Jedi Tech Modification Vector-Class Weapons Lock

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Vector-Class Weapons Lock​

Affiliation:
Jedi Order

Manufacturer:
Valkeri Enterprises (Originally)

Type:
Inbuilt weapons system lock Power Supply:
Draws power from ship power + Lightsaber kyber crystal

Sensors:
Kyber crystal detecting sensors

Size:
Varied based on ship and saber

Composition:
Steel and electrical components

DESCRIPTION​

Originally designed and manufactured by Valkeri Enterprises for use in the old Jedi starfighter known as 'Vectors', the system endured where the company (and the Jedi Order it supplied) ultimately did not. Designed to keep the inbuilt weapons system from firing without a physical connection to a Jedi's lightsaber, it's original purpose was to make any Jedi using the ship with the lock built in, think twice before resorting to violence. When there is no kyber crystal connected, the weapons systems are complete inoperable.

Outside of very small numbers in museums across the Galaxy, the ship the feature was built for no longer exists and even the company itself is now mostly defunct. Due to the company falling on hard times, the patent was allowed to expire and the lock system is now something that can be used by any company when creating ships. It does come as the very definition of an 'optional extra' as most pilots would see no use in a lock that can only be unlocked by a working lightsaber - and then lights up part of the cockpit the same color as the crystal.

Each system has a degree of customization inbuilt to accommodate lightsabers of different builds so no one lightsaber cradle/or lock system will look exactly the same. As the lock is based on the presence of a working lightsaber with a kyber crystal within it, just connecting a kyber crystal to the lock does nothing but a Sith's lightsaber would work, though would also bathe the user in red light. There was no security feature built in against Sith lightsabers because, at the time of production, the Sith were thought extinct.

LEGALITY​

Legal. In no system in the Galaxy is a lock on weapons illegal - though the 'key' to said lock might be illegal depending on the region of space and current local political outlook on Jedi.

INTENT​

Intent is to bring something over from the new canon of the High Republic that would lean into the idea that Jedi should still be very cautious when it comes to using lethal force to solve problems.

RESTRICTIONS​

Can be used by anyone from any faction but when a ship with this lock built in is piloted, a lightsaber MUST be put into the mechanism before a shot can be fired. Any shots fired without the lightsaber being inserted beforehand will NOT fire and count as auto-misses in PVE and PVP.

 

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Approved.