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
