Prologue: An Arduous Task
During the tumultuous period of the New Sith Wars, between 2000 BBY and 1000 BBY, Arkanian Geneticists and Kaminoan Geneticists were brought together by the vast criminal organization The Black Sun; for the purpose of creating the ultimate assassin/warrior to aid them in their endeavours, against the other syndicates and to deal with any force users that might interrupt their enterprise. This project was dubbed Harbinger.
The goal was to create a killing machine capable of carrying out missions in every environment, including the cold empty vacuum of space and capable of going toe to toe with both the Sith and Jedi.
As such the scientists began collecting samples and specimens of various races that are noted for their strength, agility, durability, stealth, regenerative abilities, resistance to various diseases, poisons and other toxins, sensory abilities and manipulative abilities. Collecting these samples and specimens took decades to acquire as some of them were extraordinarily rare, to the point that there would only be one for every one thousand light years.
But none the less the scientists were able to acquire their samples and begin their research and experimentation. In the end they decided to make this powerful being from six separate races.
The first and easiest specimen to attain was the Miraluka a force sensitive race that is descendant from humans. After many millennia they evolved to a point were they no longer possessed eyes. But instead saw through the force and perceived everything with it. This gave them the ability to notice force sensitive individuals and even their alignment to the force. It also allowed them to have a greater awareness of their surroundings giving them better reflexes than most species.
The second specimen to be attained was the Hutt. A large gastropod species. Similar in appearance to slugs and capable of growing up to ten metres in length when exceptionally old. They were chosen for their powerful regenerative ability to re-grow entire limbs and even their own brain, albeit over the course of decades and even centuries depending on how grievous the injury. They are also known to have a powerful resistance to many poisons and diseases, allowing them to inhabit many hazardous environments.
The third specimen and third most difficult to attain was the Anzat. A force sensitive race. Naturally gifted with the powers of telepathy and other mind based force powers, such as manipulation which allowed them lure in their prey to hunt them with greater efficiency. They fed off concentrations of the force located in the brain, of individuals strong in the force. This meant that for them to feast upon great meals; they would have to hunt greater prey, meaning Jedi and Sith, which meant that they themselves had to get stronger. As Anzat aged they became more adept in their abilities and only grew stronger with time. Some were capable of living over a thousand years. The reason why they were difficult to obtain was due to their strong mind powers, which allowed to pick up on pursuers and ambushes and when confronted they could turn your allies against you as well as use powerful force abilities.
The fourth specimen and most difficult to attain was the Gen’Dai. They are a very long lived race, that span entire millennia and are considered immortal; due to their powerful regenerative abilities, that allows them to survive dismemberment and re-grow entire limbs in seconds. It is generally considered that the only way to assuredly kill one is to destroy them on the atomic level through vaporisation or incineration.
As such subduing one is a nigh impossible task without mass amounts of sedatives and containment units. Add on top of that the fact that their home world was ravaged during the Hyperspace Wars; their race is now spread throughout the stars in small numbers.
But what makes them particularly dangerous when interacting with them is that the ones known to the public are their elderly, who suffer from various mental ailments brought on by the ravages of time. Often making them highly aggressive, violent, cruel and heartless savages. They also constantly wear heavy armour to give themselves form, enhancing their physical abilities and making it difficult to even injure them.
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A unique trait to the Gen’ Dai biology is that they have no bones or vital organs. Just being made up of a head, corded muscles, which are used to pump blood around their body and stem blood flow to injured areas. And nerve clusters spread all through out their body; granting them near instantaneous reflexes and a ridiculously high sensory acuity; allowing them to detect a human heart beat up to 200 metres away.
The fifth specimen to be attained was the Maelibus. They are a sentient race with bug like tendencies of burrowing in the ground. They have hypnotic voices, that are said to cause confusion even in the strongest of races. Their voice is used to lure in their prey and ambush them; dragging them into the depths of their burrows. They also possessed an entirely gold exterior that was both strong and reflective known to cause blaster bolts to glance right off of them.
The final and most elusive species collected was the Duinuogwuin. A truly mysterious race, their home world is unknown, their culture is unknown and their biology is unknown.
What little is known about them is learnt through legends and the scarce encounters that were recorded. Their physical appearance is serpentine in nature, having a segmented body each segment with a pair of legs, multiple insect wings and being able to grow up to 100 metres long.
They have three notable and unique traits that are, the ability to survive for months in the vacuum of space, the ability to exhale atomic fire or gas which is capable of bringing great destruction, and their most mysterious and useful ability repulsor-lift which granted them the ability to fly on a planets surface regardless of their weak insect wings; and using anti gravity to slingshot between planets and stars at high speeds.
It took the scientists over half a century just to gather their specimens and samples. But their work was not so simple as to be completed in a matter of years. Due to the species variance, combing the positive traits without any negative traits or reactions; was an excruciatingly difficult process that took centuries to accomplish.
Towards the end of their work, after much trial and error they were able to accomplish their goal physically. But numerous iterations of the subjects were either brain dead or mad and animalistic, unable to be useful in a larger capacity than that of an attack animal. They were also not capable of using the force either, but that was considered an unnecessary feature, considering how they could fall to the dark side or light side and revolt against their masters.
At their wits end the scientists decided that they should try to use the force, to influence the subject and allow it to host a conscious mind. As such agents went in search for methods used by force practitioners, to influence the mind and create new entities. After putting the project on hold for many decades; the agents implanted among the Sith; eventually found a force technique used to transfer the users mind from their own body, into a new body forcing out the former inhabitants mind.
After discovering this technique, scholars were brought in to study it and alter it; so as to transfer a blank mind into the body from the force itself, instead of another being. All that was needed was a Sith to perform the altered technique. The problem is in doing this as Sith weren’t exactly cooperative individuals. But through the use of the Black Sun’s agents placed within the Sith they found one of the rare Sith that entertained the idea of a family.
After sending a small army to secure the Sith’s family everything was once again on course to going as planned. The Sith soon came chasing after his family and quickly realised that he didn’t have any room for negotiation; agreeing to aid them in their endeavours. But deep down through the use of the force the Sith knew that he and his family wouldn’t be left to go free and would instead be killed to keep the whole project from being discovered. Knowing this the Sith set about sabotaging their project, by implanting within the subjects subconscious the desire to destroy its creators. Beyond that though the technique succeeded in implanting a conscious mind within the test subject.
The first stage of the project was complete it had taken almost 600 years to accomplish but it was done none the less. The scientists had succeeded in creating a truly unique killing machine that would reap death through out and terror throughout the galaxy in the name of the Black Sun.
Resting inside of a modified cloning tank, six metres in each dimension was the subject. In this relaxed state they floated arms spread four metres across from claw to claw. The limbs them self were rather wide in circumference for their size and showed many sinews all of a dark purple. The chest was about the size of a barrel and there were slight gaps, were the muscle wasn’t constricted in the slightest making the chest 90cm thick. It also had a bulbous abdomen. The body was a little over a metre long leading to long and round legs that were two metres long ending in claw like toes. On each of the limbs there were long and slim golden plates; that spread half the length of each limb. The plates on the body were multiple segmented plates that covered about half of the surface area but looked like they match up like a puzzle. The head was the only thing that didn’t look like it belonged as it seemed to small for it, almost like it had been shrunken. It had a defined jaw, with bone covering the lower jaw, like on a mask, with pronounced canines. A slim ridge where the nose usually is; with flaps to cover the openings, slightly larger than average eyes with think eyelids, cone like nubs for ears and a long swath of black, tendril like hair around the back and top of the head.