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Exiting his ship, Sidious swiftly moved deeper into the mountain of Wayland, his black cloak billowing behind him as he moved.
First, Sidious checked on the projects he had known about going in, all of which seems to be puttering along nicely. None of them, however, were why he was really here. The ones he didn't know much about were: the ones his master had mentioned, the new experiments begun since the invasion of Naboo.
Plagueis had been his usual organized self, installing the new experiment on the highest levels of the mountain with the known experiments on the levels below. This included the storage facility for the original cloning cylinders they had purchased and then squirreled away from the Kaminoans. They were there waiting to be used in the future, but Sidious quickly saw that half them were missing. I wonder what he has done with them? Well, I will find out soon enough.
Ascending to the topmost level of the hidden facility, Sidious was stopped by several automated defense systems coming online. "Halt and be recognized. Further attempts to move forward will result in your destruction and the destruction of this facility," droned a robotic voice out of a nearby speaker.
"I am Darth Sidious, Lord of the Sith, as you well know," Sidious intoned coldly. "This is my mountain. Let me pass or be destroyed."
"Where is Master Plagueis?" the same droid voice replied.
"Master Plagueis is dead," Sidious intoned, becoming angrier by the second but keeping a firm rein on it through the ease of a lifetime's practice. "I alone rule the Sith now. You have two seconds to turn off these defenses and get out of my way, or I will rip them and you asunder, IG-42."
For a moment there was nothing, than the automated guns shut down, pulling back into their recesses, while the door on the far side of them opened. On the other side was a large medical droid of a type found throughout the Republic. Its normally gray or white body had been painted a deep matte black, its eyes glowing not the normal yellow or white of such droids, but orange. Its grill, too, had been replaced by a narrower version.
All in all it looked the most sinister example of its basic design that Sidious had ever seen, though he was immune to the effect. He stared, a single millisecond away from rendering the droid down into pieces.
The droid's new words, however, caused him to pause. "Forgive me, Lord Sidious; Master Plagueis left instructions to keep the security on this level and his new experiments on high during his absence. He also left no orders in regards to what I should do in the event that you came here before he did."
"And do you have any orders in the event of his death?" Sidious asked, still cold. This droid irritated him for some reason. It always had. But it was too good at its job to simply do away with it without having a replacement available.
"Should the master be declared dead, I am to obey your commands as if you were him unless evidence suggests that you had anything to do with his death. As I have no connection to any off world Internet connection or Hypercom device, that portion of my programming is mute," IG-42 replied.
Sidious debated cutting the droid in half immediately, but decided against it. It might have been wired into some kind of doomsday device, the droid no longer being part of the loop perhaps activating said program. "Show me Plagueis' latest experiments, then."
"This way." The droid nodded its head and clumped down the corridor. They stopped at the first door, opening it. "These are the master's newest experiments. Would you like a running commentary? I have induced in my databanks verbal records of the former master's activities."
Inside were some of the missing cloning cylinders. Sidious swiftly counted five, which left forty still missing. "How many experiments was Plagueis running that had to do with cloning? And then yes, tell me the details of this experiment," he asked aloud, stepping forward and staring into the cloning cylinder. Inside was a human boy who looked perfectly normal, at least in the first cylinder. In the second…was something else entirely.
"Three out of his five newest experiments had to do with cloning and genetics, master. This particular experiment had to deal with genetic meshing." An instant later the droid continued in Plagueis' voice. "Subject number two-zero-zero-five. A genetically modified clone based upon mixing the genetics of Jango Fett and Sidious' assassin Maul. Through manipulation of the Force I have made certain that his connection to the Force will not fade. Zabraks and Humans can breed to a certain extent; however, the impact of my manipulations might have a detrimental effect on his mental stability. It should be interesting to see if he becomes more or less than the sum of its parts."
"Details, droid!" Sidious ordered. "What exactly was done to this one? What indoctrination is being inputted into its programming?"
"The programming is a mix that Master Plagueis devised himself, master. The clone will believe that it is a Mandalorian who has been taken and trained in the ways of the Sith. In this manner the clone should be able to call on the best of both worlds. As for further genetic modification, Plagueis felt that doing so would add to the chances that it would be mentally unstable, which currently has a possibility of 43.00987 percent."
The droid continued, becoming more animated as it described how it and Plagueis had manipulated the genetic codes of two men into creating the clone in the cylinder. It had been a very difficult operation, but Plagueis had been as mush scientist as Sith, and IG-42 had the programming to be the equal of the original clone masters.
Sidious said nothing as he moved through the room, looking at the three other cylinders. In two of them were Maul clones, barely toddlers at the moment, while in the third and last cylinder was another unmodified clone of Jango Fett. "And this one?"
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