- "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: The Complete Online Adventures (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: The Complete Online Adventures — Quest: "The Plan" on Tatooine
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures — Quest: "Find Cale Herron" on Tatooine
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures — Quest: "Investigate Dathomir" on Lok
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures — Quest: "Find Clues" on Lok
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures — Quest: "Bera Jeza's Employer" on Tatooine
- ↑ According to its opening crawl, Star Wars Galaxies was set sometime after Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. The only precise time indication in the game was given by the character Ruwan Tokai, who referenced the destruction of the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin as occurring one year earlier, placing the game sometime around 1 ABY. Later, multiple elements confirmed the placement of the game storyline in 1 ABY. First, The Essential Reader's Companion established that the tie-in novel Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine took place in 1 ABY. Furthermore, the game expansion Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees was set during the Blockade of Kashyyyk, one year after the Battle of Yavin according to The Star Wars Holiday Special. Additionally, the main scenario of The Nightsister's Revenge from the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game was set over a year before the Battle of Hoth (3 ABY), so around 1.5 ABY. Finally, the reference book Strongholds of Resistance placed the events of Star Wars Galaxies's Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" one year after the Battle of Yavin. Of note, Galaxies's Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" introduced the Battle of Hoth in the game. However, the developers were quite clear that this was only intended to be a completely isolated "Star Wars Moment" without any effect on continuity for the rest of the game.
- ↑ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: Game Update 13 -- Chronicle Master System on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Game Update 14: Death Troopers on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (content now obsolete; backup link)
