Approved Starship Vraaktol-class Sith War Foundry Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To submit a Kainate combat support tender designed to operate alongside the Shadow Armada and Immortal Legions, providing forward deployed battlefield fabrication, repair, extraction, and resupply capabilities for prolonged fleet engagements and planetary invasions.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Vraaktol-class Sith War Foundry Mk. I
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron
  • Bloodwrought Plating
  • Bloodpane
  • Crucivane Hull Frame
  • Blackcore Laminate Hull Liner
  • Umbricore Hull Liner
  • Sith Blackstone Crystalline Reinforcement

• Classification: Combat Tender
• Length: 72 Meters
• Width: 38 Meters
• Height: 20 Meters
• Armament: Low
  
  • Abyssal Lash Cannons Mk. I [4] (Corner-Mounted)
• Defenses: Very High
  
  • Aegis of Shadows Shield Generator Mk. I
  • Nullheart Core Mk. I
  • Reinforced Bloodwrought Plating
  • Gravebind Hull Mesh Mk. I
  • Bloodlock Transponder Mk. I
  • Specterfield Null Mantle Mk. I
  • Carrion-Key Counter-Mechu Hardening Mk. I
  • Black Veil Egress Weave Mk. I
• Hangar Space: None
• Maneuverability Rating: Average
• Speed Rating: Low
• Hyperdrive: Yes (Class 0.33)

