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Private Fragments of Kytrand

Wearing: Obsolete Military Hazard Suit

Armed With: Nathan's Lightsaber


Location: Forbidden levels of Coruscant.


Nathan, when he had seen the document on an auction site, had immediately arranged to acquire it. An old parchment containing a seemingly unbreakable code. Sera had purchased it on her credit card for him, as his name could not be attached to such a thing, lest it arouse the Order's suspicion.

Nathan however, understood the cipher. It was one his family used.

Which is what had led him down here, after paying up the nose to the right scum in the underworks to find him a route down to those lowest levels. Ones not monitored by the Alliance.

They were dangerous. Life threatening. He had had nearly died twice getting down here. The ancient passages had long collapsed, filled with gas, and other hazards. This old suit could barely keep the gas out. The remains of the great hole leading to the lowest levels, surrounded by the smashed remains of ancient cities that had long collapsed from the weight of the planet above, beckoned.

Nathan, even here, watching the eras literally crashing against each other, felt nothing stir in him at the sight.

Nothing, save for the curious wish Vera could have been present. He might have derived amusement from her acidic, pitiless commentary on most things. But this was a private affair.

A combination of climbing equipment and teleportation to the most stable looking areas of collapsed, ancient skyscrapers, even more ancient street lights still flickering from fusion power sources in the area, providing minimal light, provided Nathan's pathway.

They were were called the Forbidden Levels of Coruscant for a reason. Even the hostile, ancient horrors known to the denizens above for thousands of years skulking in the ancient passages rarely came down to this blighted, dust and toxic gas filled land. Nathan himself questioned the wisdom of coming here.

After all, even here, a true abomination or two, long forgotten, might be stirred up at the scent of man, even one as broken as he.

As he walked the dead, silent streets to the coordinates he had uncovered, he kept alert. He had been to Coruscant in the Plague. He had encountered things on this world so evil and ghastly Yoda himself might have been given pause had he run into them.

The shattered foundations of a hospital greeted him. He went in, ready to kill whatever moved, because whatever was down here likely wasn't friendly.

He at last reached it. Right where the coordinates claimed. An MRI machine. Smashed and rusted, but the cracked floor beneath it gave away the hidden passage.

He looked around, saw and sensed nothing, and then carefully climbed down, walking, quietly with a light on to the end, which displayed a familiar door with a Keypad.

This must have been a really old Bloodscrawl Vault. He typed in the cipher code in the parchment and the door swung open, revealing a golden lit interior...

...and a figure in a transparent case, amid piles of treasure and gems.

Nathan went up, observing the unfamiliar figure and realized it was a Biot. One with unusually elven features.

He went closer, saw she was in some kind of stasis chamber, and began carefullly deactivating it out of pure curiosity, not knowing who had made her...

Izara 124221 ...
 
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Izara 124221

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Location: Bloodscrawl Vault 101, Forbidden Levels - Coruscant
Attire: BMC Biot Catsuit
Tag: Nathan Bloodscrawl Nathan Bloodscrawl

Audience Chamber, Red Scourge Skraal Gang Lair

“My Lord, please! You must believe me! The vault was open! I saw it with my own eyes. Piles of treasure, gems, crystals, jewels, and more!”

The shrill, nasally pleas of the supplicating runner-rat echoed throughout the dark, fetid lair, his words accompanied by whispers, stares, and jeers from the rats that made up the audience as he made his case before the Underlord. The supplicating runner-rat quickly glanced up, his dark-furred features marked with equal parts panic and excitement. However, the harsh, grating rebuke from the Underlord’s lieutenant immediately compelled the rat to turn his head down once more.

