Dark Legacy 4
17 years before the Battle of Yavin 4
Planet Unknown
"How are the repairs going?" The cloaked man asked. He was standing nearby and could have easily looked for himself, but it was always good to inspire a little fear in his subordinates.
"The repairs are going well, my Lord." The human technician said. His name was Ohlm.
"Very good." The man said. "You have a question?" He said noticing Ohlm looked like he wanted to ask something.
"Yes, my Lord." Ohlm said. "Please forgive me if I sound naïve. According to our reports, after being transformed, he still retained many of his vital organs, kept in a pressurized sack. Yet that was one of the reason's he was killed so easily. Please, if you would my Lord, tell me why that was so?"
"It was for him to feel accustomed to what he was," The man said. "It was necessary if he was to be as effective as he could be. He was not an entire machine. If they were taken out, his knowledge would have been lost. And his organic components was what allowed him to keep his personality, as opposed to merely programmed with his personality. But things have changed."
"Yes, sir," Ohlm said. "And as you have commanded all his knowledge and individual personality have been programmed into him. I assume that is because his organic components are no more?"
"Correct," he said. "He can be programmed easily enough now to retain his personality, though it does not mean much now. He only has one purpose now, and he will know it when he revives. Do you know how much longer that will be?"
"Yes, my Lord, unfortunately it will be longer than I originally said." Ohlm was dead before he hit the floor.
"Malek," The cloaked figure said to the next senior technician. "You are in command now of the project. Do not disappoint me."
"I will not, my Lord." She said, bowing.
"And clean up this slime of the floor." The cloaked figure said, regarding the smoking body of Ohlm. Two other technicians came and pulled the body away. The cloaked figure took several moments more, looking at his project.
It would be the same as it was before, only more powerful and deadly. All his memories would be the same, and he would have complete and individual control. He was to be a weapon of mass destruction, and he would know it. It was only a matter of time.