Nightwood Armor

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

* Intent: An item for sale and use by Shadow Industries

* Image Source: Link

* Canon Link: N/A

* Primary Source: Endorian Nightwood

PRODUCTION INFORMATION
* Manufacturer: Shadow Industries

* Affiliation: Shadow Industries , Closed Market

* Model: Endorian Nightwood Armor

* Modularity: Shields, body armor, droid armor, vehicle armor. Can be bought pre designed to fit a certain set of requirements.

* Production: Mass Produced

* Material: Endorian Nightwood,

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
* Classification: Multipurpose

* Weight: Light

* Resistances

* Resistances:

* Blasters: High
* Kinetic: High
* Lightsabers: High
*EMP/ION: Average
*Temperature: High
*Sonic: Average
*Environment: High
*Force: Average
*Electricity: High
*Radiation: High


SPECIAL FEATURES
-Endorian Nightwood has seeming semi-sentience and in the case of the Shadow Industries sold armor, is pre taught to grow exclusively to the set design requested for their production (this helps avoid further sale from buyers). Additionally the Blackwood seems to give off a presence detectable by non force users, but which is even stronger to force users. The Nightwoods do possess the ability to think to some extent, but have such a unique language through the force or growth patterns that it doesn’t translate into Basic or even to most telepaths. They are capable of sensing through the force, which is what gives the vague feeling of being watched when around a lot of them.

-Nightwood is very durable. Able to stand up somewhat to most weapons, even able to offer some resistance to lightsabers. This makes it useful for almost any situation. Allowing the wood to take on a lot more than most weapons.

-Force resistance: Nightwood seems to possess a greater resistance than expected for a non sentient creature. The trees tend to resist attempts at manipulating them through the force and seem to have quite a considerable amount of ability to do so. Though it does not prevent force use entirely, nor create a field like Ysilmir do.

-Energy consumption: In spite of having roots, Nightwoods actually rely entirely on energy to survive. In particular in regards to heat, radiation, and electricity. This allows them to survive while being used as protection, but also means they have a greater resistance to such attacks. This gets turned into matter for them to survive.

-Healing/Growth: Nightwood actually grows fairly quickly, in particular in when close to more Nightwood. It depends a lot on how much it has to feed on. It grows fast enough to grow around a meter in six hours.

Strengths:
-High resistance to energy as it tends to absorb it to use it for energy. Feeds on energy.
-High growth/healing speed
-A level of force resistance.
-Is technically sentient and can communicate with other Nightwoods through growth patterns and the Force.
-Can survive many types of environments
-Natural high resistance to electricity, not allowing it to pass.
-Taught to grow in a certain way so the armor/protection heals back.
-Only one type of male tree is sold, which can be traced by Shadow Industries. This prevents attempts at buying, cutting, then reselling the regrown materials as duplicates.


Weaknesses:
*Over consumption: Nightwood can overeat energy, just as most plants can drown in water. The Result of this would be that it starts to fall apart on some pieces while remaining very hot, as it cannot eat the energy and ends up trying to rid itself of the damaged tissue that contains the energy.

*Starvation: If not allowed to either sit in light, or be hit with energy, Nightwood will eventually starve. This causes it to become stiff and begin to shrink as it tries to keep itself alive. The End result is a dry, deteriorated

*Pain: Nightwoods don’t like feeling depression and immense sadness or desperation to get out of pain from other species or each other. As a result, even if it costs them energy, if the individual is very close, they will grow over them and attempt to suffocate and crush them to end their suffering. This makes them a potentially dangerous thing to use as armor unless you have a layer underneath it, or trust your emotions enough to be able to stop a feeling such as that if they start to squeeze. Nightwoods do not attempt to kill all things that experience pain or extreme emotion. Only when there is a desperation for escape or stopping of their pain. Nightwood armor produced by Shadow Industries, due to being taught to exclusively grow in set parameters, has a much slower growth when attempting to do this, as well as needs to be closer to the individual. Though it does still exist.

*Not a biological weapon: Due to the fact it doesn't grow quite fast enough, and gives off a unique presence even to non force sensitives, Endorian Nightwood could not effectively be used as a biological weapon in it's normal form. As it would be too easy to detect before it could do anything important. And additionally, since this version of Nightwood has been taught already how it is meant to grow, it would not be able to outgrow that size to be used in such a way.


DESCRIPTION:

WARNING: ENDORIAN NIGHTWOOD ARMOR IS NOT ADVISED FOR SENTIENT BEINGS THAT ARE CAPABLE OF POWERFUL NEGATIVE EMOTIONS SUCH AS AN EXTREME DESIRE TO ‘ESCAPE’, OR SUICIDAL TENDENCIES. ALL DAMAGES AS A RESULT OF WEARING ENDORIAN NIGHTWOOD ARMOR WHILE EXPERIENCE DEEP EMOTIONS ARE NOT CONSIDERED THE FAULT OF SHADOW INDUSTRIES!


Endorian Nightwood is a type of tree native to Endor. It is relatively common and covers a large portion of the planets surface, though gravitates heavily towards hotter and more sun available climates. Even if no other vegetation is present. The unusual trees are known for being a bad place to go if in a very poor mood, as they have a tendency for growing quickly towards those of very poor and extreme emotional feelings, in order to silence them.

Nightwood armor designed by Shadow Industries can be created to cover pretty much any size and shape specificites. And all buyers are given instructions on how to care for the armor, which primarily means keeping lights on near it, letting it sit in the sun, or even just hitting it with a few blaster bolts now and then. As well as further warning about using it encasing Sentient beings in very bad moods with it due to its tendency to grow over them, though this is somewhat slowed due to how it was taught to grow a specific way. Because Endorian Nightwood has such an ability to reheal, is rather light, and provides excellent energy and environmental protection, it can serve as a fantastic type of armor for vehicles and droids, as well as can make for an excellent shield. And because it is light, it can be used thicker than the metals that it’s replacing.

Because Shadow Industries holds so much on the Nightwood market, and due to the fact even now a Nightwood shield could be cut in half, and both pieces would reheal, they only sell from a specific set of male trees that they are capable of tracing, and keep careful track of their products. This it to be sure they can track down people who breach the contract of producing more using their product so they can enact fines and return all products as a result of the breach of contract.