Solarii (Camellia Swift)

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

Balaya continued to watch, her interest in the woman as she started to panic and her blood pumped faster. With the force she could hear it and the virus went through her system. Then made its way to her heart while she started to show the signs of transformation. Balaya motioned her hands to get the soldier to leave the child and come near her as the croa signs appeared. Ears shifting, dainty fangs and claws. A tail pushing at her clothing before Balaya spoke. "You will listen and you will obey, whatever you were before is gone. Your family is dead, your past is dead. You are dead, you live only to obey and I am ordering you to kill the child." There was a look from the woman, fear and terror as her body was moving on its own and against what she wanted while she was babbling something but her hands were out. Her clawed hand tearing while a smear was on the floor.

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

So it was the Croa virus itself they were working to test then, well perhaps she should have realized it, but all the same Camellia felt as though her confusion was justified given her lack of experience in the field of Sithspawn creation and the lack of information she had been given when called down to help. It was only while watching the transformation of the woman that Lady Praelior just infected that the Rendili woman caught on to what they were actually working on. The Zeltron Sith's words to the newly turned were actually rather horrifying, Camellia's eyes blinking as the order to kill the child was given. Wasn't that a bit much? Sure it was possibly an ultimate test of obedience, but it was a sort of a waste of a subject not to mention. . .it still felt wrong. . . .

There was nothing really to do though as Camellia continued playing witness and let her gaze follow what ensued, confused and uncomfortable with the scene playing out but doing nothing to stop it all the same.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

Balaya was watching the woman, she seemed to be trying to resist at first but was slowly moving towards the baby. Was moving herself there with fangs and claws at the ready while the sith crossed her arms for a moment. Then it was over and the woman was sobbing there while Balaya tapped her fingers on the basin while she was speaking. "Very good, see now there is nothing that will be a problem." SHe tapped the basin more while letting an amused smile remain on her face before speaking. "You may leave, infect any of my soldiers and I will tear your claws out." There was sobs but the infected was going while Balaya continued to look upon things. "Good, now to deal with some more subjects."

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

In the end Camellia did look away as the slaughter happened, the sounds though, still reached her ears as the event transpired, and there was nothing the Rendili woman could do about that. In truth while testing the obedience was certainly necessary, this seemed far more brutal than was needed, and Camellia likely could have seen a second test infecting the child to test the limits of the virus age reach instead of killing it. It was over now though, and there was nothing to be done about it. She didn't even dare speak up, she couldn't do anything and making a fuss might bring her into question though she wasn't sure why she would be. "What's the next test then Lady Praelior? I'm assuming. . .the last one was for obedience. . . .if a bit gruesome."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

She looked at her while moving now as she while grinning. "You disapprove, how cute. What did you think you were made for? The croa are a sithspawn, they are fueled by destruction, chaos and formed by blood. The darksides natural processes for wanting to consume." She kept walking while the basin remained and they were going towards the area outside. Different sithspawn that had been brought for testing purposes. There were some more croa there to fight over the food they were giving. "You are one of the fist generations of the species and still flawed. Your mind not understanding that you are not longer unique." She held a hand as one of the baby leviathans mewled. "Or to put it better, think of it like this. In a forest there are plants and animals, then someone starts a fire. Which are you?" She didn't give her a chance to think. "You are the fire, beautiful, deadly and uniform. Burning across the forest and taking the individuality from these species."

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

The analogy felt lost on Camellia since she hardly felt flawed, and in all honesty felt she was thinking rationally rather than over a bias. At least she hoped so as she followed the Sithspawn maker with some unease in her step. She felt more like an evolutionary step forward rather than a creature needing improvement. And still the Rendili woman was confused what they were doing next, was she just playing witness? Was there nothing she had to do to contribute except maybe provide a comparison? She didn't know, but she wished things would make more sense, or would be over soon so she could begin work on the next project for Rendili Stardrive, rather than stay out of her element in this science, mystic, genetics mess she currently found herself a part of.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

Balaya continued to move, now looking over more of the sithspawn but also the cages as a technician was speaking. "My lord we have begun construction, the cages should fit within the sub levels." She gave a nod and began moving while some of the croa sat there. Outside the ship that was begin hooked up they had the beginnings of a rail system to go to and from her zoo. She was giving simple puzzles to test their intelligence with degrading generations. She wanted to see it but more needed to make sure they would be able to pass the tests in the facility without drooling over themselves.

