Approved Tech VX-BS7 – Volatile Xenopathogen, Brood-Spawn Variant 7, "Black Thirst"

[Darth Carnifex]

• Intent: Make a new Kainate bioweapon
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  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer: Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing - Delmara Synthlabs
• Affiliation: The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: VX-BS7 – Volatile Xenopathogen, Brood-Spawn Variant 7, "Black Thirst"
• Modularity: N/A
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Core Compounds:
    
    • Seeth-bile – Distilled from abyssal predators, base viscous tar-fluid
    • Hematoid ichor – Extracted from Sithspawned carrion beetles, accelerates clotting and replication
    • Lithophage enzymes – Digestive acids engineered to feed on silicates and mineral veins
  • Sith Alchemy Components:
    
    • Meltmassif crystal dust – transmits compulsive whispers, coordinates swarm behavior
    • Duskthorn pollen – mutagenic, encourages rapid tissue reconfiguration
    • Sythic marrow extract – harvested from necrotic Force-beasts, catalyzes emergence of insect ova
    • Binding glyph-ichor – runic suspension medium ensuring cohesion of alchemical symbiotes
  • Catalysts & Stabilizers:
    
    • Colloidal phrik particulates – armor the ova until hatching
    • Blood-forged aurodium philters – stabilize chemical volatility
    • Necrosaline solution – keeps colonies viable in aquatic environments for centuries

• Operational Features
  
  • Waterborne Vector - Designed to infiltrate and saturate aquifers, reservoirs, and rivers.
  • Self-Replicating Compound - Feeds on minerals, silicates, and organic tissue, ensuring exponential growth without resupply.
  • Alchemical Compulsion Effect - Victims feel overwhelming thirst and compulsion to drink more, accelerating spread.
  • Hive Incubation - Hosts become living nests for gestating insect broods.
  • Brood Emergence - 200 to 500 insectoid Sithspawn (the Veydril Brood) erupt violently from host bodies in synchronized "hatching events."
  • Swarm Propagation - Broodlings instinctively seek out water sources, carrying trace amounts of Black Thirst within their bodies to spread the infection further.
  • Ritual Modulation - Overseers can alter Thirst behavior (incubation speed, brood aggressiveness) via runic resonance with Blood-Forged Aurodium Philters.
• Environmental Behavior
  
  • Aquifer Persistence - Remains indefinitely active when submerged in subterranean water systems.
  • Soil Contamination - Ova and ichor leach into farmland, destroying crops within days.
  • Dormant Crystallization - In arid conditions, Thirst hardens into crystalline nodules that can remain viable for centuries, reactivating upon contact with moisture.
  • Surface Spread - Creates oily sheens on rivers and lakes, visible as black, veined blooms.
  • No Natural Predator - Neither bacteria nor scavengers consume it; ingestion always leads to corruption.
  • Signs of Infestation - Chittering insects gather around wells; strange whispers heard near contaminated pools.
• Biological Effects
  
  • Stage I – Infiltration - Victims show blackened veins, fever, nausea, excessive thirst, and oily sweat.
  • Stage II – Incubation - Internal organs liquefy into brood sacs; marrow converts into gestation substrate.
  • Stage III – Hive Rupture - Flesh perforates with hundreds of holes as broodlings claw outward; host dies in shrieking convulsions.
  • Stage IV – Propagation - Swarms disperse, overwhelming defenders and contaminating additional water supplies.
  • Residual Corruption - Corpses leach more Thirst into the soil; bones often retain golden streaks from Aurodium particulates.
  • Psychological Impact - Survivors suffer trauma from seeing loved ones burst into insect hives, often collapsing into despair or surrender.
• Limitations
  
  • Indiscriminate - Cannot differentiate between foe, ally, or neutral once released.
  • Slow Initial Spread - Takes days to weeks before mass casualties manifest, giving limited windows for countermeasures.
  • Traceable Origin - Meltmassif traces, Sith runic matrices, and Aurodium signatures unmistakably identify Kainate authorship.
  • Sterilization Vulnerability - Can be neutralized through scorched-earth measures (orbital bombardment, vitrification of aquifers, or mass purification with sustained Force Light).
  • Unstable Mutation Risk - In rare cases, brood colonies deviate from design, spawning aberrant insect horrors hostile to all life, including Kainate forces.

• Long-Term Ecological Denial - Black Thirst corrupts aquifers and farmland, rendering entire planets uninhabitable over time. Even if populations flee or are exterminated, the land itself remains poisoned for centuries.
• Multi-Vector Propagation - The compound spreads through water, hosts, and insect swarms, ensuring redundancy in its infection cycle. If one vector is neutralized, another will inevitably continue the contamination.
• Self-Sustaining Infection - Once seeded, Black Thirst requires no resupply or further intervention. It replicates autonomously, drawing sustenance from minerals, silicates, and organic matter.
• Psychological Terror - The spectacle of loved ones rupturing into insect swarms devastates morale more effectively than bombardment. Survivors often capitulate willingly, seeking Kainate aid to escape the horror.
• Ritual Resonance - The inclusion of Blood-Forged Aurodium Philters makes the Thirst spiritually responsive to Sith ritual. Kainate overseers can manipulate incubation speed, brood aggression, or even summon synchronized emergence events.

