Unreviewed Tusurki'aa Ta'hye Beskad — Sahan Dragr's Legendary Sword

[Sahan Dragr]

Shows the Tusurki'aa Ta'hye Beskad in both active and inactive states.​

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To resubmit and modernize Sahan Dragr's legendary Mandalorian melee weapon with updated Golden Dragon aesthetics, improved internal balance, refined control systems, armor integration, and standardized high-end circuitry.
• Image Source:
  • Plasmablade from Dustwind
  • Recolored and edited with ChatGPT
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions:
  • Roble Manufacturing
  • Maji Ironworks
  • Force-Tech
  • Xitli Sacul
  • Aloy Vizsla
• Primary Source:
  • Tusurki'aa Ta'hye Beskad
  • Beskad
  • M.I. Augmented Beskad
  • Mnirmi'ntima Dire Vibrosword
  • Kinetite
  • Contained-Energy Axe
  • Vizsla Dueling Blades
  • Darksaber

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Sahan Dragr
• Affiliation: Sahan Dragr
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Tusurki'aa Ta'hye Beskad — Golden Dragon Refit
• Modularity: Limited. The weapon may be operated in inactive, vibro-active, plasma-edge, and overload-venting modes. Power cells, grip panels, capacitors, diagnostic parts, and service components may be maintained or replaced by Sahan, but the weapon is not designed to accept alternate weapon packages.
• Production: Unique
• Material:
  • Ve'vut Beskar
  • Trakar / Voidsteel
  • Seigurium
  • Miriskin Leather
  • Liquid-Aenite Mineral Compound
  • Ionite
  • Neutronium
  • Quadranium Edge
  • Yuuzhan Vong Bonemeal
  • Diatium Power Cell
  • Zeffonian Alloy
  • Devaronian Blood-Poison crystal particles
  • Ultrachrome / Haysian Smelt wiring and micro-circuitry
  • Micro-capacitors, plasma containment emitters, conductor channels, insulated electronics, diagnostic hardware, and hilt-mounted power regulation systems
  • Force-Tech Environmental Sealing Gel

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Beskad; Vibrosword; Contained-Energy Melee Weapon
• Size: Average
• Weight: Heavy

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Golden Dragon Refit Package: The Tusurki'aa Ta'hye Beskad has been rebuilt around Sahan Dragr's newer armor systems, replacing older ballast-heavy internal construction with a cleaner ve'vut beskar frame, improved internal balancing, sealed electronics, and a gold/red-orange external finish. The refit does not make the blade dramatically stronger than before; instead, it makes the weapon faster to handle, safer to vent, easier to maintain, and better integrated with Sahan's modern beskar'gam.
• Rebalanced Core: Older weight-adding elements have been reduced or repositioned into the weapon's spine and hilt, giving the sword a smoother center of balance. It remains a heavy Mandalorian blade, but it no longer fights the wielder as much during rapid cuts, reversals, and one-handed transitions.
• Selectable Edge Profiles: The blade may be run in inactive, vibro-active, plasma-edge, or overload-venting modes. These settings let Sahan conserve power, reduce collateral damage, or bring the full contained-energy edge online when facing armor, shields, droids, or lightsaber-grade opposition.
• Augmented Vibro-System: An ultrasonic vibration generator, augmented vibro-motor, and transonic generator allow the blade to vibrate with exceptional cutting force.
• Contained-Energy Plasma Edge: A thin, focused plasma edge may be activated along the primary cutting surface, allowing the weapon to burn and carve into resistant materials with far greater efficiency than the physical edge alone.
• Infinite-Temperature Coloration: The active plasma edge burns with an intense blue-white glare associated with extreme or effectively infinite-temperature plasma aesthetics. This is a visual and containment effect rather than literal limitless heat.
• Layered Cutting Edge: Quadranium, neutronium, ionite, and Devaronian blood-poison crystal particles improve penetration, cutting trauma, ionized damage against electronics, and painful wound effects.
• Antitamper Field Generator: The weapon can bleed off and harvest a portion of incoming energy through the blade/hilt assembly, feeding it back into the sword's capacitor system.
• Kinetite Generator: Kinetic force from impacts and weapon clashes may be stored and released as a short-range outward concussive burst.
• Directional Kinetite Venting: Rather than releasing stored kinetic energy in an uncontrolled burst, the refit allows Sahan to vent accumulated force through the blade's cutting line, spine, or hilt emitters. This can create a short-range concussive shove, reinforce a parry, or add a brutal impact pulse to a committed strike.
• Armor Handshake Lock: In addition to its gene-lock, the sword can authenticate with Sahan's armor through a short-range encrypted handshake. When paired with his beskar'gam, the blade reports power levels, capacitor saturation, edge integrity, venting warnings, and diagnostic faults directly to his HUD.
• Ultrachrome/Haysian Smelt Circuitry: High-end ultrachrome and Haysian Smelt wiring supports fast internal response, stable power transfer, edge regulation, capacitor routing, and diagnostic feedback between the hilt, blade, and armor handshake systems.
• Sealed Service Spine: The hilt and blade spine contain protected maintenance channels sealed with Force-Tech Environmental Sealing Gel, helping shield the plasma emitters, capacitors, vibro-hardware, conductor lines, and diagnostics from dust, water, mud, vacuum exposure, and battlefield debris.
• Anti-Force Construction: Voidsteel, Vong bonemeal case-hardening, and miriskin leather help resist direct telekinetic theft or manipulation.
• Sahan-Locked: A gene-lock and biometric recognition system prevent the powered vibro, plasma, antitamper, and kinetite systems from activating for unauthorized wielders.
• Safety Sheath: A reinforced sheath and lockout mode prevent the weapon from accidentally activating while carried.

