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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.

Hero of the Clone Wars
"A decorated soldier in the Clone Wars, Mohc became very prominent during the Empire's rise to power."

- Jan Ors

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.

Mechanical obsessions
"What I unveil today will mark a new era for the Empire. We will be able to decimate the Rebels just as we did the Jedi Knights. At last the Emperor's war will be filled only with the glory and beauty of decisive victory."

- General Rom Mohc

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.

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.

Imperial general
"The Emperor spent more than a half-million credits to feed, house, and educate each one of you over the past four years. Not because he thought it would be the nice thing to do or because he likes military parades, but because he wants you to defend the Empire."

- General Mohc oversees graduating cadets

Having been a prominent figure during the Empire's rise to power, Mohc was eventually promoted to the rank of general. During the year 1 BBY, General Mohc worked as an administrator at the Imperial Academy of the planet Carida. During his term, Mohc installed a high-tech surveillance system meant to act as a deterrent for misbehavior among cadets. Even so, General Mohc was well-respected by the academy's students due to his status as a combat veteran and not just another officer. Mohc was particularly impressed with cadet Kyle Katarn, who acted with bravery on his Omega Exercise, which involved the taking of asteroid AX-456 from Alliance forces. To honor the the cadet's bravery, Mohc personally commended Katarn at the latter's bedside. Later that same day, Mohc hosted dinner for the Imperial Inquisitor Jerec, who&emdash;while using Mohc's surveillance system to spy on Katarn&emdash;expressed an interest in meeting Katarn. Ironically, Jerec had executed Katarn's father sometime earlier for being an Alliance militant.

Later on, Mohc addressed the year's graduating class, where he was given the cadets' full attention. After the speech's conclusion, General Mohc and Jerec presented awards to the students who graduated in the top ten percent of the class, which included presenting Katarn with the Imperial Medal of Honor. Special awards of valor and merit were also distributed to cadets Rand Nalleck, Dana Cory, Chad Longko, and Ben. However, as the ceremony progressed, Mohc wished for it to end so he could entertain a mistress.

Despite the Imperials' praise for Katarn, the cadet abandoned the Empire upon realizing that he had been lied too about the circumstances of his father's death, having been told rebel insurgents killed his father rather than being executed by an Imperial official. Katarn joined the Rebel Alliance and quickly partook in a mission where he stole information regarding the Death Star project that helped the Alliance destroy the battle station during the year 0 BBY. Ironically, General Mohc had previously opposed the construction of the Death Star due to his distrusting nature of technology that separated soldiers from battlefield glory.

Dark forces rising
"Very impressive, General Mohc. The Emperor will be most pleased. Continue with your project." "Certainly Lord Vader."

- Darth Vader and General Mohc

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 on the planet Fest, after which it would be implemented into dark trooper armor. In addition, Fest served as a weapons research facility. A robotics facility, Ice Station Beta, was put to use on the planet Anteevy. The products from each installation 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 the Hutt's 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 to keep them informed on Mohc's project.



The dark troopers were built in phases. The 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 such as a blade and a blaster bolt-reflective shield. Although poorly armored, the droid was fast on its feet. Several of the droids were put to use at the installations used to build them, including a single droid on Gromas 16 and several were used as guards in Ice Station beta. Several phase I dark troopers were also stationed on the Imperial capital planet Coruscant. Mohc also kept a number of these droids in active duty aboard the Arc Hammer. The phase II dark trooper was a technological improvement over its predecessor. These droids wore thick, gray armor that superficially resembled stormtrooper armor, and they came equipped with jetpacks that gave them increased mobility. They were also armed with assault cannons that were designed by the Imperial engineer Moff Rebus. In addition to firing a steady stream of plasma-like projectiles, the weapons could also dumb fire missiles. One of these troopers ended up being used at Ice Station beta, while several more guarded the Imperial Security Operations headquarter on Coruscant.

The final iteration, the phase III dark trooper, was not a droid, but an exoskeleton that could be used as a suit of armor. Mohc intended these exoskeletons to be used for future generations of stormtroopers. The phase III armor was more durable than the phase II armor, and the suit's came equipped with assault cannons, jetpacks, and missile launchers hidden in the wrists and shoulders. Mohc kept one these suits for himself as his own personal combat armor. Instead of an assault cannon, Mohc carried a similar weapon that fired clusters of homing missiles.

The production of Mohc's troopers was as follows: Phrikite was mined from Gromas 16 and sent to Fest via Jabba's smugglers, where it was then refined into phrik. The materials were then handed back to Jabba's smugglers, who carted the materials to Anteevy. The smuggler's would then take the Imperial cargo to Fuel Station Ergo. The fuel station served as a refueling dock for the Super Star Destroyer Executor, a ship that would receive the smugglers' cargo in order to take it back to the Arc Hammer. In order to remain undetectable, the Arc Hammer would periodically make hyperspace jumps to locations that only the Executor could reach.

Test on Talay
"Captain Nonam, are your ground troops standing by?" "They await your order, sir. The Rebel scum are doomed."

