Unreviewed Vharun Medicae Deck Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To create the Kainate's apex capital ship medical bay architecture. A modular, Sith engineered infirmary deck that supports battlefield triage, dark regeneration, surgical resurrection, quarantine, and "clinical coercion" built to keep Kainate assets fighting and to weaponize healing against captives, that can be scaled up or down.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Vharun Medicae Deck Mk. I, The Red Infirmary
• Modularity: Yes - Deck is built from standardized "ward spines," triage nodes, surgical vaults, vivarium bays, quarantine coffers, and vitae-vat chambers; modules can be added/removed per ship role and tonnage.
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Structural / Deck Shell:
    
    • Umbraplast Bulkheads
    • Bloodsteel Ribbing
    • Crucivane Substructure
  • Core Anchors / Control Geometry:
    
    • Sith Blackstone Pylons
    • Rune-Scored Ward Plates
  • Observation / Isolation:
    
    • Bloodpane Viewports
    • Shadowglass Shutters
  • Medical / Mechanisms:
    
    • Pyroclast Alloy
    • Umbricore

• Crucible Deck Spine Architecture (Modular Ward Layout): The deck is built like a "living artery", a central medicae spine corridor with plug-in chambers on both sides (triage, surgery, vivarium, quarantine, vitae vats, morgue/autopsy). Modules share standardized hardpoints and sealed interfaces so the deck can be expanded without redesigning the entire ship.
• Red Triage Concourse (Rapid Intake + Sorting): A shock-lit intake hall with auto-gurney rails, bioscan arches, and sealed pressure partitions. The concourse can sort casualties by survivability, contamination risk, and operational priority, routing them into the correct node without requiring a full medical staff to be present.
• Umbral Suture Pod Array Integration: The deck's "surgical line" is built around Umbral Suture Pods as the default rapid-procedure unit. Each pod bay includes retractable tool racks, sealed sterilization cycles, and trauma cartridges staged in wall vaults for immediate turnover between patients.
• Erebus Vivarium Recovery Vaults: Dedicated hyperbaric regen chambers for salvage cases, graft integration, and high-value recovery. The Vivarium vaults are set behind heavier containment doors and can run long cycles without disrupting triage flow.
• Vitae Leech Vat Sanctum (Black-Clinic Mode): A restricted suite where Vitae Leech Bacta Vats operate at full potential via captive-linked reservoirs. This area is physically separated from standard care so the deck can present a "clean medical face" while still housing the Kainate's true doctrine in the depths.
• Sarcostel Breath-Governor (Environmental Hardening): The deck is "breathing-armored." Sarcostel interfaces keep air sterile and stable during hull shocks, fires, chemical attacks, plagues, or esoteric contamination. The medbay keeps operating when normal infirmaries lose pressure, power stability, or clean-room conditions.
• Bloodpane One-Way Observation + Shadowglass Shutters: Surgical bays and quarantine cells use one-way Bloodpane. Shadowglass can black out completely (optical + sensor denial) during sensitive procedures, prisoner operations, or containment events.
• Pain-Gated Sedation Lattice: A discipline-first anesthesia system. Sedate when needed, but capable of keeping a patient conscious for neuro-mapping or compliance protocols without inducing shock. It's calibrated to Kainate physiology and can be tuned "harder" for prisoners.
• Quarantine Coffers (Seal-and-Forget Isolation): Modular isolation rooms that can hard-seal as independent micro-environments. If something infectious or unnatural enters the deck, a coffer can lock down instantly and be treated as its own little ship within the ship.
• Mortuary / Autopsy / Reclamation Wing: The deck includes a clinical morgue for cause-of-death analysis, gene-sampling, and prosthetic recovery. When needed, this wing doubles as a "reclamation lab" for turning battlefield remains into actionable intel or material inputs.
• Xal'Vorath Integration Node: Serves as a dedicated sanctum where the medical droid anchors itself directly into the medicae deck's operational core. Within this chamber rests a bloodsteel stabilization cradle and a direct interface port linking the unit to the Crucible Spine architecture, supported by an independent control uplink and ritual binding circle etched into the floor plating. From this position, the Xal'Vorath can override surgical pod priorities, reroute triage flow, and command environmental systems across the deck. In this configuration, the droid is not merely stationed within the facility, it is embedded into its nervous system, regulating its functions with absolute authority.

