Work In Progress House Calimondra of Syned

[Anthysius Soraysom-Calimondra]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To flesh out Anthysius and Adera background and some detail on the minor nobility of the Sith Empire as well developing RP links to a canon idea.
• Image Credit: WIP
• Canon: Vilia Calimondra, Chagras, Lord Damian, Lord Odion
• Permissions: N/A
• Links: WIP Calimondra Family, Vilia Calimondra, Lord Chargras, Lord Damian, Lord Odion, Charge Matrica, Ayanos Bactra, Syned, Jutrand, Darkknell, Jubalene,

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Organization Name: House Calimondra (of Syned)
• Classification: Clan
• Affiliation: Sith Empire/Defunct
• Organization Symbol: Crest
• Description: Amongst the Sith of the Galaxy, few claim descent from ancient Sith lords, as most of the powerful Sith rarely formed families to share their power with. An exception in history was Vilia Calimondra and her family, who ruled over an entire sector of space during the Republic Dark Age. Amongst the many upstart claimants to that legacy is a group of families with claims better than most. They trace their descent to an event known as the Great Relocation, where a large group of powerful Sith rulers, executives, and warriors migrated away from the Grumani sector in ~750-800 ABY to what became the core of the modern Sith Empire, though many retained holdings in that region. These 'official' Calimondras maintain the trappings and practices of the documented historical Calimondras such as the Charge Matrica, devotion to a mix of Odionate and Daimanate texts, etc. Since the end of the Sith Empire few, if any, have survived.

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

• Headquarters: Most of the claimant lineages operated from the heart of the Sith Empire on Krayiss Two due to this being the original home of many of their ancestors after the Relocation, though many of them also owned estates on other worlds, most notably Syned.
• Domain: The many corporate and miscellaneous shell organisations were frequently headquartered on the other side of the Galaxy in Jutrand and Syned. Titular claims were made over planets important to the family's history like Darkknell and Jubalene, but little ever came of that due to the local governments' distrust of Sith. The dispersed nature of the Calimondra clan meant that many of its members held some form of minor domain across the old Sith Empire, most of which are now under Imperial, Ashlan, or minor local governmental hands.
• Notable Assets: None extant save for Elevar Holdings, some shell companies, and some small patches of real estate, also held under false names

SOCIAL INFORMATION

• Hierarchy: The dispersed nature of the clan and its many competing branches (some of which were claimed relation with little proof) meant that the only hierarchy among the surname was between rival coalitions of claimant lineages, most strikingly seen in the single common activity of all these claimants: the Charge Matrica. Claimed to be a continuation of the one started by Vilia Calimondra, the Charge has become something of a disputed title in and of itself. While there used to be one major tournament/ceremony that was held every decade in the years before The Relocation, several competing Charge Matricas existed from that point on until the extinguishing of this family. Each rival Charge Matrica ceremony was held jointly by different, rival groups of lineages that claimed descent from the documented immigrant Sith of Syned. The participation of an individual or claimant lineage in a specific Charge Matrica implied support from, and support of, that rival coalition.
• Membership: While all Calimondras insist that their names come from birth, the fact of the matter was that by the time of the Sith Empire dozens of families claimed descent from Vilia Calimondra or her children, especially if that family could prove some ancestor or another migrated from a vague southward direction. The true reality of membership was if other claimants acknowledged that claim, especially in the form of being granted entrance to a Charge Matrica. Few families bothered to participate in anything other than the largest (and thus presumably most legitimate) Charge they could gain admission into, which in any case had become more ritual than warfare and generally produced little material benefit to a winner beyond recognition and respect.
• Climate: Fierce competition and familial pride characterise the claimants to the legacy of the Relocated Calimondras. Unlike most other modern Sith, fragments of New Sith War era ideology and Calimondra philosophy permeated the families: nonchalance toward the Darth title, a view of Sith that skewed heavily towards exploitation over destruction, and unique beliefs that can be traced back to Lords Odion and Damian to name just a few.
• Reputation: The family name as a whole was seen by Sith of the Empire as simultaneously invaluable and cheap to forge yet useless and detrimental in the context of orthodox Sith ideology of the individual. As a result, most of the Sith Empire elite saw the Calimondras of the Relocation as outdated or outsiders, and now no one thinks about them at all.
• Curios: Most Calimondras carry some sort of trinket or document that claims to verify the history or providence of their lineage such as artifacts from the Relocation or rare 1000BBY era Grumani artifacts. For those who have won any Matricas (or inherit the claims of those that have), a proof, trophy or token of that claim is treasured as highly as proof of their lineage. Many Calimondras engrave their Lightsabers with their version of the family crest.
• Rules: Varied. Apart from the largely identical rules of conduct during the Charge Matrica, different branches claim varying descent and thus place different emphases on different aspects of what they see to be family tradition including Lords Odion, Damian and even Ayanos Bactra.
• Goals: The goals of the many different diverging branches were often at odds with one another, but all shared a drive to prove themselves a worthy inheritors of their name. Many throughout the past few decades have attempted to fund efforts to seize the Grumani sector by force, either for their own profit or as a Sith Empire exclave, but most realised the status quo was more profitable, until it was too late to do anything about it.

MEMBERS
Anthysius Soraysom-Calimondra was born to a claimant family that, while lacking in real political or military power, was considered one of the most legitimate claims, for all the good it did. The "stolen inheritance" that Anthysius has always felt was his (both in terms of actual existing Calimondra holdings that never went to winner of the modern farcical Matricas, to the more general idea that the old Chagrasi Hegemony could have been re-made by force if not for the constant drain on resources that Calimondra claimants spent in politics in the Empire) is the very core of his identity and the attendant indignance, rage, and envy.

Adera Vellas , born Cora Aletra Sorayson-Calimondra, is the elder sister to Anthysius. The bitterness her family felt towards their erstwhile relatives would become the seed from which a larger critique of the Sith would form in her mind.

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

The historical Calimondra family of the first Dark Age was a powerful family that ruled over the Grumani sector and exerted influence around its surroundings. While countless Sith warlords rose and fell in that era, the Calimondra were one of the few to endure in memory and in being, with many people over the millennia claiming connection to them.

During the recent Dark Age, the Grumani sector was no stranger to chaos, and one of the groups that came to the forefront was a clan of force-sensitives that claimed descent from the Calimondras. They exerted direct control over only a portion of the sector, most notably the ancestral home of Syned, though their indirect influence through trade and commerce was much larger.

Due to reasons still disputed today, even among their descendants, the Calimondras of Syned underwent an almost total and complete migration to the Galactic North beginning roughly in 750 ABY, specifically to the heart of the ancient Sith Empires in the area around Thule, Krayiss Two, and Ziost. The reasons given are truly diverse and divergent, with none having particularly more evidence than another. What is known for sure is that it happened, as evidenced by records recovered in the Grumani sector since. The Great Relocation, as it is known, resulted in a community of migrant Sith with a very specific group identity, yet all Sith are wont to do, they immediately begin fighting amongst each other. As the Sith Empire of the modern day expanded, the family splintered into its modern form: as central cohesion weakened, ambitious branches tied their fates and fortunes to other Sith through alliance or marriage, which further weakened the benefits of sticking together, creating a vicious cycle that has resulted in no less than a peak of a dozen widely-recognised mutually exclusive Charge Matricas.
In the Third Imperial Civil War, practically all of the Calimondras stuck with the Sith Empire and almost all were destroyed, their names and holdings scattered into the wind like ash. While the legacy of the Calimondra name will forever hold weight and upstarts will forever claim it, the story of the Relocated Calimondra of Syned has reached its end.