Shadow Hand


- Intent: To create an advanced Sith medical system that replaces standard bacta tanks aboard Kainate vessels and facilities with a twisted, dark alternative that siphons vitality from captives and channels it into healing.
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- Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source:

- Manufacturer:
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Vitae Leech Bacta Vat Mk. I
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Reinforced Sarrassian Iron
- Treated Bloodpane
- Bloodsteel Conduits
- Modified Bacta
- Vitae-Infused Parasitic Solution
- Vitae-Siphon Crystals

- Dark Healing Vats: This dark scientific corruption of nature warps the regenerative process, allowing not only tissue regrowth but the strengthening of bone and muscle. The solution stimulates flesh to knit itself in unnatural, accelerated ways, often accompanied by deep visions or hallucinations.
- Vitae Bacta Replacement: This thick crimson fluid feeds off ambient life and becomes increasingly potent the more blood it absorbs. The solution is known to develop strange effects within high-use chambers, whispers have been heard when stirred.
- Vampiric Drain: Linked neural siphons allow the vat to leech from one or multiple victims at once, rerouting essence into the core healing cycle. Targets often remain alive and conscious throughout the process, experiencing the agony of being slowly unraveled.
- Sith Runic Controls: These controls reject unauthorized users, triggering internal defense mechanisms or biofeedback loops if tampered with. Calibrations are performed through tactile manipulation of security systems, rune encryption that shift and flow beneath the fingertips.
- Medical Pod, Interrogation Tool, and Torture Implement: The same systems used to preserve life can be inverted to flay nerves, maintain semi-conscious suffering, or extract confessions under duress. Sith inquisitors often use the vats to push subjects past mortal limits without the mercy of death.
- Incredible Sustainability: The vitae solution creates a near-perfect stasis field when overloaded, allowing users to enter a deathless trance between life and oblivion. Some Sith willingly entomb themselves in these vats for prolonged periods, emerging only when summoned.
- System Compatibility: The vats can link directly with battlefield or starship systems to reroute pain, power, or surplus energy from dying enemies. In ideal conditions, they function as self-replenishing regeneration chambers when fed a steady supply of suffering.

- Dark Regeneration: Accelerates healing restoring grievous wounds far faster than standard methods.
- Sustained Stasis: Can place a body into a state of living preservation while reconstructing tissue, even after critical damage.
- Leech Engine: Draws vitality from nearby captives or secondary reservoirs to maintain the solution's potency.
- Sith Control Interface: Can only be fully operated by Kainate Sith trained personnel, preventing sabotage.

- Force Nullification: Due to the inherently dark makeup of the healing matrix, it can be weakened when placed under force nullification can significantly weaken the system.
- Morally Reprehensible: Functionally unusable by factions or individuals who reject torture, suffering, or sacrificial healing.
- Requires Fuel: Without a source of life force, such as prisoners, the system remains at its base effectiveness, when fed they evolve.
- Psychological Harm: Subjects healed within the vats may suffer visions, nightmares, or metaphysical trauma due to the dark essence flowing through the liquid.

The Vitae Leech Bacta Vat is a perverse evolution of traditional healing systems. Created under the direction of Darth Prazutis, these vats replace sterile medical environments with occult-charged chambers filled with a parasitic red-violet solution, formed from mutated bacta, leech ichor, and vitae drawn from living subjects. In these tanks, the wounded do not simply recover, they are reborn in pain, immersed in the power of sacrifice and dark science.
Beyond healing, these devices serve a sinister purpose aboard Kainate starships and within citadels. Captives can be forcibly connected to the system and slowly drained, their life force used to fuel the regeneration of Sith operatives. The internal architecture enhances organic cellular regrowth, while the infused vitae floods through bodily trauma, stitching flesh with whispered malice.
Only dedicated Kainate technicians can activate or calibrate the vats, ensuring their sanctity is preserved. In moments of crisis, even a dying Sith can be submerged within to delay death indefinitely, awaiting retrieval or resurrection. A symbol of cruelty entwined with utility, the Vitae Leech Bacta Vat embodies the Kainate's doctrine of dominance through suffering, offering not mercy, but endurance earned in agony.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create an advanced Sith medical system that replaces standard bacta tanks aboard Kainate vessels and facilities with a twisted, alchemical alternative that siphons vitality from captives and channels it into healing.
Canon Link:
N/A
Permissions:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
N/A
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate
Model:
Vitae Leech Bacta Vat Mk. I
Modular:
No
Material:
Reinforced Sarrassian Iron Treated Bloodpane Bloodsteel Conduits Modified Bacta Vitae-Infused Parasitic Solution Vitae-Siphon Crystals
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