Mos Eisley Biolab

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"Bera Jeza worked at a local biolab here in Mos Eisley."
"Right. We know this already. Mos Eisley Biolab."
―A spacer and Bib Fortuna[1]

Mos Eisley Biolab was a biotechnology company based in Mos Eisley, on the planet Tatooine.

History

"This is Derg Prantis and it may very well may be my last recording. I've barricaded myself in the biolab hoping to buy some time while I contact the authorities but someone is jamming my comm-signal."
―Derg Prantis[1]

The Twi'lek biologist Derg Prantis served as chief scientist and one of his employees was the Aqualish lab assistant Bera Jeza.[1] By the time of the Battle of Yavin, Derg Prantis obtained a sample of the dreadful Blackwing virus from an Imperial scientist. Prantis therefore conducted his own research on the virus in order to create a super soldier drug. The scientist recruited Bera Jeza to help him the project. However, Jeza soon betrayed her employer and contacted Hutt Crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure to sell him the super soldier drug.[2] In 1 ABY,[3] the laboratory in Mos Eisley was ravaged and the scientists Bera Jeza and Derg Prantis were assassinated. Because of the relationship between Bera Jeza and the Crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure, Bib Fortuna hired a spacer to investigate the murders.[1] Thanks to the help of the slicer Cale Herron, the investigation eventually led to the discovery of the Blackwing virus outbreak on Dathomir.[4]

Behind the scenes

The Mos Eisley Biolab appeared as a location in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[5] The Mos Eisley Biolab was added to the game with the "Game Update 13", released on September 30, 2009.[6] This location was part of the questline "Something is Obviously Wrong,"[1] an introduction to the "Death Troopers" update.[7]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Bera Jeza's Employer" on Tatooine
  2. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "The Plan" on Tatooine
  3. ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  4. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Investigate Dathomir" on Lok
  5. ↑ Gal-icon IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  6. ↑ Gal-icon Star Wars Galaxies: Game Update 13 -- Chronicle Master System on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (original site is defunct)
  7. ↑ Gal-icon Game Update 14: Death Troopers on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (original site is defunct)

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