STRENGTHS

• Legendary Cutting Power: Between its physical edge, augmented vibro-system, and contained plasma edge, the Tusurki'aa Ta'hye Beskad can cut through many battlefield materials that would stop lesser melee weapons.
• Lightsaber-Resistant Duelist's Weapon: Its beskar-heavy construction and plasma/vibro edge allow it to contest lightsabers and other high-end melee weapons, especially in the hands of a trained Mandalorian duelist.
• Improved Handling: The Golden Dragon refit does not make the weapon light, but the rebalanced core makes it smoother and faster to control than its older configuration.
• Energy and Impact Recycling: The antitamper and kinetite systems can convert some incoming punishment into useful power or a concussive counterburst.
• Directional Counterforce: Directional kinetite venting gives Sahan more control over how stored impact force is released, allowing skilled parries, shoves, and strike-enhancing impact pulses.
• Armor Integration: When paired with Sahan's beskar'gam, the sword can provide HUD feedback on charge levels, edge state, saturation, venting risk, and damage warnings.
• Anti-Force Handling: The weapon is difficult for Force-users to directly steal, redirect, or manipulate through telekinesis compared to ordinary weapons.
• Owner-Locked: Even if taken from Sahan, the weapon's most dangerous systems remain locked unless the gene-lock is bypassed.
• Built to Survive: Ve'vut beskar, voidsteel, seigurium, liquid-aenite, sealed electronics, and careful Mandalorian forging make the blade and hilt highly durable under battlefield conditions.

WEAKNESSES

• Heavy: The refit improves balance, not mass. The weapon is still intentionally dense and requires significant strength, conditioning, and training to use properly.
• Short Reach: As a beskad, it has less reach than a full sword, spear, polearm, or lightsaber pike.
• One-Handed Hilt: The weapon is designed for Sahan's one-handed style and cannot comfortably support a proper two-handed grip.
• Do Not Throw: Sahan must maintain contact with the hilt for the powered systems to remain reliably active. Throwing it wastes its best features and risks losing a unique weapon.
• Capacitor Saturation: The antitamper and kinetite systems cannot absorb unlimited energy or impact. Heavy sustained punishment can saturate the capacitors, force automatic venting, or temporarily shut down the advanced systems.
• Not a Shield: The antitamper system is not a personal shield, lightsaber catcher, or blaster-deflection field. It is most useful during direct contact with the weapon and can be overwhelmed.
• Venting Requires Control: Directional kinetite release is not a free omnidirectional blast. It requires timing, contact, and the correct blade angle. Poor use can waste the stored charge, throw off Sahan's own footing, or force the weapon into a cooldown cycle.
• Manual Backup: The sword can still function without armor-sync, but Sahan loses HUD warnings, power readouts, and automated diagnostic feedback. If the handshake is jammed or disrupted, the blade defaults to its local controls and biometric lock.
• Complex Maintenance: Plasma containment emitters, transonic systems, kinetite hardware, capacitors, sealed electronics, and HUD handshake components require careful Forgemaster-level maintenance.
• Ion/EMP Vulnerability: The hilt is hardened and sealed, but sufficient ion or EMP damage can still disrupt the weapon's powered functions if it breaches the protections.
• Sonic and Resonance Attacks: Specialized sonic, vibration, or resonance weapons can interfere with the vibro-system or stress the blade's layered construction.
• Disruptors and Exotic Damage: Matter-disrupting weapons and comparable exotic effects remain dangerous to the weapon's materials and internal systems.
• Still Dangerous When Locked: The gene-lock prevents unauthorized users from activating the advanced systems, but the inactive blade is still sharp, heavy, and painful to be struck with.
• Anti-Force, Not Force-Proof: The anti-Force materials are strongest against direct manipulation of the weapon itself. Indirect Force attacks, environmental attacks, massive telekinetic force, and powers aimed at Sahan rather than the weapon may still work.