• Sith Life Support Grid: A state of the art suite keeps the Vraaktol's bays habitable even when its hatches are open to vacuum-scarred wreckage. Heavy toxin scrubbers, particulate filters, and ritual baffles purge fumes from ruptured fuel lines, vaporized armor, and exposed alchemical reagents so crews can work without interruption while hell rages just outside the hull.
• Sith Command & Targeting Computer: The Vraaktol is not a line combatant, but its hardened command core tracks nearby threats, friendly squadrons, and debris trajectories with the same ruthless clarity as a frontline escort. It can prioritize incoming missiles, flag flanking maneuvers, and hand off firing solutions to escorts or attached point-defense grids, keeping the tender alive while it works.
• Sith Communications & Coordination Array: A whisperstone-threaded comms spine links the Vraaktol directly to carrier control, strike wings, Nyctophage packs, and nearby logistics craft. It pushes and receives encrypted data, resupply requests, repair queue updates, and emergency recall orders, while broadcasting low-grade dread pulses that make enemy crews hesitate to shoot "the ship that keeps everything running."
• Sith Navigation & Formation Plotter: The nav-core blends conventional astrogation with Sith predictive plotting, optimized not for long solo voyages but for holding perfect position inside crowded task forces and debris-choked combat zones. It maps safe approach lanes around carriers, drifting hulks, and minefields, constantly updating tug-vectors so the Vraaktol can slide into refit positions without clipping fighters or drifting wreckage.
• Inertial Compensators & Deck Stabilizers: Reinforced compensators and grav-buffers keep interior decks level while the ship jinks, accelerates, or takes glancing hits. Techs working at plasma welders, ritual forges, or ammo racks feel only a steady tug underfoot instead of whiplash, letting repairs and reloads continue even when the tender is under sporadic fire.
• Reinforced Sensor & Proximity Mapping Suite: A wide-aperture sensor block sweeps for damaged craft, drifting munitions, and battlefield debris, painting safe docking corridors in three dimensions. Specialized "proximity dread" overlays warn crews when volatile wreckage or unstable reactors are hauled too close to bays, letting the Vraaktol skirt the edge of chaos without becoming scrap itself.
• Integrated Flight Stabilization & Docking Matrix: Bloodsteel-threaded auto-trim actuators, micro-thrusters, and occult-balanced gyros hold the hull rock-steady once locked into a servicing posture. External craft can latch onto docking spines, umbilicals, or cradle arms without fighting drift or roll, turning the tender into a stable workbench in the middle of a battle.
• Magno-Clamp Undercarriage & Service Gantries: Heavy magno-clamps on the belly and flanks allow the Vraaktol to hook onto carrier hulls, station frames, or anchored barges, while extensible service gantries reach out to embrace damaged fighters and drones. These clamps remain locked even under shockwaves from nearby detonations, keeping delicate reload operations from being torn apart by a lucky hit.
• Atmospheric Entry & Sealing System: Though primarily a void-worker, the Vraaktol's hull plating and seal network can endure controlled atmospheric descents to reach forward ground hubs or low-orbit foundry zones. Re-entry hardening, ablative strips, and compartmentalized pressure wards keep the forges lit and bays pressurized while the tender punches through ash, ion storms, or burning skies.
• Dark-Sync HUD & Foundry Control Interfaces: Command pits and bay overseer stations are wrapped in Dark-Sync displays that merge tactical data, damage reports, and fabrication queues into a single glyph-laced vista. Supervisors can see which wings are inbound, which shells are printing, which drones are ready to relaunch, and where the next emergency patch job must be done, then reassign resources with a thought and a gesture.
• Autopilot / Return & Retrieval Protocol Subsystem: Blood-keyed return protocols allow the Vraaktol to limp back to its carrier or rally point even if its bridge crew is incapacitated. It prioritizes survival of its forges and stored munitions, jettisoning volatile stock and locking down bays before executing evasive return profiles through pre-warded corridors in fleet space.
• Data Blackout & Malediction Lattice: Should capture become imminent, the Vraaktol's lattice purges fabrication schematics, Shadow Mind link-logs, and alchemical recipes in a cascading dark-fire wipe. Consoles slag, crucible heuristics burn out, and corrupted residue curses anyone who tries to salvage its foundry cores, ensuring the Kainate's battlefield industrial secrets die with the ship.
• Structural Blast Baffles & Spall-Quench Bay Lining: Internal bulkheads around the servicing bays are lined with blast baffles and spall-quench laminates to contain accidental detonations or catastrophic ammo failures. If a magazine cooks off or a damaged explosive rupture, the blast is funneled away from the primary crew corridors and control cores, sacrificing compartments to keep the foundry heart intact.
• Basic Countermeasure & Screen Support Suite: While not a warship, the Vraaktol mounts thermal flares, EM chaff, and jamming bursts calibrated to make targeting it more trouble than it's worth. These systems are tuned to work in concert with escorting destroyers and carriers, allowing the tender to disappear into a haze of overlapping shields, flak, and sensor ghosts while it quietly keeps the fleet supplied.
• Forge-Deck Architecture & Service Lanes: The internal layout is built around a central fabrication spine with flanking service lanes instead of a troop bay. Work pits, overhead gantries, and recessed rail-tracks let techs move pallets, printed parts, and drone-frames back and forth without clogging the deck.
• Foundry Integration Grid: All major power trunks, coolant lines, and data relays are routed through a fortified "foundry grid" that feeds the Chimeric Synthesis Crucible and other fabrication systems. Functionally, it means the whole ship is wired to keep its fabrication systems powered, cooled, and printing even under fire.
• Ordnance & Fuel Handling Manifold: A dedicated pump-and-loader network ties together fuel bladders, bomb/torpedo pallets, and external refuel umbilicals. Built-in blast baffles, dump-vents, and rune-bonded isolation bulkheads are there to keep a single hit from turning the ship into a chain-detonating fireball.
• Support Docking Spine & Service Clamps: Along the ventral/lateral hull is a line of standardized docking sockets and hardpoints sized for Nyctophage drones, starfighters, and small shuttles. Each clamp has power/fuel umbilicals and data ports, so a docked craft can be topped off, rearmed, or patched up without needing to fully land in a carrier hangar.
• Salvage Intake & Triage Bays: The Vraaktol has dedicated intake hatches, cargo "maws," and tether winches to drag in wreckage, crippled drones, and stripped components. Just inside are triage bays where debris is automatically scanned, sorted into "reforge", "strip", or "discard" and then fed toward the foundry or scrap bunkers.
• Logistics Command Holotank & Asset Ledger: Instead of a tactical CIC, the Vraaktol's nerve center is a logistics holotank that tracks ammo stocks, fuel levels, drone readiness, and resupply queues for nearby ships. It talks to Shadow Mind nodes or carrier command to show who needs what, in what order, and how quickly the Vraaktol can turn them around.
• Maintenance Catwalks & Fleshcoil Service Gantries: Narrow catwalk webs and articulated gantries run above the main deck to let techs and servitors reach drone frames, engine pods, and ordnance racks from multiple angles.