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

Camellia followed and she watched and she supposed this was what she had been called to do. The only other thing she could stipulate as being a reason for being here would be to act as a comparison as she thought since she was the first infected and turned into a Croa. What comparisons were needed she didn't know, and with all the other types of Sithspawn around in this location the Rendili woman wasn't even sure if the main focus was actually on the Croa virus. So with that in mind she merely trailed behind the Sith Praelior and hoped at some point things would become clearer once and actual task had been decided upon, or until she was able to leave and continue her duties on Rendili.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

She was moving now, a zoo for the sithspawn to be and tended to. The world was just really a formality as Balaya spoke to the engineers. "Good continue work and we shall work on the latest batch." Balaya was walking and there was a containment cage with uninfected as she had one kept in there. She was looking at it before speaking. "This will be an offsite zoo, where other worlds will exclusively handle breeding sithspawn and for their creation there will always be a need for a place they can be tested and refined." She had just the place for them and to have a better control group for the later generations once other projects were tested. Progress requires experimentation after all and there was a great amount that could be found here.

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

Things appeared to at least be going well or as planned regarding the facility's purposes at least, as Lady Praelior continuously commented on the work that the location's staff and engineers doing and since it mostly consisted of praise and compliments Camellia had to assume it was on the right track. Still, so far there didn't seem to be too much yet for her specifically to be need, but at least there were hints of it having to do with the Croa. The dubbing of the area as a zoo fit in the analogy the Sith woman put it, it made sense. If the Sithspawn were gathered here for experimentation and a variety were kept around it could be seen as a collection like a zoo, although those were for public view and enjoyment, while whatever was happening here had much more sinister purposes.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

Anything could go well when you built quickly enough and as she kept walking the desert sun beat down on her face. Balaya could feel it while she was looking at the croa in the cage while she interest came. It was a later generation but she was need to work on that while the other sithspawn were there. Balaya motioned with her hand while teams continued to build the initial sections in the sand with more equipment being used to dig. "Begin initial testing." She let the croa remain in the cage with one of the mutates, one of the failed experiments that was sent to kill it. "Now lets see how vicious you can get my pet." Balaya pushed her influence and power out like a whip to snap and demand it to fight the deformed experiment.

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

Apparently some of the sinister work included caged death matches between the creatures Lady Praelior kept around. In front of them it seemed that the desperate struggle on display was between a fellow Croa, though perhaps with lesser intelligence, and some other Sithspawn Camellia did not know on sight. This place more and more became rather base and odd. When the Rendili woman had arrived she had expected a clean laboratory setup and scientists taking notes and running diagnostics. This place felt more like a dungeon intended to act like some kind of gladiator ring where only winners were allowed to live. Personally Camellia thought that was counteractive to conducting research but she wasn't about to try and dissuade the Sith, and so she just kept her eyes on the violent struggle going on in the cage between the Sithspawn.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

Balaya continued to watch it, the mutate wasn't a traditional sithspawn... it was the castoff and what was usually leftover after the experiments. The failed things and that was why it was disfigured with some parts of its body oversized. A failed battle lord experiment that was going after the lithe croa and slashed at her. She was watching the new sithspawn duck, charge then claw at its back with razor sharp claws until it was thrown off and to the ground. Landing on its feet as she went back to try to tear at the vital organs and get into the chest cavity for the heart of the creature that was under folds and growths of muscle. "Not all things are successes, this is one of the first subjects tested for the battlelords. Now it will serve to try and gauge the lethality of the croa." She said it while Elara stood there and spoke. "Master we have the basin loaded into the chamber and it is being set in the lowest section they have built so far. Walls are being reinforced and each room prebuilt to put into the sand." Balaya gave a nod of her head while she was watching the croa take a swipe to her face and an eye was almost hanging out of her skull but she had the chest opened with the pumping heart. "Finish her." Balaya watched the brutal treatment on her order with a smirk.

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

The brutality of the fight on display was nothing to make light of, as Camellia watched the blood spilled between the Croa and other Sithspawn. A Battlelord wasn't something that the Rendili woman was familiar with, not having recalled encountering one at Zeltros or Alderaan or any other engagement against the Sith she had found herself groundside on. However, for all she knew she might of and just not known since she wasn't exactly a general for the army who would more often deal with the Sith's darkside creatures. Still, if the monstrosity in the pit below was just a failed experiment for them, then Camellia shivered to think what a finished product could do. The Croa as well was frightening, if only because of the extreme ignorance for its own harm as it flung itself at the larger beast to the point its face was a mess even if it was winning.

