Son of Triam
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Intent: To create an incredible and hopefully iconic weapon that shall become Triam's signature choice for battle... after considerable training of course.
Development Thread: Drinking on Christophis (Link leads to first most relevant post related to the submission) - In a bar, Triam Akovin ponders the idea of an ionic blade and is then confronted by an old friend who thinks she can help.
Let's Build a Thing - In one of Patricia's facilities, Triam begins to officially outline how this idea is probably constructed, and Patricia constructs it. Testing ensues afterwards, where corrections to the design are accounted for. (Ten posts)
Will produce another Development Thread on request.
Manufacturer: A.S.Co. with help from Reclaimer Arms & Industrial
Model: Auto-Tràkata Enabled Ionized Lightfoil Prototype
Affiliation: Triam Akovin, and a few others
Modularity: Exterior Components such as hilt covering, pummel caps, and other associated additions to the device are possible, while an internal modification is extremely difficult and liable to destroy the effectiveness of the device under uncareful untrained hands.
Production: Semi-unique (Constructed on Request)
Material: Modified Ion Blaster Components, Lightsaber/Lightfoil Components, circuitry, basic materials, field sensors
Classification: Sword
Size: One-handed or Two-handed
Length: 1.5 meters (Blade length included)
Weight: 1kg
Special Features:
Description: In the most layman of terms, the Relentless Blade is a lightfoil with an ionized plasma blade that can numb a struck target, even through conventional armors. The weapon can quickly deplete shields and cause extensive damage to electronics, like any other ion weapon. Repeated blows by this weapon can eventually cause temporary paralysis and a direct blow to the head or upper spine can cause unconsciousness. Additionally, the blade comes with comes with a switch that causes the blade of this weapon to automatically deactivate and reactivate when it comes into contact with a lightsaber blade, in the Tràkata fashion. This switch can be enabled or disabled
Strengths:
History: The idea for an ionized blade first spawned within Triam Akovin’s head, and as she traveled around she toyed with the idea unseriously as she drew up "schematics" on napkins in a bar. Despite the original lack of seriousness about the idea, she had put in considerable research into its construction, that only grew as her failures to produce results mounted. She went to her employee first, Crol H'hurut, who had direct experience with lightsabers, and asked if he had ever heard of an ionized blade. Of course, he hadn't.
Additionally, she had learned that some types of ionic medical tools could bypass conventional armor and shielding to mess with a targets neural network to cause temporary paralysis in extremities or unconsciousness with direct hits to the head or upper spine. Naturally, this brought her back to the idea of lightsabers, and asked Crol another question. She pressed further, wondering if lightsabers interacted with ionic energy. As it turned out, he did recollect that the frequency of the lightsabers energy field (the one that contained the plasma from escaping), could be adjusted to do so for particle attacks... but he didn't know how to do so himself.
This pondering continued for a while in a very small degree of seriousness... until while in a bar after a pitstop from a long work day, Triam encountered an old bar buddy... who happened to be ironically very successful in life and business. Radical change aside, they hit it off once again, and Triam decided to tell her regained friend of this idea she had. Patricia took it to heart, and decided to take the project on, suggesting they should move to one of her facilities on Relovian.
As they did so, Triam began to outline serious schematics of her intended weapon through a holographic projection device. Her reasoning behind the weapon was that there were distinct similarities between the two pieces of technology. Namely, the power required a similar power cell, a beam emitter, and some form of focusing mechanism. Then she isolated the parts that were different from each other that needed to be present in the design, naming the ion acceleration chamber, cooling vent, and discharge nozzle, as well as the lightsaber focusing lense, emitter matrix, and the containment field that they produced and adjusted them respectively.
As such, in her designs, she fit in an acceleration chamber, a cooling exhaust vent near the pommel cap where the diatium energy cell is located, a lightsaber beam emitter for the containment field, a focusing lense wrapped in ion focusing coils (focusing lense modified to amplify ion focusing coils rather than produce plasma from energy) in order to hybridize the system, and an adjusted containment field frequency toggle switch within the emitter matrix to contain ion particles on command. Later, after the initial prototypes failed, she added in a modified the Discharge Nozzle to recycle ionic energy to prevent the reflected Ion beam particles from destroying the device.
In her head, this is how she visualized the device:
However, given that the initial design of her weapon using an electromagnetic field adjusted to a specific frequency that allowed to pass through lightsabers and reflect ion streams monumentally failed in large explosive contact with another lightsaber... because it was physically impossible, despite her inaccurately assumed hypotheses, Triam Akovin had to go back to the drawing board and figure out a different solution to her problem. She tried as many frequency field configurations you could think of, from attempting to make it selectively permeable, to having a gradually strengthening field that capped the blade at the end, with a very weak field in the center capable of letting stronger fields to pass through. However, these conceptions did not seem to operate correctly.
She was about ready to give up on the entire concept itself... when she got the simple idea... to merely:
Turn off the blade.
Then turn it on again.
