Balaya Praelior Zambrano
Balaya Zambrano, Emperor's Bust
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit Balaya's Upgraded Armor
- Image Source: Red Sonja
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: My Subs
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- Manufacturer:
Balaya Praelior Zambrano
- Affiliation: Individual Character Name (Balaya)
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Darkside Armor
- Modularity: No
- Production: Unique
- Material:
- Zoosha styled crystasteel-laminanium
- Karlini Silk (cloak exterior)
- Terentatek hide (cloak interior)
- Leviathan Teeth
- Zillo beast
- Compressed Layered Scale Chainmail
- Phrik
- Reifflex cellular padding
- Refined Cortosis
- Classification: Multi-Purpose
- Weight: Extreme
- Resistances:
- Energy: Very High
- Kinetic: Very High
- Lightsabers: Extreme
- Ion/EMP: Average
- Elemental Acid: Average
- Elemental Cryo: Average
- Elemental Thermite: Average
- Elemental Electrical: Average
- Sonic: Average
- Force: Extreme
- Piercing: Average
- Vacuum: None
- Radiation: Average
- Walking Armory: Designed with dozens of hidden blades, weapons and means to fight or cause harm. The lightsaber she carries is not just the only weapon she has.
- Darkside Nexus: Empowered with the darkside Balaya has augmented the armor to exude darkness and make it so those within range of her feel negative emotions like fear, hatred and anger.
- Sentient: Hungry and powerful, the forging process and darkside methods of infusing torn souls from the hand has given the armor a malevolent aura that tries to corrupt others who touch it and overwhelm their thoughts.
- Crystal Augmentation: Using force crystals the armor is augmented to enhance both Balaya and alter the area around her in a small radius.
- Life Drain: Sapping at the life energies and the will of those around her. The armor hungers, it seeks out life energies to feed into the sith lord herself.
- Dragite gem: Making a small cyclonic shield around her that when struck can make a small repulse for a moment to push back.
- Walking Armory: Secret weapons and implements of mass destruction abound in the design and everything screams warlord with the armor given its looks.
- Protection: Designed to resist sabers and the force with her cloaks exterior.
- Robust defensive enhancement: Designed around the notiuon of empowering and improving the darkside. The armor augments everythign the warlord could use and work with.
- Not Vacuum sealed: Not designed to be used in space itself the armor is protection but not from the effects of vacuum.
- Force Nullification: Like all force enhanced objects the effects of a nullification field or voidstone can negate the enhancements.
- Massive Darkside Beacon: Fashioned by the darkside for a darkside used, the Warlords armor is not subtle in its announcement and can be felt from systems away by those who can sense it.
- Sentient Hunger: In creating the armor it became so enhanced with the darkside of the force that it managed to become almost alive and malevolent in its nature wanting to corrupt anything wearing it or around it.
Built as an advanced and more powerful version of her old armor which had been constructed by the zeltron as a knight. Under Krag and Kaine's rules she was given plenty of resources to construct tools to fight. With the new resources at her disposal and the greater understanding of alchemy as well as construction for her armor. Balaya has constructed a suit of powerful pressed and molded armor. It is designed with old model ideas and sections. Using designed found in the medical center on Coruscant it is constructed like the fearsome suit of darth vader using compressed layers along with additional designs. She worked on it for years improving and forging the metal into perfection while pouring the darkside to strengthen and while increasing the weight she has trained to use it.
The armor scales come in ten layers, each subdivided into three primary layers. The first primary layer was a self-repairing surface similar in function to a standard expeditionary suit worn by jedi. A thin compressed layer of laminarium. The outermost layer was a black insulating shell or phrik, and the inner layer was an Andwa gel-crystal matrix. The second primary layer dealt with impact protection from physical shock due to the kinetic mesh. The first layer was Reifflex cellular padding; the second layer was some orthofabric; the third layer was mylar laminate; the fourth layer was polychlorophene-2 fiber weave; the final layer contained rechargeable energy sinks. The third primary layer related the last layers of protection and was compressed phrik and more gel layering with karlini silk to prevent chaffing. All of the layers were compressed in the tenth leviathan teeth scales. Molecular compression was an important part to make the primary defensive piece of the armor.
With the power of the armor and its levels of protection the crystalsteel laced with laminanium zoosha styled armoor where it works in seemingly exposed sections. The work with the sisterhood and Inquisition has given her a great amount of experience as well as constructing some of the more versatile armors the one sith used. Several lords and knights using her alchemy skills to have special armors constructed that were powerful darkside tools. Balaya's revisions to her armor providing her enhanced connection to the darkside and making her a living nexus capable or powering others who can feed off of it and snuff out the light. Microscopic etching using sith magic runes to improve the level of protection on the armor as long as there is force energy connected to the armor.