• Indiscriminate Spread - Black Thirst does not differentiate between ally, foe, or neutral populations. Once seeded, even Kainate forces risk contamination if deployment zones are not carefully quarantined.
• Slow Onset - The infection requires days to weeks to reach catastrophic stages, unlike instantaneous bioweapons such as Nihilblight. This lag time allows defenders to implement countermeasures or evacuations.
• Traceable Origin - Its alchemical signatures, Meltmassif traces, and Aurodium particulates clearly reveal Kainate authorship. This makes deniability impossible in political or covert operations.
• Sterilization Vulnerability - Extreme measures such as orbital firebombing, aquifer vitrification, or Force Light purges can neutralize infected zones. While costly, such methods can contain or even eliminate outbreaks.
• Unstable Mutation Risk - Brood colonies occasionally deviate from intended design, creating aberrant insect horrors. These mutations can become hostile to all life, including the Kainate themselves.

In the aftermath of the Tenth Sith Empire's collapse, the galaxy became a crucible of fractured warlords and remnant factions, each grasping at the remnants of its once-standardized arsenal. Among these, the infamous Deathmist loomed large, a chemical terror still lingering in poisoned vaults and battlefields. Where others sought to replicate Deathmist, Darth Carnifex and the Kainate envisioned something more insidious, not a weapon of swift annihilation, but of slow, creeping corruption. Their goal was to create an agent that would infiltrate the lifeblood of a world, its water table, and turn it into an inexhaustible reservoir of ruin. Thus was born Project Hydra Sepulchrum, an endeavor hidden deep within the forges of Malsheem.

Placed under the direction of the Shadow Mind Biotheurgists and the entomantic divisions of the Alchemarch, Hydra Sepulchrum pursued an unconventional course of research. Where Nihilblight, its sister program, relied on necrotoxins and alchemical vapors, VX-BS7 was envisioned as a xenopathogenic infection rooted in parasitic life cycles. Early prototypes, designated VX-BS1 through VX-BS3, were unstable sludge that killed hosts too rapidly to permit brood development. Later iterations, VX-BS4 and VX-BS5, achieved partial success, producing insectoid creatures that failed to reproduce and expired within hours. It was VX-BS6 that first demonstrated a true self-replicating life cycle, but the resulting Broodlings grew monstrously large, rupturing from hosts prematurely and overrunning their containment cells. Entire laboratories were incinerated to halt the aberrations, but from this catastrophe came refinement. Lessons learned gave rise to VX-BS7, the first stable and weaponized strain capable of gestating within flesh and producing organized swarms known as the Veydril Brood.

The final composition of VX-BS7 was a carefully engineered fusion of chemical, organic, and alchemical elements. A tarry suspension medium of Seeth-bile was enriched with Hematoid ichor and Lithophage enzymes, substances designed to digest bone and mineral matter and transform the body into an incubation chamber. Sythic marrow extract catalyzed brood gestation, while Meltmassif dust provided the transmission medium that not only coordinated swarm behavior but produced the compulsive whispers of thirst that drove victims to drink more and more contaminated water. The entire unstable mixture was held together by Blood-Forged Aurodium Philters, powdered aurodium quenched in sacrificial blood and enchanted with Sith magic, serving as both chemical stabilizer and ritual conduit. This alchemical quenching gave VX-BS7 an unnatural cohesion, allowing it to remain viable for centuries in soil, aquifers, or crystalline dormancy, waiting patiently to be awakened by moisture or life.

Initial live trials were carried out on captured Outer Rim colonists, their wells and reservoirs seeded in secret. Symptoms unfolded gradually: blackened veins, feverish thirst, oily sweat, and the whispered compulsion to drink. After several days, organs liquefied into gestation sacs, marrow transformed into brood substrate, and victims' bodies erupted in shrieking chorus as hundreds of Broodlings clawed their way outward. The first large-scale deployment took place on the neutral agrarian colony of Aargonar, where tainted aquifers led to crop failure, blackened rivers, and mass exodus into the hills. The swarms pursued instinctively, seeking water and carrying trace infection with them. Within a month, the colony was devoid of life. Kainate warships descended thereafter, offering "purified" water to the surviving stragglers in exchange for submission, and those too broken to resist became bound labor for Malsheem's forges.

VX-BS7 is not a weapon for sieges or open battlefields, but for denial, terror, and domination. Dispersal warheads and aquifer-penetrators are deployed silently into planetary crusts, releasing their payloads into the hidden reservoirs below. By the time surface populations begin to suffer visible symptoms, the infection is already entrenched. It spreads not just through water, but through the Broodlings themselves, each swarm instinctively migrating to fresh pools, rivers, and irrigation systems, dragging the infection with them. Where Nihilblight scours a city in hours, VX-BS7 reduces worlds to graveyards over weeks, leaving survivors to collapse into despair as their own loved ones burst apart in tides of mandibles and wings.

The legacy of VX-BS7 is not measured only in deaths, but in memory. Survivors describe the sound of mandibles scratching beneath the skin before bodies split open; they recall the oily sheen spreading across rivers and the constant, maddening whispers of thirst. For the Kainate, this is more than a weapon, it is a sermon. Ritualists call it "The Black Thirst", a parable that no independence endures and that even the waters of life can be rewritten as instruments of Sith dominion. To this day, worlds touched by Black Thirst remain haunted places, their wells still whispering, their fields still barren, and their people forever marked by the terror of the Veydril Brood.

 

[Krass Wyms]

Darth Carnifex

This is very powerful, make standard warnings of do not abuse, the PC's you use it on determine damage, if it gets reported the John shall be upset.

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