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| |name=Arkanian Revolution | | |name=Arkanian Revolution |
| |begin=[[50 BBY/Legends|50 BBY]]<ref name="nec" /> | | |begin=[[50 BBY/Legends|50 BBY]] |
| |end=50 BBY<ref name="nec" /> | | |end=50 BBY |
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| |place=[[Arkania/Legends|Arkania]]<ref name="egtas">[[The Essential Guide to Alien Species (real-world book)|''The Essential Guide to Alien Species'']]</ref> | | |place=[[Arkania/Legends|Arkania]] <!-- Several of the warriors survived the dustup on Arkania --> |
| |result=Revolution quashed by [[Arkanian Dominion]] after intervention of [[Jedi Order/Legends|Jedi Order]]<ref name="nec" /> | | |result=Revolution quashed by [[Arkanian Dominion]] |
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| |side1=[[Arkanian Dominion]]<ref name="egtas" /> | | |side1=[[Arkanian Dominion]] |
| |side2=[[Arkanian Renegades]]<ref name="egtas" /> | | |side2=[[Arkanian Renegades]] |
| |side3=[[Jedi Order/Legends|Jedi Order]]<ref name="nec" /> | | |side3= |
| |side4=[[Galactic Republic/Legends|Galactic Republic]]<ref name="negtc">''[[The New Essential Guide to Characters]]''</ref> | | |side4= |
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| |commanders2=[[Gorm (cyborg)|Gorm]]<ref name="nec" /> | | |commanders2=[[Gorm (cyborg)|Gorm]] |
| |commanders3=*[[Mace Windu/Legends|Mace Windu]]<ref name="nec" /> | | |commanders3= |
| *[[Aqinos]]
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| *[[Iron Knight]]s<ref name="negtd">''[[The New Essential Guide to Droids]]''</ref>
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| *[[Squire Kinning]]<ref name="JP">[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|''The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force'']]</ref>
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| The '''Arkanian Revolution''' was a fierce and bloody [[civil war]] fought on [[Arkania/Legends|Arkania]] in [[50 BBY/Legends|50 BBY]] between the [[Planet/Legends|planet's]] [[Arkanian Dominion|Dominion]] government and the [[Arkanian Renegades]]. Known for their genetic and [[Cybernetics/Legends|cybernetic]] expertise, Arkanian scientists began to experiment on the unintelligent local [[Yaka]] [[Species/Legends|species]], despite the objections of a group of more socially conscious scientists. After several centuries of injustice, these scientists formed a faction known as the Arkanian Renegades, and launched a coup against the Dominion, after forming a powerful [[Mercenary/Legends|mercenary]] army of [[Cyborg/Legends|cyborg]] warriors. In the process of fighting what they saw as injustices to the Yaka, the Arkanian Renegades became much like their opponents by committing similar atrocities. | | The '''Arkanian Revolution''' was an attempted coup on [[Arkania/Legends|Arkania]] in [[50 BBY/Legends|50 BBY]] where the [[Arkanian Renegades]] attempted to topple the [[Arkanian Dominion]]. Known for their knowledge of [[Cybernetics/Legends|cyborging]], Arkanian scientists tried to create the 'ultimate' [[Mercenary/Legends|mercenary]] army of [[Cyborg/Legends|cyborg]] warriors. Though the coup was a failure, several of these warriors survived and struck out into the galaxy. [[Gorm (cyborg)|Gorm]] was the highest profile of these survivors. |
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| The Renegades' army, whose number included [[Gorm (cyborg)|Gorm the Dissolver]], butchered the Dominion's forces in early skirmishes. The desperate Dominion appealed to the [[Galactic Republic/Legends|Republic]] and [[Jedi Order/Legends|Jedi Order]] to intervene on their behalf. Republic police squads were eventually deployed to Arkania, supplemented by [[Jedi/Legends|Jedi]] forces including [[Mace Windu/Legends|Mace Windu]], [[Aqinos]], and the [[Iron Knight]]s. The Renegades were soundly defeated by the reinforcements, and those not killed in battle were executed for their [[Treason/Legends|treason]]. Some of their cyborg creations, including Gorm the Dissolver, survived, becoming [[Bounty hunter/Legends|bounty hunters]] and hired killers. The Arkanian Revolution, although unsuccessful, contributed greatly to the escalating public fear of [[Droid/Legends|droids]].
