Captain, I have a strange request for you.

While working through the datacrons, our researchers were able to decrypt a tiny amount of data and find something interesting. Have you ever heard of the planet Orto Plutonia? I doubt you have. It was a small outpost world used during the Clone Wars, and it was officially rather unremarkable. Both the Republic and the Separatists had bases here, but they mysteriously disappeared, one after the other. When a relief force arrived led by Obi-Wan Kenobi and several Clone Cold Assault Troopers, they found the sites of massacres. It seems that the local Talz population went mad one day, and completely massacred both forces and mounted their disfigured bodies on spikes. In fact, the situation became so feral that the Republic ended up turning the world over to the Talz, and the Pantoran Government that originally held sovereignty over the area tried to remove the planet from most records. The truth of the matter is much more complex. The madness described was also felt by the troopers and even Obi-Wan had terrible nightmares on that world. Strange visions and thoughts permeated, and communications failed with Glid Station, the Republic outpost, long before the massacres took place. Sometime during this conflict, a lukrehulk-class droid control ship crashed onto the planet. It was under the command of Nor Fik, then leader of the Colicoids of Colla IV and Nar Shadda, and the devious mind behind the droideka destroyer droid. We believe he was trying to decipher this same madness and maybe hoped to implement it as a weapon of terror, dropping it on Republic worlds and have the people destroy themselves. We need you to investigate the ruins of the lucrehulk ship. Find the records or the research logs, and if possible, find what is causing the madness. Whatever it is, it is of a sinister origin and deserves to be studied and applied by our own military or destroyed if too powerful. You will be well compensated for this, and you may find that the personal logs of such an inventor may have some technologies that simply never were released due to his untimely death. However, know that resistance will be fierce, both from the intense cold of the planet and from the populace. It is likely that you may encounter resistance from the Talz, or even from the fearsome narglatches that wander the tundra. Good luck Captain, hopefully we weren t the only ones to pick up on this from the Emperor s datacrons.

Admiral Ackbar- Minister of Defense