Eternal Father
- Intent: Create a slave soldier for the Kainate
- Image Credit:
- Click - Phillip Williams
- Headers -
Ingrid L'lerim
- Role: Slave Soldier
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: N/A
- Unit Name: Kyantuskagrotthu - Battle Thralls
- Affiliation: The Kainate
- Classification: Decraniated Slave Soldier
- Description: The Kyantuskagrotthu (lit. Mind Slave) was an invention of Darth Carnifex and the mad scientist Prospero, the robotic simulacrum of the late Adrian Vandiir. To create a Kyantuskagrotthu involved the abduction of a Humanoid sentient, preferably an adult Human, who would then be subjected to the inhumane Decraniation process. The upper half of their head would be surgically removed and replaced with a cybernetic control device, transforming them into little more than an organic droid subservient to the commands of its creator. Experiments with cloned individuals being turned into Kyantuskagrotthu have been attempted, although preference for kidnapped individuals remains prominent.
Once transformed, several Kyantuskagrotthu were remotely slaved to a Tsudakyr drone through alterations in the cybernetic programming and chemical injections into the spinal cord. Many Tsudakyr drones were controlled in turn by Overminds, aptly compared to the generals of an army whereas the drones were captains and the Kyantuskagrotthu were footsoldiers.
The Kyantuskagrotthu were outfitted with rudimentary equipment that lacked complexity in its usages, such as mass-produced armor and point-and-shoot variable blaster rifles. Kyantuskagrotthu were prohibited from operating machinery and computers and were accompanied by PEX1-S Multi-Role Probots to bypass obstacles defended by software encryption or complicated locking mechanisms.
Deployment alongside regular Kainate infantry units was common, utilizing the simplistic swarm-wave tactics of the Kyantuskagrotthu against an enemy in conjunction with the tightly refined mechanized warfare of the Grand Army. Transportation for the Kyantuskagrotthu was procured through the Shadow Armada, the Kainate's elusive naval arm, who utilized expendable transports to carry out deep strike insertions into enemy territory to rapidly disgorge Kyantuskagrotthu units before the enemy had a chance to solidify their defense.
- Unit Size: Large
- Unit Availability: Common
- Unit Experience: Rabble
- Equipment:
- Combat Function: The greatest advantage the Kyantuskagrotthu possessed was their numbers. The Kainate had processed hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of unwilling slaves into decraniated soldiers, with thousands more processed every galactic standard day. Lacking higher functions to perform complex actions, the Kyantuskagrotthu instead engaged in rampant swarm tactics to overwhelm enemies with sheer numbers. Lacking independent thought, Kyantuskagrotthu would attack regardless of the danger posed to them and would only cease if the Tsudakyr controlling them was destroyed or they were all expended in the attack.
- Servile Fodder Troops
- Swarm Tactics
- Non-Autonomous
- Non-Complex Actions
The history of the Kyantuskagrotthu dates back to the early days of the One Sith's reign over the Core Worlds. Kaine Zambrano, then known as Darth Vornskr, had experimented on various political and war prisoners by removing portions of their brains to see how well they could function without certain parts. Most of his experiments died very quickly or were rendered catatonic. While these were wholesale disappointments, they did not deter the Sith Lord from pushing his experiments to more grotesque extremes.
Eventually, he had uncovered old manuscripts on how to fabricate Decraniated. A Decraniated was a widely outlawed invention, the methods to creating such a creature highly illegal and scrubbed from any and all centers of knowledge. Zambrano had discovered the manuscript in an old datavault hidden beneath Coruscant's bustling upper levels, placed between two apartment structures that had been built long after the vault had been. Zambrano evicted the tenants and plundered the entire vault of its secrets before destroying it to cover his tracks.
Taking the knowledge back to his laboratories, Zambrano gave the manuscript to the mad surgeon Odo Quiroga. Odo specialized in bodily modification through invasive surgery and quickly went to work replicating the manuscript's work. Initial trials resulted in death, but Odo quickly adapted and managed to create several rudimentary successes. The mad surgeon would find no shortage of test subjects as Zambrano took over the Galactic Justice Center on Coruscant and transformed it into the Black Pyramid, making use of its former purpose as a detention center to imprison thousands of civilians within its walls and subject them to horrific experiments.
As the war ended in favor of the Jedi, the Black Pyramid was destroyed to hide any record of Zambrano's experiments and he and his followers fled into the Outer Rim. The experiments continued in secret, Zambrano abducting thousands and thousands across the galaxy to us as fodder in Odo's surgeries. Eventually, they would succeed in perfecting the Decraniation process and create the first batch of Kyantuskagrotthu. Zambrano had the process streamlined to machine efficiency and conducted mass abductions during his reign as Sith Emperor and after.
Abductions continue to this very day, and the ranks of the Kyantuskagrotthu continue to swell.
