Imperial Department of Military Research (314-333)

The Imperial Department of Military Research was an organization within the Syneseynth Galactic Empire, which was responsible for all the Empire's scientific research and development. It was headed by the Master of Imperial Projects: Doctor Evir Warann, a famed scientist and alchemist.

After the collapse of the Empire, the organization officially disbanded, but Warann continued to act upon his last orders from the Emperor.

Origins
The Department was formed by Korvast Ieumbarec, to further the advancement of Imperial science and engineering in his new empire. He selected Evir Warann, a baron and conscripted general in his army to head the project, thanks to his earlier background of biological engineering. Warann then selected a team of other scientists, mostly with technological and engineering backgrounds, to aid him. This team, thanks to the quick demise of the empire, would never rise above twenty people.

The group first began designing superweapons and similar weapons to aid the Empire, as their predecessors had done for the original Galactic Empire. Plans and schematics for smaller versions of the Death Star were drawn up, and even some prototypes were pressed into production, but these were more along the lines of the first prototype and were declared overall failures, though still saw minor service. Other plans for new fighter ships and war vessels were produced, but Warann did not take part in their design. He instead began to lay down the foundations for his later projects, by beginning work on several biological projects. Ieumbarec, who was getting concerned with the lack of manpower within the Empire, tasked Warann with the development of age prolonging drugs and serums, as well as looking into the prospects of immortality. Warann, with his co-worker, Doctor Eye, began to test various subjects, attempting to stave off old age. In some areas, he succeeded, but with devastating side effects, including mutation and irreversible degeneration. However, these "breakthroughs" came too late in the war, as did most of Department's other products, and by the time its earliest products were available, the Empire had collapsed.

Decline
When the empire collapsed, Galactic Alliance agents began to prosecute and execute Imperial staff, and the persons involved with the Department of Military Research were no different. Two scientists were individually hunted down whilst they attempted to live undercover, whilst a further six more were killed trying to escape from New Bastion via shuttle. Various others were eventually killed until only Warenn, Eye and a third doctor named Eparen Kesselring remained. The three of them managed to escape the devastation that followed after the Empire's demise by remaining on an Imperial Research Station deep in the Outer Rim, where Warann had been conducting his biological tests.

After a few years in imposed exile, the trio made their move, bypassing Alliance patrols to the planet of Voktunma, where they took up residence in a crumbling fortress.

Soon, after setting up a laboratory in what remained of the citadel, Warann began his work again, hoping that the Empire might rise up again, as it had done before many time in the past. His first act was to enslave some of the local Trogodile using an adapted version of the re-invented RNA virus. Two dozen of the species were brainwashed and forced into Stormtrooper armor, in order to protect the fortress. One of them, Tw'sym'ee, was only inserted with a small amount of the virus, so he could command the others.

After that, Warann and Eye continued their research into immortality, but Kesselring no longer wanted to take part in the project and left.

The duo's studies, code-named Project Beldsoe, bore little fruit, and Eye soon died, leaving Warann with both his wings torn.

Beldsoe continued up to 359 ABY, where Warran was living off a crude life support machine, enhanced via the methods he had experimented with over the previous decades. He was eventually discovered by Galactic Alliance agents, who arrested, and later executed him for war crimes.