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"It's been a long time since I've challenged a man to battle. I'm glad my opponent is so worthy."

- General Mohc prepares to face Rebel agent Kyle Katarn

Whether he was fighting battle droids in hand-to-hand combat during the Clone Wars, or battling enemy agents while suited in armor during the Galactic Civil War, General Rom Mohc of the Galactic Empire was a tried and true warrior who was obsessed with both peer-to-peer combat and the world of droids. It was Mohc's combat driven mind that eventually gave birth to the Dark Trooper Project during the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic. After failing to spark interest within the Empire for droid soldiers to reinforce normal Imperial battalions with his Z-X3 droid trooper project, Mohc was later given the chance to rebuild aging clone troopers of the Old Republic into cyborg soldiers. Known as Phase Zero dark troopers, the project was semi-successful. Some clones were unable to cope with their cyborg transformations. In addition, the falling number of clone troopers and the rise of conscripts caused the Phase Zero dark trooper project to end. However, it was just the start of Mohc's ultimate plan.

Working out of the starship Arc Hammer, a mobile droid factory, Mohc's experimental Dark Trooper project produced three deadly machines: the Phase I dark trooper, the Phase II dark trooper, and the Phase III dark trooper combat armor. Mohc was given permission to test his creations on a Rebel base located on the planet Talay, a test that was overseen by the Sith Lord Darth Vader. Mohc launched a barrage of Phase II dark troopers against the base, which ultimately saw the deaths of all Rebel personnel, as well as many civilians who lived in the nearby city. Impressed with the project, Mohc was given permission to continue his operation. However, a thorough investigation of the destroyed base by Rebel operative Kyle Katarn put the Rebellion hot on Mohc's heels. Katarn followed a bread crumb trail across the galaxy, and slowly dismantled Mohc's work. The two eventually squared off on the Arc Hammer, with Mohc wearing the Phase III dark trooper armor. Following a heated battle, Katarn emerged victorious, with Mohc dead and the Arc Hammer destroyed, putting an end to the general's plans.

War hero
During the final decades of the Galactic Republic, the battle of the Clone Wars were waged across the galaxy. On the side of the Republic was the Human male soldier and cybernetics specialist Rom Mohc, who served under General Locus Geen. On the opposite side of the war was the Confederacy of Independent Systems, who fought Republic clone troopers with a massive droid army. With a keen interest in droid technology, Mohc fought the Confederate battle droids on his own, identifying and exploiting their weaknesses. At some point, Mohc fought during the Coruscant Insurrection, a Confederate attack against the Republic capital planet Coruscant. Alongside normal droid forces and Rodian soldiers, the Confederacy employed new C-B3 cortosis battle droids. Mohc fought the droids mano-a-mano, and with the aid of Republic forces and Jedi Anakin Skywalker the Separatist advance was crushed. Mohc's action caused the Republic HoloNet to transcend Mohc to the status of war hero.

When the war ended during the year 19 BBY, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine declared the Republic victorious, and that with victory the Republic was to become a new Galactic Empire. In addition, the Jedi were branded as traitors and were subsequently eliminated. Ultimately, Mohc's obsession with personal combat served him well in Palpatine's New Order, the battle-hardened soldier eventually received three Imperial Medal of Valors as well as the Distinguished Medal of Imperial Honor. Mohc's obsession with droids also continued, and he collected various trophies from his battled, including a prototype IG-97, a ZQ infantry droid, and several Mark XI and Mark IX Executioner droids.

At some point during the reign of the Empire, Mohc served as a Zero-G assault stormtrooper. When Mohc learned of the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, or Death Star, he protested the use of the weapon, claming that every soldier had the right to fight the enemy on the field of battle. He eventually convinced himself that the Empire's current mechanical abilities were limited, and that he could create an ultimate war droid. Mohc began to study the robot designs that appeared throughout history, and read up on the various droids that served Xim's empire, the droids of the Sith, and the Iron Knights of the Old Republic. Mohc partnered with Baron Orman Tagge of TaggeCo, and together they produced the Z-X3 experimental droid trooper. The units were meant to supplement Imperial stormtroopers. Only twenty were ever built, and although they proved both deadly and adaptable, the Imperial Military rejected the design, and felt that the use of battle droids was of poor taste. At least one Z-X3 made it as far as Kligson's Moon by the time of the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic. The droid formed a temporary alliance with the artificial moon's caretaker, Kligson, but later tried to unsuccessfully usurp power from him.

