Hyperworks and Driveyards Cont.

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"] [member="Sitara Qin"]

To be truthful the Rendili woman was hardly aware of the tests going on within the pits aside from the fact there was a Sith down there attempting to test the effects of the force on the Sithspawn down there in some regard. Some of them Croa, so it was likely relevant to her too, but the whole thing with the force was out of her league. Even with the Jedi she had never really understood the extent of the mystic, the force was beyond her comprehension. She couldn't touch it, though she could see its effects of course so it was believable the power it wielded. Now though it was like she felt its aura more as she assumed Lady Praelior was beginning to use it in some way. It didn't feel quite like a Jedi's healing or someone utilizing battle meditation, the lightness of it or the filling nature she had faintly noticed before.

Whatever it was the Sith Zeltronn was doing, if her assumption something was being done was right at all, it made her feel. . . . hot, tense, maybe even hungry. . . . her ears twitched and tailed was in motion eagerly, hair a bit on edge, but it didn't feel overwhelming. It really was hard to describe. . . .anxious was best to say it, but she didn't know for what, and it was like there was a drive to know. Camellia didn't know what to do about it though and focused on what the Sith creator of her transformation and that of all Croa was asking of her. "Yes Mistress. . . . .it won't hurt would it?" Perhaps an odd thing to say, but Camellia honestly never did like needles. . . .stabbing pain seemed to be something she was much more sensitive to than blunt pain, leaving her little appreciation for shots.

She supposed it didn't matter if it did hurt anyway since she still needed to get it done anyway. They did need to be aware of the changes in generation and this was likely the most efficient and quickest to examine if the strains looked the same in the bloodwork. Though Camellia did wonder as she approached the machine whether it would work that way even. What if the strain looked different per individual? Which part of the strain's code was for generation? There had to be something for that of course, but she wondered where they would pick it out. They would need a few Croa of the same generation to get a more accurate look maybe. . . .there were plenty of guards and technicians up on the shipyards and orbiting stations doing their old jobs still she had infected herself during that phase of infecting the planet she could point out for sure as generation ones, oh she was starting to over think things now.

They still needed a sample from her anyway to judge the effects starting from the source. They could collect samples from those of the same generation later to determine other effects and single out the generation part of the strain if need be later. Plus again. . . .she was over thinking it probably and there was already a plan and more efficient ways in place she wasn't aware of.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"] [member="Sitara Qin"]

Balaya continued to watch as she turned to speak and was looking down. "Most likely." She didn't know and Elara took the device while she was walking through the area. Omega team had their mission and were working on the things they had as Balaya moved to join Sitara with her armored hands rubbing together as the massive zeltron entered the room. Her enjoyment and seeing the sith at work with her pets was quite a sight as she looked down upon her. She had created the nightmare child that was huge and massive... but now she was looking at the smaller things while the facility was being built more sections upon sections and dug out.

The massive zeltron held her hand out as the presence she had went deeper... down into the cells searching out the virus as the croa stopped moving. Their eyes glazing over as the pupils widened looking like black pits and one felt the force energy. The virus was sithspawn... something far older as it hissed using the vocal cords that were foreign to it.... A screech before it was looking. "We we we we.... we are.... we are.... we are hungry." Balaya moved forward kneeling down as she still towered over most at seven feet tall. "And you shall have it my friend, you shall feed upon the life of the galaxy and save it."

She turned her eyes to Sitara as one armored hand came out with the taloned fingers. "Same as your sisters, you will save the galaxy from freedom, from pain.... You will save it from that pesky thought of individuals. With only those who are strong able to and control you." She watched Sitara as some more equipment were being brought in and the basin, a four foot high black basin of stone and crystal got brought in. Her hand directed the one croa to it as she spoke. "Lay in the basin... it is time to teach." There is a moment as the being walked over to it and crawled atop the basin. Its tail going behind it as it strangled itself.

