A Dark Time — vevnos.com

It is a dark time.

“They were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.”

—Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator

The Jedi Knights are gone…

In their place stands an endless bureaucracy and the hardened New Order of the Galactic Empire. Fear keeps whole systems in line; not the justice that once thrived in the Old Republic, under the old guard. The Jedi. In this new galaxy, a distant and irrelevant Emperor rules in name only, a mere figurehead atop the great and greedy colossus which spreads out across millions of worlds, crushing all that would stand in its path, with the strength of an awesome military power.

A Dark Time stands apart from A New Hope, particularly in the sense that the galaxy has become a truly oppressive place, and the hope suggested in the latter does not exist in this galaxy. Luke Skywalker was killed in the attack on the Lars homestead; there will be no return of the Jedi.

The first sparks of rebellion have begun to flash across several cruelly oppressed worlds, but they are not yet a fire; nor significant enough to seriously challenge the might of the Galactic Empire. The spectre of Darth Vader, the ancient warlord and veteran of the Clone Wars a generation past, looms large across whole sectors of space like a giant shadow, ever vigilant against dissent.

Yet not all hope is lost. As with all tyranny, its brute instincts are no match for the cunning and fury of those who bear the brunt of its authority.

A History of the Clone Wars

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The project’s roots lay in industrialist fears that the labour shortage would wipe entire corporations out of existence in a matter of days. I cannot stress enough that there were imminent fears of economic collapse. The decision resulted in the creation of multiple research sites. Alderaan had one, Fyori and Taris each had one, I’m certain there was one on Carida, and Coruscant was littered with them. They all operated largely in secret.

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Xenon Bioengineering are the first and last word in galactic bioengineering, having cornered the market in a massive takeover shortly before the end of the Old Republic.

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Gorgon-Spit

Perhaps the most unfortunate side-effect of the cloning process is the accelerated decrepitude it generates, which has been well-documented. All of the clones were initially limited to a very few short years of life. It was corporate investment toward this end, after the expenditure of considerable time and resources and exposing the organisation to risk, which developed a counter-measure to ensure a longer-lived clone.

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