- General Mohc and Captain Nonam during the attack on Tak Base

During the year 0 ABY, General Mohc met with the Emperor's apprentice Darth Vader aboard the Executor in order to officially test the dark troopers with a combat scenario. A Rebel base was located on the planet Talay: Tak Base. Mohc gave the order to unleash phase II dark troopers upon the base via hyperspace pods, which were reinforced by ground troops under the command of Captain Nonam. Tak Base was obliterated, and all Rebel personal were killed. In addition, the surrounding city of Tak was razed, and civilian casualties were high. The dark troopers were subsequently recalled while an Imperial garrison remained in the city. However, one dark trooper left its prototype weapon behind in the Tak Base. Nonetheless, Darth Vader was impressed with the show of force, and Mohc was given the go-ahead to continue with the project.

Despite the destruction, the Rebel officer General Toka had managed to send the Alliance a distress message before he was killed. Although no footage of the dark troopers was recorded, the video-message did capture the sounds that the droid troopers made. The message was received by Alliance high-command, who in turn dispatched agents Jan Ors and Kyle Katarn to investigate the battle's aftermath. During the investigation, Katarn discovered the dark trooper weapon. With Rebus' initials on it, the Rebels had a lead, and set out to end Mohc's ambitions.

A worthy opponent
"Katarn will not be as easy to deal with. He is very resourceful. More resourceful it seems than even your dark troopers." "I understand the threat, Lord Vader."

- Darth Vader and General Mohc discuss Katarn's ability

Mohc's assembly line began to falter when the Alliance operation began with the capture of Moff Rebus on the planet Anoat, whose subsequent interrogation led to Katarn infiltrating and destroying dark trooper facilities on Fest and Gromas 16. With Katarn's actions directly threatening Mohc's operation, the general hired the famed bounty hunter Boba Fett to deal with the Rebels. Shortly thereafter, Crix Madine's role as a rebel spy was rooted, and Mohc arrested the traitor before both Vader and Fett aboard the Arc Hammer. Although Mohc's own identity was a mystery to the rebel agents, the Imperials were well aware of Katarn. Mohc even recalled the agent's past Imperial career for Vader. Despite Vader's growing doubts about the project, Mohc firmly claimed that Katarn would never near the Arc hammer.

Madine was sentenced to execution and was incarcerated at the Imperial Detention Center located on the planet Orinackra. However, he was rescued by Katarn only a short while later, after which Madine told the Rebels what he knew about Mohc and the dark trooper project. Madine's information resulted in Katarn tracking Jabba the Hutt's loaned smugglers from the planet Cal-Seti to Ice Station Beta on Anteevy, which was also destroyed by Katarn. The rebels later stole a nava card from the moon Nar Shaddaa, which contained the whereabouts. Katarn eventually encountered Fett on Coruscant, and after a heated battle, Katarn defeated Mohc's bounty hunter and escaped the planet. Katarn's next mission was to infiltrate the Arc Hammer, and destroy it.

Although Mohc had believed that Katarn was not capable of even coming close to the Arc Hammer, he was proven wrong when Katarn infiltrated the Executor, stole a cargo container, and boarded the Arc Hammer. Realizing that Katarn was far stronger than he had thought, Mohc changed his mind about Katarn, and regarded the Rebel agent as a warrior worth fighting. The thought of battling pleased Mohc, as it had been some time since his last fight. Mohc donned his phase II dark trooper armor and waited for Katarn near the Arc Hammer ' s hangar, accompanied by phase II dark troopers.

Meanwhile, Katarn fought Mohc's forces, and eventually placed explosive devices on three of the Arc Hammer ' s exchange couplings that were built along the ship's main power grid. As Katarn made his way to the ship's hangar bay, he found the massive ante-chamber where Mohc was waiting. However, the general was hiding behind a large door on one end of the chamber. Katarn destroyed the two dark troopers in the room, and proceeded to open five enormous doors which unleashed further dark troopers. Once the dark troopers were destroyed, the final, sixth door opened, revealing General Mohc, dressed for combat. Mohc battled the Rebel he had personally commended and decorated on Carida. Mohc fought to the point that Katarn had need to only outlast Mohc's barrage of attacks. Soon enough, the general finally fell. Katarn escaped the Arc Hammer and the explosives detonated, destroying the ship and all Mohc had worked for.

With the project put to a violent end, Emperor Palpatine angrily cancelled the dark trooper project in its entirety.

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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.

Personality and traits
"He's absolutely obsessed with the honor of personal combat."

- Jan Ors' profiling of General Mohc

Behind the scenes
"It's a heroic, upbeat slant to Mohc's badness."

- Dark Forces sound artist and musical composer Clint Bajakian explains the process of writing the musical themes for General Mohc and Kyle Katarn

"In the LucasArts game Dark Forces there's the brutish General Mohc, who unleashes the deadly dark troopers against the forces of the Alliance"

- A description of Mohc by Mark Cotta Vaz

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

 * 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