Valik
Professor of Alchemy
Warren Valik had always considered Alchemy to be one of the highest skills and talents that a Force User could pursue. A blending of the sciences, the Force itself to break those sciences, and the artistic touch to create a masterpiece. If you had asked Valik a year ago if he thought there could ever be too much Alchemy he would scowled at you, given a speech about the powers it entailed, the doors it opened, but today was a far different day then back then. Rave Merrill, though a valued acquaintance of Valik's, had gone quite a bit off the deep end. While still an alchemist of no small renown, nor clinically insane or mentally ill, for some particular reason she had decided to mass-market her creations. Nowadays literally anybody with the money could go up to a store, purchase a coat make of the leather of a Terentatek, and walk around nearly immune to the effects of the Force. Sure, it was a pricey thing, but nobody seemed to regulate the amount of money people had anymore. Anybody who was anybody seemed to have the money to buy at least something, and while the Terentattek leather was the most notable piece of inventory it wasn't the only thing that caused Valik and other Force User's pause.
After a raid on the Jedi Temple with an old Whiphid and intriguing sorceress he managed to obtain the recipe for an old Jedi Shadow gadget. Nullification Resin it was called. An interesting substance that, when a dark side artifact was immersed in it, deactivated it's properties completely. Truth be told Valik was terrified that such a thing could exist, but as he experimented with it more and more he found the whole process to be extremely limiting. The resin only worked if the artifact was submerged in it, meaning application during combat was entirely unfeasable, save for throwing your opponent into a vat full of it, and if you could pull that off you didn't need the Resin in the first place. It was unsurprising that the Jedi had come up with such a temporary solution in so many years, never making progress towards a new one. With no ambition for power they were doomed to never attain their full potential.
In any case, with Nullification Resin a no-go for disabling the leather terrors that pranced around the galaxy Valik was forced to devise an alternate solution. He'd need to find some more alchemical items. Specifically ones he didn't take part in their creation.
After a raid on the Jedi Temple with an old Whiphid and intriguing sorceress he managed to obtain the recipe for an old Jedi Shadow gadget. Nullification Resin it was called. An interesting substance that, when a dark side artifact was immersed in it, deactivated it's properties completely. Truth be told Valik was terrified that such a thing could exist, but as he experimented with it more and more he found the whole process to be extremely limiting. The resin only worked if the artifact was submerged in it, meaning application during combat was entirely unfeasable, save for throwing your opponent into a vat full of it, and if you could pull that off you didn't need the Resin in the first place. It was unsurprising that the Jedi had come up with such a temporary solution in so many years, never making progress towards a new one. With no ambition for power they were doomed to never attain their full potential.
In any case, with Nullification Resin a no-go for disabling the leather terrors that pranced around the galaxy Valik was forced to devise an alternate solution. He'd need to find some more alchemical items. Specifically ones he didn't take part in their creation.