An empty shell

[Odan Thos]

Several Kaminoes stood around the tank looking at the clone. It was a female Zeltros looking about in her early to mid twenties. The Zeltros was naked in the tank in a fetal position. It w

"So when does she come out of her tank?" One of the Kaminoes asked.

"When the original arrives. Until then she must remain in stasis." Another Kamino responded.

One of the screens light up and the Kamino looked at it. It then pushed a button which activated a small needle to push into the neck of the zeltros. "The original better get here fast, the clone is breaking down the drugs at an increasing rate. We can only suspend all brain activity for a few more days. After that no amount of drugs and neural restraints will keep her from waking up."

All the Kaminoes looked in at the woman and wondered what would happen if they failed. They had heard about the horrible abilities that Lady Natcha possessed and she had said she they must keep it in a brain dead state or they would be just as worthless to her as the clone.

[Odan Thos]

The Spyglass exited hyperspace near the Kamino homeworld and headed directly towards one of the smaller cities in the southern hemisphere. The city was not visible from space, but as the small corvette broke through the storm the landing pad became visible. “Set it down on the pad Captain. I want you to have the guest quarters made up. The one across from mine. Also have the crew prepared; the resemblance is going to very close but not exactly the same. Here is the biographical data that the crew needs to know about our guess. Enjoy.” Lady Natcha walked out off the bridge towards the loading ramp. The captain did not ask any questions or act as if he disliked his task. He heard the rumors of what Natcha had done to those she disliked.

Natcha walked off the ship as soon as it had landed. Somewhat to her shock, as soon as she stepped off the ship, the director of cloning for the city was walking out the door to meet her. He walked up and extended his hand. “My lady, I am glad you arrived so promptly. The clone you had selected has an amazing immune system and mind; breaking down all the methods we know to suppress neural activity.” While Natcha did not shake his hand, she did head directly for the door. She already knew were the clone was; she could sense its presence in the Force.

The director followed Lady Natcha to the turbolift. “It is on level nine correct?” Natcha said having already pushed the button. The Kamino confirmed this as they rode down in silence. The Kamino did not try to force small talk on the women; she made him nerves just being next to her. Lady Natcha could sense this and took a sick sense of joy from it. She was learning to feed off of others emotions; using them to fuel her own connection to the Force.

When the doors open, Lady Natcha took the lead as she walked through the lab, following the Force to her clone. She passed several more Kaminoes through the labs, each of them noticeable trying not to make eye contact. As she approached the tank which the version of herself was floating, she slowly placed her hand on the glass. It was real all the sudden. A lifeform unnaturally brought into existence; and only for the sole purpose of stratify her need to have a connection with someone. She wanted a bond which was like that between her and her father, her and her mother, her and her son. It was this type of bond between family which ran the deepest in the Force and this clone would be as if she had a twin sister. And this time it would not be ripped away from her. All that was left was to cast the illusion which would become its memories.

[Odan Thos]

Lady Natcha told the group of Kaminoes to leave her with the clone. The Kaminoes quickly exited, hopping not to upset Lady Natcha. Lady Natcha removed her sunglasses and her armor and set them in a pill next to the tank. She then sat down on the floor with her legs cross looking up at the tank. With a slight twitch of her finger the drug and neural restraint deactivated in order to allow the illusion be accepted into its mind. Lady drew on the darkside of the force to upload the illusion into the mind. It drew off of many of the same people that Lady Natcha had ripped the knowledge for their minds and also her own imagination. She knew the way the mind worked. The illusion of her life could be performed at extremely high speed sense the information would simple be stored, but the illusion would need to be complete.

Elisa Senda was born on Zeltros to Marcus and Jennie on the same day as Princess Kitana. Her father was a miner by trade while her mother was a doctor. Sadly her mother died shortly after giving to Elisa. This left Elisa’s father to raise her. Her father did his best to provide for his daughter, but Elisa’s loving nature made her instantly likeable. This trait would lead to her friendship with Kitana.