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| ==Prelude==
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| [[File:Arkanian.jpg|thumb|left|90px|An Arkanian geneticist]]
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| Based on their adopted [[Homeworld/Legends|homeworld]] of [[Arkania/Legends|Arkania]] in the [[Colonies/Legends|Colonies]], the [[Arkanian/Legends|Arkanian]] [[Species/Legends|species]] considered themselves the pinnacle of evolution, and were one of the most advanced species in [[The galaxy/Legends|the galaxy]] by the time of the formation of the [[Galactic Republic/Legends|Galactic Republic]]. Known for their scientific and medical breakthroughs, the Arkanians were keen geneticists, eager to carry out any genetic modification research, even that which the Republic had outlawed. One of the earliest and best known experiments performed by Arkanian scientists was when they relocated a group of [[Xexto/Legends|Xexto]] from their homeworld of [[Troiken/Legends|Troiken]] to the [[Outer Rim Territories/Legends|Outer Rim]] world of [[Quermia/Legends|Quermia]], in order to perform genetic modifications on the species in a secluded and out-of-the-way environment. The experiment was cut short when the Arkanians ultimately decided to abandon the project out of fear of Republic repurcussions, leaving the newly-altered Xexto to develop on their own, eventually becoming the [[Quermian/Legends|Quermian]] species.<ref name="negas">''[[The New Essential Guide to Alien Species]]''</ref>
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| [[File:Yaka_EGTA.jpg|thumb|right|100px|The Arkanians made severe modifications to the Yakas.]]
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| Thousands of years later, in [[490 BBY]], the Arkanians discovered the [[Yaka]] species in the nearby [[Yaka system]]. The Arkanians considered the Yakas feebleminded and weak, and took it upon themselves to use their knowledge of genetics and technology to improve the species' intelligence, implanting high-tech [[Cyborg/Legends|cyborg]] brains into the Yakas. Some Arkanians were distressed by their compatriots' actions, considering them to be morally questionable, but their objections were ignored. The Yakas adapted quickly to their alterations, developing mental abilities considered to be at a genius level. However, the cyberetic implants caused an apparent loss of emotion in the modified Yaka, along with a twisted, often cruel sense of humor.<ref name="egtas" /> The Arkanians' genetic experiments were considered by some portions of galactic society to be some of the greatest atrocities ever performed.<ref name="uaa">''[[Ultimate Alien Anthology]]''</ref>
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| ==Revolution==
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| ===Conflict===
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| Several centuries later, the issue came to the forefront some [[50 BBY/Legends|fifty years]] before the [[Battle of Yavin/Legends|Battle of Yavin]]. A faction calling themselves the [[Arkanian Renegades]] intensified the objections to the still-ongoing modification of the Yakas, but the [[Arkanian Dominion|Dominion]] government once more turned a blind eye to the issues being raised and continued to fit Yaka offspring with enhancements.<ref name="egtas" /><ref name="nec" />
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| [[File:Gorm.jpg|thumb|left|90px|Gorm would ultimately become the most famous of the Renegades' creations.]] | | [[File:Gorm.jpg|thumb|left|90px|Gorm would ultimately become the most famous of the Renegades' creations.]] |
| The Renegades decided to take matters into their own hands and formulated a plan to launch a coup and overthrow the Dominion, establishing a new order. Like their political opponents, the Renegades possessed an intimate knowledge of genetics and technology, and they opted to use this expertise to their advantage. They set about building a spliced-together, patchwork army, ultimately performing experiments not unlike those they opposed. Using arcane and forbidden practices, they constructed a half-mechanical, half-organic [[Mercenary/Legends|mercenary]] army, created with parts of various different [[Alien/Legends|alien]] species and [[Droid/Legends|droids]], who possessed a determined, warlike attitude. This army would fight the Renegades' conflict, and they were confident it would topple the Dominion.<ref name="egtd">''[[The Essential Guide to Droids]]''</ref>
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| The army—whose number included [[Gorm (cyborg)|Gorm]], a formidable warrior who would achieve much greater notoriety in later decades—proved almost invincible against the forces of the Arkanian Dominion in combat. The [[Cyborg/Legends|cyborgs]] slaughtered thousands of pro-Yaka-modification Arkanians, and the Renegades soon had the upper hand over their helpless opposition. The desperate Dominion eventually pleaded<ref name="nec" /> for the Republic<ref name="negtc" /> and [[Jedi Order/Legends|Jedi Order]] to intervene.<ref name="nec" />
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| ===Intervention===
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| [[File:IronKnight-NEGD.jpg|thumb|right|90px|The Iron Knights fought on behalf of the Republic forces.]]
