Cyanogen silicate was a chemical compound utilized in medicine by doctors and healers of both the Galactic Republic and the Old Sith Empire. Utilized as a powerful cauterizing agent by the Sith species's Massassi warrior caste, the compound was used by the Human Seelah Korsin in 4,985 BBY to frame Ravilan Wroth and his fellow Sith for the deaths of hundreds of the native Keshiri on the planet Kesh, and the xenopathologist Archiban Kimble used cyanogen silicate as part of his cure for a flesh-eating disease over a thousand years later.

CharacteristicsEdit

A chemical compound, cyanogen silicate was used as a cauterizing agent in its solid form to heal the wounds of the Massassi warrior caste of the Sith species, as their tough hides proved resistant to treatment by other agents. However, the compound became incredibly deadly when exposed to moisture, killing members of the Humans, Keshiri, and Sith species within minutes after exposure, regardless of whether it was ingested or simply touched. Moisture also broke down the compound in addition to intensifying its effects, meaning that a single particle per billion could kill hundreds of people if it was inserted into a settlement's water supply.^[1]

HistoryEdit

Cyanogen silicate was used by the Sith Empire as a cauterizing agent as early as the Great Hyperspace War with the Galactic Republic in 5,000 BBY, and the Sith starship Omen carried a supply in its sick bay before the ship crashed on the planet Kesh that year. One of the deck plates in the wreckage had become stained with cyanogen silicate, and the Keshiri Gorem came into contact with the contaminated plate while searching the crushed sections of the ship. Despite washing his hands, Gorem died minutes afterward, living only long enough to exit the wreckage of the Omen before collapsing. The Human Seelah Korsin had a supply of the compound on the Omen, as did the ship's Sith pureblood quartermaster Ravilan Wroth, and in 4,985 BBY Wroth used the compound to poison the aqueducts of the native Keshiri's city of Tetsubal. By massacring Tetsubal's inhabitants, Wroth hoped to convince the other survivors of the Omen's crash that they should separate themselves from the Keshiri population and concentrate on escaping the planet.^[1]

However, Seelah Korsin deduced Wroth's hand in the events at Tetsubal, and she ordered her aide Tilden Kaah to use her own supply of cyanogen silicate to poison several other local water supplies and thereby frame Wroth and his fellow Sith survivors for the massacres. Korsin's plan worked, resulting in the purge of all pureblood Sith from Kesh.^[1] Around 3,642 BBY, over a thousand years later, cyanogen silicate was a known compound in the Galactic Republic, and the xenopathologist Archiban Kimble—better known as Doc—acquired supplies of cyanogen silicate, ardanium, and accellerite in his work to cure a rare flesh-eating disease that was afflicting the Hutt Suudaa Nem'ro. He brought the chemicals aboard the ship of his ally, the Jedi Knight known as the Hero of Tython, and completed the mixture there.^[2]

Behind the scenesEdit

Cyanogen silicate first appeared in John Jackson Miller's 2010 eBook Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon, where it is a major plot point in the contention between Seelah Korsin and Ravilan Wroth. It received another mention in Star Wars: The Old Republic, a video game released by BioWare and LucasArts in 2011, during the conversation "Looking for a Cure" with Doc.

AppearancesEdit

• Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon (First appearance)
• Star Wars: The Old Republic (Mentioned only)

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