The two girls would meet when they both ended up at a party. The mixed them up and when they seen each other they could tell why. The two girls spent the night talking, sharing their early life over several Juma Juices. After that night the two girls started to spend more time together. Shopping, lunch, double dates; just fun things. Occasionally they would trade places just to mess around with people. The two of them developed a special bond with each other and the two soon became more like sisters then friends.

At that age of sixteen Elisa’s father was transferred to Polus to mine run the second largest carbonite mine on the planet. Elisa went with her father to Polus, leaving her friend Kitana behind. The two of them stayed in contact for two more years threw the HoloNet, but Elisa turned eighteen, she left Polus to go to college at Corenet College like her mother.

While at Corenet College, Elisa was studied medicine in hopes of becoming a doctor like her mother. However because her busy schedual she sent few messages to Kitana, while Kitana seemed to have fallen off the face of the planet as well. She studied hard to maintain a perfect grade point average and after six years she graduated valedictorian of her class with a degree in general medicine.

She returned to Polus to work in a medical clinch where she offered her sevices to miners for only the bare minimum cost. One day there was a collapse in a the mineshaft were a crew was working. When she got down there, she found her father lying on the ground. He had apparently pushed on of him miners out of the way and hit with a large rock. She checked his vital signs, but he was bleeding internally. He placed his hand on her arm and whispered into her ear; “Don’t worry sweetie. We all have to leave sometime. I will tell your mother what a fine young women you become. I love you.” He then closed his eyes, and died.

Elisa took her father’s death pretty hard. She traded her house and everything in it for a small ship and she headed back towards Zeltros. Her ship however was not the greatest; and on the way there she ran into hyperdrive problems. The ship drifted in space for a week, slowly running out of power. It was only fate that her old friend Kitana felt her friend in the Force and came to rescue her. She found her nearly dead onboard her ship, but she lacked the proper medical facilities to treat her. So she set course to Kamino, the closest world with advance medical personel. She had gotten Elisa there just in time, but she would be spending several weeks in a bacta tank before she would even wake up. Kitana stayed at her friends side the entire time just hopping that her presence would someway help her recovery.

The illusion took two days to case. It included the smallest details like the way something smelled or the feeling of a stranger bumping into her. Once she hand finished she stood up open her eyes and leaned against the wall next to the tank. It took several more hours for Elisa’s own mind to assimilate the illusion into memories, but when it did she tapped onto the tank. Kitana looked up and seen her friend. Kitana called the Kaminoes back in and they got Elisa out of the tank.

Kitana walked up and hugged her friend. “Elisa, I am so glad that you are okay. Don’t you know better than trust a Fondor piece of shit like the ship you were in.” Kitana smiled and hugged her again.

Elisa looked at Kitana for a second, it was not the same sixteen year old wild girl from her memories. She had matured also, “That is the great thing about being me. I have you to always pull my back end out of the fire.” Elisa looked down at her naked body then back up at Kitana. “Maybe I could get some cloths? I don’t think it would look good if I walked out of this room with only my birthday suit on.” The two girls laughed as a Kamino walked in with a set of robes.

Elisa put the robes on and Kitana extended her hand towards the exit. “Come on, I will buy the first rounds when we get back to Zeltros. You know, you look about the same size I am, maybe a slightly smaller cup. I bet my cloths before I had my son would fit you. Come on, I got them on my ship.” Kitana tugged on Elisa’s hand.

Elisa was shocked to hear that Kitana had a kid, but someone that sleep with as many men as she did had to beat the odds eventually. The two girls talked on their way to the corvette, and Elisa soon realized that it was a good thing that she had left Polus. She thought her problems were bad, but Kitana had lived through hell and sounded like she needed a friend really badly.

Once the two women were on the ship, the captain took off. When he was at about a two thousand feet above the platform she turned to the weapons officer. “Drop the mine.” The weapons officer nodded and a single anti-matter mine dropped from the ships mine deployed. It slowly fell through the air and stroked the small city dead center just as the Spyglass made orbit. It vaporized part of the city and the blast destroyed the rest. Kitana had order that the city be destroyed, so there would be no record of Elisa being a clone. The ship jumped to hyperspace as soon as it cleared the gravity well of the planet.