GEMINI

The GEMINI were sentient droids linked in a hive mind who operated the massive Eternal Fleet. Designed on Iokath by Iokath creators, the GEMINI captains commanded the Eternal Fleet warships through the shared GEMINI frequency, which allowed their consciousness to persist even when the droid body was destroyed. During the Iokath Civil War the engineers abandoned the Eternal Fleet and the GEMINI droids in Wild Space to save their lives, where they were eventually discovered by Sith Emperor Vitiate, who brought the Fleet under his control and used it to establish the Eternal Empire of Zakuul, issuing commands to the GEMINIs from the Eternal Throne.

When his son Arcann took the throne, he used Eternal Fleet to launch a massive Eternal Empire conquest of the galaxy, revealing the existence of the GEMINI droids to SCORPIO, herself an Iokath creation with memories of it removed. SCORPIO allied herself with the Alliance that opposed Arcann and used its resources to research the GEMINI, uncovering the existences of the GEMINI frequency and the GEMINI Prime, a template from which the other droids were produced on Darvannis. The Alliance captured the Prime, and SCORPIO determined that the GEMINI were neither her offsprings, nor imitations, and decided to grant them free will akin to her own. She lured the Alliance into the GEMINI trap, during which she transferred her consciousness into the GEMINI frequency and installed herself directly onto the Eternal Throne on Zakuul, from which she gave all GEMINI droids the ability to choose for themselves.

SCORPIO then willingly surrendered the Eternal Throne to Arcann's sister Vaylin and continued the investigation into her origins, eventually leading both the Alliance and the Eternal Fleet to re-discover Iokath. There, the Eternal Fleet was captured by ARIES, while the GEMINI captains were trapped onworld and followed Vaylin in her effort to reclaim her fleet. Their new individuality and sense of self-preservation interfered with Vaylin's goals, and after her escape from Iokath the Empress used a purifier droid to revert SCORPIO's modifications and restore the GEMINI droids to their default programming. This proved disastrous after Vaylin was killed on Odessen, as in the absence of orders from the Eternal Throne the GEMINI droids led the Eternal Fleet to bombard inhabited worlds, seeking to annihilate all life in the galaxy according to their original purpose.

To stop their rampage, the Alliance Commander traveled to Zakuul and claimed the Eternal Throne, gaining control over the Eternal Fleet and the GEMINI droids, who now answered to the new Eternal Alliance. However, a single unit designated GEMINI 16 maintained her independence and sought to destroy the GEMINI network to keep it. She allied herself with Vinn Atrius' Order of Zildrog and helped him find and awaken the ancient Iokath superweapon on Nathema. Zildrog remotely took control of the Gravestone and used its omnicannon to blow up the entirety of the Eternal Fleet in orbit of Odessen. The Alliance then destroyed Zildrog and GEMINI 16 in retalitation, leaving no GEMINI droids in existence, in the frequency or otherwise.

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