Zambrano the Starweird
The Black Prophet of Balagoth
"AAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGGAAAAA!"
An unholy roar shook the foundation of reality within the Yuuzhan Vong Warship, there was no pain in the voice, there was no suffering. It was fear, it was agony. Trillions of unseen insectoid arachnids crawled upon the fleshy surface of the walls and floors and ceilings. Spires of the vile creatures stood against the floor, a swarm of death-like things infesting the empty void like maggots to corpses, enveloping the whole of the emptiness. They rushed to and from, a wave of horror passing through the dead eyes of some monstrous diseased form, incapable of interacting with its environment beyond its incessant screeching, the dread power nestled within its mind, painfully stretched in every direction to end the horrors.
Dreaded whisperings reached his ears like wasps lacerating the inner workings of his ears; there was nothing but madness. They denied him his shroud, which hid the alien exoskeletons of his mental terrors. The fear, it has overwhelmed him... the not knowing... the lack of sensation which kept him in any reasonable state. The inability to reach out and feel the pulsating gushing flesh of crushed bugs or torn bicep.
They tried to latch onto the stubs of his arms, cutting through his flesh with their insidious fangs, attempting to inject him with their thousands of hatchlings all along the remains of his arms. The pathetic maggots clawed at the wounds of his eyes as well, trying to puncture through the soft flesh to lay their eggs on top of his twisted mind. He killed them all though, creating those mental spears and whips which punished anything that dared approaching him, the villainous lacerations he placed upon those desperate approaches fell entire columns of the dread horrors.
Zambrano the Hutt had lost any rationality to fear, panic, and delusion... no longer was there anything to sooth him, and his disease prevented his full recovery, which had been expected out of him by the Directory. They tried to replace the missing items of flesh with cybernetic detailing... but at any moment that a technician attempt to approach him, he would require whispers from Captain Slika. However, soon even that would no longer be viable, as when the metal syringe intended to sedate him for the procedures he would lash out, writhe, and swing his armless weight around. Incredible hallucinations and debilitating visions would then plague those near him for the span of many dozens of seconds, rending them into a similar state that debilitated the Warlord. Eventually, sedation did not seem to be an option, and when they clamped him down to continue the procedures anyway, the surgeons would find an unruly, uncompromising force that would eventually tear out their progress through the force, and strangle them all to death with nothing but his screaming mind.
It was time for a solution.
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An assembly of five men and a woman convene through a holocall, and Captain Slika appears sleepless, bloody, and irrate."The bloody fool has been screaming for the past seven hours! I can't take it any more! Whatever horrors that fill his mind, are beyond us to deal with! Trust me, I know! The damn thing won't accept anything close to him, and machines drive him only more towards madness... if such a thing were possible!"
"Captain Slika, I would suggest maintain a more militant composure, you are not among friends." Admiral Thetsh chided the sleep deprived Captain.
"I will take whatever bloody composure I'd like Admiral! The only binding factor of your little operations that you're pretending about here is the tactical advantage that monster presents to us, and the last seven hours have proven to me that any semblance of control over that thing either never existed, or not longer exists! It's a lost cause! We've tried everything: we've sent it away into Hutt space to kill a random Hutt, and it did nothing to sooth his nerves, we've tried to keep it under a cognition hood for as long as possible until he started to destroy things on sight out of fear of his 'spiders', and we've tried to sedate the mass of lard for cybernetic to treat his anxiety by replacing his missing sensations! Nothing works!" The Captain slammed his hand into the control panel.
All the while the Captain raved about their failures, an aid of Commodore Vun briefly appeared in the call, handing her a datapad. It could be seen that the woman quickly absorbed the information present on the device, though her face held no hint of emotion. The Rear Admiral did his best to soothe and encourage the Captain into a more agreeable state, while the Vice Admiral continued to chide him of his lack of military conduct. The Admiral was simply silent, and took notice of the Commodores silent examination of her device.
"Gentlemen, if I could have your attention." Her eyes lifted from her datapad as she set it down. "I have come to a conclusion that cybernetics had never been a good idea for our dear friend the Hutt; if his flagship is of any indication, our Warlord as an odd obsession for the flesh and bone, not at all dissimilar to the Yuuzhan Vong of old. Given our alliance with the One Sith and the predilection to use biotechnology of that variety, we have amassed a list through our intelligence organizations of any noteworthy and outstanding Yuuzhan Vong Shapers that they know about. I had an aid scour those records for any missing Shapers, and it appears the search was fruitful." Off screen, the Commodore pressed a button, and the sound of a new hologram coming filled the room as the center console projected an enlarged face donning the appearance of a Yuuzhan Vong.
"This is Uvek Tar, a former Master Shaper of the One Sith, who went missing some time after the Netherworld Crisis, after an elaborate and violent escape he's had a bounty on his recovery ever since. Additionally, with the dissolution of the Imperial Remnants control over their worlds following the crisis, I've had mixed reports of a vong migrant, a scientist I believe they labeled them, and shipped him off to a planet by the name of Kad V. It's a dangerous jungle world that the Remnant had been researching since their occupation there following the I.R.I.S. Station Massacre. We have good reason to believe that there is a connection here.
"I suggest we send one of our agents to investigate this target, and retrieve him for ourselves, in order to gain relevant biots for our Warlord."
"Very well, it seems to be a sound enough plan, near as I can tell given our circumstances. An investigation at least, shall turn up some interesting information. I'll send an order through the grapevine to find a willing candidate to take the task."
"Then we're adjourned?" Captain Slika said hunched over a table. The Admiral nodded, and the holographic lights died away into darkness.
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