“Once again Teek Littlefinger lies as easily as he eats, shits, and sleeps!” The lieutenant began, to a chorus of howling laughter from the audience. “He lied about the fallen weapons shipment on Level 11, he lied about the fallen starship on Level 20, and now he lies about this vault!” The lieutenant hissed, foam dribbling from his mouth as he shifted his gaze back toward the large, shadowy form of the Underlord. “My Lord, how can you look upon this muroid and think he is worthy of an audience? Our best gear-rats have studied that vault! There’s no way to open it without destroying what is inside! Time and again Teek has proven weak, untrustworthy, and febrile! I lost two of my strongest battle-rats because he-”

“There will be quiet.”

It was all the cue needed for the lieutenant and the audience to immediately fall silent, at which point a momentary quiet fell over the room, with no rat daring to speak a word.

After a few tense seconds, the Underlord spoke.

“Are there any who will vouch for runner-rat Teek?”

Once more, there was silence.

“The clan speaks in silence.” The Underlord stated, before rising from his throne—a captain’s chair of an ancient warship. “And yet, I find validity in our runner’s report. He would not have burned the last shreds of his reputation and risk being exiled to the forbidden on a mere rumor or dream, wouldn’t you, Teek?”

“N-n-no, my Lord.” The runner-rat stammered out.

“Then, it is decided. Lieutenant Tusktaker, you will lead the raiding force.” The Underlord ordered, before raising a hand to cut off the lieutenant’s protest. “You will depart immediately with Teek and ten of your best battle-rats. With them, you will verify our runner’s report. Should it prove correct, you are to secure the vault and its contents for capture.” He stated, his words carrying through the chamber with an authoritative finality.

“This audience has concluded. If what Teek says is true, we must not waste time!”



A soft hissing noise filled the vault, accompanied by a series of faint beeps and boops as the stasis chamber initiated the decanting process. Before long, steam filled the chamber, briefly obscuring the form of the biot from view. More than three minutes passed before the steam finally faded, at which point the transparisteel chamber cover opened in vertical fashion.

However, the biot remained inactive.

On cue, the rectangular surface behind her shifted from a vertical to a horizontal position, thereby repositioning the biot in the same manner. As it did, the table slid out of the chamber and came to a stop immediately adjacent to Nathan.

Now, all that was left for the Jedi to do was activate her.
 
Nathan stared a long, hard, dark moment at the inactive Biot.

He had a feeling he knew what it was. His father had spoken of them. Androids. Legions of them, all stored underground on Kytrand. Nathan had never wanted a run in with one.

The ghost of the emotion known as anxiety made itself known to him. He checked the wrist and had a decision to make.

Nathan pulled out his lightsaber and placed the emitter an inch away from the Biot's forehead, debating with himself.

No witnesses the dark part of him said. If she is active, she is at risk of potentially exposing you.

DIRECTIVE ONE: SERVE THE PUBLIC TRUST

Nathan's thumb hovered over the switch.

She is a threat to you.

DIRECTIVE TWO: PROTECT THE INNOCENT.

Nathan put away his saber and picked up her limp right wrist, placing two fingers and pressing down hard three times on the wrist to start the activation process for Izara 124221

Fool... the negative part of him hissed. Nathan tried to ignore it...
 
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Izara 124221

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Location: Bloodscrawl Vault 101, Forbidden Levels - Coruscant
Attire: BMC Biot Catsuit
Tag: Nathan Bloodscrawl Nathan Bloodscrawl

An inhumanly luminescent neon green gaze emerged from out beneath excessively long lashed-eyelids only moments after Nathan performed the activation procedure. Accordingly, sight was the very first sensation that the biot indexed and processed in her digital-biological brain. In that regard, the image of him was burned into her awareness as she came to life.

Life? Was she alive?

The biot briefly contemplated the question of whether she was alive, before denying the possibility after only a few attoseconds. In addition to pure medical knowledge, her databases also retained an extensive library of biological and anatomical information. While her physical composition was organic and therefore capable of executing many biological processes, she could not define herself as being truly alive, for she lacked the capacity for reproduction.