Despite the end of the Z-X3 prject, Mohc continued his work on a droid super soldier. Mohc's continued perseverance eventually won him a position at the Imperial Department of Military Research station Empirical, located in the Dominus sector. Now a lieutenant, Mohc began the first inklings of what would become his legacy. His main assignment on the Empirical was the Phase Zero dark trooper project, which saw the transformation of forcibly recruited aging clone troopers into fully operational cyborg warriors. At least two Phase Zero variants were created as well, including the Elite dark trooper and the dark trooper commander. While the project produced successful soldiers, some of the clones were unable to cope with their new physical state and attempted suicide. The project was eventually shut down to the suicides and the overall decrease in available clone units and rising numbers of conscripts. However, a number of the successful Phase Zero units became Purge troopers.

Dark trooper project
Mohc eventually attained the rank of general, and picked up work as an administrator at the Imperial Academy of the planet Carida by the year 1 BBY. General Mohc was well-respected by the academy's students due the fact that Mohc was a combat veteran, and not just another officer. Mohc was particularly impressed with the student Kyle Katarn. The cadet did well on his Omega Exercise, which involved the taking of asteroid AX-456 from Alliance forces. For the cadet's bravery, Mohc and the Imperial Inquisitor Jerec presented Katarn the Imperial Medal of Honor during the cadet's class graduation. Mohc also addressed the entire graduating class, where he was given the cadets' full attention. Sometime after the ceremony's close, Mohc and Jerec retired to the former's quarters. Over dinner, the two discussed Katarn and his future. Despite the praise for Katarn, the cadet abandoned the Empire when he realized that he had been lied too about the circumstances of his father's death, which had been an Imperial cover up. Katarn joined the Rebel Alliance and stole information regarding the Death Star that helped the Alliance destroy the battle station.

Meanwhile, Mohc had been hard at work designing his new dark trooper war droids. Emperor Palpatine, infuriated with the Death Star's destruction, recognized the partial success of the Phase Zero project and gave the Mohc the go ahead to put his plans into motion. With billions of credits at his disposal, Mohc set up a massive mining facility on the moon Gromas 16 that was used to mine phrikite, a mineral that would be refined into his droid's armor. In addition, a weapons research facility was established on the planet Fest, and a robotics facility, Ice Station Beta, was put to use on the planet Anteevy. The products from each facility would then be transported to Mohc's new flagship, the Arc Hammer, which served as a mobile construction facility for the dark troopers. However, in order to help keep the Arc Hammer hidden from enemy forces, Mohc employed the services of the notorious crime lord Jabba the Hutt and used his smugglers to cart the dark trooper materials across the galaxy. An Imperial officer named Crix Madine eventually learned of the project, and acted as a mole for the Rebel Alliance, keeping the rebels informed on Mohc's pet project.

The dark troopers were built in phases. The first phase, or phase I dark trooper, was the first step in creating Mohc's envisioned soldier. The phase I was a spindly exoskeleton that did not come equipped with any ranged weapons, but instead relied on melee weapons.


 * Clone Wars
 * Early Projects
 * Z-X3 droids
 * Phase Zero Troopers
 * Empirical
 * General
 * Carida Graduation
 * Jerec
 * Dark Trooper project
 * The Dark Trooper trail
 * Talay
 * Countering Katarn
 * Crix Madine and hiring Boba Fett
 * Dark Forces
 * Showdown on Arc Hammer

Early career
A non-clone officer of the Grand Army of the Republic, Rom Mohc fought in the Clone Wars with a passion for personal combat under the command of General Locus Geen. Mohc gained a reputation for fighting battle droids in hand-to-hand combat and developed a keen understanding of cybernetics. His ability to ascertain the weaknesses of various droid designs proved invaluable at the Invasion of Coruscant by the droid army of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Mohc also had a healthy respect for the clone troopers and relished working with them.

Mohc's bravery during the Clone Wars and loyalty put him on the fast track to success in Palpatine's New Order. On many worlds, Mohc fought in Palpatine's name, earning three Imperial Medals of Valor and the Distinguished Medal of Imperial Honor. Mohc continued his fascination with droids, often pitting himself against various deadly droids. His eccentric taste for combat culminated in a trophy room of battle droids that he had defeated, including a prototype IG-97, a ZQ infantry droid, and several Mark IX-XI Executioners. Mohc's passion for personal combat became almost obsessive, and he came to insist that every soldier had the right to face the enemy man-to-man, to the point of protesting the Death Star project.

