428 ABY
Anxiety was the most abundant atmosphere in the Imperial research station above Bothawui. For two years, the scientists had been trying desperately to pinpoint at least a weakness in the Gurlag Plague. Their current results were not promising. Bothawui was in ruins as the black liquid sentience weaved through its very core. It consumed all life in its path, turning any living being into monsters with one shared mind. With the fate of the Galaxy riding her work, Dr. Sarina Reeve was anything but prepared. Even the greatest scientist of her time was frantic for the smallest sliver of progress. Like a fly, she buzzed in every which direction in her lab, re-adjusting calculations, studying various samples, testing chemicals, and recording everything in her holo-journals. Frustration coursed through her mind.
Entry 857: "My testing results do not look promising. The Gurlag Plague virus samples I have aren't responding to anything I'm doing to them. Vaccines, sprays...... Nothing's working! It spreads so easily. It acts like.....Like it can think. I don't know. Maybe I've spent too long in the labs today. I think I'm going to rest."
Anxiety was the most abundant atmosphere in the Imperial research station above Bothawui. For two years, the scientists had been trying desperately to pinpoint at least a weakness in the Gurlag Plague. Their current results were not promising. Bothawui was in ruins as the black liquid sentience weaved through its very core. It consumed all life in its path, turning any living being into monsters with one shared mind. With the fate of the Galaxy riding her work, Dr. Sarina Reeve was anything but prepared. Even the greatest scientist of her time was frantic for the smallest sliver of progress. Like a fly, she buzzed in every which direction in her lab, re-adjusting calculations, studying various samples, testing chemicals, and recording everything in her holo-journals. Frustration coursed through her mind.
Entry 857: "My testing results do not look promising. The Gurlag Plague virus samples I have aren't responding to anything I'm doing to them. Vaccines, sprays...... Nothing's working! It spreads so easily. It acts like.....Like it can think. I don't know. Maybe I've spent too long in the labs today. I think I'm going to rest."