• Control & Pilot Integration Systems:
  
  • Bloodpane Spectral HUD and Strike Scriptor Mk. I
  • Pain Link Coordination Suite Mk. I
  • Wraith Command Casket Mk. I (Lander Variant)
  • Oblivion Cortex Relay Mk. I
  • Wraith Sense Threat Processing Unit Mk. I
  • Malediction Co-Processor "Familiar" Core Mk. I
  • Nightfang Targeting Visor Mk. I
  • Trazkhaal Harmonizer Mk. I
  • Vrahlgeist Symbiote Node Mk. I
  • Shadow Mind Auxiliary Control Core Mk. I
  • Graveslit Aligner Mk. I
• Cybersecurity Systems:
  
  • Vyraksh Ward Casket Mk. I
  • Noctucrypt Mindveil Network Mk. I
  • Mazkyr Anomaly Scrambler Node Mk. I
  • Ironveil Ghost Cortex Mk. I
  • Pyrekhaz Containment Halo Mk. I
  • Eclipsion Seal Protocol Mk. I
  • Ravager Loop Inflection Trap Mk. I
• Electronic Warfare & Disruption Systems:
  
  • Nazrûl Disruption Core Mk. I
  • Nightshatter Field Disruptor Mk. I
  • Runesliver Harmonics Array Mk. I
  • Reaper Shroud Countermeasure Suite Mk. I
  • Shadow-Phase Countermeasure Suite Mk. I
• Habitation & Crew Quarters Systems:
  • Noctuary Modular Quarters Mk. I
• Life Support Systems:
  
  • Sarcostel Life Preservation System Mk. I
• Networking & Sensor Systems:
  
  • Ebon Psicom Array Mk. I
  • Nether Eye Combat Sight Network Mk. I
  • Shadowlink Omni-Resolution Array Mk. I
  • Sovereign Link Command Array Mk. I
  • Gloomscribe Pattern Archivum Mk. I
  • Veilstorm Ghost-Net Buoy Web Mk. I
• Power, Biology, & Dark Systems:
  
  • Soulfire Reactor Node Mk. I
  • Hemophage Conductor Web Mk. I
  • Onslaught Surge Drive Mk. I
  • Fleshcoil Maintenance Web Mk. I
  • Gloomcore Thermal Dissipation Grid Mk. I
  • Scream-Sink Resonance Dampers Mk. I
  • Ashen Seal Isolation Grid Mk. I
• Production Systems:
  • Abyssal Transmutator Core Mk. I
  • Malforge Crucible Array Mk. I
  • Oblivion-Pattern Droid Incubator Mk. I
  • Chimeric Synthesis Crucible Mk. I
  • Onyx Swarm Nanoforge Mk. I
  • Necrochemical Forge Mk. I
• Propulsion & Hyperdrive Systems:
  
  • Voidflare Ion Engines Mk. II
  • Eclipse Pattern Maneuvering Jets Mk. I
  • Nightcloak Emissions Veil Mk. I
  • Umbral Grav-Repulsion Grid Mk. I
• Psychological Warfare Systems:
  
  • Fear Broadcast Projector Mk. I
• Support & Recovery Systems:
  
  • Bone-Latch Recovery Hooks and Void-Sled Skids Mk. I
• Weapons & Ordnance Systems:
  
  • Bloodhail Ordnance Conductor Mk. I
  • Nightcoil Vector Matrix Mk. I

• Mobile Dark Forge Complex: Equipped with a complex system of the best industrial machinery ever created, the Vraaktol can fabricate ammunition, armor plating, field equipment, vehicle components, drones, droids, and alchemical materials entirely in-theater. It effectively replaces a ground-side war factory.
• Battlefield Recycling: As battles unfold its systems allow the Vraaktol to strip wreckage, corpses, and battlefield debris into raw essence, metals, compounds, and alchemical reagents. It turns a ruined battlefield directly into war material.
• Rapid Drone & Droid Deployment: The Onyx Swarm Nanoforge and Oblivion-Pattern Droid Incubator produce combat drones, repair bots, and specialized droids at rapid pace, letting the ship replenish Nyctophage packs, escort drones, and deck crews mid-campaign.
• Forward Logistics Keystone: Tuned to resupply fuel, medical compounds, repair plating, munitions, drone packs, alchemical reagents, and spare hull segments, the Vraaktol keeps Kainate forces operating far from supply lines.
• Hardened: Each forge is individually armored, rune-warded, and segment-isolated. Even a catastrophic hit rarely stops more than one fabrication line.
• Ground Support: Upon landing, the Vraaktol becomes a mobile forward-operating war foundry, providing everything forces need to continue the fight. Its presence can turn any foothold into an instant strongpoint, allowing forces to fight even harder and receive crucial support rapidly as the battle unfolds.

