Vorknkx Project

The Vorknyx Project was an Imperial research project to create a low power cloaking device for freighters.

History
The ultimate goal was to use this technology to cloak Imperial star fighters. The testbed for the project was a corellian corvette called the Vorknyx, hence the project's name. The project was so secret that only the Emperor, head of new technology Grand Admiral Zaarin, and the project's staff knew anything of its exhistence.

After Zaarin's coup on the Emperor failed, he set his sights on damaging Imperial manufacturing capabilities and gain technological advantages. Zaarin was a technocrat, who was obsessed with gaining new and advanced technologies. Shortly after a failed attempt to capture prototype missle boats, Zaarin took his forces into hiding. He later reemerged and sent a Modified Frigate,Z-Boris, to capture the space station laboratory of the Vorknyx Project. Grand Admiral Thrawn, who had been tasked by the Emperor to capture of kill Zaarin, sent his best pilot, Maarek Stele, in a Missile Boat to defend the base.

Modified Frigate Z-Boris was destroyed, and the project was relocated to an abandoned mine on an asteroid called To-Phalion Base.

However, Zaarin planted spies in the facility who stole the corvette Vorknyx. What he didn't know was that Thrawn had anticipated this move and planted a tracking device on the Vorknyx. Thrawn's task force followed and trapped Zaarin at the very edge of the Outer Rim, where he planned to regroup his forces. Zaarin was forced to abandon his Star Destroyer, the Glory, durring the fight. He and some of his officers fled on the corvette Vorknyx. They foolishly activated the cloaking device while entering hyperspace. The Vorknyx Project scientists had earlier discovered that the device would overload, and probably explode, if used in conjunction with hyperspace engines. Thrawn had this information erased from the project logs. As a result, Zaarin and all onbord the Vorknyx perished in a horrific explosion.

The Vorknyx Project was cut afterwards, as its testbed and only working prototype was destroyed. To Thrawn the project served only one purpose, the destruction of Zaarin, which in the end it did.