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| The Republic eventually acquiesced to the Arkanians' entreaty, consenting to send Republic police squads and a number of [[Jedi/Legends|Jedi]], including a young [[Mace Windu/Legends|Mace Windu]],<ref name="negtc" /> the [[Padawan/Legends|Padawan]] [[Squire Kinning]],<ref name="JP" /> as well as [[Aqinos]], a heterodox [[Sunesi]] [[Jedi Master/Legends|Jedi Master]]. Aqinos had controversially spent the previous ten years training a group of [[Force-sensitive/Legends|Force-sensitive]] [[Shard (species)|Shards]] to use the Force as Jedi, and these, encased within [[Uulshos justice droid]] bodies and known as the [[Iron Knight]]s,<ref name="datf">{{Hyperspace|url=hyperspace/member/insideronline/81/indexp7.html|text=Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena|int=Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena (article)}}</ref> accompanied him to Arkania.<ref name="negtd" />
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| The arrival of the combined Jedi/Republic task force quickly turned the tide in the conflict, though Kinning lost her arm in battle.<ref name="JP" /> Mace Windu did battle with Gorm, though both individuals survived.<ref name="negtc" /> Eventually, the Arkanian Revolution was crushed with the eventual defeat of the mercenary army at the hands of the Jedi.<ref name="nec" /> The surviving Renegades were executed<ref name="egtd" /> and the Dominion remained in power. The ultimate death toll was high, with thousands of pro-Yaka-modification scientists, the Arkanian Renegades, and the majority of their cyborg army dead.<ref name="nec" />
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| ==Aftermath==
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| The surviving cyborgs fled Arkania and spread out into the wider galaxy, with many pursuing a career in [[Bounty hunter/Legends|bounty hunting]]. Gorm became the most infamous of the cyborgs, quickly acquiring a fearsome reputation as well as the sobriquet "the Dissolver."<ref name="egtd" /> He was still in active bounty hunting service over [[11 ABY/Legends|sixty years]] after the Revolution,<ref name="de">''[[Star Wars: Dark Empire]]''</ref> having learned to update and maintain himself through the decades. It was believed that, assuming he continued to patch himself up as necessary, Gorm the Dissolver could in theory continue to exist indefinitely.<ref name="egtd" />
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| Mace Windu went on to become one of the most famous Jedi of the era, ultimately becoming [[Master of the Order/Legends|Master of the Order]] until his death in [[19 BBY/Legends|19 BBY]]. Squire Kinning was brought back to the [[Jedi Temple]] to heal. Once she recovered, the loss of her arm was considered by the [[Jedi High Council/Legends|Jedi High Council]] to be her passing of the [[Jedi Trials/Legends#Trial of the Flesh|Trial of the Flesh]], and she soon went on to become a Jedi Knight.<ref name="JP" /> Aqinos' future was less bright; he was excommunicated from the Order for his unauthorized training of the Iron Knights, though he ultimately joined [[Luke Skywalker/Legends|Luke Skywalker's]] [[New Jedi Order]] but perished in the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]].<ref name="cswe">''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''</ref>
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| The Dominion remained in power, continuing their experiments and earning a reputation as "mad scientists" during the time of the [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Galactic Empire]].<ref name="cswe" /> Though the existence of the Arkanian Renegades was suppressed to the extent that few had heard of them,<ref name="egtd" /> knowledge of the Revolution itself was commonplace.<ref name="nec" /> The conflict greatly revived a public fear of droids originating in the much larger-scale [[Great Droid Revolution]] on [[Coruscant/Legends|Coruscant]] thousands of years before.<ref name="negtd" /><ref name="datf" /> The conflict was also the first in a string of local uprisings to afflict the Republic during this period, one of many factors that weakened it and ultimately laid the foundations for [[Palpatine/Legends|Palpatine's]] [[New Order/Legends|coup]] in [[19 BBY/Legends|19 BBY]].<ref name="nec" />
