Ancient Mysteries

[Darth Prazutis]

​Seat of the Unborn
​Beneath the City of Light...

​Quite possibly the most closely guarded secret in all of the Panathan Empire was the Seat of the Unborn, a mobile planetoid acquired by House Zambrano through its vast network of sources. The massive project outfitting the station was a careful cloak and dagger operation overseen by the Zambrano patriarchs. It was extremely important with the amount of resources being pulled into the creation of the station that there be no paper trail, that even the most loyal of their servants across the Empire were only privy to bits of information or carefully placed lies. Agents moving weapons, supplies, building resources from one location to the next none ever knowing where the final destination of these resources were.

​It was a complex operation that saw resources from the One Sith Empire carefully seized and all of it covered up by the then Director of Intelligence. The hardest part was putting it all together in the same secret fashion through the use of piecemeal construction and mostly droid forces that could easily be wiped or disposed of without question. But when it was finished the Seat of the Unborn was truly majestic. The absolute best that the Panathan Empire had to offer and the last bastion should everything else fail. It was the single greatest construction project ever undertaken by House Zambrano. But where was this mythical sanctum that contained this families darkest secrets and most valuable treasures? Could it be seen amidst the great home defense fleet of Panatha?

​Unknown.

​The Seat of the Unborn was always moving through space never in the same place for very long, and only the families patriarchs had a closed access to its whereabouts at any given time. It was within the epicenter of the planetoids hidden sanctum and cloning facilities that Darth Prazutis walked alongside his nephew, longtime mentor and friend [member="Darth Carnifex"]. "The cloned bodies are a temporary fix to a long term problem we'll need to solve Kaine. It seems the past might hold the key to what we seek..."

 

[Darth Carnifex]

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Before them were rows upon rows of hairless bodies floating serenely in translucent blue liquid, each one wearing their faces amidst a sea of bubbles. This was one of the greatest achievements made by the Zambrano family, a near inexhaustible supply of clone bodies with which to transfer their immortal dark spirits into once their current bodies had become too feeble from overuse or too injured from battle. Often they had tricked the Jedi into killing them, but instead of being vanquished they were free to possess a new body and return to exact their vengeance upon their enemies. Such was the ruse used to fool the Jedi Master [member="Gabriel Sionoma"] into killing Kaine on Dromund Kaas, only for the Dark Lord to rise again on Lujo and defeat Gabriel in a lightsaber duel and leave him for dead.

Still, it was like [member="Darth Prazutis"] said, it was merely a temporary solution to an inescapable problem. None of these replacement bodies could withstand the strain of their power for too long, each one would continually degrade as the Dark Side of the Force eroded their physical matter from within. It was a life of perpetual pain, but it was a price that they were willing to pain for what was essentially immortality.

"I concur. Do you remember the tale of Vitiate? He transcended beyond these crude mortal coils as a being of pure energy, able to inhabit any body at any given time. He had a thousand years to achieve that. I'm sure given the same amount of time we can achieve the same."