Cybernetics/Legends

"And that mechanical arm... revolting. A gentleman would have learned to fight one-handed."

- Count Dooku



A prosthetic replacement is any biomechanical device used to replace body parts ranging from internal organs to limbs. Prosthetic replacements are connected to organic tissue via a complex synthennet neural interface, which provides the recipient with control and sensation. External replacements are covered by synth-flesh to emulate actual organic tissue.

Users of prosthetic replacements
General Grievous had almost all of his body replaced by a powerful droid skeleton. With his four arms he killed large numbers of Jedi. Using his intense fighting skill he also slaughtered many people and demolished entire regiments of Clone Troopers.

A great deal of Darth Vader's ravaged body was supported by prosthetic replacements, although they had a comparatively low quality compared to others. Vader's artificial limbs were incredibly heavy and badly made, frequently snagging on the inside of his suit. Luke Skywalker was fitted with a prosthetic hand after losing his own during his duel with Vader on the planet Bespin. Malak, a Dark Lord of the Sith during the Old Republic, had a prosthetic voice box that he used to speak. Most replacements are custom-built to fit the size of the body or body part.



The Sith Lumiya also received extensive amounts of prostheses after crashing her starfighter following a dogfight with Luke Skywalker. It was her claim that high levels of prosthesis dampened an individual's sensitivity to the Force. This, she claimed, had stopped Darth Vader attaining the full potential of a Sith Lord and was also stifling her attempts to achieve this mastery of the dark side of the Force.



This area of medical technology was spurred by the carnage of the Clone Wars, and the replacement of body parts with lifelike replicas reached a high level of refinement during the Galactic Civil War.

Not all prosthetics, however, were designed with replicating the real body part in mind. The prosthetic arm of Arden Lyn, a Teräs Käsi master was vastly disproportionate to her body, conspicuously unlifelike and was in fact a modified droid arm.

Although prosthetics were widely available not all candidates accepted the replacement limbs offered to them. The Jedi Tenel Ka lost an arm during a practice Lightsaber duel with Jacen Solo, however she chose to shun the offer of a replacement, instead choosing to focus upon her own physical and Force based abilities to compensate for the loss.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * ''Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
 * Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 * Tempest
 * Star Wars Legacy 3: Broken, Part 3