The choking sound while its body hung there lifeless and balaya motioned for them to follow while she spoke. "There is always more to these sithspawn then meets the eye my dears. The croa are not alone in being something powerful, they are a virus, unified and able to wash over the galaxy like a fire purging the individuals and turning them into this." There was a few more moments as the skin changed becoming more sludge like and blackening until it was filling the basin. The body melting soon into a pool of black ichor ooze that seemed to form a face that mirrored them. Its mouth opening but no sounds aside from bubbles coming out.

"The transformation destroys the cells, is tears the body taking everything that makes them special, that makes them unique and it turns it into something else. Recreating them slowly into this. The more that needs to be transformed from gender and species the more deterioration and the quicker they can become this. The hells blood that is the concentrated heart of the viruses power." She looked upon Sitara to see her reaction while she stood up to her full size. "It is not a pretty prospect but it is a thing we are building this facility to explore and refine. HOw much infection there can be and how fast... a new generation of labor."

 

[Sitara Qin]

Now she had company. The voice that only spoke to her through a device would now greet her. Her hands were armoured, and she was very pink. A zeltron. Excellent. These were the kind of people she enjoyed hanging out with. They were loud, and fun, and oh so very pink. She grinned. Things were going to be more fun now.

She held out her hand and started to speak….oddly. She towered over her, her height reaching seven feet. Sitara gulped and took a step back. Did she want to have it? No thanks. This…was some freaky stuff that she didn’t want to sting her tongue in. Nope. Nope. Nopenopenopenopenope. So much nope. She wanted out.

“Uh…..No thanks?” She blurted out. If taking the virus was part of this, Sitara didn’t really want to. She was hesitant, but she was gonna watch anyways.

The pink woma guided one of the croa to the basin before it started strangling itself. Sitara cringed. She was simply playing fetch with these little guys. She didn’t know that they wanted them to start hurting herself. She forced a smile to her face as she was genuinely grossed out.

This was some freaky lab poodoo.

“Let’s hope…they’re used well.” She said, glad that the Zeltron didn’t actually ask her to take the virus. She was initially a little confused, but hey, at least they worked themselves out eventually.

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[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"] [member="Sitara Qin"]

Balaya looked at the woman and smiled a little more as she was almost tempted to pat her shoulder with her massive hand but didn't need to do such a thing. The look on her face though starring at it was enough while she looked down into the basin. "It is a dangerous thing the virus but you seem nervous. Fret not little one, you have use. This world will need someone skilled and with their facilities intact, more then that as you can see." She turned her eyes to look at the Rendili woman. "Those who want the virus and are the first infected have certain traits we can exploit. Soon enough those on the stations and in the military will likely fall then more forces will move in. Ones more dedicated to certain needs." She kept her eyes there while the tests were coming in. Elara stood there with Omega squad while they went over the parts and she spoke. "Little one... because I do not know what else to call you? How has your experience with these croa been? Would you say sending them as frontline fodder or special soldiers would serve the cause better?"

ooc note: I suppose try to keep it going, cam is the one pushing these for a second chance and to much work to just stop

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"] [member="Sitara Qin"]

((Sorry never got the notifications for the other posts, didn't see till now I was behind))

Needless to say the Rendili woman was feeling disconcerted the longer the current circumstances went on. Things just felt very strange and terrifying, and a bit too heavy, like the air was thick, even if it felt warm. Her confliction of feelings left her distracted enough to nearly miss the little display the Zeltron Sith put on in murdering one of the other Croa in the basin. Camellia felt fear and a bit of anger watching the horrible death the girl was put through, strangled after being ordered to do as told. Still, she did nothing, and she likely could do nothing either she imagined anyway. It wasn't like she had any say or effect on the situation.

CLearly there were also problems with it as even a test if it were to mean something after all. No instruments were set up to track the actual event, nothing to see physical composition changes, nothing to determine much of anything. If Lady Praelior was getting anything from the force then it wasn't something the Rendili woman would, could, or should understand. Even if it there was something in the force gotten from this, it was a waste not to setup up technological equipment to get their own readings at the same time. The CEO, of an advanced engineering corporation that built starships, in her did not approve of the tests in this manner.

