Eternal Father
- Intent: Create a new and advanced Sith enhanced pathogenic bio-weapon
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- Headers -
Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Canon Link: N/A
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- Primary Source:
- Manufacturer: Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing - Delmara Synthlabs
- Affiliation: The Kainate
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: VX-NX13 - Volatile Xenotoxin, Necrotransmutive Variant 13, "Nihilblight"
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Core Compounds
- Trihexalon - Hyper-toxic agent; induces rapid necrosis and cellular liquefaction.
- Dimethylmercury (CH₃HgCH₃) - Highly penetrative compound that attacks the nervous system and brain.
- Neuroparalytic Compound - A fast-acting nerve disruptor; causes seizures and paralysis.
- Synox - Invisible neurotoxin that bypasses immune systems and causes rapid death.
- Mycotoxin - Fungal toxin that causes internal bleeding, liver collapse, and systemic trauma.
- Viper Kinrath Venom - Paralytic-corrosive venom that reinforces physical and sensory torment.
- Sith Alchemy Components
- Maalraas Ichor - Dark side predator extract; enhances Force-targeting accuracy of the gas.
- Force-reactive Glitterstim - Adds Force-sensitivity detection; guides mist toward latent Force signatures.
- Refined Blackwing Residue - Force-reactive viral necrotic agent; destabilizes the spiritual essence.
- Rakghoul Viral Peptide - Mutagenic corruption vector; causes monstrous degeneration or disfigurement.
- Rhak-skuri Ash - Ash of cursed creatures; stabilizes alchemical volatility and binds curses.
- Stabilizers and Catalysts
- Cesium Fluoride (CsF) - Catalytic agent for aggressive molecular reactions upon contact with flesh.
- Perfluorobutane (C₄F₁₀) - Inert gas with heavy density; slows mist dispersal, preserves fog form.
- Vaporized Phrik - Micro-particulate stabilizer that resists premature ignition or dispersal.
- Sith Alchemical Binding Matrix - Sith-alchemical suspension gel; maintains cohesion of volatile components.
- Clouzon-36 - Dense, inert atmospheric gas; allows the mist to sink and blanket terrain.
- Core Compounds
- Operational Features
- Dual Vector Entry - Nihilblight is absorbed through the skin or lungs, but can be especially lethal to Force-sensitives due to its affinity for midichlorian-rich tissue.
- Bio-Alchemical Composition - The compound combines re-engineered Trihexalon with Sith alchemical agents, enabling it to attack both physical cells and metaphysical life signatures.
- Semi-Sentient Dispersal Pattern - It moves slowly but deliberately, drifting toward heat, movement, or life signs, behaving like a stalking predator.
- Stealth Deployment Compatible - Easily weaponized through silent, low-profile delivery systems, making it ideal for covert extermination.
- Environmental Behavior
- Atmospheric Persistence - Remains active for up to 16 hours in dry, windless environments, with trace amounts staying lethal even after partial dispersal.
- Hydrophobic Nature - Water neutralizes Nihilblight quickly, rendering it ineffective in downpours, underwater, or extremely humid regions.
- Flammable Risk - While normally inert, if ignited by fire, plasma, or a lightsaber, Nihilblight combusts into a long-lasting, alchemically devouring flame. This unnatural fire clings to surfaces and living beings alike, consuming both flesh and spirit, and can burn for minutes without oxygen, often leaving behind scorched silhouettes and smoldering voids where victims once stood.
- Shield-Penetrative Behavior - The vapor can seep through most energy and particle shields unless they are specifically designed to repel chemical agents.
- Visible Signatures - It appears as a glowing green-violet mist, easily visible in low light and faintly pulsing with alchemical energy in darkness.
- Biological Effects
- Rapid Cell Disintegration - Capable of destroying organic tissue within seconds of exposure, liquefying soft tissue and causing internal collapse.
- Neural Cascade Failure - Victims can suffer from seizures, nerve disruption, and even total brain failure, often within twenty seconds.
- Force-Essence Disruption ("Soul Rupture") - In Force-sensitive beings, there is a potential to disrupt the spiritual essence, sometimes severing their connection to the Force or destroying it outright.
- Residual Psychogenic Effects - Even low-level exposure could potentially lead to immune collapse, necrosis, hallucinations, or lingering dark side corruption.
- Skeleton & Equipment Remain - Leaves behind armor and bones, though skeletal remains may be partially melted or collapsed into sludge.
- Taint Residue - Infected zones remain spiritually corrupted, useful for Sith rituals or lingering psychological warfare.
- Limitations
- Non-Effectiveness Against Non-Organics - It cannot affect silicon-based lifeforms, droids, or AI constructs.
- Vulnerable to Purification - Heavy water, sustained UV radiation, or Force Light can neutralize or cleanse the compound completely.
- Dual Destruction – Physical and Spiritual - Nihilblight annihilates not just living tissue but also disrupts the metaphysical essence of its victims, especially Force-sensitives. This dual nature makes it uniquely effective against Jedi, Sith, and other entities bound to the Force, leaving behind soulless husks or psychic scars in its wake.
- Semi-Sentient Dispersal Behavior - The gas exhibits an eerie, quasi-intelligent flow, tracking and trailing heat signatures, bioelectric fields, and even faint Force resonance. This allows it to bypass basic containment measures and "hunt" targets hiding in cover or sealed within structures.
- Atmospheric Persistence - Once deployed, Nihilblight can linger for hours in dry, undisturbed environments, reshaping the battlefield by denying access to key locations, choke points, or infrastructure. Its ability to blanket terrain with lethal, soul-tainted fog transforms urban centers, trenches, or fortified zones into long-term kill zones, allowing Kainate forces to control movement and area denial without maintaining direct presence.
- Persistent Taint and Ritual Utility - Areas exposed to Nihilblight are left spiritually corrupted, allowing Sith cultists to use the lingering residue for necromantic rites or battlefield enchantments. This gives it strategic value beyond simple extermination, as it converts slaughter into sorcerous advantage.
- Combustion into Devouring Flame - When ignited, Nihilblight transforms into an alchemical fire that clings to flesh and burns through both body and spirit. This fire cannot be extinguished by normal means, creating a secondary effect more terrifying than the original gas.
- Vulnerability to Water and Humidity - Nihilblight is highly hydrophobic: heavy rain, water-based countermeasures, or high humidity rapidly destabilize the compound. This makes it impractical for aquatic or tropical theaters of war without supplementary deployment methods.
- Purification Through Force Light and Force Nullification - Nihilblight is highly reactive to Force Light, which purges its alchemical structure and disrupts the compound's metaphysical cohesion, rendering it inert within moments of sustained exposure. Additionally, Force-nullifying fields, such as those projected by Ysalamiri, suppress the dark side resonance that sustains the weapon's spiritual lethality, dramatically weakening or halting its soul-disruptive properties.
- Ineffectiveness Against Non-Organics - Droids, silicon-based lifeforms, and inorganic constructs are completely immune to Nihilblight. This limitation makes it unusable against mechanical armies or battlefields dominated by cybernetic or non-carbon combatants.
- High Ritual Containment Requirements - Due to its unstable alchemical structure, Nihilblight requires ritualistically treated containers and precise handling procedures. Mishandling or exposure to uncontrolled Force energies can trigger premature ignition or accidental dispersal, endangering allied forces.
- Visibly Ominous and Easily Detected - The mist glows faintly and emits low-frequency pulses, making it easily visible even in low-light conditions. Its obvious presence reduces its utility in stealth operations and gives enemies a small window to escape or take countermeasures.
In the days of the Tenth Sith Empire, biological weapons were heavily standardized for use against enemy forces and rebellious populations. One of the most potent and highly valued chemical agents was Iron Helix Counter-Organic Compound 8, better known by it's scientific name IH-COC-8, and infamously as Deathmist. Use of the bio-weapon was widespread and common enough for the vast majority of warfleets within the Sith Navy to be equipped with a stockpile of Deathmist munitions, with Sith combat doctrine accounting for commander's proclivities in unleashing the weapon against enemy population centers.
After the Tenth Empire's fall, Deathmist munitions fell into the hands of warlords, bandits, and Sith loyalists all looking to carve out their own fiefdoms among the Empire's corpse. Use of the weapon skyrocketed, eclipsing the Empire's average deployment by several magnitude as all discipline and restraint was forgotten. Many worlds suffered from the toxic taint of Deathmist, some even becoming so saturated that to this day they remain uninhabitable. Several armed militias made it their mission to seek out and destroy any remaining Deathmist stockpiles, resulting in the destruction of the vast majority of the old Empire's stock.
On the margins of this chaos, the Kainate watched each warring state carefully. They'd only intervene to accelerate conflict, not to resolve it. Many Kainate strike forces swooped in and plundered weakened and destabilized systems, making off with whatever valuables they could hoard. Many of these forces found themselves in possession of Deathmist munitions, ones that hadn't yet been used by remnant factions. Returning with these valuable treasures to the Malsheem, they offloaded and sent into the waiting hands of Kainate scientists, who were more than eager to study Deathmist and improve it.
Deathmist fell into the clutches of the Alchemarch, the Kainate's secretive guild of Sith Alchemists. Under their guidance, they dismantled and studied each composite aspect of Deathmist, analyzing it's composition and studying how to reverse engineer the deadly bio-weapon. But it was the Arch-Alchemist Varn Klyvax who proposed the creation of a new weapon; a spirit-reactive gas that not only destroyed life, but split apart the cohesion of the soul. With the authorization of Darth Carnifex and
Darth Prazutis
, Project Black Vector commenced within the deepest cryptobiogenetics vaults of the Malsheem.Dissection of Deathmist continued after the Project was approved, but with far greater reach and resources than previously allowed. Alchemists meticulously mapped the chemical composition of Deathmist's cell-disrupting matrix, extracting the Trihexalon which constituted the majority of the chemical compound. They successfully neutralized samples of Deathmist for study within the alchemical labs, and began to infuse the inert samples with distilled Maalraas ichor and Rhak-skuri ash. These ingredients furthered the pursuit of spiritual reactivity in the gas, but the introduction of such volatile and potent Dark Side reagents resulted in the death of three alchemists, their souls never recovered.
Following this, further testing and research was conducted. The fleshshaper
Vakhari Lutris
was recruited to contribute to the secret project, the greater details kept hidden from the alchemist even as they contributed towards it's success. With her aid, samples of glitterstim, the Blackwing virus, and Rakghoul viral peptides were extracted and implemented into the chemical composition, creating the experimental weapon VX-NX11. The main aspect of VX-NX11 was that it caused severe neuromuscular trauma in living test subjects, furthering the cruel lethality of the weapon they were endeavoring to create.It was during the VX-NX11 trials that the process of phantasmal eruptions in Force-sensitives was discovered, which were visible discharges of energy upon death due to the weapon. This convinced the Grand Council to authorized unrestricted live testing, initially on captured prisoners such as Jedi and Alliance soldiers, but it quickly advanced to field tests against predetermined targets. The targets first chosen were small towns and outposts, far removed from the convergences of major hyperspace lanes and trade routes. Following successful tests, any evidence of the Kainate's presence was scrubbed clean with phosphorus saturation.
Tests continued apace, a Sith Alchemical binding matrix was introduced to stabilize the metaphysical volatility of VX-NX11, creating VX-NX12. After several more field tests on civilian centers in the Outer Rim resulted in less than desirable gas permanence, Clouzon-36 and Perfluorobutane were integrated to enhance mist persistence and low-atmospheric saturation. This new variant, called VX-NX13, would be the final and most stable form of the bio-weapon. With the development phase concluded, true implementation of VX-NX13 began as canisters of aerosolized VX-NX13 were distributed to select task forces.
The first use of VX-NX13 in combat was administered during an extermination operation conducted by the Blackblade Guard. Remnants of the Mandalorian Enclave had been tracked down to a volcanic Outer Rim world where they'd constructed a ring-shaped keep inside the caldera of a dormant volcano. Thick stone-and-beskar walls made the fortress virtually impenetrable through conventional means, and a deflector shield erected around the fortress prevented orbital bombardment. Rather than mount a costly and dangerous forward assault, the Blackblade task force instead opted to utilize their new bio-weapon.
Kainate orbital dispersal drones were flown into the atmosphere, right over the shielded fortress. They deployed their payload at two thousand meters up, the coffin-like munitions falling before detonating three-hundred meters before hitting the fortress. VX-NX13 blanketed the whole basin, falling down like a funerary shroud to cover everything. Their shield, while impervious to energy and kinetic attacks, couldn't expel gaseous compounds. Most Mandalorians hadn't fully sealed their armor, too confident in the surety of their shield, and they died screaming.
By the time the Blackblade Guard landed troops on the planet, the garrison of the fortress had been reduced by ninety-five percent. Those that managed to survive the gaseous attack were not match for the mechanized brutality of the Blackblades, and so the fortress was conquered. They stripped the beskar off the emplacements, looted the dead, and burned what remained in a pyre in the central courtyard. Afterwards, they leveled the fortress from orbit, igniting the dormant volcano and destroying any trace of it beneath an avalanche of molten slag.
From this point on, VX-NX13 garnered the name of Nihilblight, and was entered as such into the Kainate Arsenal Registry. Further testing revealed the effectiveness of igniting Nihilblight as it blanketed an area, for once combusted it transformed into a voracious alchemical flame, devouring anything and everything in it's path. Kainate ritualists then discovered that post-burn sites were heavily seeped in Dark Side energies, and began to harvest those energies now left behind in Nihilblight's wake. The next big use of Nihilblight came when the Kainate assaulted a world sympathetic to the Galactic Alliance during the Planeshift Realignment.
Descending upon the world, they deployed Nihilblight over multiple civilian centers using orbital canisters carried in by fast-moving dispenser drones. Then, the Kainate warships in orbit opened fire and ignited the cloudbanks of Nihilblight, generating a firestorm that washed over thousands and thousands of kilometers of city and wildland. Millions died in the span of a few hours, with sustained orbital bombardment creeping over what Nihilblight hadn't reached. The entire world was thus shrouded in a thick miasma of Dark Side energy, which the Kainate began to accumulate for their own use thereafter.
Production of Nihilblight continued within the Malsheem, overseen by artificers of the Alchemarch. Research continued as well, as the Kainate ever sought evolution to it's preferred methods of annihilation. To the enemies of the Kainate, Nihilblight is a rumor. But as the Kainate prepared more and more Nihilblight for use in the conflict against the Galactic Alliance, that rumor was about to become hard fact.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
Create a new and advanced Sith enhanced pathogenic bio-weapon
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate
Modular:
No
Material:
Trihexalon, Dimethylmercury (CH₃HgCH₃), Neuroparalytic Compound, Synox, Mycotoxin, Viper Kinrath Venom, Maalraas Ichor, Force-reactive Glitterstim, Refined Blackwing Residue, Rakghoul Viral Peptide, Rhak-skuri Ash, Cesium Fluoride (CsF), Perfluorobutane (C₄F₁₀), Vaporized Phrik, Sith Alchemical Binding Matrix, Clouzon-36
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