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New Race Of People Found In Talimaka (v. v.long post)

Talimaka
02-06-2004, 14:37
The race of the Sil' Sade have been rediscovered after finding records of their existnce in Talimakan libaries a group of young explorers took it upon them selvers to find these strong warrior people.

Not only where they found but a new weapon was also found and regiments of the Sil' Sades have been drafted into the Talimakan army.
Sil' Sade master have also began training adept young people in the ways of the Sil ' sade. Yet, the biggest discovery was this in depth report on a new weapon type (the C-Sword)

Crystal Sword Of The Sil’ Sade

The C-Sword is the traditional weapon of the Sil’Sade (a group of Samurai style warrior priests that live in the Northen mountains)
Using a C-Sword in combat takes skill, confidence, dexterity, and attunement to Inner Spirits and your own honour.
The very rare Great C-Sword, similar to a standard lightsaber, had focusing crystals and a power supply producing a blade up to 300 centimeters in length. The rare Dual-Phase C-Sword is any sword constructed to operate at two different blade lengths. The Electrum sword are C-Swords with hilts forged from eelectrum. (Electrum is a native alloy of gold and platinum the latter metal may be present up to 40%. Electrum from the Northen Mountains carries 20% copper.)
Use
In the hands of someone trained to focus inner spirit, a C-Sword is a powerful and versatile tool. A C-Sword can cut through anything (thick metal doors and enemies alike) except another C-Sword blade. The only known exception to this rule is the material cortosis which can either repel or even effectively short out a blade.
With inner spirit a Sil’ Sade can use his blade to deflect and reflect incoming energy attacks. C-Swords are melee weapons but can also be thrown for a ranged attack and recalled through psychokinesis.
After the fall of Talimaka, C-Swords became rare relics. The use of it is usually restricted to the Sil’ Sades, partially because it is too dangerous for an unskilled user, but also partly because, for non Sades, blasters are more effective. Typically a Sil’ Sade is given his sword on his first day of training. Masters emphasise that the lsword is a measure of progress for an apprentice as swordsman techniques take great skill and concentration. It is considered a final test for a student to be able to construct their own sword
The crystal is the heart of the blade.
The heart is the crystal of the Sil’ Sade
The Sil’ Sade is the crystal of the Inner Spirit.
The Spirit is the blade of the heart.
All are intertwined:
The crystal,The blade,The Spirit
You are one.
Construction details
The sword is made up of a short polished metallic cylindrical tube (30 centimeters) that emits a beam of plasma.
All C-Swords contain some common basic components
• A handgrip
• An activation stud plate
• A safety switch
• An emitter matrix
• A lens assembly (focusing crystal)
• A blade-length adjuster
• A power cell
• A power conduit
• A recharge socket
• A belt ring (optional)

The swords are powered from the control studs by a circuits channel and focusing crystal found only in nature in the Northen Mountains deep cavities. There have been also attempts to synthesise crystals and these are only just becoming accepted by the Sil’ Sade masters.
The Dual-Phase sword uses crystals that handle differing power level requirements. These are wired to the diantium power cell, which acts like an energy source for then sowrd. The crystal is also wired to three knobs: the blade length adjust, the blade width adjust, and the activator.
When the activator is pushed, internal power cells create photoelectric energy and the blade is focused from the crystal. A tight, non-thermal parallel beam of plasma energy appears on command which is focused through one, two, or three multi-faceted crystals. The activation button energizes the weapon forming a positively-charged shaft of coherent packets of energy about a meter long. The plasma beam is attracted back to the sword hilt by a negatively-charged, high-energy flux aperture. The plasma packets are recycled to create the glowing blade by a power cell superconductor. The sword hums and scintillates with a distinct sound.. The entire functioning processes are completely contained and self-regenerative.
The Sil’ Sade also use an unknown to use technology that allows them to set up a semi permeable shield to their front and side, as sort of a forcefield further test are being made.


OOC - very star wars i know but i had the idea of a Samurai nation and the star wars films are little more than futuristic samurai movies (pointed out by a friend of mine)