The Klane

The Klane was long thought to be the only surviving example in the contemporary age of the awakened world, of a class of ancient tools and weapons called klanes.
Many thousands of years before the Vow of Earth, one amongst a group of human settlers on the fecund moon known as Glysaranda 4.IV made the first ever klane. Over more than five hundred years it was perfected by a succession of designers until it became a totemic symbol of that moon, known far and wide for its cultural significance. The klane was first and foremost a tool, and a tool of great subtlety for it was capable of serving many purposes and it was crucial in the taming of the wild southern jungles of Glysaranda 4.IV.
The klane was also a weapon and it was in this role that it found fame. The knight wanderers adopted the klane for their own. With the klane they fought duels according to baroque codes of honour incomprehensible outside Glysaranda 4.IV. Off world they took the klane into battle against the Dark Legions in the desperate days when the Golden Allies made their last stand and called on all the Systems of the Arm to aid them.
The great klane of songs and stories was gifted to Asanka by the artilect Crinomu at the Station Of Seers and from that klane, he eventually took his name as the Klane of Kalonia, or more simply just Klane Kalonia, the name that he is called in the Legends of Klane Kalonia. This klane gained a capital letter as simply the Klane, the only known surviving example of a klane in the awakened world.

Mechanics & Inner Workings

Within the handle there was a stabilized free quark resonance battery which drew from the raw potential of vacuum zero point energy, bleeding back very slowly what was stolen from the dark energy fields in the shattering instant of the klane's creation. The klane did not really have an infinite energy supply but at the maximum rate of power the frequency flow allowed it could be considered as infinite for all practical purposes.
Around the handle was a quadruple switch gauge which controlled the modality of the klane; the shape, strength and radius of the fields which it could deploy from the blade as well as the flow of energy to the blade, the spin, heat and fluxion currents. The knight wanderers had elaborate formal conventions within their duals about the accepted modes which may honourably be matched to one another and much was written about the lore of klane choreography - the sequences of customary attack and defence. The complex details of these codes had long been lost before Klane Kalonia acquired his klane but the mechanics were known to Crinomu and he taught them to Asanka.

We'll start with just one very important rule. Rotate the black tooth on the fourth gauge five clicks to the left of that thin top spline line and depress it into the barrel so that the forces are muted to training levels. I don't want any accidents whilst we're having these mock battles!

— Crinomu addresses Asanka in "Station of Seers", the first Legend of Klane Kalaonia.

Manufacturing process

All klanes were made in a quantal forges which were required to tap into the dark energy fields that powered the instruments.

History

This particular klane is a collector's item. It belonged to a famous knight wanderer of the fifth dynasty called Jalesh and comes from the time when, in my opinion, the art of fashioning klanes was at its height for the instruments of that period are of surpassing refinement, potency and beauty. The story of how such a venerable weapon came into my hands is a long and intricate one in its own right and I do not wish to tell it now. Suffice to say that it has been resting here in Kalonia from the time before the destruction of records and the start of the Season of Innocence. It was ancient then and it is doubly so now, yet such was the skill with which it was made that it will still function. I wish you to have it now for I fear you will have need of it.

— Crinomu addresses Asanka in "Station of Seers", the first Legend of Klane Kalaonia.

Significance

The Klane of Klane Kalonia was a vital weapon in his struggles against the Conclave. Not only did he take his name from the ancient weapon, but he deployed it to great effect in many of the stories that form part of his legends.

Item type

Weapon, Other

Rarity

When the Season Of Innocence came to an end, the klane of Klane Kalonia was one of a very few such instruments to have survived and was thought by Crinomu to be most likely unique when he gifted it to Asanka.

Weight

1.5 kg

Dimensions

50 x 0.5 cm (length and radius of shaft)