One of Praelior's guard thankfully arrived at that point to divert attention as the status of the base's further expansions and construction was brought up. The news of the reinforcement to the location was at least reassuring that sufficient measures were being taken in such a strange and violent place. It still didn't make things any less dark or terrifying as Camellia turned her eyes to the ending match in the pit as the Sith Zeltron ordered the fight to end. "I'd hate to see a finished Battlelord then if this was a failed one. . ."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

"The finished type stands before you, the best way to learn and progress was to use the power and ritual on myself. Compared to others however I am better, bigger, stronger with less annoying things like the need to turn away from violence." Balaya looked more that the one there as she was replaying the information over in her mind. It had preformed well enough against a mutate bu in the field against soldiers with guns she would have to see how they preformed. She wasn't expecting blaster bolt dodges and throwing speeders but she held a grin on her face while running a hand along the damaged face. "Lets see what you are like against men with guns." She pressed the darkside into her aura and dominance.

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

Well that was a world of difference between the finished product and a defective product. Although the Rendili woman did suppose this explained why Lady Praelior was as humongous as she was. After all, the Sith was rather abnormally large for a Zeltron, and Camellia had seen plenty during the battle of Zeltros. It left her wondering just what sort of powers the process had bestowed besides making the Sith woman a giantess. Because Camellia was certain the comment about looking away from violence didn't really have anything to do with that. The Rendili woman had been in combat and seen plenty of bloody and miserable wounds and corpses, she just had a particular distaste for looking at grevious wounds as nothing more than an observer. She had an active mind, it was hard sometimes not to imagine what the wound would look or feel like on herself sometimes. And seeing someone's eye hanging out when she sometimes imagined that made her shiver, as well as remind her how lucky she was for not suffering many injuries despite the combat she had been involved in.

"Are you sure she will provide good results? Her wounds will make her less effective at showing what results the Croa can achieve, a different subject would give you a better idea." Although either way the Croa girl was dead. Camellia could tell the later generation would be killed on the spot by the Sith if she wasn't going to be in the next test because of those injuries, because the Sith certainly wouldn't waste resources repairing that level of damage, and with that damage they weren't going to survive an intense test against armed soldiers. Maybe Lady Praelior was already considering, there was almost something malleable in the presence the Zeltron woman had at the moment.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

"Her death provides just as much information as he life pet. If she can survive it shows they can be resilient, if she dies well there are always more people lining up to be infected and used as cannon fodder." She looked at the small croa and motioned with her head for her to get back into the cage with some of the prudeii in their armorweave and duraplast armor as they held their energy bows and formed up. The siths eyes watching before she snapped her finger to begin and had the information being recorded on how vicious her creation could be when backed into a corner and fighting for her life.

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

The Sith Zeltron's logic was certainly sound in that regard. If a heavily injured Croa could still be a fearsome combatant it definitely would show good promise, but if it failed they would have to restart the test with a completely fresh subject. Either way it couldn't hurt. . . .anyone else other than the Croa undergoing the experiment of course. With nothing else to comment on, Camellia turned her gaze back on the pit as the other Croa and the soldiers entered it and took their positions for the next test. The soldiers chosen to be part of the operation seemed a bit too heavily armored for the situation, but the Rendili woman wasn't in charge, she was just around to watch and potentially try to voice logic now and then, even if it might be ignored or new reasoning come up.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Camellia Swift"]

Balaya was watching the test, there was the soldiers armored and armed in their formation and the croa began attacking. She moved in on a circle for a moment before it struck her clawed hand grabbing one of the helmets as the soldier fired into the air then fell with the shots going into another. She wasn't stronger then him but hooking those claws under the helmet into the neck as she spun around before they were regrouping. Working to pry her off and shot her while she clawed at one of their arms before getting shot with a flachette rifle to the chest and her body torn up as it laid there. Balaya looked on for its progress in killing and injuring some of them before she gave a nod of her head. "Impressive, one against a squad won't be as effective as a horde against a squad."

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Darth Praelior"]

Well the subject in question undergoing the test was certainly feral to say the least. Camellia watched its vicious display and wondered just how many had reached that level of ferocity and aggression during the infection. Possibly more than she suspected, but at the same time at least the Croa being tested hadn't seemed unintelligent, just highly obediant. By the time the soldiers had managed to shoot her it had already been a decisive show of agility and drive. "You will have to recall that she was injured as well at the start of this experiment so another test with a fresh individual might show different results. Still, it is definitely better for the fewest casualties for operations to be in groups so infection is both more likely and quicker."