Approved Armor Umbral Aegis Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To submit the Umbral Aegis, a Sith alchemized executioner warplate designed as the signature armor of the Umbral Guard, personal royal guard and sovereign executioners of Darth Prazutis.
• Image Source:
  • Click - ChatGPT by Me
  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source: N/A

• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Umbral Aegis Mk. I
• Modularity: Yes - The armor can be repaired or replaced.
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  
  • Qazûr Weave Undersuit
  • Umbraplast Shell
    
    • Mag-Coil Wirepath
  • Bloodsteel Underframe
  • Bloodpane Visor
  • Shikkari Shadow Silk Cloak

• Classification: Multipurpose
• Weight: Heavy
• Resistances:
  
  • Energy: Very High
  • Kinetic: High
  • Lightsabers: Very High
  • Sonic: High
  • EMP / Ion: High
  • Heat / Fire: Very High
  • Cold / Vacuum: Very High
  • Corrosives / Chemical Agents: High
  • Force / Light-Side Purification: Very High

• Qazûr Weave Integration: Inner flesh-metal undersuit linked directly into the wearer's nervous system, providing pain-conduction, discipline reinforcement, shock diffusion, and Force conduction throughout the armor.
• Void-Mask Runic Lattice: Alchemical runes worked into the breastplate, pauldrons, and gorget that flatten and dampen the wearer's Force presence, making each Guard feel like a cold, controlled void rather than a flaring dark-side beacon.
• Dread Resonance Aegis: Secondary rune-lines and interior sigils that can be deliberately "opened" to amplify an aura of dread and intimidation, causing foes to feel the oppressive weight of imminent execution when the Guard advance in formation.
• Hermetic Life-Support Shell: Fully sealed suit environment with integrated vox-shroud respirator, air filters, and limited-duration internal air supply, allowing operation in vacuum, under toxic bombardment, and within hostile nexus conditions.
• Vox-Shroud Vocoder & Audio Systems: Helm-mounted shroud and vocoder that distort the wearer's voice into an inhuman metallic growl while filtering incoming audio; can dampen battlefield noise or modulate unit-wide chant and command tones.
• Integrated Sensor Suite & Targeter: Enclosed HUD with narrow Bloodpane visor slit, providing advanced tactical data, night vision, thermal vision, low light vision and more, threat marking, and advanced telemetry. Systems include:
  
  • Helmet
    • Nightfang Targeting Visor
    • Heads-Up Display (HUD)
    • Light-Reactive Lenses
    • Visual Distance Enhancement
    • Multi-Frequency Targeting and Acquisition System
    • Aural Amplifier
    • Sonic Dampener
    • Multi-Spectrum Scanner
      • Infrared
      • Night
      • Echolocation
      • Radar
      • X-Ray
      • Ultraviolet
    • Enviro Filter
    • Rebreather
  • Armor
    • Kouhunin & Ashes of Malachor Chemical Injector
    • Temperature Regulator
    • Power Gloves
    • Ferromagnetic Core Boots
• Mag-Seal and Shock Bracing: Magnetic anchor points in the boots and lower greaves, combined with Qazûr Weave's shock web, providing increased stability under explosions, boarding actions, or when locking down into fighting stances.

