Republic File 3402 The Monument, Cardinals and Bastion Worlds.

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This file is top secret, under the strictest of censorship, and any unauthorized access to the file, or unauthorized distribution with the file shall be counted as High Treason against the Galactic Republic, as an attempt to sow chaos, and weav discord into her worlds. This file has to deal with The Monument, The Cardinals, Bastion Worlds and everything else we have encountered in our war against The Flesh.

First encounter with the Flesh occurred Six months ago. The Republic Security Bureau had uncovered an ancient artificial construct world. The Republic scans, no life seemed to exist in the world, and we would be able to have free access to its contents. Digging operations thus began. But after two weeks of no contact, it seems we had alerted the Guardian Droids to our presence.

Addendum - Guardian Droids
Guardian Droids, were highly advanced droids designed by the Cardinals (who will be addressed later in this file) they serve as the Guardians for these facilities, along with acting as primary combat units. They are transported by teleportation matrixes, and they wield anti antomical weaponry that can turn clone armor into atomized dust, in a couple seconds. Encountering these almost means certain death, unless you're the Burst Link Of course….Thus if you encounter these droids, approach with the most extreme caution, and signal for SOS and reinforcements.

Having alerted the Guardian Droids, they had begun to slaughter our garrison on the world, rapidly. The Survivors of the Clone garrison attempted a breakthrough, into a quarantined area of the planet. The breakthrough having been successful, they entered deeper into the planet…and unfortunately brought down the security protocols which rapidly infected almost the entire garrison, in a matter of minutes. The few clone survivors, were able to haphazardly admittingly, bring back up the security protocols, before the Quaratine could be completely broken. They then of course…fell to infection. If that was it, that would of been the last we ever hear of this world, having been contained by the Guardian Droids, the Monument would of not been released. Unfortunately…the quick skirmish had alerted Separatist forces to the area…and they met a similar fate.

Separatist Forces landed down…and were confused to have faced no opposition. They then encountered the Guardian Droids…and well they met a similar fate. They attempted a retreat deeper into the planet, bringing down the haphazardly reconstructed security protocol. They would meet a similar doom to the Garrison. They would be overwhelmed, and destroyed, and with the Separatist knocking the security protocols more, it seems enough biomass was able to be amassed, to create an Avatar Of The Monument.

Addendum The Monument
The Monument is a being of a single collective mind. Originating not as a single being, but as an entire species, seemed called the Lucifen, a highly force sensitive species, they had entered into combat with the Rakatans, to keep their liberty, and to beat back the horrible foe. In a great struggle, the Lucifen Defense Force was able to hold back Rakatan slave soldier armies, and able to secure victory over them. The Rakatans though, had a weapon under there sleeve. A Transubstantion Bomb, as it was called. The weapon detonated, and melted every living creature on the Lucifens homeworld. In a horrific blaze, the Lucifen were reduced to a fleshy soup, which coated the entire planet. The Rakatans, believing that this flesh would be able to be used as a terraforming material, to reform a planet, into the ideal conditions for a Rakatan Colony. They were wrong. The Consciousness of the Lucifen population, would bind itself with the force energies of the weapon, as the weapon was built using the force. This would birth The Monument/The Flesh, as they would become a single mind, bent on Unity and Revenge. It would hijack a Rakatan scientific vehicle and spread itself across the unknown regions.

Now, The Avatar Of The Monument, would rip through Separatist forces, slaughtering them in droves, before taking the biological Separatist commander. We do not know what happened to him, just that he had died. Separatist forces would retreat deeper into the planet, with some staying behind, to try to repair the Quarantine protocols, which again they were able to, but at this point…they were so damaged, it would essentially take a metaphorical blow of the wind, to knock them down, and let the full force of the Flesh, out and to ravage the planet. Which unfortunately, that metaphorical wind, would come in the form of the Burst Link, which were following The Separatist fleet. They made land down, encountered the Guardians and destroyed Separatist forces, retreated deeper into the facility, brought down the quarantine protocols and had to combat The Flesh, and the Avatar of The Monument, Which Caesar Ogara combined with Clone forces were able to get down. A temporary truce with the Separatist, would allow the surviving Separatist forces to escape the planet. Unfortunately…this escape allowed the Flesh to escape, as it was brought forward onto Separatist vehicles, specifically a Scientific exploration vessel of an Assistant to Doctor Zandroshian.

Our next encounter with the Flesh occurred several weeks later. In the storming of One of Doctor Zandroshians base’s, we had encountered, that he had taken samples of the flesh, to attempt to enhance his sick AB2 experiment. This of course got out…and it seems the planet biomass would be subsumed. Of course without his or our realization…it then seemingly got out, infected Zandroshian, who had been promptly murdered on board the ship by Alpha Arc 65. But…this along with several other, vectors of infection from Separatist craft, would act as a rapid spread of the infection.

We would of course investigate, and after getting information from a Guardian Droid ran planet. We began to unravel the mystery of the flesh discovering both the Cardinals, and Codex’s and Bastion Worlds.

Addendum Cardinals

Cardinals are an ancient Demi God like species, who seemingly have full access to the Force. They possessed a myriad of technologies that we can barely comprehend, and can’t even really replicate. They believed in a philosophy of embracing both what the Jedi call “The Light And The Dark.” They seemed to abhor war and violence, and would essentially act as Galactic Watchers, not even intervening in the Lucifens attempts of resistance against the Rakatans. The Cardinals, though when the Flesh outbreak began, mobilized against it…they though could not alone, keep it contained, thus they built. The Bastion Worlds and Sacrificed themselves to power them.

Addendum Bastion Worlds.

Bastion Worlds are artificial construct worlds, different to the other classes of artificial worlds they had built. Bastion Worlds were the last stop at containing The Monument. They had a large contingent of Bastion Droid garrison, along with various other esoteric defenses, we do not know about, as we still do not know where one is. The main weapon of a Bastion World, is a large cannon like structure, which could be also compared to an enlarged lightsaber in structure. This cannon has to be powered by an array Crystals which contains the energies and being of a Cardinal. That is right the entirety of the Cardinal Species sacrificed themselves, to power these things…and what they can do is utterly shocking. Once fired, all life within a set parameter is eradicated…burnt. It seems to destroy both the body, and the beings presence within the force. Essentially destroying the soul, if one wishes to believe in such a thing. How many there are we do not know…but one was at the very least fired, and destroyed the vast majority of the Flesh. But The Cardinals, being too morally obsessed with their own virtues, kept the survivors alive…especially The Monument itself…their Guardian Droids programmed to take it captive, and to contain it. To try to “convert it.” to righteousness. This unfortunately did not take into account outside factors, like other factions breaking into the containment, and letting out pieces of the Flesh/The Monument, and the fact this thing was royally pissed off at life…and is seemingly hell bent on unifying it. So now, we have to deal with The Flesh once again, and we do not have Demi God powered super weapons to deal with. Even if we did, I doubt the Jedi would approve of the use of such a devastating weapon. Well, maybe it could be fine tuned…maybe a frequency could be used, finding the I guess frequency of the Flesh, and have the weapon only target that…but I have no damn clue, if that would even work. Now you must be asking where did we get such information, simple from a Codex World.