Arkanian Legacy The Arkanian Legacy was a massive capital ship that served as the mobile headquarters of The Adasca BioMechanical Corporation of Arkania , also known as Adascorp , in the era of the Mandalorian Wars . Originally intended as a means of moving corporate operations out of the fire of the Great Sith War , it later evolved into a center of Arkanian culture , including a university , art museum and concert hall , along with extensive medical and scientific laboratories . During the Mandalorian Wars , the " Arkanian Legacy " also became the site of Adascorp CEO Arkoh Adasca ' s ploy for galactic prominence , as he attempted to sell the destructive power of the massive exogorth species to the highest bidder , effectively choosing the winner of the war . As such , Adasca invited representatives from the Galactic Republic , Mandalorians and Jedi Order to the " Arkanian Legacy " , hosting an auction of sorts among the parties fighting the war . However , with control of the galaxy ' s fate within his grasp , Adasca ' s plan came apart when the scientist he was using to control the exogorths , Arkanian Offshoot prisoner Gorman Vandrayk , set the massive space slugs on the " Arkanian Legacy " in the midst of a battle that had broken out on the ship . Adasca was killed , and the remains of the ship were left irreparably damaged and listing in contested space on the front lines of the Mandalorian Wars . Description . Initially created as the mobile corporate base of The Adasca BioMechanical Corporation of Arkania , better known as Adascorp , the colossal capital ship " Arkanian Legacy " housed up to 104 , 079 people and also served as a research hospital , arboretum , conservatory , one of the largest art museums in the galaxy , a university and a domed observatory that doubled as a concert venue . Employing a skilled crew of 5 , 000 , the " Arkanian Legacy " was defended by an armament of four light and 12 medium turbolaser batteries , as well as 24 starfighters and eight shuttles , not including Lord Arkoh Adasca ' s private vessel . In addition , various research , transport , passenger and visitor craft were usually housed aboard the " Arkanian Legacy " at any one time . Equipped with a navicomputer and a class 2 hyperdrive with a class 8 backup , the " Arkanian Legacy " could hold up to 10 , 000 tons of cargo , 100 , 000 passengers , and two years ' worth of consumables . Among its other features , the " Arkanian Legacy " contained a crow ' s nest with dozens of holoscreens , which Adasca ' s cybernetically - enhanced Duros assistant , Eejee Vamm , used as a workstation . From there , Vamm had access to video recordings and broadcasts from all over the galaxy , and had the ability to run retinal scans on people within those recordings . In addition , the crow ' s nest had access to hundreds of different security cameras within the " Arkanian Legacy " itself . The " Arkanian Legacy " hospital was a fully - outfitted unit , including quarantine care centers and extensive scientific laboratories . True to Adascorp ' s mission , much medical and biomechanical research was carried out on the ship , both in the laboratories and in the " Arkanian Legacy " multiple libraries . The center of the ship ' s opulent facilities was its wide - open atrium , anchored in the center by a massive fountain . The atrium connected to a series of ornately outfitted personal quarters that were often used to house important guests . For less well - appointed guests , the " Arkanian Legacy " also possessed its own brig , guarded by a battalion of security personnel . History . Plotting for the galaxy . First conceived of during the Great Sith War as a method for Adascorp to keep its headquarters out of harm ' s way , the " Arkanian Legacy " was initially the project of Adasca ' s grandfather Argaloh , and was eventually completed by Argaloh ' s son Alok . The " Arkanian Legacy " was finally launched at the ceremony where Arkoh Adasca , Alok ' s son and the eighth Lord of the House of Adasca , came into his inheritance as the head of Adascorp , the galaxy ' s largest bioengineering firm . The scion of a great industrial dynasty , Adasca became immensely popular among pureblood Arkanians as the Chief Executive Officer of Adascorp , but he had grander ambitions in mind than just being the head of a major corporation . During the time of his grandfather ' s stewardship of the company , a brilliant Arkanian Offshoot scientist by the name of Gorman Vandrayk had discovered how to contact and control the minds of the exogorths , a species of massive and mysterious space slug found in many disparate regions of the galaxy . Realizing the incredible destructive power of the beasts , Argaloh planned to weaponize the exogorths , but a horrified Vandrayk