Planet Felucia

Kamino.

A planet belonging to a system that existed beyond the boundaries of the Star Wars Galaxy. According to the knowledge I had on Star Wars, it existed beyond the Outer Rim territories.

So effectively, all I should have to do is circle around the galaxy and eventually, I'll come across the water-filled planet that specialised in cloning? Simple, right? Well, that's where you're wrong. You see, I'm fast, very fast, but the Star Wars Galaxy is far larger than anything I have ever come across before and unlike what a map portrays it as, planets are not just living on the same level, they are at varying heights as they floated in space. Plus I remember that just slightly less than half the galaxy is unexplored.

Half!

I have no idea where to look because my knowledge of Star Wars isn't all that great. I grew up with the prequels, I watched the original trilogy and I even read the Darth Vader comics, but that's it. By that point, I was far too invested in DC Comics and Marvel to spend much time reading Star Wars comics, Legends or the new Canon series that came out. The only time I did read any of the stories was when it came to Darth Vader.

So, no.

I had no idea where I was meant to go.

But I needed to find answers to those questions.

Kamino had perfected the art of cloning, well, I say perfect, but that's not entirely true. They could accelerate the growth of clones, but it was unstable and led to the clones continuing to age rapidly until they died. Krypton on the other hand was able to forcibly accelerate clones, and keep them within their primes till they age they died, effectively, we unlocked the secret to eternal youth.

Pretty neat, huh?

I was getting off-track though.

Kamino had the facilities I needed to slowly grow clones, they also had knowledge on how to implant loyalty in them. Key orders and phrases that would make them act and carry out certain tasks without question. They had things that I needed and I was going to make use of them.

That's why I had come to the Star Wars Galaxy mostly, there were a few other reasons, but that was the main one. However, finding Kamino was proving to be a little more difficult than I imagined and I was really starting to curse my younger self for not having gotten addicted to Star Wars comics, Legends or Canon. It would have been of great help to me if they had.

And the best thing about it, the Star Wars Galaxy was actually mostly ignored by the rest of the Galaxy because it was so out of the way from the rest of it. But also because of the Unknown Regions, that was one scary place, even for me as a Kryptonian.

I am durable, I am powerful, I can take on a Green Lantern like Tyran'r the Mighty.

But a Black Hole was a little too much for me at this point in my development. The gravity exerted by those things were immense, I know because on my search for Kamino I actually ended up in the Unknown Regions and came very close to a Black Hole.

So if it's too much for me at this point, it was not something others would willingly enter into lightly. It just so happened that most empires like the Kree and Skrull existed on the other side of the Unknown Region and hence, why they had not attempted anything. Even they had enough sense to not try and tangle with the insanity that is the chaos of the Unknown Region.

If the Kree don't do something because of how insane it is, then you stay away from that thing completely. The Kree are downright suicidal in their tactics, they will do anything and everything they have to in order to gain victory.

Commit genocide? They don't do war in any other way.

Send millions to their death just to overwhelm a strong defensive position? They've done that time and time again.

Commit every war crime conceivable to the mind? Again, they don't do war in any other way.

The Skrull are the long time foes of the Kree and have adopted many of their tactics for their own. And while they don't reproduce as quickly as the Kree in order to justify sending millions to die, they have thousands of slaves races they'll send in their place.

So if you see the Kree and Skrulls, two races who will do anything, and I mean anything to see the other dead. Two races that routinely conquer neutral planets just to be able to perform small flanking manoeuvres against one another. They will do anything to gain a slight advantage over the other and they have stayed away from the Unknown Regions, one that provides a huge advantage if conquered.

If two races that like stay away from it, you'd be a fool not to do the same.

A shame then, that in this case, I am a fool.

I would be the first to conquer the Unknown Region, but for now, I'm content to allow it to continue acting as a buffer between me and them. At least until my forces can deal with the Kree and Skrulls. I can't be everywhere at once nor as my power great enough to take on the might of their empires alone. I need more soldiers to do that.

