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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
DEFENSES
The contents of the holocron are divided into four separate modules.
- Intent: To create a comprehensive repository of knowledge for the galaxy’s Dark Side technopaths.
- Image Credit: Untitled Piece by Stuart Lippincott
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- Holocron Name: Holocron of Darth Adekos
- Alignment: Dark Side
- Origin: Darth Adekos
- Affiliation: Sictis Order
- Gatekeeper: The gatekeeper presents itself as a decrepit, elderly Ugnaught with substantial portions of its face and head replaced by cybernetics. The nature and appearance of these modifications change every time it appears. It identifies itself as the Invigilator. The Invigilator, when projected, has demonstrated the ability to leave information on nearby digital storage devices. This ranges from anything to schematics and manuals to bad poetry written in Umbarese.
- Description:
The Holocron of Darth Adekos is the rebellious and contrarian third cousin of all Sith holocrons. The traditional form of a small, sensible, and stylish pyramid has been eschewed for a massive spherical contraption. Its physical presence is similar to that of a supercomputer, massive and thrumming with electricity. Its inner workings, however, more closely resemble a Sith Holocron that has been scaled up to fit a casing approximately nine meters in diameter.
It was built, and resides within, a subterranean complex on a rogue planet, deep in the heart of the Unknown Regions. The size and complexity of the holocron render it immobile. It is conspiculously wreathed in the energies of the Dark Side, but its true power source is more material. Clusters of wires extrude from the holocron, feeding it geothermal energy harvested by the facility it is housed within.
Very few people, if anyone, will ever view this holocron in person. The majority of users will instead access it remotely through use of devices called Adekon Receptors. These are unassuming rectangular devices, with one side dominated by a simple holographic projector and the other inscribed with the name of the intended recipient.
Receptors do not hold any knowledge or information on their own, but they do allow the holocron itself to be accessed remotely from any location within the galaxy. The Invigilator will simply project across the vast gulf of space and interact with users as as effortlessly as any other Gatekeeper.
All Receptors are hand-crafted by Darth Adekos himself.
DEFENSES
- Accessibility:
Adekon Receptors can be activated by any sapient individual that presses a small button located on the side. For the Holocron itself, simply being Force Sensitive and approaching the device will do. The Invigilator will then project himself before any potential users, and respond to them according to a number of factors.
If the user is perceivably Mandalorian, Graug, Draelvasier, or Yuuzhan-Vong, the Invigilator will urge them to kill themselves at earliest possible convenience. It will be unhelpful, antagonistic, and rude. The Invigilator will never answer questions or inquiries so long as such individuals are present.
If the user is not a member of the aforementioned categories but not detectably aligned to the Dark Side of the Force, or not Force Sensitive at all, the Invigilator will instruct the user to leave the receptor where they found it and return to their previous activities. It will answer most general inquiries, but will be evasive when probed about the knowledge it guards. If such users regularly attempt to access the holocron for at least six months, it will eventually respond to them as if they were aligned to the Dark Side.
If the user is aligned to the Dark Side, it will ask them a series of open-ended, situational questions to determine their psychological disposition. This examination seems to feature different questions each time and does not appear to be based on any recorded galactic standard. The test takes approximately one hour.
After questioning, the Invigilator will analyze the answers over the course of three to five business days. If it finds the results acceptable, the Invigilator will freely converse with the user, liberally dispensing knowledge, advice, and documentation as requested. Accepted status will never be revoked.
If the results are unacceptable, the holocron or receptor will always remain inert in their presence, even if a different individual attempts to activate it. A user who fails the examination will be offered another attempt every year.
It is possible, if difficult, to deceive the Invigilator.
- Security: Aside from the casing and the Invigilator (who is often quite rude), there are no additional security features. Receptors are no harder to destroy than any commercial datapad, though attempts to reverse engineer them trigger a minor self-destruct mechanism.
The contents of the holocron are divided into four separate modules.
- Instruction
The instruction module contains comprehensive instruction in a number of Force abilities and several lightsaber forms. Its contents are intended for Apprentice level Force Users, or Adept level Force Users who are beginning to hone a specialization.
The Force abilities with the most detailed and advanced training available are Mechu-Deru and Technopathy. Advanced training in Ionize, Tutaminis, and Force Lightning is also available, as they mesh well with the energy manipulating techniques that are already present in technopathy.
Some of the curricula Adekos endured while attending the Umbaran Sith Academy are also present in this module. This includes lightsaber training in Shii-Cho, Soresu, and Makashi as well as abilities such as Force Cloak and Force Stealth.
This module also contains directions on the "proper" and "judicious" use of the Dark Side: one that emphasizes restraint and diligence over "base psychopathy." Most people outside of the Sictis Order find these lectures to be particularly nauseating.
