contents disappear. Someone determined enough can still find what is hidden inside.​

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Following the success of the Kashyyyk operation, those who supported the Consortium's efforts were granted permanent access to the Nightbox program, allowing them to request new containers whenever they require one.​

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