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"We have a saying on Kamino."

"What's that?"

"Beware the dreamer's lie–some nightmares never end."

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When the glaciers melted and the seas began to rise, the Kaminoans adapted, as they always do. But this time they chose a different path. Rather than rising with those tides, they built their cities underwater instead. They created a maze of domes and tunnels, all carefully sealed beneath two feet of the hardest stuff they could make.

The City represented a new life for them. They learned to cast away the sun and take survival into their own hands. Through genetic engineering, they created plants that could survive below the ocean. Despite their new beginnings, they tried to replicate the society that they had once known, carrying on life as usual.

It wasn't enough. Poison was quickly spreading through the ocean, and with it came a strange sort of madness. The Kaminoans grew more monstrous with each passing year. Things that had once been familiar to them turned strange and twisted. In their desperation, they began experimenting on their own kind, trying to make themselves perfect.

In a way, you might say that they succeeded.

became perfect for surviving in the environment they had created

in doing so, they became something that could no longer leave

they might have been able to live, isolated, in the City forever. but the risk of the poison breaching their walls was too great

so... this is when they started working on cloning

see, the poison's influence had given them the ability to control and embody others through [tv/light/some kind of analog for that in ln]

note: those controlled by the kaminoans have a specific kind of visor/helmet that makes them controllable

so they could create new bodies for themselves w/ cloning and gene splicing, then use them to explore their planet and maybe contact other peoples

however some kaminoans rejected this. they left the City, creating something like the Maw

both paths were terrible. but at least the Maw was free (in a way), and at least the City was safe (in a way)

here's where the clones come in. normally, the bodies that the City created were empty, only suited for being controlled

however, with a bit of fiddling, they could make conscious beings

of course, these conscious beings can still be possessed by kaminoans. so clones that are "reconditioned" are turned into puppets. man-made horrors beyond my comprehension pog

and so they did! just like in the original, they supplied an army of human clones based on jango fett

these human clones are MUCH smaller than the kaminoans. atp the kaminoans are basically giant sea beasts, matching the aesthetic of little nightmares :)

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this is based on a thought i had while listening to "nightmares never end" by jtmusic. i just realized i never stated this in the text, so here: this is a little nightmares/star wars au. mostly focused on kamino and the clone troopers, as you can tell; i haven't really thought about what goes on in the rest of the galaxy.

in the 40 chapter fic i'm imagining in my head, the main characters would be crosshair and omega. i think omega would sort of fill the role of six, with crosshair kind of being mono, but i'm not completely sure. as you can tell i mostly just thought of a vibe and spat it out onto the page

also shoutout to aestheticsymbols.me :) i edited a couple of their borders together to make these fancy ones. there should be some more formatting like superscrips and subscripts to give it a bit more... variety, but wattpad doesn't have those :,D