This epiphany hit her like a freighter ship, and she felt incredibly stupid upon its discovery. The highly efficient but complicated skill of strategically deactivating and rapidly activating the blade due to its unique capability to be turned off and on, was what finally told her, the device she had been secretly obsessing over was actually possible... just not in the way she initially imagined.
Generating her own unique sensors, she was able to measure the specific power surges typically found when two lightsabers came into extended resistance with one another, she was able to program into the blade a setting by which it could automatically do as she desired.
Of course, she had no idea what implications this would place on her training in figuring out how to use the weapon, but she was simply elated to figure out a problem that had been nagging at her for at least five months while in the Relovian labs.
Primary Source(s):
Ssi-ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer
Ssi-ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer Schematics
Lightsaber
Lightfoil
Tràkata
EDIT: The entire concept has been overhauled into something that is physically possible. Ready for review.
Intent: To create an incredible and hopefully iconic weapon that shall become Triam's signature choice for battle... after considerable training of course.
Development Thread: Drinking on Christophis (Link leads to first most relevant post related to the submission) - In a bar, Triam Akovin ponders the idea of an ionic blade and is then confronted by an old friend who thinks she can help.
Let's Build a Thing - In one of Patricia's facilities, Triam begins to officially outline how this idea is probably constructed, and Patricia constructs it. Testing ensues afterwards, where corrections to the design are accounted for. (Ten posts)
Will produce another Development Thread on request.
Manufacturer: A.S.Co. with help from Reclaimer Arms & Industrial
Model: Auto-Tràkata Enabled Ionized Lightfoil Prototype
Affiliation: Triam Akovin, and a few others
Modularity: Exterior Components such as hilt covering, pummel caps, and other associated additions to the device are possible, while an internal modification is extremely difficult and liable to destroy the effectiveness of the device under uncareful untrained hands.
Production: Semi-unique (Constructed on Request)
Material: Modified Ion Blaster Components, Lightsaber/Lightfoil Components, circuitry, basic materials, field sensors
Classification: Sword
Size: One-handed or Two-handed
Length: 1.5 meters (Blade length included)
Weight: 1kg
Special Features:
- Lightfoil: It's usable by any NFU trained to use it correctly, and can be replicated perfectly by an NFU should they attempt to reverse engineer it.
- Ionized Blade: Using Ssi-ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer technology, the silver thread ion stream is captured by an electromagnetic field found in lightsabers. Significantly stripped back of its power, contact with the blade immediately numbs a target by disrupting its central nervous system, and repeated strikes will cause paralysis for hours and/or unconscious depending on targeted area (such as the head). It also has a minor damage rate on technological constructs (such as droids). Also due to its very specific ionic nature, it is capable of passing through conventional armors and shields not tasked with specifically defending against ionic attacks of this particular variety. It does not however, have the iconic ability to pass through lightsabers.
- Automatic-Tràkata Switch: Putting more faith into technology than her own personal skill, Triam Akovin has developed a unique sensor system that can detect when the lightfoil's blade is meeting resistance by an energy surge that matches that of lightsaber contact... and rapidly deactivate and reactivate the blade as a result of that contact. In order to block lightsabers of course, this switch can be toggled off, but is otherwise a surprising loop around her previous failures in attempting to engineer something that was physically impossible.
Description: In the most layman of terms, the Relentless Blade is a lightfoil with an ionized plasma blade that can numb a struck target, even through conventional armors. The weapon can quickly deplete shields and cause extensive damage to electronics, like any other ion weapon. Repeated blows by this weapon can eventually cause temporary paralysis and a direct blow to the head or upper spine can cause unconsciousness. Additionally, the blade comes with comes with a switch that causes the blade of this weapon to automatically deactivate and reactivate when it comes into contact with a lightsaber blade, in the Tràkata fashion. This switch can be enabled or disabled
Strengths:
- NFU Usable: As a lightfoil, no force sensitivity is needed to wield the device, and is entirely reverse engineerable as well.
- Bypass Conventional Armor/Shielding: Given its particular ionic state, anything that specifically does not defend against ion attacks is vulnerable to being attacked.
- Non-lethal: Numbs target on contact, temporary paralysis for hours after repeated blows, or unconsciousness after a direct blow to the head or upper spine.
- Minor damage to electronics: Self explanatory, as an ion weapon, it has a higher proficiency to damage electronics it comes into contact with.
- Tràkata Weapon: Possess an automated Tràkata style switch, a togglable option
Requires Extensive Training: While anyone can pick up the blade and use it, even an NFU, they really need specialized training in order to effectively use the blade to defend from lightsaber attacks. Then there is also adding in the Tràkata layer of complexity to consider, as while the blade is capable of performing such a setting automatically, the wielder being able to understand the mechanics of the technique is crucial to its proficiency.
- Exclusively Close Quarters: Unlike other ion equipment, this device requires that the user get up close and personal with the intended target, which may or may not be a good thing for the wielder depending on who they are facing.
