Orbalisk Armor

About the Orbalisk Armor

Orbalisk armor is a living thing, a mass of the parasitic orbalisk creatures that infest certain caves of Dxun and once, famously, encased the Sith Lord Darth Bane in a nearly impenetrable carapace. The orbalisks attach themselves to a host's body and grow into an interlocking shell of chitinous plates, feeding on the host while granting extraordinary resilience and channeling a constant surge of vitality and dark power in return. It is protection bought at a terrible price: the creatures cannot be safely removed, they cause the wearer ceaseless pain, and they draw on the host's own strength to survive. Only those steeped in the dark side, able to keep the parasites in check by force of will, have ever endured the bond. The armor turns aside blows and blaster fire with the toughness of solid stone, but it is less worn than suffered, a fortress that slowly consumes the one it shields.