Tech Review The Nightbox

[Mercy]

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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

Distort: Nightshadow and sensor bafflers distort the contents from conventional sensors, 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

Distortion: The Nightbox can distorts its contents from conventional sensors, 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 distorted, not intangible. Physical probing, dismantling the container, specialized detection equipment, or a sufficiently invasive search can expose them. The Nightbox also does not protect someone sensing its contents through the Force. And sensors can still notice that something is inside, so if the box is supposed to be empty, that will seem strange.​

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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[Admiral Burtch]

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[Admiral Burtch]

Mercy

Hey there! So, there is one issue here that we'll need to address before I can stamp this.

As currently written, the Nightbox does still qualify as Stealth Technology under the Factory rules. The important distinction here isn't necessarily how sophisticated or foolproof the system is, but what it actually does. Since the Nightbox prevents its contents from being detected by conventional sensors, it falls under the restricted Stealth Technology classification.

The weaknesses you've provided are perfectly reasonable, but they don't change that underlying function. As such, if you would like to retain the Nightbox's ability to conceal its contents from sensors, its Production will need to be reduced to Semi-Unique or Unique.

There is, however, another option if you'd like to keep the higher Production rating. Rather than concealing the contents from sensors, you could have the Nightbox scramble, distort, or otherwise interfere with the sensor signature coming from inside it. In other words, scanners could still detect that something is there, but have difficulty determining exactly what they're looking at. Sensor disruption along those lines is not treated the same way as technology that outright prevents detection.

That would preserve most of the smuggling gimmick without pushing the submission into restricted Stealth Technology.

And, for the love of God, if you go this route, do not use the word "stealth."



Please tag me when this is ready.

 

[Admiral Burtch]

Mercy

What is the status of this submission?

 

[Mercy]

Admiral Burtch

Hey there, apologies! I will have a reply to you by tomorrow.

 

[Mercy]

Admiral Burtch

Hi there! I went with your second suggestion. I believe I removed all mention of stealth and defeating sensors out of the submission. Replacing it with the contents being 'distorted', while sensors can still see something is there, so if the box is empty that would look odd.

Hope that is okay, but let me know if I missed anything!