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At that question the droid once more replayed a verbal recording of Plagueis, something that Sidious was not pleased to hear but could do nothing about at the moment. "Subject two-zero-zero-two. This subject is the original unmodified clone promised to Jango Fett as his payment for allowing himself to be cloned in the first place. A completely unmodified, or indoctrinated or programmed clone, for now, at any rate. That might change, but at present he serves more as a source of fresh genetic material than in any capacity on its own."
"That implies that this other one is modified in some way?" Sidious mused. This cylinder contained a baby, very obviously not nearly as far along in the growing process as the first, but with no visible difference beside that. "And answer in your own words, droid."
"Affirmative," the droid replied, accepting the order, though Sidious might have heard a tone of derision or irritation there. "That one has been modified via scientific methods. It will be faster, stronger, and more docile, though its life expectancy after reaching its full growth will be measured in years rather than decades."
"Interesting." Plagueis didn't mention that one, but I suppose since it matches to the commando type clone the cloners are creating for us it hardly matters. "And do you have further unaltered genetic data from Fett?"
When the droid answered in the affirmative, indicating several small freezer units set to the other side of the lab, Sidious smiled grimly. "Then the unaltered clone is redundant." Activating his lightsaber, Sidious stabbed the red plasma beam through the cloning cylinder. It seared through the boy's chest and out the other side, burning his heart out.
The clone boy gasped, coming awake only to die, and Sidious smiled as he felt his death through the Force, however slightly. After all, while the death occurred right in front of him, the boy had not been a Force sensitive. But still, that brief flare of agony was delicious. Feeling it, Sidious further wrapped himself in the Dark Side, much of his anger at his miscalculation fading as he allowed his sadism a moment of free rein, something he could rarely do.
Quickly pulling his lightsaber out, he did not deactivate it as he turned to the droid, the red of the blade adding to the red of a series of alarms as the monitors on the cylinder behind him screamed out a warning, quickly silenced by IG-42. "Do you have any issues with what I just did?"
"Negative," IG-42 intoned. "You are the Master of Wayland and the Sith. You can do with these experiments what you wish. I would prefer you not to destroy them all. My primary mission at present is to watch over them and to take notes on their progress. But if you wish to get rid of one test subject or many, that is well within your rights as Master."
"Good," Sidious said simply, deactivating his lightsaber and hanging it openly on his waist now rather than under his cloak. "Show me the experiments that don't have to do with cloning. We'll come back to those in a moment. These four, at least, I will allow to continue to grow for now."
The other two experiments IG-42 was in charge of had to deal with Sith alchemy. Sidious found Sith alchemy fascinating, but he had never shown any aptitude towards it, something that angered him, but which he could not do anything about. He could manipulate minds, but not the bodies of people to this extent.
Two of these experiments had to deal with the effects of Sith alchemy on the human body, making it tougher, stronger, more susceptible to control. The third had to deal with creating monsters through Sith Alchemy. His master had attempted to reproduce some of the ancient beasts that the Sith had used in their long ago wars against the Jedi Order.
Those experiments Sidious dealt with quickly, ending their tortured existence personally before ordering the droid to activate the emergency flamethrowers each cage had installed, burning their bodies all to ash. If a beast such as that could not be controlled effectively, Sidious had no place for it in his designs for the future. It was control that was key, not creating chaos like these things seemed to revel in.
The others, however, were interesting and Sidious ordered the droid to keep track of their growth. The effect of Sith alchemy on the human body, a series of experiments that Sidious found fascinating. Of course, continuing those experiments would take a dedicated individual here to keep the experiments going.
Following that line of thought, he turned to IG-42. "Tell me, droid: if I was to install someone else in this mountain with the specific orders to follow up on these Sith alchemic experiments of Plagueis', what could you do to halt him from any attempts to do anything beyond that specific sanction?"
"I could do much, master," IG-42 said, and it might have been Sidious' imagination but for a moment its eyes seemed to glow slightly brighter at the very idea. "For one thing, each of these rooms is programmed with bombs underneath them should any subject attempt to escape. For another, they cannot be deactivated and are rather on a dead droid's switch. If I am not present and online in the room when someone is in here, the bombs will go off instantly. Further, the former master implanted in me numerous devices which allow me some combat capability."
"Define that," Sidious ordered.
The droid took two steps backwards away from Sidious, and suddenly a shield glowed around it. "As I am not made of flesh and blood, the radiation of the shield matters not to me. It is based upon the shield the droidekas use."
One of its arms transformed slowly into a large blaster cannon, while an iris on his leg opened, revealing a lightsaber. "While I am in no way able to use the Force, I have programmed within me several different combat methodologies."
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