As for the Sith Lady's question about how to use the Croa, since she wasn't asked camellia stayed silent like a good Croa she supposed. In her opinion though, special soldiers would fit better. Using them as fodder over open ground was foolish. They could only infect at close range, and after a certain point in generation degradation they became less capable. The ones on the space stations, shipyards, and military bases still functioned fine with careful manipulation, but Camellia didn't know when the turning point was when the Sith took control of infecting small sections of the remaining populace, she didn't know where they started collecting feral samples. Still, if the Sith were aiming to just make the rest of infected feral, they wouldn't operate well in open areas, especially as fodder, they;d be gunned down before ever having an effect since having to cross open ground was bad enough for a regular soldier. It would be best to employ whatever batches were sent out as special soldiers, drop them on contained locations or areas of immense disorientation. A space station or jungle/forest terrain, or a closed off base would be the most efficient use. It would be the best way to use the Croa to the fullest against an enemy.

 

[Sitara Qin]

Well, considering Praelior’s massive height, it was no wonder she’d call Sitara little one. Sitara didn’t mind, it was true anyways. She was ‘little’ compared to a seven-foot Zeltron. She smiled weakly as she stared at the containment. “Well, you can call me whatever you want to, I guess.” She paused. “I go by Tara.” She declared before looking back at the tests. “Well, these things are fun to train, in fact, they could even be pets.” She giggled. “If they’re good enough, I suppose we can train them to be special soldiers since a simple scratch could prove to be fatal. Otherwise, send the weak ones as fodder.”

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[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Sitara Qin"] [member="Camellia Swift"]

Balaya looked at them both and she was still semi crouched. Her full height as a battle lord as she showed being 14 feet tall in the armor had her looking down at Tara as she smiled. "Good Tara." She brought her hand down as slowly droids appeared. The machine hooking up to her eye as the sith's pale purple eyes glowed giving the data for the screen. "And what do you think my pet?" She held a hand out to Camellia but was also holding it over the basin. "Tell me how your sisters shall be best used." The grin on her face while the ooze of the virus in the basin was moving on its own, its visage appearing like a horned beast for a moment before going human and stick up with the liquid falling down quickly. No sound could exit its mouth except a gurgle. "Yes your opinion matters as well, you are after all the one wiping away them and making them your own."

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"] [member="Sitara Qin"]

Now she was being asked, it actually made the former human perk up again feeling some use in the situation. THe Rendili woman even had everything she had to say right on the top of her head still. "I agree with your fellow Sith Lady Praelior, the Croa should be used as special soldiers. The feral generations are the ones most likely to be used and they have some disadvantages. They won't handle open terrain as well as regular soldiers, they would be gunned down since they're tactical capacity can't completely be made up with base instinct. And its a waste to use the intelligent ones as regular soldiers as well since there are already troops who can hold a gun or use a ship themselves. Training the Feral Croa Generations so that you can unleash them onto enemy ships as a boarding party or in largely populated areas or bases would cause the most mayhem and make the most efficient and effective use of them. Those of the intelligent generations close to myself best serve as deep cover agents or similar, being able to actively think and then unleash a planned infection prior to invasions, perhaps even carefully creating a capable population to do so faster before feral units are dropped in to speed up the chaos. Jungle or Forest environments would also be favorable to Croa I believe, the terrain giving enough cover for feral croa to avoid being shot and the branches also providing good perches should they be agile enough. Does this assessment agree with you maam?"

Well it could have been worse. . . . .Camellia was known to talk longer than this before.

 

[Sitara Qin]

She referred to the other person as her pet. Sitara was still engrossed with the creatures in the basin. Now that she thought about it, they would definitely make interesting playthings. She could already see the Jedi squirming in the background as these things devoured them, infecting them with their twisted poison. They succumbed to the darkness after all, and since Jedi were peaceloving monkeys, it would make this a victory over them. Unless, for some reason they could find some way to counter their newfound inventions. The other girl had asked Praelior a question, and Sitara simply listened in the background.