Battle droid research
As a Zero-G assault stormtrooper, Mohc grew frustrated with the limitations of Imperial cybernetics. Mohc believed that with his experience fighting droids and knowledge of their weaknesses, he could develop an ultimate battle droid, and "studied the designs of mechanical soldiers throughout history, from Xim to the Sith to the Iron Knights of the Old Republic."

Mohc's research yielded the initial designs for what would become the dark trooper. Allying with Baron Orman Tagge, Mohc designed the Z-X3 experimental droid trooper, designed to supplement stormtroopers in dangerous radiation or vacuum. An experimental batch of seventy droids proved deadly and adaptable, but the Imperial Military viewed the use of battle droids with distaste and the Z-X3 was rejected.

Mohc refused to admit defeat and kept pushing his ideas. His perseverance finally paid off when he won support from the Imperial Department of Military Research, and in 17 BBY young Lieutenant Mohc was stationed aboard the Empirical, a hidden space station in the Dominus sector, to oversee the Phase Zero Dark Trooper project, an attempt to restore aging clone troopers to battle-worthiness by remaking them into cyborgs. However, as the subjects were forcibly recruited into the project, many Phase Zero Dark Troopers could not cope with the state of being more machine than man and attempted suicide. The project was eventually shut down as the Empire grew in power and the recruitment rate of non-clones rose, though the successful subjects of the project became the Purge Troopers, which would later inspire the design of the Phase III dark trooper.

Mohc continued his career and later became one of the administrators of the Imperial Academy on Carida. He was particularly impressed with the way Cadet Leader Kyle Katarn handled his Omega Exercise, whom he and Inquisitor Jerec presented with an Imperial Medal of Honor.

The Dark Trooper Project
"The Emperor is most pleased with your project."

- Darth Vader

When Mohc was promoted to the rank of general, he used the resources available to him to complete the technical designs and implementation plans for his own dark troopers, thinking that infantry should prove themselves in battle. He knew his creation would please the Emperor, but Palpatine was obsessed with the Death Star project. He was one of the few generals to oppose the Death Star as Mohc had a distrust of any technology which separated warriors from their enemies in battle. With the failure of the first Death Star at the Battle of Yavin, Mohc seized the opportunity to pitch his program to Palpatine. Infuriated with Wilhuff Tarkin's failure and recognizing the partial success of the Phase Zero project, the Emperor granted Mohc authorization to begin his new program.

The Dark Trooper Project was given billions of credits to support the research and development of Mohc's brainchild. Mohc established a mining facility on Gromas 16 to acquire the near-indestructible metal phrik, a weapons research facility on Fest, a robotics construction facility on Anteevy, and the massive starship Arc Hammer to act as a construction and mobile launch base for the dark troopers.

Finally, Mohc was told by Darth Vader himself that the Emperor had approved his test demonstration. Immediately, Mohc released the Phase II dark troopers on the planet Talay which housed a Rebel base. The dark troopers proved their efficiency obliterating the Tak Base during the attack. Worried, the Rebel Alliance sent Kyle Katarn, who had defected from the Empire and joined the Rebellion, to investigate and put an end to the Dark Trooper Project.

Mohc was alerted by the movements of the Rebel operative but discovered the role of Imperial officer Crix Madine in informing the Rebel Alliance for the Dark Trooper Project. At gunpoint he apprehended Madine who was sent to Orinackra awaiting execution. By that time Mohc not only had put a bounty on Katarn's head, making several bounty hunters and criminal figures, including Jabba Desilijic Tiure to look out for him, but he also employed the services of Boba Fett.

However, Katarn proved very resourceful and Mohc soon found out that Katarn made his way to the Arc Hammer. With this news, Mohc donned his prototype of the Phase III dark trooper, which he intended to use to complement his droids with stormtroopers in exosuits. He battled Katarn in single combat and despite his prowess, Katarn bested Mohc.

Shortly after, Katarn destroyed the Arc Hammer, atomizing Mohc and his team, costing the Empire dearly and resulting in Emperor Palpatine angrily canceling the project.

Behind the scenes
Mohc is the main antagonist of the video game Star Wars: Dark Forces and is mainly seen during cutscenes which advance the plot.

His voice in Star Wars: Dark Forces was provided by Jack Angel. Tim Russell voiced Mohc for the audio adaptation of Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire.

Mohc is seen again in the story Sand Blasted which extrapolates on one of the game's cutscenes, but his appearance differs somewhat from that of the game, showing him with receding but long, red hair.

An action figure of Mohc was given with one of IG-97 with a reprint of Sand Blasted as a part of a "battle pack". 

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The New Droid Army
 * Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire / audio
 * Star Wars: Dark Forces
 * Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
 * Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption