Unreviewed The Obsidian Shard

[Delsin Shaw]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: Create a unique saber-like weapon for Delsin as a personal project. One that dives more deeply into his usage of the Anti-Force.
• Image Source: Chatgpt, Prompt by me.
• Canon Link:
  
  • Anti-Force
  • Forcesaber
  • Othersaber
  • Madog Steel
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Delsin Shaw
• Affiliation: Delsin Shaw
• Market Status: Closed Market
• Model: The Obsidian Shard
• Modularity: No
• Production: Unique
• Material:
  
  • Obsidian from Otherspace
  • Haysian Smelt
  • Anti-Force Crystal

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Anti-Forcesaber
• Size: Average
• Weight: Average

SPECIAL FEATURES
Concept and Functionality
The Obsidian Shard is not a conventional lightsaber. Forged as a conduit for the Anti-Force, it follows the ancient tradition of the original Forcesabers, yet its design and purpose push far beyond that legacy. Where a normal lightsaber relies on a plasma blade and a focusing crystal, this weapon demands a living connection to the Anti-Force itself. Without that connection it is nothing more than a piece of exotic metal. An inert relic, a paperweight. Only a Force-sensitive individual who can actively call upon and harmonize with the Anti-Force can awaken the blade. Merely being strong in the Force is not enough. The wielder, Delsin Shaw, must be attuned to the countercurrent of reality, the cosmic "negative" of the Force, or the weapon will never ignite.

Collision of Force and Anti-Force
The Shard's deadliest feature comes from the interaction of Force and Anti-Force. When these opposing energies meet, they behave like matter and antimatter. Their collision produces a violent surge of raw, unaligned energy. The saber does not simply "cut" objects. Instead, when its Anti-Force blade contacts realspace matter or a Force-saturated object, it destabilizes the molecular bonds and disintegrates them.

The result feels like a cut, but it is in fact rapid annihilation. Molecules unmade in an instant. Against objects or beings rich in the Force, this process accelerates. The stronger the target's connection to the Force, the faster the Obsidian Shard devours it. This annihilation is not wasted. The raw energy released by each clash is siphoned back into the blade, amplifying its own power. In combat the weapon effectively feeds on the Force, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of destruction and renewal.

Energy Absorbtion/Siphon
Because it consumes and converts energy rather than deflecting it, the Shard behaves differently from a standard lightsaber in battle. Blaster or energy fire is not deflected but absorbed, the plasma of each bolt destabilized into raw energy to feed the blade. Physical projectiles such as slugs or solid ammunition can also be destroyed, though extremely dense or massive materials require more time and energy to disintegrate. This makes the weapon uniquely suited to chaotic engagements where it can draw strength from every strike and shot directed at it.

Blade of Condensed Anti-Force
Once awakened, the Obsidian Shard does not emit a plasma blade. Instead it manifests a purely Force-generated edge, a blade of condensed Anti-Force energy. This gives it a destructive capacity that eclipses traditional lightsabers. This bypasses Saber-Resistant Materials. Such things as Cortosis, phrik, or force-imbued metals that would normally short-circuit or withstand a lightsaber offer little protection. The Obsidian Shard's blade severs matter at the molecular level, cleaving through what standard plasma blades merely score. Secondarily, Power Scales with the Wielder. This is because the blade is a direct projection of the wielder's command of the Anti-Force, its potency rises with their strength. A master of this esoteric art can shear through even ancient Force-imbued artifacts or rival Forcesabers with alarming ease.

Anti-Force Blade limitations
Despite its formidable nature, the Obsidian Shard is not invincible. Force-Dead Materials or objects forged from voidstone or otherwise rendered "Force-dead" are largely immune, resisting the blade's molecular unmaking. Force-Null Zones or areas of intense Force suppression do not extinguish the blade. Its energy is fundamentally real, but they weaken the wielder's connection to the Anti-Force, reducing the weapon's cutting efficiency and slowing the annihilation effect.

Adaptive Channeling and Shaping
Because the Obsidian Shard is an extension of the Anti-Force, its power can scale directly with the wielder's own mastery of that cosmic opposite. When the user is immersed in raw Force energy. Whether standing within a potent Force nexus, drawing on an external surge of power, or otherwise amplifying their own connection, they can channel that energy back into the weapon. This infusion allows the wielder to artificially increase the blade's output, magnifying its destructive capacity beyond its normal threshold.

A practitioner deeply attuned to the saber can even reshape the blade itself, bending its Anti-Force projection to their will. With focus and control, the blade can lengthen to strike distant targets, contract into a thin, scalpel-like edge for surgical precision, or widen into a broad destructive beam capable of annihilating larger swaths of matter. The wielder may also intensify the Anti-Force within the weapon until the blade burns hotter and more violently, trading stability for overwhelming destructive power.

This intimate bond cuts both ways. The user can just as easily reverse the flow, drawing the Anti-Force energy from the weapon back into their own body. In moments of dire need, a master of the Obsidian Shard might even extinguish the blade mid-battle, siphoning its condensed power to fuel their own abilities and unleash the Anti-Force through other expressions.

STRENGTHS

• Absolute Cutting Power - The blade is a manifestation of condensed Anti-Force, not plasma. It destabilizes molecules and disintegrates matter on contact, allowing it to slice through materials that resist or disable ordinary lightsabers (cortosis, phrik, beskar, Force-imbued metals, etc.).
• Force Artifact Annihilation - Objects or beings saturated with the Force—Force-imbued weapons, holocrons, Sith swords, or even rival lightsabers—are cut more quickly as the blade feeds on their energy. The stronger the Force signature, the faster the disintegration.
• Self-Feeding Cycle - Collisions of Force and Anti-Force generate raw energy, which the blade siphons to sustain or even amplify its own output.
• Absorbs Incoming Attacks - Blaster bolts, laser fire, and many other forms of directed energy are not deflected but absorbed and converted to raw power, strengthening the weapon mid-combat.
• Variable Form & Output - A skilled wielder can lengthen the blade for extended reach, narrow it to a surgical scalpel edge, or widen it into a destructive beam. They can also increase the blade's "burn" for a more volatile, high-damage state.
• Personal Power Scaling - If the wielder is standing in a Force nexus, drawing on raw energy, or otherwise empowered, they can channel their own reserve of Anti-Force into the blade to artificially boost its destructive capacity.
• Reversible Flow - Energy can flow back to the user. The wielder can even extinguish the blade while active to draw Anti-Force into themselves, enhancing their own abilities or fueling other powers.
• Immune to Typical Saber Counters - Because it is not a plasma blade, the Obsidian Shard is unaffected by cortosis shorts and cannot be cleanly locked with standard lightsabers in a traditional "saber clash."

WEAKNESSES

• Strict User Requirement - Only individuals who can actively commune with the Anti-Force can ignite the weapon. To anyone else, it is inert metal. Even strong Force-sensitives without Anti-Force affinity cannot wield it.
• Force Suppression Vulnerability - In Force-null or heavily dampened zones, the blade can still exist as raw energy, but the wielder's connection to the Anti-Force is weakened. Cutting speed and destructive efficiency drop sharply.
• Personal Focus Required - Adaptive shaping, energy absorption, or power cycling demands intense mental control. Distraction or fatigue can break that focus and destabilize the blade.
• Voidstone & Force-Dead Matter - Objects truly "Force-dead," especially those made of voidstone, cannot be cleaved or destabilized. Dense, non-Force-reactive materials take more time and energy to disintegrate.
• Overdraw Potential - Channeling excessive Anti-Force, especially while trying to reshape the blade or absorb large energy surges, can overwhelm the user, risking burnout, feedback injuries, or loss of control.
• Explosive Collisions - When Anti-Force meets intense Force energy (e.g., another potent nexus or artifact), the release of raw energy can create violent shockwaves that endanger both wielder and surroundings. There is a limit to the amount of energy it can interact with without becoming destructive to the user.
• Energy Absorption Trade-Offs - The blade can absorb blaster or energy fire, but cannot reflect or redirect it like a lightsaber, limiting defensive options.
• Close-Quarters Dependence - Despite its adaptability, it remains a melee weapon. Extreme ranged combat or overwhelming numbers can pressure the wielder.

DESCRIPTION
Delsin Shaw moves through the galaxy like a quiet pressure front. Pale, silver-haired, 6'2", all edges refined to a predatory elegance. The slit-pupil green-blue of his eyes reads a room the way a duelist reads distance. What matters, what can be broken, what must be left to stand. His presence is aristocratic without ornament, measured without mercy. Even at rest there is the suggestion of coiled voltage. Hands that prefer sensation and control, a gait that wastes nothing, an expression that rarely needs to raise its voice to be obeyed. He dresses his intent as carefully as he dresses his body, whether in gear or formal cloth. The dark-gold jewelry is not decoration so much as heraldry. It announces a sovereign who answers to no scripture but his own.