• Executioner Warplate: The Umbral Aegis is purpose-built as the executioner warplate of Darth Prazutis' royal guard, layered from the ground up around Qazûr Weave to turn each wearer into a walking verdict. Heavy but carefully balanced, it is designed to complement their spear warfare doctrine and Force training, allowing them to advance as a disciplined phalanx of black iron and crimson light rather than as scattered duelists.
• High Energy and Kinetic Protection: Umbraplast Gamma-Composite plating over a Bloodsteel underframe and Qazûr Weave undersuit gives the Aegis notably high resistance to both blaster fire and kinetic threats. The composite plates absorb and scatter incoming energy, while the inner weave diffuses shock and shrapnel, making the armor particularly hard to crack with conventional infantry weapons or battlefield debris.
• Resilient to Hazards and Battlefield Environments: The hermetic life-support shell, robust heat dispersion pathways, and sealed joints give the armor high protection against fire, extreme cold, vacuum exposure, and most chemical or corrosive agents. Umbral Guards can operate in void, burning cities, plague-struck corridors, and ritual contamination zones without losing combat effectiveness, reinforcing their image as inexorable, untouchable executioners.
• Void-Masked Presence with Switchable Dread Aura: The Void-Mask runic lattice suppresses the wearer's Force signature, making each Guard much harder to sense or read accurately through the Force, especially in crowded or stress-saturated environments. At the same time, the Dread Resonance Aegis can be deliberately invoked to reverse this effect in a controlled way, projecting fear and oppressive psychic weight across a localized area, ideal for crowd suppression, interrogation, or breaking enemy morale.
• EMP Hardened, Alchemically Driven Systems: The Aegis' critical functions rely heavily on alchemical, analog, and rune-driven systems rather than purely digital electronics, and the suit's limited electronic components are heavily shielded. This design gives it strong resistance to EMP and ion-based attacks, making it difficult to shut down via conventional anti-armor tech and well-suited to boarding actions, ship corridors, and infrastructure assaults where such weapons are common.

• Heavy, Encumbering Warplate: Despite being carefully designed for Force augmented bodies, the Umbral Aegis is still heavy armor; extended use without Force enhancement or for untrained or weak wearers will quickly lead to fatigue. The warplate is not built for the weak and requires strong individuals to function effectively.
• Force Nullification: Many of the armor's advantages, pain harness feedback, dread projection, and more, and the use of its heavy mass in battle assume a strong, Force trained, psychologically conditioned wearer. While under Force Nullification, the Guard lose a significant portion of their edge, and the very systems lose efficiency until removed from the effect.
• Conspicuous and Non-Stealthy Profile: The Umbral Aegis is intentionally imposing and impossible to mistake, its black-iron silhouette, crimson visor, and funereal design make stealth infiltration difficult in most contexts. While its Force signature can be muted, the physical presence of a squad of Umbral Guard is anything but subtle, and the armor offers no innate optical or sensor-stealth capability beyond darkness and psychological suppression.

The Umbral Aegis was conceived in the same crucibles of doctrine that birthed the Umbral Guard and Qazûr Weave. Darth Prazutis did not want ceremonial crimson robes or pretty parade armor flanking his throne; he wanted a ring of mobile verdicts, each one a self-contained sentence ready to fall upon his enemies. To do this, he designed a warplate that would not simply protect its wearer, but complete them—binding flesh, steel, and oath into a single executioner's tool.

Each suit is built around a tailored Qazûr Weave undersuit, which bonds to the Guard's flesh and nerves over time, and then encased in overlapping plates of Umbraplast Gamma-Composite locked onto a Bloodsteel underframe. The result is a silhouette like a funeral statue given purpose: smooth, severe planes of black iron, broken only by inlaid runes and a narrow, blood-red visor slit that serves as the armor's only "eye." When standing motionless, the Guard may as well be monuments; when advancing, the tracery of runes along their cuirasses ignite in dull crimson, and the faint hiss of their respirators and vox-shroud whispers through the air like a warning.

In battle or during ritual, the Aegis performs as both armor and instrument of incredible efficiency. The Qazûr Weave routes force and pain through the wearer's body, turning suffering into focus and discipline, while the Dread Resonance Aegis allows the Guard to project an almost tangible field of fear as they advance with their Qazûr Execution Pikes. In hostile environments, bodily fluids in dungeon corridors, toxic bombardment in palace streets, hard vacuum outside shattered hulls, the hermetic seals and life-support systems allow the Umbral Aegis to function without compromise, lending the Guard an inhuman persistence that only deepens their legend.

The warplate has limitations. It is heavy, overt, and better suited to close-quarters domination by powerful individuals. It is fully subject to Force Nullification. But these limitations are part of its purpose. The Umbral Aegis is not meant for spies or scouts. It is the armor of those who walk directly into defiance and reduce it to silence. When a door opens and figures in Umbral Aegis step through, there is no question what they are or why they have come. The sentence has already been decided.

 

[Krass Wyms]

Nice work

Approved