Approved Tech Vhaldris-pattern Eternity Cage Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To create a mobile, dark side rooted containment and transport system for high-value prisoners of the Kainate, complementing the Zalath Stasis Crucible by allowing Sith wardens to capture, parade, and move Force Sensitives and other captives while subjecting them to continuous temporal and psychological torment.
• Image Source:
  • Click - ChatGPT by Me
  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Vhaldris-pattern Eternity Cage Mk. I
• Modularity: Yes - The field geometry can be tuned for different species and sizes, but the core stasis monoliths and dark-side matrices cannot be swapped or repurposed without major reconstruction and fresh rites.
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Sith Blackstone Obelisks
  • Bloodsteel Conduits and Structural Reinforcement
  • Crucivane and Umbraplast Plating
  • Superconductive Stasis Coils and Field Projectors
  • Internal Sith Rune Matrices

• Floating Stasis Sphere: Typically configured as a spherical field approximately three meters in diameter for humanoid captives, with larger or smaller cages tuned for non-standard species as needed. It is forged of reinforced bars and Blackstone ribs, suspended by dual repulsorlift rings. The prisoner is held in mid-air within a central stasis shell, unable to touch floor, walls, or bars.
• Eternity Shell Temporal Field: A controlled stasis envelope around the captive that slows subjective time, creates micro-loops of experience, and dynamically increases resistance proportional to the prisoner's attempts to move or draw upon the Force.
• Force Reactive Overload Matrix: Any surge of Force power inside the cage is met with an equal and opposite reaction in the Eternity Shell. The harder the captive pushes, the more violently the cage answers with crushing pressure, sensory distortion, and temporal shearing.
• Contact Shock Lattice: The inner surfaces of the bars are laced with superconductive coils that can project a contact stun field inward across the shell, allowing wardens to inflict escalating arcs of pain or render the captive unconscious without opening the cage.
• Projected Transfer Field: Auxiliary coils in the loading frame can extend the Eternity Shell up to ten meters outside the cage, allowing a prisoner to be loaded/unloaded while remaining immobilized and time-dragged throughout the process.
• Vhaldris Control Scepter / Console: Each cage is keyed to a paired control rod or hard-linked console; from here wardens can adjust repulsor height, stasis intensity, temporal distortion patterns, shock levels, and cage velocity.
• Repulsor Pursuit Mode: The cage's repulsorlifts allow it to hover and move up to moderate groundspeeder speeds for parade use, transfers through corridors, or battlefield retrieval, guided by the control scepter.
• Ritual Identity Branding: The cage imprints the captive's bio-signature and Force "taste" into its runic lattice on first activation. Later, interrogators can scry residual impressions or verify that a specific individual was held in that exact cage.
• Fail-Safe Collapse Protocols: In the event of catastrophic power loss, the Eternity Shell bleeds out in a controlled fashion, dropping the prisoner to the floor of the cage rather than scattering their atoms through space-time.

• Mobile, Full-Spectrum Force Containment: Designed as the roaming counterpart to the Zalath Crucible, the Vhaldris Cage locks down movement, disrupts Force use, is incredibly resilient especially to lightsabers and maintains control even while being transported through city streets, warship corridors, or battlefield wreckage.
• Subjective "Eternity" Torture: Temporal drag and looping micro-segments of experience (a stumble, a scream, a moment of fear) can stretch minutes into what feels like hours or days for the captive, breaking will long before the body fails.
• Force Punishing Feedback: Attempts to use the Force inside the cage actively make things worse, concentration fractures, pain blooms, time judders. Brute force escapes become less likely the harder a prisoner tries.
• Spectacle & Psychological Warfare: The glowing bars and hovering, helpless figure make the Vhaldris Cage ideal for public parades, battlefield displays, and intimidation campaigns, an example to both enemies and subordinates of what happens when one defies the Kainate.

• Force Nullification: Requires a stable, high-output power feed and dark-side saturation. When exposed to Force Nullification the effectiveness of the eternity cage is drastically reduced.
• Morality: Cruelty is forged into the very fabric of what an Eternity Cage is. Designed to both contain and torture inhabitants locked within, there is no doubt to most galactic governments this is an abomination of creation.
• Sith Technology: Forged through a distinctive blend of advanced dark technology and alchemy, this creation is uniquely Sith and Kainate in origin. It can only be forged and maintained in environments conducive to handling its needs.

If the Zalath Stasis Crucible is the altar where the Kainate pins a soul in place to be slowly unmade, the Vhaldris Eternity Cage Mk. I is the net cast across the galaxy to deliver that soul to the altar.

The cage was conceived after repeated frustrations with conventional prisoner transfers. Jedi and rogue Sith had broken chains, overpowered escort teams, or hurled entire transports into chaos with one explosive surge of the Force. Darth Prazutis demanded a solution that did not merely restrain, but humiliated and crushed, something that turned the act of transport itself into a continuation of the sentence.

The answer was the Vhaldris pattern. A sphere of interlocking bars, each bar a sheath of durasteel over a spine of Sith Blackstone inscribed with looping stasis glyphs and hourglass motifs. Within, a web of Vhaldris coils weaves the Eternity Shell: an invisible, crushing envelope of slowed time and Force disrupting currents. The prisoner never quite stands, never quite hangs; they are held in an uncomfortable suspension where muscles twitch uselessly against time that will not move at the speed they expect.

From outside, the cage is a grim spectacle. The bars glow with a sullen red undercurrent whenever the captive struggles, and threads of faint dark energy crawl along the ribs like static. A warden with a control scepter can cause the shell to tilt, letting the prisoner feel as if they are falling sideways while their body remains motionless. They can loop a single impact, a stun jolt, a shouted accusation, a moment of realization, and make the captive relive it dozens or hundreds of times within the space of a few "real" seconds.

Crucially, the Vhaldris Cage is built to punish defiance. The moment a captive gathers the Force, the coils drink in the attempt and echo it back as jagged confusion. Sound smears, the heartbeat stutters into double and triple beats, vision judders. The more power the prisoner pulls, the more the cage tightens, time stretches thinner, pain blooms hotter, and their awareness frays at the edges. Many learn quickly that their only relief lies in stillness and surrender.

For the Kainate, the cage is more than a tool of logistics. In the underhalls of the Sith Citadel, it glides along rail-lined corridors, escorting prisoners from docking bays to Zalath Crucibles while acolytes and inquisitors walk alongside, studying the reactions of those inside. On war-ravaged worlds, captured Jedi have been paraded through burning streets in Vhaldris units, suspended in helplessness while crowds of indoctrinated citizens watch in fearful awe. Sometimes the cages are simply parked in throne rooms or war chambers, the occupant forced to observe every decision that their defeat failed to prevent.

Despite its horrors, the Vhaldris Eternity Cage is not omnipotent. It must drink deep of power and darkness to function, and it can be broken by sufficient external force, sabotage, or intervention. But as part of the broader Zalath-Vhaldris doctrine, it serves its purpose perfectly. Nothing about capture, transport, or confinement is neutral. From the moment a prisoner is swallowed by the cage until they are finally hoisted into a Zalath Crucible or sacrificed on some other altar, their every heartbeat is a lesson.

They are not merely being held. They are being taught what eternity feels like when the Sith control the clock. They became so efficient that they were rolled out for widespread use as standard containment cells throughout the Kainate.

 

[Krass Wyms]

Ah always love seeing someone else use temporal tech

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