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| ==Behind the scenes== | | ==Behind the scenes== |
| The Arkanian Revolution was created by [[Daniel Wallace]] for ''[[The Essential Guide to Droids]]'' ([[1999]]), tying into the backstory of bounty hunter Gorm the Dissolver from [[Tom Veitch]]'s [[Dark Empire 3|''Dark Empire'' 3]] ([[1992]]). [[Ann Margaret Lewis (real person)|Ann Margaret Lewis's]] [[The Essential Guide to Alien Species (real-world book)|''The Essential Guide to Alien Species'']] ([[2001]]) later briefly expanded upon the conflict, before Wallace made references to it in his [[The New Essential Guide to Characters|''New Essential Guide to Characters'']] ([[2002]]), [[The New Essential Chronology|''New Essential Chronology'']] ([[2005]]), and [[The New Essential Guide to Droids|''New Essential Guide to Droids'']] ([[2006]]). [[Abel G. Peña]] also referenced it in [[Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena (article)|''Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena'']], a [[Hyperspace: The Official Star Wars Fan Club|Hyperspace]] article published in [[2005]]. | | The Arkanian Revolution was created by [[Daniel Wallace]] for ''[[The Essential Guide to Droids]]'' ([[1999]]), tying into the backstory of bounty hunter Gorm the Dissolver from [[Tom Veitch]]'s [[Dark Empire 3|''Dark Empire'' 3]] ([[1992]]). |
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| ==Appearances==
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| *''[[Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[SkyeWalkers: A Clone Wars Story]]'' {{Mo}}
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| ==Sources== | | ==Sources== |
| *''[[The Essential Guide to Droids]]'' {{1stm}} | | *{{EGCite|D|A Guide to Major Manufacturers - Historical Droids}} |
| *[[The Essential Guide to Alien Species (real-world book)|''The Essential Guide to Alien Species'']]
| | *{{EGCite|D|Gorm the Dissolver}} |
| *''[[The New Essential Guide to Characters]]''
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| *''[[The New Essential Chronology]]''
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| *''[[The New Essential Guide to Droids]]''
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| *{{Hyperspace|url=hyperspace/member/insideronline/81/indexp7.html|text=Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena|int=Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena (article)}}
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| *''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]'' {{C|Arkanian, Mace Windu entries}}
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| *''[[Jedi Academy Training Manual]]''<!--p. 78-->
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| *[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|''The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force'']]
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| *''[[Star Wars Annual 2011]]''
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| *''[[The Essential Guide to Warfare]]''
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| ==Notes and references==
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| ==External links==
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| *{{Blog|abelgpena|47|Endnotes for ''Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena, Part I''|Only Sith Deal In Absolutes!|Abel G. Peña|archivedate=20060329215909}} | |
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