went on the run and took his indispensable knowledge with him . By 3963 BBY , the galaxy had become engulfed in the Mandalorian Wars , fought between the Galactic Republic and the Mandalorian warrior clans . Remembering his grandfather ' s vision for the exogorths , Adasca formulated a plan that could possibly turn Adascorp into a galactic power . The company had discovered a host of dormant exogorths near the dying star Omonoth , and Adasca figured that if Adascorp could take control of the beasts , he could sell their services to the highest bidder and effectively choose the winner of the war — but , as he would retain operational control of the exogorths , whichever side he chose would be forced to pay him tribute . As grand as Adasca ' s ambitions were , his plan had no chance of success without Vandrayk , as Adascorp was unable to take control of the exogorths without his knowledge . Adasca made tracking Vandrayk down a high priority , and enlisted his cybernetic aide Eejee Vamm to use the observational power of the " Arkanian Legacy " holoscreen crow ' s nest to peruse the galaxy for him . Vamm eventually recognized Vandrayk from a recording on the planet Telerath , and a retinal scan confirmed the runaway scientist ' s identity . The Duros immediately messaged Lord Adasca , confirming that he had what the head of Adascorp had been looking for . It was a while longer before Adasca could get Vandrayk onto the " Arkanian Legacy " , but he managed to get his hands on the elderly Offshoot when he was forced to return to Arkania to treat an illness . With the help of Vandrayk ' s friend Jarael , whom Adasca manipulated into trusting him , Adasca learned of the location of Vandrayk ' s ship , " The Last Resort " , and swiftly found and tractored it onto the " Arkanian Legacy " . After finally getting his hands on Gorman Vandrayk , Adasca decided that the time was right to make his grab for power . The " Arkanian Legacy " was filled to capacity — with most of the 100 , 000 - plus aboard being pureblood Arkanians — but as the ship made its long journey to the Omonoth system , Adasca began quietly transferring residents who were not in on his plan to other assignments off the ship . First , the ship stopped at a deep - space refueling station , where the sickly Vandrayk was rushed to the on - ship hospital , despite his Mandalorian friend Rohlan Dyre attacking several security guards . However , Adasca managed to pacify Dyre by granting the curious Mandalorian access to the ship ' s research facilities , eliminating another potential obstacle . A game of thrones . As the " Arkanian Legacy " continued its voyage to Omonoth , Adasca and his assistant Vamm busied themselves with sending out invitations to representatives from the Galactic Republic , Mandalorians and the Jedi Order . Once the ship reached its destination , the visitors begin to arrive : a small contingent of Republic survivors from the Battle of Serroco , led by Admiral Saul Karath ; Mandalore the Ultimate , leader of the Mandalorians , and a large complement of warriors ; and Alek , the second - in - command of the Jedi Order ' s Revanchist faction that advocated Jedi intervention in the Mandalorian Wars . They were soon joined by a surprise arrival , Jedi Master Lucien Draay , an old acquaintance of Adasca ' s and a member of the secret Jedi Covenant group of seers , who had deduced that Adasca was up to something . Refusing to accommodate a circumstance he had not planned for , Adasca had Draay poisoned and locked in the ship ' s brig with Republic prisoner Zayne Carrick , Draay ' s former Jedi Padawan who had been on the run from the Covenant after being accused of a crime he did not commit . Once all the interested parties were aboard , Adasca took his seat in the " Arkanian Legacy " atrium and began overseeing a chaotic auction of sorts . Although the factions were technically under a flag of truce , that did not prevent Alek from attempting to attack the Mandalore , nearly causing an armed confrontation between the Republic and Mandalorian representatives . After demonstrating the exogorths ' destructive power , Adasca began to field offers — most tantalizing being the Mandalorians ' promise to make Adasca their sole weaponsmith and chief man of science , which would grant him enormous power and opportunity in a Mandalorian - dominated galaxy . However , Carrick and Draay , normally enemies , began plotting from the brig to escape and derail Adasca ' s plans . Together , they overpowered their guards , reclaimed Draay ' s lightsaber and cut themselves free . After venturing to the ship ' s crow ' s nest and discovering what was happening through the ship ' s security cameras , they met up with Lieutenant Carth Onasi , a member of the Republic detachment and