More sections of it and given the size have been built to create a dangerous and powerful suit using tech gadgets and force power rooting it deeply within the darkside allowing it to absorb lightning directed at it along with blocking and protecting from most lightsabers on par with beskar'kandar. It can be cut through but most lightsabers will run out of power or be taken away from it long before that happens. With the continued work on the armor is was made to work with several micronized crystals that would work to provide different alchemical properties. Connecting deeper with the darkside and focusing the mind or in some cases with Dragite gems creating a rebounding like effect when struck. Life Drain crystals to let her siphon at others who are close by on reflex and using it to weaken their resolve or sap at their strength.
The more work that went into it over the years including when she was among the firebirds proved the most effective. Getting other crystals and other materials to make the varying pieces of the armor. Instead of being a solid suit it was forged in pieces... with each one being given the painstakingly crafted overview that few others could match. Balaya focused on making it far stronger and more impressive with powered armor strength enhancement as the armor itself is a powerful darkside nexus that has been developed within the waters of lake Naath to infuse the darkest energies into it. Ancient sith bone dust added to the mixture and binding the life energies from prisoners strong in the force that she used the Hand artifact on to tear their souls out.
Boots:
Built with a layer of karlini silk padded with biogel and encased in zillo beast scales. The interior of the boots provide comfort and a firm tightness allowing them to be sealed and sections off with the laminanium-phrik blend being given a high melting point. It is then set in three pieces, the foot, the ankle and the thigh connected with interlocking sections at the joints creating small strands on the endge of the zoosha chainmail of slicewire to provide protection in the vulnerable spots. Small compartments and sslips created with along the ankle sheath for blades and datarods to be set comfortably.
The sides of the boots are grooved with sections for weapons and gadgets, two sheaths per boot at the ankle, a holster at the thighs and Toe/heel spikes designed like knuckle platess and sharpened to punch into armor using ultrasonic generators to shred flesh, armor and anything it comes into contact with. The toe blade able to retract and sit along the underside of the foot. The circuits of the boots tied to the armor systems and servo's for maneuvering thrusters on her heels that hold the sheaths on either side of her boot giving extra jump jets. With the thrusters extended for use it appears like a tri-heel that narrows into a point. The alchemical enhancements to the boots are designed to enhance the darkside and create a stronger connection to the darkside allowing her to draw it and focus into the sith master.
Heel: A strong alchemically sharpened heel that can eject barbs from its tri-spike design to attach itself after punching into a surface or piece of armor. The heel itself can be fired off as a weapon with a compressed gas projectile sharpened with alchemy and the micro ultrasonic generators to become pin point small range spikes. The foot section is able to function without the heels as standard combat boots keeping the repulsor system for jumping. The development of them has been improved upon over time to give it a very strong and very impressive magnetic lock that is designed to be used and hold the sith lord herself in place. Given the works she uses for it and knowledge of sith alchemy the heel spikes have been hollowed out and are made to penetrate delivering a dose of sith poison.
Leggings: The ankle leggings of the armor are designed and form fitted to Balaya's ankles. The metal is designed in layers and constructed to offer superior protection with phrik-laminanium zoosha styled threading as underneath the special mesh to prevent chaffing. A sectional combat sheath is there designed to hold a canister with thermal detonators in a protective casing along the exterior while along the interior is a holster compartment designed to hold a surprise weapon either a holdout blaster or blade. Her leggings themselves are charged with the darkside of the force and infused so that it will channel the darkside for her to make using the magics easier. The design looks almost seethrough and exposes at least from the looks plenty of skin but it is some of the most protective alchemical enhancements.
Knees: Constructed as near solid interlocking pieces. The small spikes of the knees eject and connect like teeth alchemically sharpened and made to snap closed like gnashing maws that can surprise. As the back of the knees is covered with threaded phrik-laminanium zoosha to bend and flex. The knees lower section is designed to be knelt on safely while the thickest tooth is longer and tubular allowing poisons to be used and ejected when it grasps something. The teeth also function like a vac deployment system. The small repulsors firing the teeth into the face of someone unsuspected of the attack. The top layer of the plate and teeth is designed with micro pressors to repel and enhance attacks. The darkside effects of enhacned into the metal plates and teeth are channel the darkside for stronger techniques throughout her body.