So, with my attempts to find Kamino coming up short and the realisation that I didn't know much about the Star Wars universe, I went to one place where I knew a little bit.

Felucia.

Home of where the hottest Jedi, Aalya Secure was killed.

The place where if I'm not mistaken, Darth Vaders apprentice from the video games, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, battles against Jedi Master, Shaak Ti. If anyone knows where I can find Kamino, it would be her, considering in the Clone Wars series she did oversee their training.

Slowly descending through the atmosphere, I looked upon the planet below and admired its beauty. The fauna, the wildlife, it was strange yet captivating.

However, after a few moments, I began to feel an uncomfortable weight upon my shoulders. Like something was pushing me down to the ground and when I landed upon the surface and started to move, just one simple step, it felt like I was trying to walk through water.

It was like being in front of the Black Hole but to a much lesser extent.

Gravity.

In space, exposed to the gravity of a Black Hole was one thing, but the gravity of a planet was another thing entirely. I had forgotten what it felt like, this weight upon your shoulders that kept you on the ground. If I pushed, I know that I could fly and still move with great speed, but was the gravity of this planet really that heavy? Or was it something else?

I don't know.

-X- Line Break -X-

A few hours had passed, and while I had adapted to the gravity of Felucia, it was still weighing me down. The wildlife here though was quite dangerous, poison and toxic plants and there seemed to be a sort of fog over the area. I didn't know entirely if it was poison or not, I just hadn't breathed since coming down to this planet.

Breathing was more of a force of habit for me.

As a Kryptonian, so long as I had exposure to the sun and solar energy stored within my body, I didn't need to breathe, sleep or eat. I was a self-sustaining creature that lived off the energy that the sun provided me. Much like how a Vampire fed off the blood of a human, I fed off the sun. A Sun Vampire, that's what you could call a Kryptonian.

Either way, my powers did provide me with an accelerated healing factor that would more than likely combat the effects of the poison. The gravity that weighed down upon me made me hesitant to risk that act and so, I fought the instinctive urge to breathe. Even my senses were being affected, I could still hear and see things further away than most, but nowhere near as much as I used to be able to. My vision got blurry and my hearing petered out before I could even reach a quarter of my usual distance.

During my travels, I had yet to encounter any humanoid creature to whom I could speak to. Just wildlife that wanted to kill me, a few quick blasts of heat vision and I was now leaving a trail of bodies in my wake.

A loud thump sounded in the distance, something heavy and large was moving towards me and I came to a stop. The vibrations of the ground reverberated throughout my body as I slowly turned. Suddenly, whatever creature was coming towards me, seemed to pick up its pace, snapping off trees thundering throughout the forest I found myself in. Enough so that even those without superhuman senses like myself, could clearly hear it.

It was then that something landed down beside me, something that had completed avoided my senses.

Considering the situation, I was on high alert and as soon as something landed in the clearing from the trees above. I acted, heat vision lancing out and cutting through the surrounding trees, digging up the ground as it cut across towards the figure. They, however, elegantly leapt into the air avoiding the strike and landed on the ground in the crouch, revealing a beautiful young woman.

One who was looking upon me in shock, not quite able to comprehend what she had seen me do. However, the growing sound of trees breaking that indicated this strange creature growing close seemed to bring her back to the matter.

A strange language was uttered from her lips as she indicated for me to follow her. I didn't understand a word she said and instead turned to look upon the approaching creature. I looked upon the creature that was now beginning to come into view. It was large, reptilian and from the look in its eye, hungry.

Instantly I recognised what kind of creature it was.

It was an Apex Predator and I felt a smile come onto my face.

The woman beside me, she may want to run away, but me, I was going to stay here and fight this creature. Felucia may have a strong gravity that even I can feel, but I wasn't going to run away from this fight.

Taking a few steps, I leapt into the air, just as the creature burst free from the trees, roaring loudly.