However, while the biot was not alive, she was active. In recognizing that distinction, she realized the nature of her existence and came to distinguish herself in relation to the galaxy.

Izara 124221.

Now that she had solved the “problem” of her own existence, there remained yet another question which demanded an answer: who was he?
 
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Nathan stepped back. The old codes his father had made...

The Biot looked at him, but made no move to attack. Nathan never took his eyes off it, the increasing similarities to his own daughter taunting him more and more.

"Zero Zero Seven. Sanction. Ribbon. Omega. Epsilon. Twenty Eight. Forty Nine." he said distinctly and clearly, keeping his forest patterned Hazard Suit on, which obscured his face. He showed her his Lightsaber , tossing it at her feet.

The Code was not recorded on any parchment, or in the databanks of any computer. It was simply a just in case scenario his father had made him memorize. Only a Bloodscrawl would know that code.

"You've been down here a long time..." he explained carefully. "A lot has happened. The Galaxy changed. What is your designate and function?"

He kept things simple. No need for it to be able to make a positive identification just yet. He didn't even know what he was really dealing with--even his father hadn't exactly been certain. The Biots were made before his time. He just knew memorizing that code had been important...

At the very worst, he was still looking at over a billion credits in treasure here...

Izara 124221
 

Izara 124221

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Location: Bloodscrawl Vault 101, Forbidden Levels - Coruscant
Attire: BMC Biot Catsuit
Tag: Nathan Bloodscrawl Nathan Bloodscrawl


"Zero Zero Seven. Sanction. Ribbon. Omega. Epsilon. Twenty Eight. Forty Nine." he said distinctly and clearly, keeping his forest patterned Hazard Suit on, which obscured his face. He showed her his Lightsaber , tossing it at her feet.

“Master Bloodscrawl.” The biot intoned.

The code told her almost everything she needed to know. A living Bloodscrawl, standing right before her. On cue, the biot’s neon green-hued photoreceptors shot open, wide with clarity and understanding. While she did not regard him as family (a foreign concept to most droids), she now regarded the man as her master. By programming, she was bound to serve him, so long as he remained within Ashla’s grace.

And yet, the code and his statements thereafter had brought more questions. Did he serve the Light? How long had she been down here? And, where exactly had she been held in stasis?

For the moment, Izara decided to remain patient, trusting that the answers would become apparent in due course.


"You've been down here a long time..." he explained carefully. "A lot has happened. The Galaxy changed. What is your designate and function?"

“This unit’s designation is Izara 124221. Bloodscrawl Medical Corporation Biot. She is primarily a physician, programmed to serve the Jedi Order during times of severe crisis and to preserve their libraries of medical and healing knowledge.”

And, for good measure.

“Please state the nature of the medical emergency.”
 
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"What ails me is nothing that you can cure, I assure you..." Nathan spoke quietly.

Programmed to serve the Order...great. Just fethin' great. he thought to himself.

"Well I'd say current circumstances more than count as a severe crisis..." he grumbled, teleporting his lightsaber back to his hand.

"My name is Nathan Bloodscrawl. I am the last of the Bloodscrawls..." he explained. "I'm a member of the New Jedi Order, in service to a Galactic Alliance Successor State. Far as I can tell, you were placed deep here, in the Forbidden Levels of Coruscant. We're in the aftermath of a deadly, galactic pandemic that was called the Gulag Plague. It shattered the old powers so hard that the galactic map has been redrawn..."

Nathan stopped, hearing skittering outside. Then he looked at her and the treasure.

"Gonna be a bastard getting all of this out without anyone knowing..." he said. "Of all the places they could have stuck a vault..."


Izara 124221
 

Izara 124221

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Location: Bloodscrawl Vault 101, Forbidden Levels - Coruscant
Attire: BMC Biot Catsuit
Tag: Nathan Bloodscrawl Nathan Bloodscrawl

Izara blinked. “You can talk to me, Master Bloodscrawl. My medical databases also encompass basic psychiatric practice.” She said, as a slight frown formed across her alabaster features. Even while attempting to orient herself not only to the galaxy, but also to existence itself, Izara wanted to help. Wanted to heal.

