444.09 | Silent Echoes - Birthplace
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:21 pm
Overview/Mission Name
Name: Zhu'shk
Rank: Padawan Learner
Date(s): 444.09
Location: Outer Rim, Atrivis Sector, Dartibek System, Planet Moltok, Unknown Facility.
Members of the Jedi Order present:
Jedi Knight Aranna Vaan
Padawan Learner Rhys Cardin
Padawan Learner Zhu'shk
Public Information
Publicly Available Information on the events
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- Uru, a local male Rodian child was found at the Abandonned Facility on Moltok after having gone missing the same day, he was brought back to his home settlement by the Jedi.
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- The Jedi were sent as reconnaissance after Jedi Knight Pent Desh felt a pull in the Force in the location of a then abandonned facility on the planet Moltok. They were to investigate the facility and the source of the Disturbance in the Force.
- A similar feeling was felt en route to the planet as well as in and around of the facility, this increasing in intensity as they approached the source.
- Each Jedi was outfitted with a Blaster Pistol, a Rebreather for the atmosphere's ash, though unexpected to be used.
- The immediate outside of the facility was irradiated, the Jedi took pre-emptive anti-radiation medicine before scouting the outside of the building.
- A male rodian child named Uru was found at the location, claiming to have dreamt of 'it' and 'it' being sad and 'it' wanting to play. He also mentioned a 'boy with a long neck'. The Child, Uru, was brought to the Midnight Sun and was kept watched by Jedi Knight Aranna Vaan's personal astromech.
- The Jedi entered the facility, there were no security defenses aside from Keycard-based locks. The Facility was powered by emergency backup generators still. The Facility did not appear to have major signs of decay. For most of the exploration, no lifeforms were encountered.
- Various computer terminals were found around the facility, most of their data were scrambled, the only uncorrupted data was decrypted, Voice Log files were uncovered. The Voice is that of a Male, of age ranging from thirty to fifty. His identity is unknown, but presumed to be the main researcher of the facility and the project at cause of the disturbance. The voice logs are here transcripted, the files having been saved on the Jedi's datapads, they should be available through an Archive request to Master Healof.
- Terminal # I : "Experiment number 26. The attempt to create a new essence was a failure. Subject 6 was unable to endure the tests. Its body too fragile and my tools are insufficient to efficiently achieve the results that I aim for. However subject 6 has begun to show signs of sentient life... I wonder..."
- Terminal # II : "I have brought in new samples, I hope these have some sort of a... Different effect... It- It's weird. I feel like subject 6 remembers me. Just this feeling... I can't explain it.
[...]
This is troublesome. Subject 6 has learned to communicate. Today it has shared what I believe to be its memories of me. It's a-... I need time.
[...]
The protocols or any scientific rule would ask me to destroy it, I know what to do... What I must do." - Terminal # III : "I wanted to put it out of its miserable life. But I can't... I- I feel it staring at me, I do not know what to do.
[...]
I will leave it as it is... My scramble protocols should be working, and it should eventually die, being so weak. I can't bring myself to do it. Experiment failed. But this is not over."
- A short time after the last log, the feeling of the disturbance, a feeling described as the emotion of Sadness by the Jedi, was felt most strongly around that time, and particularly in Padawan Learner Rhys Cardin, who began showing signs of a connection with the creature, relating its feeling of abandonment. He also repeated things that Uru had mentioned, that the feeling that 'it' wanted to play, that is, Subject Six. That it was 'lonely' and 'sad'.
- Jedi Knight Aranna Vaan also seemed to feel the location of the disturbance, the Jedi then moved to the supposed location of the disturbance, thought then to be Subject Six.
- There Subject Six was found, a small oil-like sludge lifeform with a sort of Force-sensitivity. It seemingly was a chemical mixture provided sentience by some manner. It writhed in the Jedi's direction, and started communicating with them through Telepathy aswell as projection of emotions. It then began attempting to project images to the Jedi's minds.
- Padawan Learner Zhu'shk opted to resist the foreign attempt and as such, precise descriptions can only be found in other's reports, perhaps Padawan Learner Rhys Cardin as the most accurate source. Still, an intense wave of emotions was presented. Apparently one image projected included the possible location of Subject Six's creator, the voice log recorder, the location appeared to be a world within the Unknown Regions.
- Subject Six slowly died after providing its visions.
- Its remains were gathered and brought back to the ship for research.
- Male Rodian Child Uru was brought back to his home.
- The Jedi returned to Duneeden.
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Summary and Actions
An opinion offered by the reportee and their recommended actions.
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In my opinion..
Subject Six's creator has only moved, his hubris in desiring to create life has not faded by failure of his last experiment at the facility, rather it is believable that he has only gone to the Unknown Regions to continue in secrecy.
He must be stopped from creating any more abominations. His perversion of the cycle of life creates creatures that live only to suffer. And that is only his failed experiments. I have no doubt that the individuals behind those experiments seek to create something to ill ends. A weapon perhaps, something worse than simple cloning. It should not be allowed to continue, and all that is created from it be cleansed.
My recommendations are as follows...
- Find the precise coordinates of the Unknown Regions planet found in the vision provided by Subject Six, and investigate the planet as high priority.
- Further information-finding by a team on the facility could prove useful still. It was not explored completely, and there may yet remain even shreds of possessions or items that could give information as to the group behind the experiments and the facility, and who allowed them to work.
- Conduct an investigation in the Sector for any information about the Facility that might have been withheld in the past. If it was built, there is a chance yet that there is one step of the government in the area that might have known and spoken with those in charge of it, even more so if they obtained resources from the planet they were on. Those experiments were done on a world a part of the Republic, it should be taken seriously by them.