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[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Sitara Qin"] [member="Camellia Swift"]

Balaya continued to look upon them both while she was letting the energy within the basin come alive. She didn't offering Sitara to take it once again but she was looking at the interest on the sith knights face. "It intrigues you yes? you're wondering where it came from and how it was created?" She held a smile while letting the processes and ideas from Camellia show on the screen that was hooked up to her eyes as she was using the information. "Special soldiers might be able to work at times at least until the ferals start outnumbering them. The generations will suffer problems unless they are infected from the source. Each generation can only make a lesser one which is a safeguard should they try and rebel or resist." Her face showed it though while moving along. "We can infect the ones that matter and need it with this the purest form of the virus but that will be kept safe. My pet here is the progenitor of her species and unless she infects someone they will always be something lesser. Which will make a danger for special squads."

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Sitara Qin"] [member="Darth Praelior"]

That was a fairly sufficient answer, and the Rendili woman took it in and found herself nodding. It made sense that the Ferals would eventually became more numerous over time without careful control, but they were also a check against the Croa from ever getting loose from the Sith's influence, not that Camellia could imagine them needing or wanting to do so. They could still be careful in their direction of infection to gain absolute loyalty from individuals that mattered or had some ability. Scientists they needed to accomplish a task, enemy spies they needed information from, engineers in the top of their field. But there were certainly plenty they didn't mind losing to ferality, irredeemable crooks, those with no useful skills, talents, or knowledge, those who were a drain on the population, so on and so forth. "The needs of the Sith in certain areas will decide where you want certain infected. If worst comes to worst you just keep a key batch from those directly infected on hand for when you want intelligent ones, and when you want a feral horde you unleash chaos."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"] [member="Sitara Qin"]

Balaya looked at Camellia and held a grin on her face hearing her out. "Yes though I do not know how the spies will work at first. It would seem a waste to turn them and then lose their ability to be a double agent because they can't explain their transformation. A few cosmetic changes is one thing but the danger of an entire gender will be something far harder." She was looking at the other woman there with them and leading the way towards the rest of the facility that was being created. Here on Rendili for the development she had a small grin on her face. The monitor room they had displayed some racks where people could be kept in another room and an another basin on the floor. "For any subjects that need convincing."

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"] [member="Sitara Qin"]

Well for the use of double agents that was a good point, Camellia had to admit. Still, she hadn't been considering that when she had made the suggestion. "Well, at the very least turning an enemy intelligence operative would get us some information out of them. And perhaps we could use their knowledge of safe houses to raid the enemy to figure out any information we would normally need a double agent for. After all, they still have their knowledge and memories if we infect them carefully, so we'd be able to exploit their own knowledge for our benefit." Not to mention, what problem was there with giving the former enemy the gift of becoming a more perfect being. Unassuming, but able to cause more damage to enemies than any other Sithspawn perhaps. After all, they didn't appear threatening, but they could destroy a person entirely, make them into something loyal, powerful, beautiful, and able to spread their curse and blessing.

"Plus before the enemy learns of the Croa we could still send them back as double agents maam. They might not be able to resume their own jobs, but they can enter enemy territory and maybe even reapply into their old positions under new identities. And even once the enemy does learn, it would be some time before the general population could notice a Croa as a threat. We don't look like monsters and with so many aliens in the galaxy we'd blend in quite well on most worlds and be perfect sleeper agents until unleashed, building up forces quietly infecting choice targets who go missing with no evidence left behind almost. No dead bodies, less cause for concern than a missing person whose actually just a new person altogether."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

Balaya looked at her pet and smiled almost like a mother seeing something. "Close, you are close to a good idea but your a sithspawn my pet. The darkside permeates every cell of your body making you into what you are. The jedi will be able to sense you on their worlds as a spot. The one point of irregularity in the seas of their meditations. This can be fixed with the right meditations and spells to cast might be able to hear you but on a large scale we would need a meditation sphere to amplify the shroud of the darkside." There was a look on her face though it was a good idea and they could use them to get behind enemy lines under the right situations though they would need to work on some things. They would have to get ones who are better able to retain their thoughts. "Without something to focus on like a talismen the virus will only be spreadable through contact."

