Eternal Father
- Intent: Flesh out Malsheem's location
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- Space Station Name: Malsheem
- Station Model: Malsheem-class Worldcraft
- Classification: Worldcraft
- Location: Mobile
- Affiliation: The Kainate
- Population: Heavy - Roughly Twenty-Eight Million (28,000,000)
- Demographics: The majority of Malsheem's inhabitants were Eternal Rule cultists and their families, all dedicated to the worship of the Sith'ari. Above them were the nearly ten million garrisoned Gelian Sentinels, and above them were the members of the New Sith Order, with the Zambrano family and their retainers comprising the top hierarchical rung.
- 18,144,000 Eternal Rule Cultists (64.8%)
- 9,800,000 Gelian Sentinels (35%)
- 50,400 New Sith (0.18%)
- 5,600 Zambrano Family & Retainers (0.02%)
- Accessibility: Only the most favored of the Sith'ari's subjects were allowed to step foot on Malsheem, extending from members of his own family to the many cultist households which had served the Sith'ari for generations. To trespass on Malsheem was a violation punishable by death, which would be carried out by the Sith'ari's own Crownguard or his myriad of other servants.
- Traffic: Moderate - Though the location of Malsheem was a secret and changed often, a small armada of warships accompanied it wherever it went. Travel between Malsheem and the smaller ships was a common occurrence, as was travel within the gargantuan megastructure.
- Description: Malsheem was the culmination of over three decades of research and extermination, branching three separate governments, and comprising the utilization of trillions of resources and financial credits. It was constructed in part emulation of the ancient Death Star, a massive megastructure and superweapon with enough power to destroy entire planets. In contrast, Malsheem would inevitably be only half the size of the first dreaded Death Star and possess none of its offensive potentials. Stretched eighty kilometers in width and height, Malsheem was a perfect sphere with a massive equatorial trench running the entire length of the station from one side to the other, only broken by the large bank of engines in the rear and the production well in the front.
Malsheem's surface was covered with mass amounts of anti-starfighter weaponry, meant only for purely defensive actions against any encroaching enemy. Entire banks of weapon emplacements were slave-rigged to a central firing unit controlled by Tsudakyr drones, which in turn were controlled by overminds and humanoid operators. The weapon systems themselves were split between forty-thousand point-defense laser cannons and twenty-thousand short-range concussion missile launchers. The former relied on stores of energy that were fed into firing reservoirs while the latter relied on self-replicating missile manufactures, creating an endless stream of ammunition for the station's defenses.
The centerpiece of Malsheem was the large production well that dominated the worldcraft's front. Large enough to fit stations like Cloud City comfortably, the well was ringed with innumerable production bays and assembly pits where anything from a corvette to a battlecruiser could be produced by entirely automated systems. These production bays were connected to an infinitely replenishable series of storehouses filled with raw materials.
City-sized habitation blocks were spread throughout Malsheem's interior to house the over eighteen million cultists that operated the worldcraft as administrators and mechanics. These habitation sectors were austere and charmless, designed to only allow for the minimum of necessities allowed for sustainable living and little else. The cultists who inhabited these areas were not allowed for personal attachments or decorations and were regimented to reinforce the tenets of Eternal Rule. Propaganda was omnipotent, with routine speeches being broadcast over speaker systems to further radicalize the cultists and their descendants.
High-tech laboratories deep within Malsheem worked to engineer and perfect the dark sciences wholeheartedly embraced by the Kainate. None but those assigned to the scientific divisions were allowed to step foot within these laboratories without the Sith'ari's permission, even his most trusted advisors were kept at arm's length from his most diabolical of secrets. Secrets such as the caches of replacement bodies held in stasis to perpetuate the Sith'ari's immortal existence, alongside a host of monsters, plagues, biomechanical abominations, and other horrid creations.
At the apex of Malsheem, nestled at its northern pole, was the private residence of the Sith'ari and his family; the High Palace. From the Sith'ari's throne, one could monitor the entirety of Malsheem and Carnifex's mobile empire. It was from here that Carnifex contacted his disparate military commanders and intelligence agents, dispatching commands in the form of a hologram via mechanical intermediaries. Below the throne room were hundreds of levels devoted to the habitation of the Zambranos, along with entertainment and luxury not permitted to the lesser cultists of the Kainate. The most sacred location was the Sith'ari's inner sanctum where he would commune with the Dark Side of the Force itself, meditating upon the wisdom of the ancient Dark Lords and plotting his enigmatic ambitions.
- Agricultural Biomes: Deep inside of Malsheem were large natural biomes encased in hermetic habitation blocks, each one representing one of the many naturally-occurring environments across the galaxy. These ranged from lush forests, tropical jungles, volcanic plains, and scorching deserts. Most of these biomes were directly lifted from worlds abundant in these environments from across the galaxy, such as Tatooine and Mustafar.
