Cylo

Cylo-V is the fifth body of a doctor named Cylo, who created himself into an immortal system capable of assuming another identical body when the previous one died.

After the death of his fourth body at the hands of Darth Vader's torture droid, 0-0-0, Cylo's new body was activated at his research base with no memory of what had happened. As Cylo-V awoke, Vader launched an attack against the research base, to eliminate the possible competition for his place as the Emperor's enforcer. Cylo-V broke off the fight between Vader and his genetically and cybernatically enhanced specimens, Morit and Aiolin.

Revealing his plans to have his specimens act as the Emperor's new agents in Vader's place, Cylo-V unleashed them against the Dark Lord as the Emperor arrived to watch.

Biography
Doctor Cylo created a map personality of himself, completed with memory banks and plug-in calculation systems, to make himself into an immortal system. When one body died, another was activated at his research base with no memory of what had happened to the old body. Cylo came to believe that technological superiority was inevitable and that mystical aspects of the universe, such as the Force, were obsolete. To that aim, he begun research on creating new forms of life, depending on technological augmentations, which he created using illegal alien parts smuggled to his research base in conjunction with cybernetic upgrades. Among his creations were Morit and Aiolin, siblings trained as warriors.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Yavin, Cylo had begun working for Darth Sidious, the ruler of the Galactic Empire, and begun pushing for the Emperor to replace his apprentice, Darth Vader, with his specimens as enforcers while the Dark Lord would be reduced to a ceremonial position. Vader's failure to stop the destruction of the Death Star and the subsequent loss of Weapons Factory Alpha on Cymoon 1 led Sidious to consider Cylo's plan.

After Vader met Cylo's fourth body in the Imperial Palace on Coruscant, he became supicious of the Emperor's plans and hired bounty hunter Black Krrsantan to find and capture him. Once Cylo-IV was captured, Vader ordered his new droid, 0-0-0, to torture the information about his work for the Emperor from him. 0-0-0 inadvertently killed Cylo-IV during the interrogation but not before discovering the location of his research base and the existence of his specimens.

Personality and traits
Cylo-IV appeared to be Human but had grafts from multiple species, notably the green scaly Rodian skin and black eye in place of his right eye. The rest of his skin was light, and he had brown hair and a black goatee. The agent wore a cybernetic device on his head.

Cylo believed that the universe needed to evolve and that progress was inevitable. He also believed that organic species were running out of time and that ancient elements such as the Force were obsolete. To this end, he recreated himself as an immortal and augmented system capable of changing bodies when the previous one died. He also started created new specimens and planned to introduce them as new enforcers for the Emperor. He believed that men like Vader lacked the vision to see that they needed to evolve but that the Emperor did. However, he did believe that Vader represented a bridge between the 'old world' and his new world, seeing as Vader was more machine than man.

Cylo also removed his tendancy to hold grudges from his system, not blaming Vader for killing his fourth body. Instead, he claimed that he would have done the same thing in Vader's place.

Behind the scenes
"I cannot tell you anything about that dude, except that he's important, and he definitely has a Rodian's eye."

- Kieron Gillen, author of Star Wars: Darth Vader Cylo-V first appeared in Star Wars: Darth Vader 5: Vader, Part V during which time his nature was explained after the death of his fourth body. The fact that he has a Rodian's eye and cybernetics is meant to imply "the sort of things this guy might get up to," according to Gillen, who also said that finding out who the character is will be "one of the core elements" of the Star Wars: Darth Vader series. Gillen further stated that the creative team went back and forth on which type of alien look to use for the character's right eye, before finally settling on a Rodian.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Darth Vader 5: Vader, Part V