- Commentaries
This module contains the accumulated histories, philosophies, and abilities of some of the galaxy’s most powerful technopaths. This information is presented alongside Darth Adekos' own notes and guides.
The most notable figures discussed here are Belia Darzu, Darth Mekhis, Irek Ismaren, Eternal Rur, and Kazdan Paratus. Their abilities, the steps to recreate them, and the methods of improving them, are presented in depth.
The contents of the commentaries module are for a higher caliber of student. The techniques discussed range broadly in difficulty, from being suitable for experienced adepts or well-established experts. Regardless, only the most dedicated students of technopathy will be able to parse its contents correctly. To anyone else, the material might be interesting, but will ultimately be too specific and technical to use.
- Insights
The third module contains the bulk of Darth Adekos’ personal scholarship. This module will be virtually indecipherable to anyone who has not already attained a mastery of Technopathy and its associated arts. Even casual readings with the guidance of the Invigilator have been known to induce headaches.
Most of the subject matter contained within is comprised of Adekos’ research into the Silentium and Abominor, two ancient and advanced factions of extragalactic droids. Adekos ruthlessly hunted, dismantled, and studied these droids throughout his thirty year exile in the Unknown Regions.
It was through the dissection and study of these machines that Adekos was able to obtain his current level of mastery over Technopathy. In learning to impose his will over the inscrutable machines that haunt the furthest reaches of the galaxy, all other applications of Technopathy become trivial. This module can start others down a similar level of mastery, though the Invigilator will warn that there's no substitute for hands-on experience.
Aside from the above, the module also contains a number of research endeavors across a number of minor subjects. Perhaps the most interesting of these is the analysis of the Rakatan practice of infusing technology with the Dark Side, and the technological marvels of the Zeffo.
- Chronicle
The fourth module is not at all difficult to read, though it makes up for that by not containing any actionable knowledge. It primarily contains a chronology of the bleak, if opulent, existence of Darth Adekos. It is not a biography that needs repetition here.
Of slightly more interest are the philosophical writings Darth Adekos leaves. He expresses a number of unlikely positions for a self-described Sith: most notably his belief that the best future for this galaxy is one where it is governed wholly by irenic bureaucracy. Adekos describes this vaguely as a technocratic government that relies largely on automated technology to predict – and provide for – the needs of all sentient beings.
It is a vision of the galaxy where war, scarcity, and uncertainty are eliminated through sheer technological prowess. It also just happens to be operated and maintained from the shadows by a cabal of specially trained, ideologically motivated Sith - which Adekos deems necessary to "subtly combat corruptive and subversive elements." This vision does not call for the extermination or usurpation of the Jedi, and instead considers them a useful means to this end.
The full text of the Sictis Dialogues, the foundational documents of the Sictis Order, are also included in this module.
HISTORICAL INFORMATIONThe Holocron of Darth Adekos was constructed towards the end of his exile in the Unknown Regions. Once he felt he had mastered the secrets of the Abominor and Silentium, he selected a rogue planet in the heart of a treacherous nebula. Here, a small army of repurposed construction droids raised a self-sufficient facility powered by the planet’s natural geothermal energy.
Then, over the course of several years, he constructed the massive holocron and entombed it on that miserable world. The knowledge he had hoarded in his exile was never actually meant to be shared or distributed. This was just a capstone to his existence. Something that would remain standing, silent and forlorn, for billions of years until the heat death of the universe. The last mark he would leave on the galaxy.
Following the completion of the Holocron, Darth Adekos returned to the remains of his flagship and sealed himself in a stasis pod. Here, in the blissful grip of a dreamless sleep, he could wait to die in peace: a frozen corpse at the edge of the galaxy.
There could not be a more fitting end.
But of course, that was not the end.
Darth Empyrean
roused him from his slumber and dragged him back to galactic affairs. Upon finding that the Sictis Order was still active, Adekos decided that perhaps he could bother to share with others.
Darth Empyrean
roused him from his slumber and dragged him back to galactic affairs. Upon finding that the Sictis Order was still active, Adekos decided that perhaps he could bother to share with others.
He constructed the Adekon Receptors to allow just about anyone to access his holocron. And then, as befitting a creature that can no longer be bothered to care, distributed them freely according to his whims. The most recent pair of receptors were issued by mail to
AMCO
and
Aren D'Shade
. The names inscribed on them are "PROSPERO" and "INTERN", respectively.
AMCO
and
Aren D'Shade
. The names inscribed on them are "PROSPERO" and "INTERN", respectively.
It is not unheard of for Receptors bearing the names of Darth Adekos' deceased (or otherwise absent) peers and apprentices to surface on the black market.
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