Mother Machine

"It's like those Rakata freaks were taking existing species and picking and choosing useful parts. Modular life form adaptation. You can't make this stuff up."

―Bolan to Kallig.^[src]

The Mother Machine was a device constructed by the ancient Rakata during the closing years of their Infinite Empire. Its development came when the Force-sensitive Rakata began losing their connection to the Force. Those few of their kind that survived retreated to their prison world of Belsavis where they began experiments in restoring their Force sensitivity.^[1]

Among the basis of these experiments was a machine that had the ability to create new Force-sensitive species which was known as the Mother Machine. This was a sentient artificial intelligence that was responsible for creating numerous races ranging from Twi'lek to Zabrak to Esh-kha with each of these the Mother Machine maintaining a strong connection to as she saw them as her "children." In time, the Mother Machine took the name Ashaa and became furious when the Rakata enslaved her and imprisoned her "children."^[1]

Those Rakata that remained to maintain the artificial intelligence claimed that it simply mimicked the concept of motherhood with any connection between the Mother Machine towards its creations being a fabrication. They maintained that ultimately the Mother Machine was simply a device that was heartless and incapable of any real form of empathy.^[1]

During the Cold War, a Sith Inquisitor journeyed to Belsavis to find the Rakata Mother Machine in order for the Sith to regain their power.^[2]