Codex entries

The Unmasked: A Dark Experiment

Years after they amassed their zealous following, Lord Kanoth and Lady Dominique noticed a pattern in reports of shipping route disruption in galactic sector R-4. Kanoth was convinced this evidence pointed to a gravitational anomaly that bore striking similarities to the "mass shadow" from Darth Nihilus's history.

By this time, Kanoth was too old and too weak to confirm the findings in person. Lady Dominique--accompanied by Kanoth's former apprentice, Lord Valeo--agreed to investigate Kanoth's suspicions. Dominique and Valeo soon realized that they had found the very thing they had spent so long searching for: a fragment of the mass shadow generator that destroyed Malachor V and, as Kanoth believed, was the key to Darth Nihilus's power.

Lady Dominique called on her remaining connections within the Sphere of Scientific Advancement and, under the guise of studying the mass shadow, convinced them to fund the construction of a research station. Lord Kanoth relocated the entirety of the Unmasked to the station and secretly used their newly-acquired resources to rebuild the mass shadow generator.

Although the Unmasked were able to get the mass shadow generator partially operational, Dominique--unsatisfied with the lack of results--grew wildly impatient. To expedite their progress, she attempted an experiment in merging with artificial intelligence, but the procedure ended in complete disaster. Dominique successfully joined with the AI, but the entire population of the Sector R-4 station became irreversibly absorbed into one monstrous hivemind.

Category: Organizations

XP Level: 1

FQN: cdx.​organizations.​operation.​r4.​unmasked_part2

Mass Shadow Generator

"The threat posed by the hyperspace signatures of celestial bodies--or "mass shadows"--is not insignificant. Although these phenomena are naturally-occurring, the mass shadow's devastatingly destructive power could be manually generated, if one so desires. All that's required is a skillful inventor... one undeterred by the number of lives that triggering such a cataclysm would undoubtedly cost.

It has been done before, more than three hundred years ago. Out of desperation to end the Mandalorian Wars--or simple malice, one cannot say--Revan ordered the Jedi general Meetra Surik and Bao-Dur, a technical specialist in the order, to activate a mass shadow generator over Malachor V.

Malachor was reduced to a fractured collection of shattered wasteland. The ships locked in battle over the planet, Mandalorian, Republic, Jedi... all were crushed, like blister fleas, into Malachor's broken surface. But Darth Nihilus, Lord of Hunger, did not just survive the catastrophe... he evolved. Nihilus transcended the atrocities inflicted upon his physical form and arose as the embodiment of raw power.

One can only wonder--if a Sith, possessing my potency and strength in the dark side, were to be purified by the chaos of a mass shadow... what would emerge from the remains?"

--From old research notes belonging to Lord Kanoth, a Sith alchemist

Category: Lore

XP Level: 1

FQN: cdx.​lore.​operation.​r4.​mass_shadow_generator