Otherspace taught him that creed. Out there, where geometry lies and instruments return numbers that speak in riddles. Delsin learned that the Force is not a monolith but a conversation with an equal and opposite participant. He cataloged silence-storms where meditation becomes static, ruins where glyphs drink light, architectures whose angles lean away from causality. He brought back samples that would not "read" to Jedi senses and yet pressed back on the world with undeniable weight. He called that pressure the Anti-Force: not absence, not void, but a counter-current. Coherent, directional, fertile in its own language. In that frontier of inverted resonance he stopped asking whether the Force had a shadow and began asking what tools a patient mind could forge from the shadow's grammar.

The Obsidian Shard is the proof of that answer. Designed first on Ession covered in ratios and wave diagrams, then hammered into being with alchemical discipline, it is a weapon that only makes sense if you accept that Delsin does not worship the Force. He negotiates with it from parity. A lightsaber is a compact reactor that projects refined plasma. The Shard is something else entirely. A conductor that manifests Anti-Force as a coherent blade. Its hilt, long, crossguard-less, obsidian-black with dark-gold veinwork, was chosen to privilege leverage, line, and leverage again. The leather grip invites one hand or two. The emitter has no theatrical flares or teeth. It is a mouth for a truth that does not need to shout. When he wills it alive, the blade erupts a deep emerald shot through with unstable crimson fractures. A visual thesis that the Anti-Force can inhabit familiar forms while refusing to become them.

He made it because the work demanded it. In Otherspace he tested artifacts saturated with devotion. Jedi reliquaries, Sith iron, blades that sang when the devout approached. He watched standard sabers skate, stutter, or stall against materials built to argue with plasma. Then he watched the Shard unmake them at the molecular level, not by heating, but by denial, by forcing the Force and Anti-Force to meet and resolve as raw energy that the weapon drinks. The greater the piety baked into an object, the more kyber harmonics, the denser the alchemical charge, the faster the Shard feeds. In Delsin's hands this is not desecration for its own sake; it is engineering. If an empire arms itself in myth, the correct countermeasure is a machine that metabolizes myth.

He tuned the Shard for utility, not spectacle. Against distance fire, it does not play at heroics by batting bolts back along pre-scripted lines; it swallows them and grows louder. Against massed armor it widens to a beam and carves lanes. In corridors it narrows to a scalpel and writes in lock seams. With opponents who mistake luminous noise for inevitability, he extends the blade to steal reach, or shortens it to own tempo. The adaptive shaping is not a party trick but a calculus of pressure, angle, and time-to-failure. Because the blade's edge is Anti-Force coherence, not plasma, cortosis cannot trip it, and saber-resistant alloys merely postpone the conclusion. Dense, force-dead matter still resists; he files that under "honest problems," not design flaws. Every tool must declare its limits.

Symbolically, the Shard is exactly the banner he wants to carry. The fractured green with crimson "breaks" mirrors the witch-fire that sometimes kindles in his eyes and the lightning he leashes along his arms. The dark-gold filigree in the hilt converses with his rings and pendant: a language of reclaimed regality, not borrowed from temples but minted from will. When Delsin places that weapon on a table, obsidian hilt quiet, blade asleep, the message is simple. I will meet your power in its home ground and starve it of oxygen. When he rises and ignites it, the message becomes proof.

The thought process behind every choice is ruthless pragmatism. A longer hilt means leverage. Dominance in binds, authority in redirections, endurance in long exchanges. No crossguard means nothing to catch on cloaks, harness, or bodies in close quarters. A blade that can widen to a beam means breaching bulkheads without explosives. A blade that can thin to a filament means cutting cuffs without cutting wrists. A system that can reverse the flow. Extinguishing the weapon to pour its condensed Anti-Force back into his own channels, means walking into a nexus armed twice. Once with a sword, once with the capacity to become the sword.

Reasonable combat doctrine follows from that architecture. He does not fence. He edits. He lets zealots overextend, lets their faith leak energy into the air, and writes that energy into the Shard's grammar. He measures opponents by how much they can afford to give him before they realize they are feeding a furnace. Against Force-heavy duelists he chooses exchanges that force blade-on-blade collisions, accelerating the annihilation cycle that they cannot win. Against armor he uses geometry. Angles that force the widest face of the beam across the greatest cross-section in the shortest time. Against crowds he does not show off. He walks forward and simplifies the room.