Nevertheless, Izara listened in silence as the Bloodscrawl scion introduced himself, before explaining the circumstances of the galaxy and his family. In that, Izara found herself briefly struck. A galactic pandemic? Why hadn’t she been activated then? Surely, she could have helped, right?

Those, and many more questions burned in the biot’s synthetic mind. Fortunately, Nathan’s explanation had resolved two of her initial questions, though one of the answers was as horrifying as it was perplexing.


"Of all the places they could have stuck a vault..."

His words were a mirror to her thoughts. For her part, Izara could only blink, her long lashes fluttering up and down like the wings of a hummingbird in the air. Nevertheless, after a few milliseconds, the biot connected herself to the vault’s biometric systems and downloaded information on everything regarding this particular vault—designated as Vault 101.

“Do we need to get all of this out now, Master Bloodscrawl? Vault 101 is designed in such a way that breaching the vault without the necessary security authorization will destroy the contents. Perhaps we need only seal the vault and return at a later date.” Izara said as she sat up from the table and swung her legs over the side. In doing so, the biot now had a better view of the vault, allowing her to look out across the room and its contents.

“Although…this vault’s treasure manifest lists pearls and diamonds…” She added, with equal parts shame and lust coloring her tone.


"I would very much like to have a few.”
 
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"Don't bother." he emphasized. "You couldn't fix me if you had a hundred years and the power of The Chosen One at your fingertips..."

Nathan looked around at the various treasures.

"We're not going to try getting it all out immediately, obviously...I'm just considering the logistics of getting down here to start with. I'd need at least a team."

Nathan had not brought anyone in case the Vault was totaled when he found it. Let one person risk it. It would be difficult enough to explain his presence here, if he was detected.

Nathan kept an eye on the entrance even as he heard Izara 124221 confess her desires for gems.

"Grab a bag if you want... probably about all we will take with us..." he spoke. "We'll come back for the rest...once I can actually plot a safe route for multiple people."

He looked around. His movements stiff. Mechanical, almost.

"Do you have any memory of where you were assembled? Or did they just stick you here?" he asked.
 
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Izara 124221

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Location: Bloodscrawl Vault 101, Forbidden Levels - Coruscant
Attire: BMC Biot Catsuit
Tag: Nathan Bloodscrawl Nathan Bloodscrawl


"Grab a bag if you want... probably about all we will take with us..." he spoke. "We'll come back for the rest...once I can actually plot a safe route for multiple people."

Izara’s photoreceptors lit up with excitement, at which point the newly-activated biot stood up from the table with a smooth, surgical grace, before sweeping her gaze across the room. From there, the biot moved towards a crate close to the stasis chamber and opened it, finding inside an empty backpack, three small drawstring bags, four biotech tool kits, a survival kit, six spare catsuits of varying design, ten packs of biot nutrients, and a small blaster with spare power cells and gas canisters. Izara packed all of the items inside of the backpack in methodical fashion, before closing the crate and shifting her attention towards the chests.

Upon opening the first chest, Izara took a quick glance inside and began to stuff as many diamonds, pearls, and gems as she could fit in a drawstring bag. She didn’t hesitate to take some of the more exotic pearls and gems as well, including a single dark gray crystal with bright luster.

“Master Bloodscrawl, what is this?” Izara asked, holding the lustrous dark gray crystal between two fingers as she did. However, the biot quickly passed it over to him, before continuing to look through the chest.

After a few more moments, Izara found something that caused her mouth to fall open—a pair of huge aurodium hoop earrings.


"Do you have any memory of where you were assembled? Or did they just stick you here?" he asked.

“No, I do not. This is my first activation.” Izara frowned. “Why do you ask?”
 
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