- "It looks like Derg encrypted a lengthy message on this data disk. So far I have found what looks like important coordinates to a secret laboratory on Lok. Apparently he was working on some sort of illicit project. Feel like going on a trip to Lok?"
- ―Cale Herron, to a spacer
A secret laboratory was owned by the scientist Derg Prantis on the planet Lok during the Galactic Civil War.
History
- "Derg didn't know who to trust so he thought of me. We go back a few years. He wanted me to get to the laboratory and evacuate his staff and destroy evidence before assassin teams arrived."
- ―Cale Herron, to a spacer
A view inside the laboratory's perimeter.
By the time of the Battle of Yavin, the Tatooinian biologist Derg Prantis obtained a sample of the dreadful Blackwing virus from an Imperial scientist.[1] The Empire had secretly recruited a group of scientists on the planet Dathomir to turn the virus into a bioweapon.[3] Prantis therefore built a secret laboratory on the remote planet Lok to conduct his own research on the virus in order to create a super soldier drug.[1]
Derg Prantis was soon betrayed by his lab assistant, Bera Jeza, who contacted the Hutt Crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure to sell him the super soldier drug. Having discovered the betrayal, the scientist requested his long time associate Cale Herron to help him evacuate his secret lab and destroy evidence.[1] However, the lab was brutally attacked before Herron could intervene and the entire staff was assassinated.[4] Prantis eventually returned to Tatooine.[5]
A mysterious datapad next to the body of a dead Twi'lek.
In 1 ABY,[6] Derg Prantis was assassinated in the Mos Eisley Biolab.[5] A spacer investigating the crime later encountered the Zabrak slicer Cale Herron. The latter tasked the spacer with traveling to Lok and searching for clues in the secret laboratory.[1] The spacer ended up finding a mysterious datapad next to the body of a dead Twi'lek.[4] The investigation finally led to the discovery of the Blackwing virus outbreak on Dathomir.[3]
Behind the scenes
The Secret Laboratory 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.[7] The Secret Laboratory was added to the game with the "Game Update 13," released on September 30, 2009.[8] This location was part of the questline "Something is Obviously Wrong,"[1] an introduction to the "Death Troopers" update.[9]
Appearances
- Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) (First appearance)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8
Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "The Plan" on Tatooine
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Find Cale Herron" on Tatooine
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Investigate Dathomir" on Lok
- ↑ 4.0 4.1
Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Find Clues" on Lok
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Bera Jeza's Employer" on Tatooine
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: Game Update 13 -- Chronicle Master System on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (original site is defunct)
- ↑ Game Update 14: Death Troopers on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (original site is defunct)
