The Drayer Virus
Outer Rim of the galaxy, Kessel, prison district.
A brand-new crimson Elite Class Viking fighter, the Red Comet, passed through the tightly guarded air-defense system and docked at the spaceport atop the prison district.
Darth Malthael stepped down from the fighter. Rather than entering the building immediately, he stood at the highest point and looked down over the planet.
Ever since this planet had tipped off the Galactic Republic's Shen-Jon fleet, leading to the fall of Krant Planet, where the Extractor Project was being researched, the project's development had fallen severely behind schedule. Even Lieutenant General Cheng Shitao had been seriously wounded during the assault on Aereen Planet. After Darth Malthael used Life Force to heal him, he was still recuperating on Dawn Star Planet.
Consumed by hatred, Darth Malthael immediately launched a massacre on Kessel. He occupied the planet and eventually captured the person who had leaked the information: teacher Casal Fogg.
Darth Malthael gave Casal Fogg a horrifying choice: he had to personally select half of the 50,000 surviving residents of Kessel, after which the Caladanian mercenaries would slaughter all 25,000 of them before his eyes!
Casal Fogg did it, because if he refused to choose, Darth Malthael would kill everyone on the planet.
Clutching the Kyber Crystal Darth Malthael had given him, without knowing what it was for, he began selecting the elderly and the weak among the residents to be killed. But it still was not enough. Then he selected those without families, but that was still not enough.
For the final twenty-three thousand, he truly had no choice but to pick at random. He could not simply say to kill everyone on the left, because those vicious-looking Caladanian mercenaries forced him to personally point out each person, one by one, to be