Strategic Shift
At the same time that drastic changes were unfolding on Planet Dagobah, in the Core Worlds of the Milky Way Galaxy, at the headquarters of the First System Army on Anax Planet.
Inside the planet's military command tower, red lights flashed urgently as alarms blared without pause.
At that moment, within a towering Bacta tank, a half-human, half-machine body was submerged in Bacta fluid filled with active healing cells.
The man's body was utterly mangled. He had almost no lower body left, as though some immense force had ripped him completely apart from right to left. From his right shoulder down to his left hip, his body had been torn straight through, with his entire lower half simply gone.
In its place were black mechanical prosthetics made of countless precision instruments. His right arm, both legs, nearly his entire abdomen, and half his chest had all been replaced by machinery.
Cold mechanical structures were embedded directly from the prosthetics into his ruined body, piercing deep into the bone marrow, linking with nerves and connecting to blood vessels. Through the gaps in the metal framework, one could even see the mechanical lung in the right side of his body continuously expanding and contracting with every breath.
The body was in a horrific state. Even the right side of his face had been grievously damaged; his right eye and part of his cheek had been replaced with a mechanical eye and metal components. To facilitate the installation of the machinery, all his hair had been shaved off, and his bald head was packed with data ports and connecting cables.
As the alarm sounded, the man twitched and opened his eyes.
The intelligence network data came online. The command system connected. Countless streams of data immediately converged into his mechanical eye.