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Name: The Mark of Thoth

Description: The Mark of Thoth is a picocytic wraithbone device that ties its possessor to Thoth. The more time a person spends in contact with the Mark and draws on the Force through it, the more that person's body is converted into the same picocytic wraithbone as comprises the Mark. As this conversion progresses, Soldiers of the Light undergo visible changes in mannerism and appearance. The first notable affect is the diminished need to blink, eventually to the point that blinking is entirely unnecessary. Concurrent with this, Soldiers have reduced oxygen requires, drawing breath with less and less frequency until this also becomes unnecessary. In time, the Mark allows a Soldier to survive the vacuum of deep space without protection and to no detriment. Less noticeable effects are increased strength, agility, intelligence, reflex, and Force Potency. Also Soldiers' skin will pale to some degree and their eyes take on a silver hue, though this varies with person and is tied to the amount of time spent using the Mark.

Possessing a Mark of Thoth ties a person to Thoth directly. In the moment of a Soldier's death, the Mark will capture that Soldier's Force Ghost and use its energy to fully convert and repair the Soldier's body, allowing him to rise from his First Death immediately as a higher corporeal being. After a Templar's First Death (First Death being a way to rise from Soldier to Templar) the Templar's Mark of Thoth will heal any injury sustained and so that Templar will always rise again when given enough time. The only way to prevent this is to completely destroy the Templar's body, returning the Force Ghost to Thoth, who may reincarnate or absorb the Ghost.

If a Mark is ever cut off from the Force, it contains a minuscule Force/Anti-Force Reactor that will instantly ascend a Soldier to the Calimaite Tier. However, once connection to the Force is regained, which will almost certainly occur with ascension, Thoth may choose to immediately absorb the Force Ghost of the Soldier. Because of this failsafe in the Mark, one of the most common Force exercises of the Hand is a to create a sheer Force Vacuum around oneself, but excluding the body and thus not activating the Mark. Soldiers who fail in this simple exercise are immediately absorbed by Thoth, thus preventing Soldiers from attempting to force their Marks to ascend them.

Name: Templar Carbine

Modes of Fire: Emergent; Blade Projectile

Description: The Templar Carbine is a handheld Emergent Weapon that is also capable of firing a 2 cm by 10 cm blade projectile that can steal a Force Ghost from a body and also can use that Ghost to power an explosion through a mechanism similar to a Thought Bomb. Templar Carbines also have internal attachments that link them to any local Void Wells so that they can function fully even in the presence of a Well-generated dampening field.

Model Number/Ship Designation: Ship of the Line to the Hand of the Light

Name: Temple of the Light

Length: ~800 m

Beam: ~500 m

Height: ~300 m

Crew Capacity: No crew needed

Accomodation: 3 Million Soldiers of the Light

Company: None

Powerplant: Picocyte Circulatory System; Void Well

Propulsion: Field Drive; Quantum Emergence Drive

Armament: Emergent Weapons Array - An Emergent Weapon capable of tracking and attacking many hundreds of thousands of targets simultaneously

Defensive Features: Chronotonic Shield Plating; Void Well Dampening Field - maximum range of 0.25 Parsecs

Special Features: Quantum Gateway Array - Quantum Gateways are a method of teleportation stemming from Quantum Duality and requiring significantly less energy than Quantum Emergence. Rather than creating a Duality in a large area, Gateways minimize energy expenditure by only creating a Duality in a two-dimensional sheet large enough for the object to be teleported to pass through safely. This sheet typically has a thickness comparable to a subatomic particle. Due to the energy involved and the comprehension required, Gateways can only be formed by an Array or a Calimaite or a Silveren guiding the directed energizes of a group of Soldiers.

