Pretty Words
- Intent: Drug the hell out of soldiers to make them fight better.
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- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Name: VKA-7J "Hurricane" Combat Stimulant, known on the street as "Flash".
- Manufacturer: Vysh-Kolluri
- Affiliation: The Galactic Alliance | Closed-Market
- Open-Market for PCs and small groups; unsafe street variants are Open-Market for everyone.
- Modularity: Limited; often mixed with painkillers, unsafe street variants abound.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Misc. pharmaceutical components.
- Classification: Drug (Stimulant)
- Method of Consumption: Injection; single dose or continuous trickle.
- Average Life: 20 minutes at most for safe doses, usually used in short bursts.
- Nutritional Value/Allergies/Side Effects/ Purpose:
- Nutritional Value: N/A; if taken in a large enough dose to notice you'd be too dead to notice.
- Side Effects: Mostly absent during responsible use, see "Average Life" and "Jedi Need Not Apply".
- During: Painfully heightened senses, aggressive urges, loss of hearing, recklessness.
- After: Dizziness, nausea, temporary loss of hearing, depression, total organ failure, and coughing.
- Excessive Use: Muscle atrophy, aggressive urges, depression, suicidal urges, delusions, hallucinations.
- Allergies: Force Sensitives suffer the Side Effects more frequently and severely, especially as pertains to aggressive urges. Devaronians may suffer rashes if the mixture is not spliced with sulfur. A small number of users (~5%) may suffer impeded higher thinking or loss of consciousness.
- Purpose: Push well-trained and risk-aware military personnel to the limit on the battleground using responsible doses and thoroughly vetted equipment; frequently used in less safe forms by street gangs, pirates, and other criminals.
- Illegal street variants may have other effects, especially if spliced with other stimulants; they are rarely better, however, usually carrying with them a slew of side effects, dubious health standards, and a hefty fine or imprisonment if caught.
- Better, Faster, Stronger: Hurricane pushes the body to the very limit, overriding safety measures in order to squeeze out every bit of potentially life-saving speed and strength. Meant for brief combat scenarios, but could be used by irresponsible athletes.
- Swift as the Wind: In particular, Hurricane supercharges an individual's reflexes, potentially bringing an unaltered human to Jedi levels.
- Jedi Need Not Apply: Force Sensitivity increases the risk of symptoms and force use while under its influence doubly so.
- Pushing the Limit: The body has limits for a reason - minor injuries, especially ones derived from straining muscles to the breaking point, are commonplace for Hurricane users, especially if used irresponsibly often or for longer periods of time.
Life or death situations have a tendency to change one's perspective on risk; Hurricane would have never been authorised for civilian use, but for battlegrounds in which the side effects seem minor next to the constant risk of death? The equation changes and interest builds.
Given Vysh-Kolluri's position squarely within Galactic Alliance territory, it should come as no surprise that the bulk of the supply goes their way. Already illegally synthesised by various criminal groups, it is far from improbable that other entities may be able to create their own variants, should they invest sufficient resources, but most of the variants sold on the street would never be adopted by a military that cares for its troops.