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

That wasn't something Camellia had thought of, or even realized at all. The Rendili woman had been unaware she was a darkside blotch to all force users now, especially since she didn't feel particularly. . . . well evil to put it in such stupidly simple terms as to not have to deal detailing the specifics of the ranging bar of embodiment. Now she had a better understanding she supposed of the difficulty in using Sithspawn in operations, and the Croa as forward scouts to weaken enemy populations for invasion between infection and panic. Nonetheless though. . . . "There can't be Jedi on every world Lady Praelior, as a former soldier of the Republic I can attest to the fact they don't have someone have every single planet at all times. Nor is it easy for them to since a single individual amongst many. After all, did not Master Yoda in history hide his presence on a single world because the life there hid him. I don't think a single Croa on a world here or there would draw attention until they took action."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

"A single croa would not arouse suspicion on most worlds this is true. The jedi can't watch all of them and taking backwater worlds and turnign them into a force could provide a tactical advantage. Run them down onto the world and let the trap spring." Balaya was still looking at her and now crossing her arms. "Though there are some jedi who can see things... mostly. You my pet are lucky to have joined us when you had the chance." She was laughing while looking at it and didn't say it but her mind flashed to send the image of rows and rows of teeth and larger monsters with a massive roar. "The facility is coming to be quite nice. We'll see to the rest of it while the croa that have been getting gathered up are sent in. With the blood testing we'll be able to divide them up."

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

Lady Praelior's words were rather ominous, and the images that accompanied those words were frightening. It left the Rendili woman speechless for a moment as she tried to decipher what it was the Sith Giantess meant what she said. Had the Croa been another set of Sithspawn entirely at one point? If so then yes. . . . Camellia was immensely happy with the turn of events and the timing in regards to her infection. Moving past that though, Camellia grinned as she followed after the Zeltron woman as she continued speaking, talking about the next phase of testing for the Croa. "We also could use the Croa to make conquests of planets outside the Republic's control easier as well. There certainly won't be many Jedi patrolling the Galaxy, its a time of war, I doubt they leave Republic borders often. We can plant sleeper cells ready to prepare worlds for a Sith dominion wherever needed."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Sitara Qin"] [member="Camellia Swift"]

"Yes we can, the unknown regions are filled with a great many worlds the galaxy doesn't pay attention to." Balaya was looking at the screens though while Omega were rounding some of them into other rooms of the base. She looked over some of it though and spoke to her troopers in the protective armor that could keep the croa at bay. "Divide them up for blood testing and use the progenitor's template to judge where and then divide them up" There were nods while her troopers moved in and the thicker armor let them go to work as she spoke. "I'll send some Prudeii into the hills around us to scout but the area id clear and secured now. They even sent off the invasion carrier which while they divide them up my pet. What is your engineering opinion on that ship?"

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

Not even the unknown regions, just the Outer Rim itself was largely ignored, as was territory in the Mid Rim where galactic governments were collapsing. It was only a matter of time before the Omega Protectorate caved in for example, and no one was around that region who could contest a Sith advance into it once they all vanished from their posts. Perhaps the Rendili woman was getting too far ahead of the present though. So turning her attention back to the Sith Zeltron as the giant of an individual mentioned blood testing and the progenitor, Camellia herself right(?), the Croa couldn't help but wonder what the next step was. Likely comparing generations based on the virus appearance in the body.

While Camellia had questions about that all to sort out her curiosity of what they were doing, the Rendili woman was quick to answer Lady Praelior as she asked for her opinion on the invasion craft. "Well its big. I suppose fitting the trade off of having a more well protected craft able to deploy more troops over a swifter one designed to drop off a few. Its a fairly obvious target, but its shape is almost captivating since it has a bit of a foreboding aura to it."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

"It was originally designed to carry a sithspawn." She had said it and left it open, the nightmare child wasn't known by the bulk of the galaxy. No one knew where she kept it or how to summon the monster that her power and the deaths of a world had brought. Tens of thousands killed so that her baby could be born of the slaughter. "Though once its use and ability to land on a planet was done many saw the ability to deploy tens of thousands of troops or beasts or take portions of a planets population to be processed." Now she was looking at the monitors before bringing up some of the displays and the croa were being divided.