Approved Tech Voidlance Seeker Torpedo Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To develop a heavy Sith torpedo optimized for breaching capital ship hulls and delivering a focused kinetic implosion that can cripple large vessels with a single strike.
• Image Source:
  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Voidlance Seeker Torpedo Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Casing
  • Bloodsteel Reinforcement Bands
  • Crystallite Guidance Matrix
  • Obsidian Alloy Impact Core

• Obsidian Penetrator Casing: The torpedo's forward hull is forged from alchemized sarrassian iron alloy layered over bloodsteel ribs, designed to allow it to pierce deflector shields and reactive armor with minimal deflection. Upon contact with energy fields, the casing absorbs and disperses impact stresses to prevent premature detonation. This construction ensures the Voidlance reliably bores deep into hull plating before triggering its payload.
• Compressed Kinetic Imploder: At its heart lies a compact Obsidian alloy core surrounded by collapsing chambers that release a violent directional shockwave. When activated, these chambers implode inward before detonating outward, crushing internal compartments in a cone of hyper-compressed force. This effect can rupture bulkheads, reactor shielding, and critical systems even if the outer hull remains intact.
• Resonance Disruption Field: During final approach, the torpedo emits a sustained low-frequency resonance that interferes with targeting sensors and fire-control arrays. While not a true jamming system, this disruption introduces enough noise into local scanners to complicate point-defense interception. The resonance also produces an unsettling vibration through the target's hull, further degrading crew morale.

• Capital Grade Penetration: The Voidlance is engineered specifically to breach reinforced warship hulls and deflector arrays. Standard shielding offers little resistance, and even layered armor must often be repaired or replaced after a single impact.
• Focused Internal Destruction: Unlike traditional concussion missiles that explode outward, the compressed kinetic imploder drives shock force deep into a vessel's compartments. This makes the torpedo ideal for disabling engines, reactor cores, or magazine bays with surgical precision.
• Sensor Disruption Capability: Its resonance field scrambles enemy fire-control tracking as it closes distance, increasing the likelihood of a successful strike even under concentrated point-defense fire.

• Limited Maneuverability: While the guidance matrix allows modest course correction, the torpedo cannot execute sharp evasive maneuvers. Agile corvettes or frigates can sometimes avoid impact if they react quickly enough.
• Thermal Bloom: Detonation releases a pronounced thermal signature that can temporarily blind friendly sensors and reveal the launch point to enemy forces. Pilots must exercise caution if attempting to remain concealed.
• Force Nullification Susceptibility: In areas saturated by Force Nullification phenomena the resonance disruption field loses effectiveness.

The Voidlance Seeker Torpedo was conceived during the Kainate's earliest trials in refining capital ship kill ordnance, an era when conventional proton torpedoes often failed to inflict decisive damage on modern hulls. Sith artificers under the Shadow Mind collaborated with Malsheem's master engineers to create a munition that embodied pure annihilation in a single, cold-blooded strike.

The development process began with the sarrassian iron alloy casing, painstakingly alchemized to resist deflector scattering and heat shear during penetration. Once perfected, the engineers turned to the heart of the design: a kinetic imploder that could deliver its violence inward, pulverizing internal infrastructure rather than dissipating across bulkheads. When the test articles succeeded in punching clean through a significant amount of reinforced durasteel and rupturing a simulated reactor array, the Voidlance's reputation was sealed.

Each torpedo is ritual-inscribed with target-lock incantations and echo-suppressive sigils to ensure stability in transit. When launched, it advances in a methodical, implacable trajectory, projecting its resonance disruption field as a final taunt to enemy crews. Many veteran captains have described the sound as a deep, unearthly growl vibrating through their decks moments before catastrophe.

Though limited in number and carefully rationed among frontline squadrons, the Voidlance has become a symbol of the Kainate's doctrine: that no shield, no bastion of steel or courage, can endure the will of the Sith made manifest. When the Voidlance is seen closing the gap, all understand the same truth, impact is inevitable, and survival is not guaranteed.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

As usual, amazing! I'd like to ask you to add the usual Force suppression/nullification weakness to the weaknesses.

 

[Darth Prazutis]

MANIAC Done!

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

Thank you!

Approved.