• High Value Strategic Target: Its manufacturing capacity is worth more than its weapons. Enemies will prioritize its destruction or capture above all else.
• Light Armament for Its Size: The Vraaktol must devote mass and power to its forge-stack. Despite PD turrets, it cannot fight capital ships or dedicated gunships.
• Force Nullification: Many of the Vraaktol's systems are made utilizing the latest in dark technological development devised by the Kainate. While exposed to Force Nullification, many of these lose their distinct efficiency when exposed to such fields or effects until removed.
• Absolutely Dependent on Screening Forces: Without fighter screens, Nyctophage packs, or Skarnath lander cover, it is extremely vulnerable during approach and orbital transfer.
• No Stealth and Low Evasion: The Vraaktol is large, hot, noisy, and impossible to hide. It cannot dodge incoming fire; it must rely on escorts.

There are ships that fight. There are ships that kill, and then? Then, there are ships that make the war itself possible.

The Vraaktol-class Sith War Foundry was born from the Kainate's greatest strategic need: a vessel that could sustain a campaign without ever returning to port, forging munitions, machines, and soldiers from the wreckage of the enemy. After the creation of the Velakorr, Skarnath, and Varnyx paradigms, the Shadow Hand saw the missing link in his growing Shadow Armada, a mobile war-factory, something that could follow the fleet into the darkness and keep it fighting long after conventional empires would have collapsed from attrition.

The Vraaktol was conceived in the industrial crucibles beneath Malsheem and designed as a miniaturized version of the great Sith forges that once fueled ancient empires. It is not a carrier, not a gunship, not a bomber, it is a foundry of nightmares, forged to feed fleets and armies with endless war material. Right at its core hums the Abyssal Transmutator Core, a machine that dissolves matter into essence and recomposes it into whatever the Shadow Mind demands. Beside it, the Malforge Crucible Array melts metals and minerals into alchemical ingots, while the Chimeric Synthesis Crucible pairs those ingots with cursed organics, producing hybrid components for drones, armor, and engines.

The Necrochemical Forge refines battlefield fluids, corpse runoff, and industrial waste into chemical accelerants, medica compounds, stimulants, and fuel mixtures, everything a legion needs in the field. Meanwhile, the Onyx Swarm Nanoforge births repair drones in swarms, maintaining the Vraaktol's hull, patching ships around it, or repairing Skarnath landers as they cycle through.

Even death itself feeds the engine. The Gravethresher Extraction Loom strips wrecks, corpses, and shattered armor to their molecular skeletons, feeding material directly into the other forges. The Eidolon Replicator Matrix learns from what it processes and develops improved templates for parts, hull segments, and even combat droids. Finally, the Oblivion-Pattern Droid Incubator produces obedient war-droids in the image of Kainate doctrine, cold, perfect, tireless. Together, these nine systems form a closed-loop industrial nightmare, able to turn a destroyed battlefield into a fully stocked war depot. Nothing is wasted; everything is reborn in service to the Kainate.

When deployed in orbit, the Vraaktol links with destroyers, carriers, and command ships, directing automated streams of replacement munitions, drone packs, armor plating, and spare systems. When deployed on the ground, it becomes an instant fortress-factory, armoring barricades, repairing walkers, processing casualties, and birthing replacement drones by the hundreds. Where the Skarnath delivers troops, the Velakorr breaks fortifications, and the Nyctophage consumes enemy fighters, the Vraaktol ensures that the war never stops. To see one land behind the lines is to know that the Kainate has come to stay. To see one descend onto a battlefield is to understand that the killing will not end. The Vraaktol is the promise of eternal war, made manifest in iron, fire, and the Dark Side.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

Wow, amazing and cool!

Approved.