• Fleet-Scale Casualty Throughput: The crucible spine + automated sorting allows the deck to process multiple injuries rapidly, preventing the classic "one doctor, ten dying soldiers" bottleneck during boarding actions and hangar strikes.
• Rapid Return to Combat: Umbral Suture Pods handle stabilization/extraction/repair fast enough to return pilots, boarders, and officers to duty far sooner than conventional medbays, especially when the deck has stable power.
• Layered Recovery Depth: Triage → surgery → vivarium creates a true progression of care. The deck doesn't just "patch and pray," it escalates seamlessly to higher miracles without changing locations across the ship.
• Contamination Resilience: Sarcostel integration makes the deck unusually hard to cripple via smoke, bioagents, decompression, or environmental sabotage, exactly the kinds of threats that usually collapse shipboard medicine first.
• Captive-Driven Performance Ceiling: The Vitae Leech wing provides a brutal advantage: in emergencies, the deck can push beyond normal medical limits by feeding recovery with stolen vitality, preserving irreplaceable Kainate assets.
• Psychological Control of the Wounded: The deck's lighting, acoustic discipline, and pain-gated sedation reduce panic cascades and riot behavior. Wounded troops remain calm, compliant, and triageable; prisoners remain frightened and controllable.

• Power Demands Under Full Surge: When the Vivarium vaults, multiple Suture Pods, quarantine coffers, and vitae systems are active at once, the deck becomes power-hungry. In a sustained brownout, it must triage priorities and downgrade noncritical functions.
• Ritual / Specialist Maintenance Burden: The deck's best performance requires Kainate-trained technicians and periodic alchemical servicing. Without proper upkeep, the systems don't "fail off," they degrade, slower recovery, higher complication rates, more miscalibration risk.
• Force Nullification: While under Force Nullification, the deck still functions as an advanced medical facility, but the most frightening advantages drop toward high-end conventional baselines.

The Kainate do not believe in "medical bays." They believe in reclamation. A conventional navy treats an infirmary as support, sterile rooms, clean tools, a place to stop bleeding long enough to survive the voyage home. Under Darth Prazutis and the Shadow Mind, that philosophy was declared inadequate. The Shadow Armada is built to win wars through momentum, and momentum is murdered by downtime. If an elite pilot is sidelined, if a boarding leader bleeds out, if a tactician dies because a corridor fire turned the medbay into a ruin, then the ship has been wounded in a way armor cannot fix.

So the Kainate built the Vharun Medicae Crucible Deck Mk. I, a deck that functions less like a hospital and more like a manufacturing line for survival. Its central spine behaves as a triage artery: Casualties enter, are scanned and sorted, and are routed into the correct node with the same ruthless efficiency the Kainate applies to targeting solutions and kill-chains. The lighting is harsh, the geometry clean, the air colder than comfort. It is not designed to soothe. It is designed to stabilize behavior, to keep the wounded quiet, the frightened compliant, and the operators unburdened by chaos.

Where the Crucible becomes unmistakably Kainate is in what it treats as legitimate engineering. Suture Pods are not "beds with tools," but precision engines, stabilize, excise, rebuild, capable of turning catastrophic trauma into combat readiness with surgical speed. Behind them, the Erebus Vivarium vaults run longer cycles for the kind of injuries that would normally end careers: grafts, burns, nerve devastation, prosthetic reintegration. And deeper still lies the truth no enemy should ever see: the restricted sanctum of Vitae Leech Vats, where the Kainate's doctrine becomes explicit. Life is not sacred. Life is fuel. The deck's upper wings can perform "respectable" medicine when required; the lower wings exist to ensure the Eternal Dyarchy never loses an asset simply because nature demanded a price.

All of it is protected by the deck's breath and bones. Sarcostel life preservation interfaces make the Crucible hard to suffocate, poison, or contaminate. Quarantine coffers can seal infections and anomalies into isolated micro-environments. Observation is one-way, because mercy is not a requirement, and privacy is a weapon. Even the morgue is not merely for the dead, its autopsy and reclamation suites turn loss into data, pathology into pattern, and pattern into future resilience.

The Crucible Deck is therefore not just a place to heal. It is a doctrine made architecture. the Kainate do not accept attrition. They process it. To allies, it is terrifying competence. To enemies, it is the worst possible realization, because on Kainate ships, killing the warrior is only the first step. You must also keep them from being returned.