- Initial Lag: For unknown reasons, probably due to the inferior build of Lightfoils in comparison to the artisanship and engineering of lightsabers, the initial activation of the blade is much slower than a typical lightsaber or lightfoil. Once its automated Tràkata style switch is activated however, the lag subsides into nonexistence to allow its responsive rapid deactivation and reactivation. However, if that Tràkata switch is toggled off, and the blade is deactivated, the initial lag is present in the blade. Either way, this means hasty defensive maneuvers with this blade, is unlikely when initially deactivated.
History: The idea for an ionized blade first spawned within Triam Akovin’s head, and as she traveled around she toyed with the idea unseriously as she drew up "schematics" on napkins in a bar. Despite the original lack of seriousness about the idea, she had put in considerable research into its construction, that only grew as her failures to produce results mounted. She went to her employee first, Crol H'hurut, who had direct experience with lightsabers, and asked if he had ever heard of an ionized blade. Of course, he hadn't.
Additionally, she had learned that some types of ionic medical tools could bypass conventional armor and shielding to mess with a targets neural network to cause temporary paralysis in extremities or unconsciousness with direct hits to the head or upper spine. Naturally, this brought her back to the idea of lightsabers, and asked Crol another question. She pressed further, wondering if lightsabers interacted with ionic energy. As it turned out, he did recollect that the frequency of the lightsabers energy field (the one that contained the plasma from escaping), could be adjusted to do so for particle attacks... but he didn't know how to do so himself.
This pondering continued for a while in a very small degree of seriousness... until while in a bar after a pitstop from a long work day, Triam encountered an old bar buddy... who happened to be ironically very successful in life and business. Radical change aside, they hit it off once again, and Triam decided to tell her regained friend of this idea she had. Patricia took it to heart, and decided to take the project on, suggesting they should move to one of her facilities on Relovian.
As they did so, Triam began to outline serious schematics of her intended weapon through a holographic projection device. Her reasoning behind the weapon was that there were distinct similarities between the two pieces of technology. Namely, the power required a similar power cell, a beam emitter, and some form of focusing mechanism. Then she isolated the parts that were different from each other that needed to be present in the design, naming the ion acceleration chamber, cooling vent, and discharge nozzle, as well as the lightsaber focusing lense, emitter matrix, and the containment field that they produced and adjusted them respectively.
As such, in her designs, she fit in an acceleration chamber, a cooling exhaust vent near the pommel cap where the diatium energy cell is located, a lightsaber beam emitter for the containment field, a focusing lense wrapped in ion focusing coils (focusing lense modified to amplify ion focusing coils rather than produce plasma from energy) in order to hybridize the system, and an adjusted containment field frequency toggle switch within the emitter matrix to contain ion particles on command. Later, after the initial prototypes failed, she added in a modified the Discharge Nozzle to recycle ionic energy to prevent the reflected Ion beam particles from destroying the device.
In her head, this is how she visualized the device:
- Containment Field (Saber Component)
- Discharge Nozzle (Ion Component) [Uniquely Constructed to recycle reflected Ion Beam energy within its containment field, so as to prevent the device's destruction]
- Beam Emitter (Hybrid Component)
- Modified Emitter Matrix (Ion-Adjusted Saber Component)
- Hybridized Focusing Lense/Ion Focusing Coil System (Hybrid Component)
- Saber Crystal (Saber Component)
- Acceleration Chamber
- Diatium Energy Cell (Hybrid Component)
- Cooling Vent (Ion Component)
However, given that the initial design of her weapon using an electromagnetic field adjusted to a specific frequency that allowed to pass through lightsabers and reflect ion streams monumentally failed in large explosive contact with another lightsaber... because it was physically impossible, despite her inaccurately assumed hypotheses, Triam Akovin had to go back to the drawing board and figure out a different solution to her problem. She tried as many frequency field configurations you could think of, from attempting to make it selectively permeable, to having a gradually strengthening field that capped the blade at the end, with a very weak field in the center capable of letting stronger fields to pass through. However, these conceptions did not seem to operate correctly.
She was about ready to give up on the entire concept itself... when she got the simple idea... to merely:
Turn off the blade.
Then turn it on again.
This epiphany hit her like a freighter ship, and she felt incredibly stupid upon its discovery. The highly efficient but complicated skill of strategically deactivating and rapidly activating the blade due to its unique capability to be turned off and on, was what finally told her, the device she had been secretly obsessing over was actually possible... just not in the way she initially imagined.
Generating her own unique sensors, she was able to measure the specific power surges typically found when two lightsabers came into extended resistance with one another, she was able to program into the blade a setting by which it could automatically do as she desired.
Of course, she had no idea what implications this would place on her training in figuring out how to use the weapon, but she was simply elated to figure out a problem that had been nagging at her for at least five months while in the Relovian labs.
Primary Source(s):
Ssi-ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer
Ssi-ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer Schematics
Lightsaber
Lightfoil
Tràkata
EDIT: The entire concept has been overhauled into something that is physically possible. Ready for review.