Thighs: Constructed as form fitted around her thighs and made to look with the rest of her armor. The crystasteel-phrik-laminanium zoosha is webbed and designed to be lightsaber resistant while connecting with the rest of the armor pieces. Making a sealed suit itself that is able to regulate the bodies temperature as well as keep her safe. The threaded slicewire along the outer most layer is only the size of a molecule edge wise but for others tryingt o grab her it can slice and mangle their hands. The darkside energies that have gone into making it are there but the clasps and holsters for weapons that will allow containing extra equipment. THe systems within the armor for enhancing the strength in her legs.While looking like exposed flesh but continues the theme of overly engineered and forged protection
Belt: A utility belt designed to wrap around her waist and bring most of the outfit together and chainmail front and back connect under the belt which has been give a clip for her lightsaber as well as several pieces of equipment including but not limited in scope to sith Tracking device's, Force Disperser, Ashes of Malachor, lightsaber repair kit, food rations, encrypted comlink and various things she may need currency wise. The coverings of the belt are covered in runic script from the sith and enhanced to make using the darkside and sith magics easier against lightside users. Giving off a suffocating aura.
Chainmail: Two pieces, more designed like flaps that have been constricted from different materials into a thin leviathan tooth... each one cut and linked to provide covering but it looks obscene. Zeltron sensibilities with a warriors mentality as the chainmailed sections are colvered in micro sith runes strengthing their resistance to force energies, energy and being destroyed. It connects under the belt easily and clasps on the sides with rings crafted from Qixoni crystal and etched with micro runestones. The ultra compressed ten layer design of the chainmailed teeth is one of the more complicated pieces that have been made and care was done to better understand and secure the methods.
Waist Back Sheath: Sleek in design and made to hold a sword at her hip. The darkside blades that have been forged by Balaya can serve a purpose but to go with the armor she has forged much more into it. Turning the one into two so that the twin blades she forged for fighting can benefit her. The clips for her whip and saber don't impede the design and she can quickly unsheath the blades from the leviathan leathers.
Sternum: Designed with several slips and clasps. The front of it is held together by a shoto saber, a back up weapon that is meant to be used as a last resort weapon and keyed to Balaya's biometrics. hooked sheets act as underwire allowing small rolled lengths of slice wire that serve like back up whips.
Shoulders: Compacted and designed with retractible spikes, the shoulder guards are armored section and have a clasp on the back for her cloak to attach to. With grooved edges that come up and use compressed illerium gas to fire the spikes are high velocity in a single direction if needed.
Hand/Gauntlet: Designed with karlini silk and leviathan leather that has been treated alchemically to resist sabers and allow her to catch lightsaber blades or crush armor. THe force enhancement to augment her strength several times over makes them comparable to enhanced crushgaunts for compressing beskar and handling vong crab armor.
Talons: Designed with micro ultrasonic generators to slice through metals and flesh at the molecular level severing the bonds with high intensity vibrations. The monomolecxular edge of the talons secretes an alchemical poison designed to corrupt with the darkside of the force while twisting emotions into ones of rage and anger. Each one can retract though along the length of her fingers and functions easily enough to her her preform fine motor skills.
Underside: The underside of the knuckles has small barbs that can retract and excrete a toxic sith alchemical poison made to corrupt but also cause necrosis of the flesh if she pricks someone with them. THey are designed to be used and able to hook into metals like beskar and allow one to climb up or improve their grip. Springs work to eject two things, underforearm blades that can go to her grip and lightsabers which serve as tertiary back ups. The flexing of the miscles works to make the hidden blades eject for assasination and attack or she can use the daggers as throwing knives.
Forearm: Refined cortosis plating over her forearm that is retractible while being able to deactivate a lightsaber and houses a mandalorian style vambrace with whistling birds, a repulsor, grappling line, paralyzing darts, Kyber darts. Neurotoxin darts, a shield emitter, paired blaster barrels, and a flamethrower. Micro grenade and barreled Mini proton torpedo for the barrels that can be swapped thrrough quickly.
Knuckles: Bladed with retractible poison excreting blades that can function with small compressed illerium to become projectiles as needed or punch into heavy metals and crab armor. They are segmented and designed to protect the hands from lightsabers and other blades.
Elbow: Fashioned for defense and made to wrap around while connecting the zoosha styled chainmail... the elbows use impact gel and micro repulsors to aid in gravity resistance for moving around and reducing the weight of armor for a time but it is not perfect. It is made to be flexible and made from the leviathan compressed scales.
Hair: Tipped with small needles tipped with acidic poison that allows the long strands to be used as weapons of last resort. WIthin the long hair though where it is the most full there are thing blades interweaved for emergencies and able to be kept out of the way.
Headband: Small and fashioned from aurodium with an inner lining similar to Omnina's mind control device that was used to impose her will upon others around her. In this case it does an active field around her of five meters where those with weaker will could be influenced and without being a force technique it aids in the projection of thoughts to influence.
Cloak: Created in three layers to be protective and cover her body down to her boots. With a hood and inner mask that can be brought out and used to conceal her appearance. The three layers of it serve as a barrier she can use. From the alchemically treated exterior that is made to resist the forces influence to the interior that protection and lined with sheaths for weapons. THe middle layering is a flexible sheet of metal that is self repairing to protect from rips and tears.
Interior: Silky and lined with sheaths for swords, axes, blades and blasters... the karlini silk is there for comfort and treated with alchemy to become heavier and resistant to energy and lightsabers. With the middle layer insulating it from the alchemically treated exterior.
Exterior: Terantatek hide that has been preserved and treated with alcheical reagents to preserve the force resistance of the creature allowing the exterior of the cloak to be largely unaffected by direct force attacks and by extension Balaya herself when she is wearing it and enclosing her body. The alchemical process had the hide covered in smaller spines for defensive means and layering it like the creatures hide. With the lowest layer of it having etched sith runes to enhance the layering of the middle against sabers and blasters.
Choker: Fashioned to go around her throat with a crystal snares that are used to capture the souls and minds of jedi or other force users she encounters allowing her to hold them. THe leathers have etched runes increasing her connection to the darkside and functions to improve her bodies protection by letting her absorb the power from what she captures.
Right Arm Talisman: Located on her upper arm and looking like a flaweless red gemstone, the force crystal is bled kyberite that has been enhanced to augment lightning and drain abilities... supplementing it to a degree techniques like Maelstrom, Lightning Storm and Force drain.The crystals and the amulets are designed to be reflective of the sith masters own skills and augment her skills making them stronger when she uses them as opposed to just actively having them.
Left Arm Talisman: Fashioned from bled kyberite and used to sup0pliment her alchemy and magics further with stranger techniques like necromancy to create Dopplegängers, shadow-ghouls, Force Wraiths and phantoms. Absorbing the energy of other being around and channeling the energy into manifestations of the darkside and Balaya's will. It does not teach new skills or always have it active but it augments her own abilities with the skills.
Amulet: Fashioned from a bled and corrupted solari crystal that has been etched with sith runes and corrupted with jedi blood. It has been made to augment her Sith magic techniques and ease the strain of the powers on her body while corrupting others who try and use it. Heavy and powerful compared to many other amulets with the ability to read and speak the sith language with greater ease. It augments her skills and doesn't give her active powers without the training.
Right Anklet: Strung together kyberite crystals bled with hatred and corruption to create a powerful aura from her body that enhances Taint, Aura, Corruption techniques around the body. Making the ability to ensnare and corrupt jedi easier but not always... as well as bring others along to the darkside. Her experience in alchemy has fashioned them into strong objects she can wear under the armor.
Left Anklet: Fashioned from a hypergem and kyberite crystal... Balaya took extra care to augment and fashion it with enhancements to her abilities with techniques like stone ritual, Electronic Manipulation, Darkshear and Malicious Fury. Meant to enhance and augment her long term skills that she has developed within the Firebirds as their alchemist.
Left Manacle: Largely ceremonial with a lignan crystal that enhances her techniques from her left hand with Crush Opposition, Consume Essence, Force Destruction and Force Rend. It is designed and etched with rune stones to channel the force through her hand and make it into a powerful weapon in its own right.
Right Manacle: One of the last pieces thjat was crafted for her armor, the right hands enhancements focused on restoring and augmenting her abilities with Force drain/Legends, Drain Knowledge, Focused rage and Kinetite. As a means for the sith lord herself to better improve and smash through others. Her hatred and use of the darkside tapping into the rare and largely unknown form of Eternal Hatred. Augmenting the lord to become a juggernaut in battle and fuels her enhancements as a sith warlord.
The pieces were assembled, the armor completed and with work the zerltron sith lord enhancement more of it... her training and augmentations to become a warlord. The lead of the generation of battlelords that were created by the one sith. As the warlord of them she could use the armor to command and control many of the others. Balaya's masterpiece of the armorr still leaves some room for enhancement though as materials can be improved, herr craft and understanding always growing and darkside techniques get developed.
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