DESCRIPTION

The Tusurki'aa Ta'hye Beskad was originally forged by Sahan Dragr as a personal, iconic Mandalorian weapon: a heavy, advanced beskad built to inspire awe among his people and dread among his enemies. Following Sahan's rise as Clan Dragr's Forgemaster and the growth of the Iron Covenant, the blade was reforged and refinished into its Golden Dragon configuration.

The weapon remains recognizable as a traditional Mandalorian beskad in silhouette, though its internal systems are far more sophisticated. Its dense construction includes ve'vut beskar, voidsteel, seigurium, liquid-aenite, and carefully layered edge materials, giving it the heft and durability expected of a weapon made for Sahan's aggressive dueling style. Red-orange trim and gold-toned armor panels echo his newer beskar'gam, while the active plasma edge burns with a brilliant blue-white glare rather than gold or orange.

At its simplest, the sword can function as a brutally sharp heavy blade. When activated, the ultrasonic and transonic vibro-systems greatly enhance its cutting ability. At higher output, a contained-energy plasma edge forms along the primary cutting surface, turning the weapon into a hybrid of Mandalorian steelcraft and contained-energy technology. Sahan may also run the blade in vibro-only mode when a full plasma edge is unnecessary.

The Golden Dragon refit focuses less on adding raw power and more on refinement. Older ballast-heavy sections have been replaced or repositioned, giving the weapon a smoother center of balance without stripping away its heavy beskad identity. It remains a strong warrior's weapon, but it transitions better through rapid cuts, reversals, parries, and one-handed changes in direction.

Its edge is designed to be cruelly efficient. Quadranium and neutronium improve bite and penetration, ionite allows the blade to carry ionized damage into droids, electronics, shields, and powered armor, and Devaronian blood-poison crystal particles increase pain and wound severity when the physical edge makes contact with flesh.

The hilt houses two of the sword's signature systems. The antitamper field generator can bleed and harvest portions of incoming energy, feeding the weapon's capacitor system instead of relying solely on its power cell. The kinetite generator can store kinetic force from clashes and impacts, then release it as a short-range concussive shockwave. In the Golden Dragon configuration, that stored force may be vented more precisely through the blade, spine, or hilt emitters, allowing Sahan to reinforce a parry, shove an opponent back, or add a punishing impact pulse to a committed strike.

The refit also brings the weapon into Sahan's modern armor ecosystem. Ultrachrome/Haysian Smelt wiring supports rapid power transfer, capacitor routing, edge regulation, and diagnostic feedback. When paired with Sahan's beskar'gam, the weapon can report power reserves, edge state, capacitor saturation, venting risk, and internal faults directly to his HUD. If the armor handshake is disrupted, the blade remains functional through local controls, but Sahan loses that extra layer of feedback.

As with many of Sahan's creations, the blade incorporates anti-Force materials. Voidsteel, Vong bonemeal treatment, and miriskin leather make the weapon difficult to seize or manipulate directly through the Force. This does not make the blade immune to every Force power, but it does make stealing it from Sahan's grip a far more frustrating proposition than it would be with an ordinary sword.

A gene-lock and biometric recognition system restrict the sword's powered functions to Sahan Dragr. Another wielder could still use the inactive weapon as a heavy, sharp blade, but the vibro-motor, plasma edge, antitamper field, kinetite release, and armor-handshake functions remain locked without Sahan's authorization. Force-Tech Environmental Sealing Gel and reinforced internal housings help keep the weapon operating in water, vacuum, dust, mud, snow, and other battlefield environments.

The result is not a subtle weapon. It is a statement piece: a golden-red Mandalorian plasma beskad, heavy in the hand, vicious in the cut, difficult to steal, and unmistakably suited to the Golden Dragon.