Void Well - The Void Well is a device designed by Thoth and supposedly based on the Void Core powerplant of the Protoss ship, though no other Mirai has been able to access information regarding the Core (It is possible that Zero-One is withholding this information for being incomprehensible to the Mirai, but unlikely). The Void Well generates a powerful dampening field in local space that acts on energy levels above a certain density and intensity within its area of effect. Energy levels that exceed the field threshold become the focal points for quantum scale wormholes to the Void. These wormholes persist for the duration of the energy exceeding the threshold and then cease as the energy falls below that threshold. The energies released into the Void are captured by the Void Well and made available to the Temple, effectively stealing all significant amounts of energy within the field and giving it to the Temple. The spatial and temporal ranges of the field and the threshold for energy sapping can be set by the Temple. Standard protocols call for a field radius of fifteen astronomical units with a threshold just above H/He plasma so that all known energy weapon discharges and energy shields or energized armor plating are nullified. The primary reason for the existence and use of this device is the Hand's preference for Templar Blades over Carbines and the use of their Emergent weaponry. Void Well dampening fields are trans-temporal and trans-phasic, acting on any energy in normal space within the radius of the field. Force energy is not absorbed immediately because the Force is a part of the Void not normal space, but any Force energy incident on Normal Space, such as a Force Bomb, Force Shielding, or a Force Reactor, would be affected by the field.

Temple Guardian - A Temple Guardian is a Force Presence inhabiting a Temple. The Presence is thought to be an extension of the Living Force that protects the Templar belonging to that Temple. While this has never been confirmed explicitly by Thoth, it has been alluded to as the most visible sign of all Soldiers' connection to Thoth. The Temple Guardian is known to be a clear link between a Temple and all its Templar through the Force. It is a medium for communication and protection.

History/Description: The Temple of the Light is the ship of the line for the Hand of the Light. The Temple has a Cathedral like appearance with a long, cruciform main body that has two wings, like the wings of a building, extending out to either side. The joint of the main body and wings has a large circular section with a tower rising up from its center. Thus, there are six sections: the Main, the Round, the Vault, the Tower, the East Wing, and the West Wing. Facilities in the Main deal primarily with general affairs of the Hand, such as teaching and administration. Within the Round are the vital facilities of the ship as a vessel, such as power management, weapons, life support, and engine systems. The Wings hold the residencies of all but the Lord Captain, the Temple's CO who resides within the Tower. The Tower is the command center of the ship, its forces, and any local Hand assets of lesser rank. The Vault is the ship's armory and also acts as the staging location for all the ship's deployments. In addition to a Temple's own trans-temporal sensor systems, Temples can link to the HyperNet or eachother to increase their effective systems range.

Tiers and Ranks of the Hand of the Light

Tiers:
1. Calimaite - "Hand of the Light;" Beings raised by Thoth to become Nascent Force Entities with physical Incarnations of the same construction (but differing appearance) as Thoth's own
2. Silivren - The highest Tier to be reached through regular advancement
3. Calfaroth
4. Calethir - The lowest Tier of Templar fully converted by their Marks
5. Caltarma - Templar of this Tier are equivalent to Nosferatu in ability and power
6. Calmacil - Most Templar are in this Tier
7. Calthalion - The lowest Tier of all Templar, active military members of the Hand
8. Calnur - Distinguished non-military (meaning outside the Hand) members
9. Calfir - Non-military members of the Hand who simply pray to Thoth, offering their Force energy to him

Ranks:
Lord Captain Commander (wears a Commander's Knot, a noose of black satin rope around the neck with the tail looping to the left around the waist)
Lord Commander (wears a silver crown of swords with the Flame of Thoth on the crest)
Lord Captain (wears a silver crown of swords pointed blade up) - Commanding Officer of a Temple of the Light
Lord (has the Flame of Thoth on his shoulder armor) - Rank of the Commanding Officer of the White Hand Honor Guard
Commander (has the Flame of Thoth in silver on the crest of his helmet)
Captain (has a cluster of three silver diamonds on the crest of his helmet)
Lieutenant (has a silver diamond crest on his helmet)
Marshall (wears a silver chain that wraps around both shoulders and connects at the collar bone and base of the neck)
Bannerman (wears the banner of his unit over his left shoulder or on a pike)
Templar - Templar is the lowest rank of military Soldier and is not considered an Officer rank, though all officers must at some point have been Templar.