Sionver Boll

Sionver Boll was a female Bivall scientist contracted by the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars. A brilliant inventor and engineer, Boll was the head of her own laboratory that conducted weapons research and development for the Republic war effort. Among the devices created by her lab was the electro-proton bomb, a superweapon that created an electromagnetic pulse that could disable electronic machinery such as battle droids, the main components of the Confederacy of Independent Systems Army. Boll oversaw the first field experimentation of the electro-proton bomb during the Battle of Malastare, but the superweapon had an unintended side effect when it created a massive sinkhole and awakened a dormant Zillo Beast.

Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine tasked Doctor Boll with studying the Zillo Beast for the Republic and had the creature transported to Coruscant. Though she had ethical concerns and objections, Boll complied with orders to kill it, but while attempting to do so, the beast broke from its confinement and rampaged through Galactic City. Working with the Republic Military, Boll quickly developed enough toxic gas to kill the Zillo Beast. After the creature's death, Palpatine ordered Boll to clone it, but her attempts proved unsuccessful, and the project stagnated. After the rise of the Galactic Empire, Boll's research fell into the hands of the Advanced Science Division, which successfully sequenced several clone specimens.

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