Entechment

Entechment is a process by which a being's life-energy is drained from its body to be used as a power source for a machine. Entechment was presumably developed by the Ssi-ruuk, who used it to power their ships&mdash;both their cruisers, which were powered by the life-energy of many beings, and their fighter drones, which were powered by a single being's life-energy.

The most common species to undergo Ssi-ruuk entechment was the P'w'eck, the slaves of the Ssi-ruuk. When the Ssi-ruuk attacked Bakura in about 4 ABY, they discovered after taking Imperial prisoners that humans were a far more powerful source of energy than the P'w'eck.

The Ssi-ruuk claimed that the entechment process was entirely painless, although the victims would always scream as if in severe agony. The Ssi-ruuk employed the Force-sensitive human Dev Sibwarra to calm those being enteched, although they told even him that it was a painless process, even promising that he would someday be "allowed" to be enteched.

During a space battle involving Ssi-ruuk drone fighters, Luke Skywalker sensed that the beings who had been enteched were still conscious and in agony even after the process had been carried out. This proved to be advantageous to the human forces, as Skywalker was able to reach out with the Force and help the enteched beings to break free from the will of their Ssi-ruuk masters and turn on each other in order to end their misery. Skywalker was also later able to board the Ssi-ruuk flagship, Shriwirr, and destroy various components, freeing many more enteched beings.

Appearances

 * The Truce at Bakura