an acquaintance of Carrick ' s . After retrieving his lightsaber from Onasi , Carrick got a spare set of Mandalorian armor from Rohlan Dyre and staged an fight with Onasi on the floor in front of Adasca , using the diversion to free Jarael — whom Adasca was using as a hostage to compel Vandrayk to continue his work on the exogorths — and confront the Adascorp CEO . With a full - fledged battle underway between Adasca ' s security force and the Jedi and Republic representatives , the Mandalorian contingent retreated to the Mandalore ' s private shuttle . Adasca was unable to reach Vamm for aid — little did he know , the Duros , along with the Arkanian Doctor Suprin , had been murdered by Dyre before the firefight broke out . Vandrayk , who had been confined to an orbital exogorth control station , received word that Jarael was free , and immediately set the monstrous beasts on Adasca . After transmitting a mocking message to the Lord of House Adasca , Vandrayk ordered the exogorths to attack the " Arkanian Legacy " itself . Carrick , Jarael and the Republic and Jedi contingents managed to escape in the chaos , leaving Arkoh Adasca to die with his plans and his headquarters . After the exogorths ripped through the ship , the " Arkanian Legacy " was left derelict and listing in contested space . In the midst of the Mandalorian Wars , Republic forces were unable to determine whether any were left alive on the ship , and ultimately decided against launching a rescue and recovery mission . The ship was ultimately ruled unsalvageable by the Galactic Republic Defense Ministry . Officially , the destruction of the " Arkanian Legacy " was ascribed to a Mandalorian raid that took Adasca ' s life — as Adascorp was an important corporate citizen of the Republic , all mention of Adasca ' s plots and what really happened on the " Arkanian Legacy " was kept out of public knowledge . For his part , Saul Karath was solely credited with saving the Republic forces in the battle and turning back the Mandalorian raid , greatly elevating his public profile . Later in the war , a Republic force led by Karath and Alek managed to retake Omonoth long enough to salvage the remnants of the " Arkanian Legacy " . Among other things , the Republic outfit recovered the mutilated corpse of Eejee Vamm in one of the ship ' s labs . Commanders and crew . Conceived of by his grandfather Argaloh , the " Arkanian Legacy " passed to Arkoh Adasca upon his ascension to the stewardship of Adascorp . As the company ' s CEO , Adasca oversaw everything on Adascorp ' s mobile headquarters , using the hundreds of security cameras stationed throughout the ship to keep track of all events that took place on the " Arkanian Legacy " and his wider information network to observe much of what occurred in the galaxy beyond . Adasca ' s singleminded focus was to find Gorman Vandrayk and put his plan for galactic domination in action , and his search brought a tremendous amount of data into the " Arkanian Legacy " , forcing him to employ a cybernetically - augmented Duros aide , Eejee Vamm , to help manage all the information . Although Vamm was one of the only non - pureblooded Arkanians among the well over 100 , 000 crew and passengers aboard the ship at its peak , he was unflinchingly loyal to Adasca , as were the myriad doctors , scientists and researchers on the ship , led by the Arkanian Doctor Suprin . Although almost all the regular inhabitants of the " Arkanian Legacy " were Arkanians , not all of them were privy to Adasca ' s plans , and the CEO of Adascorp transferred those who were not in the know off the ship on the journey to Omonoth . Among the Arkanians left on the ship were Adasca ' s armored security team , who wielded stun batons and were aided by a contingent of HK - 24 assassin droids . Behind the scenes . The " Arkanian Legacy " first briefly appeared in " " , an issue of the " " comic book series , written by John Jackson Miller and released in 2007 . Although the ship ' s first appearance only showed its holographic crow ' s nest , the rest of the ship made its first appearance several issues later , in " " . The " Arkanian Legacy " went on to be the primary setting for the " " and " " story arcs . The ship was designed by artist Brian Ching , who " spent a lot of time " in developing the ship ' s appearance according to Miller . During its appearances in " Knights of the Old Republic " , the ship was also illustrated by Harvey Tolibao and Bong Dazo . The " Arkanian Legacy " and the story that takes place aboard it was at least partially inspired by Archie Goodwin ' s depiction of The Wheel during the original Marvel Comics " Star Wars " comic run , and Miller devised the ship ' s capacity from that of , the football stadium for the , Miller ' s alma mater .