All of which is to say. The Obsidian Shard is not merely a clever anti-artifact instrument or a duelist's vanity. It is Delsin Shaw's signature in negative space, the device that makes his biography legible at a glance. Otherspace taught him that the galaxy is larger than doctrine. Anti-Force technology gave him the means to prove it. The Shard completes the sentence. In a world that insists the Force is the sole axis of meaning, he carries a blade that turns that axis, and, quietly, methodically, unbinds whatever was built on the assumption it could not be turned.

The Obsidian Shard is not a lightsaber in any conventional sense. It is a weapon born from the Anti-Force, the cosmic countercurrent to the Force itself. Forged through alchemical methods long forgotten, it functions only as an extension of that paradoxical energy. To the uninitiated it is nothing more than an inert length of dark alloy and etched obsidian. An elegant but lifeless relic. Activation requires more than mere Force sensitivity. The wielder must draw directly on the Anti-Force, aligning their will with the inverse heartbeat of the galaxy. Without that resonance the weapon remains cold and silent, immune to standard ignition methods, a dead thing that no amount of mechanical manipulation can awaken.

When a true adept channels the Anti-Force into the hilt, the weapon's "blade" is born. Not a plasma column but a coalesced projection of pure Anti-Force energy. The hilt, roughly twenty-four inches long for two-handed leverage, is forged from an obsidian-black alloy streaked with faint violet and crimson veins that seem to shift when struck by light. Black leather wraps the grip in crimson-stitched patterns, while the pommel bears a jagged shard of genuine obsidian that pulses faintly when the weapon drinks in energy. From the slim, fractured-stone emitter erupts a blade of shimmering green shot through with crimson fractures, its unstable core resembling living witch-fire. Unlike a lightsaber's plasma edge, this blade disintegrates matter on the molecular level. It does not cut, it unmakes. Against ordinary metal or stone the effect is instantaneous; against Force-saturated targets, lightsabers, Sith swords, Force-imbued artifacts, the annihilation accelerates, feeding on the very energy that sustains them.

Combat with the Obsidian Shard is an exercise in controlled devastation. Each clash of Force and Anti-Force releases raw, unaligned energy akin to a micro-explosion of matter and antimatter. Rather than deflecting blaster fire, the blade absorbs it, destabilizing the plasma and converting the bolt into more fuel for itself. Kinetic projectiles meet a different fate. Lighter rounds are disintegrated on contact, while denser materials may resist for a heartbeat as their molecular bonds collapse. Every strike, whether against steel or Force-imbued crystal, generates a burst of raw energy that the blade siphons to maintain or even amplify its own power, creating a self-feeding cycle of destruction. In prolonged combat the weapon literally grows more potent the more it is challenged.

A master of the Shard can shape the blade like an artist sculpting flame. With focus, its length can extend to spear-like reach or contract into a scalpel-thin filament for surgical precision. It can broaden into a wide, searing beam capable of carving through bulkheads or crowd formations, or "burn" hotter and more volatile when overwhelming force is required. The bond between wielder and weapon is reciprocal. The user may even extinguish the blade mid-battle to draw its condensed Anti-Force back into their own body, amplifying their personal power before re-manifesting the weapon a moment later.

This adaptability demands discipline. Every change in length, width, or destructive output requires conscious control and an unbroken link to the Anti-Force. Prolonged overcharging can strain the wielder's body and mind, risking backlash as raw Anti-Force energy floods their system. Though the blade itself is real energy and cannot be nullified, Force-dead materials such as voidstone resist its molecular unmaking, and heavy Force-suppression fields can dampen the user's connection, slowing the disintegration effect.

In skilled hands, the Obsidian Shard is both weapon and living paradox. A conduit of cosmic negation that feeds on what it destroys. On the battlefield it rewards precision and ruthless intent. Duels against Force-sensitive opponents become deadly games of attrition the instant their own power fuels the weapon that kills them. In mass combat, its ability to absorb blaster fire and carve through armor turns the wielder into a walking singularity of annihilation. It is not merely a blade. It is Anti-Force made manifest, a predator among weapons that grows stronger with every heartbeat of conflict.