- Alloy Refineries: Raw ore and material mined from asteroids were transported to immense alloy refineries via droid-controlled trams, where they were then further broken down and refined into useable material through molecular smelters. These refined alloys were then packaged and transported to designated storage facilities according to their type.
- Armories: Every piece of armor and weapon produced in Malsheem's automated factories was deposited in a series of large armories spread throughout the worldcraft. These armories consisted of multiple stories and wings and were overseen by half-cybernetic quartermasters who maintained an accurate knowledge of every item in their specific armory's inventory.
- Assembly Halls: These massive octahedron-shaped auditoriums could seat up to two-hundred-thousand (200,000) occupants at any given time, and were used for the dissemination of grandiose propaganda speeches glorifying the Eternal Will of the Sith'ari among other things. Less dramatic news and propaganda were broadcasted throughout the worldcraft through auditory speakers and hologram projections.
- Asteroid Mining Complexes: Asteroids and other loose space debris is pulled into hangar-like openings on the worldcraft's outer surface, where they are then broken down to extract any valuable materials. These valuables were then transported via droid-controlled trams to Malsheem's alloy refineries, which processed them into various materials used in the worldcraft's automated production facilities.
- Barracks: Housing the artificial soldiers of the Kainate were a series of habitation blocks referred to as the barracks, which contained all of the necessities the soldiers of the Kainate needed. They were located in close proximity to the armories and were connected via tram to the various staging areas and training centers on Malsheem.
- Capital Ship Component Manufacturing Plants: All of the necessary pieces to build a fully-functioning capital ship were assembled within the various automated plants that Malsheem possessed. Precision assembly lines could quickly manufacture individual components by the thousands within several hours, while larger components took longer depending on their size and complexity. The finished pieces were then transported to the neighboring construction and maintenance facilities to be put into use for the Kainate.
- Droid Manufacturing Plants: Malsheem's automated plants were also geared to construct droids of all shapes and models, from routine maintenance drones to highly lethal killing machines. By far the most produced series were the various battle droids that the Kainate used to supplement their armed forces, especially advanced dark troopers.
- Gene-Laboratories: Dark science and cloning conjoin together within Malsheem's gene-laboratories, the epicenter of the Sith'ari's dark and twisted efforts to perfect the artificial creation of life. Here, the Sith'ari's amoral scientists work around the clock to unlock the secrets of life itself, creating twisted monstrosities in their Lord's name. The artificial soldiers of the Kainate originated from within these darkened halls.
- Ground Vehicle Manufacturing Zones: Though the Kainate primarily relies on the might of its warships, it does possess a sizable ground force capable of overrunning most moderate defenses. Part of those ground forces are mechanical constructs operated by the artificial soldiers of the fleet, and those vehicles are first conceptualized and constructed within automated manufacturing plants spread throughout Malsheem.
- High Palace: Rising up from the northern pole of Malsheem is the High Palace, a wide bulb two kilometers across that houses the Sith'ari and all of his retinue. None but he and his most trusted followers are permitted to step foot on such holy ground, and the penalty for violating this sacrosanct decree is excruciating death. From here, the Sith'ari operates his vast shadowy galactic network, orchestrating events that will ultimately lead to his grand subsumption of the galaxy and the birth of one molded by his design.
- Halls of the Supreme Being: Analogous to the Halls of Solomon in the Sith Citadel on Dromund Kaas, the aptly named Halls of the Supreme Being were the personal residence of the Sith'ari, his family, and his close retainers. The halls were spartan in design, emulating the sleek and heartless aesthetic of the rest of the worldcraft. There was a multitude of personal chambers, gathering halls, recreational suites, and other various rooms spread throughout the halls.
- Jen'ari Tsosûtura (The Throne of the Dark Lord): Built for the benefit of
Darth Prazutis
, the Jen'ari Tsosûtura was a chamber designed to resemble the throne room on Dromund Kaas. This was where the newly crowned Dark Lord of the Sith would hold his court while away from the throneworld, keeping in contact with the various intermediaries he established to run the Empire following Carnifex's abdication. - Sith'ari Tsosûtura (The Throne of the Supreme Being): The authoritative heart of Malsheem was the Sith'ari Tsosûtura, a marvelously grand throne room where the Sith'ari held court with his most loyal and trusted followers. Its centerpiece was a throne levitating over a massive qabbrat flanked by two Sith statues situated on an elevated platform above an impossibly deep coreshaft. Behind the throne was a massive ceraglass viewport designed like a spider's web, emulating the throne rooms of past Sith throughout history. The throne platform was connected to a T-shaped walkway by a steep flight of steps, the walkway branching off towards three different blast doors which were connected to turbolifts that all led to a large reception area beneath the throne room.
- The Dojo: Isolated from the rest of Malsheem via a wide canyon corridor and accessible only by retractable bridges, the Dojo was where Carnifex trained himself and his multitude of students. A constant supply of training remotes, close-quarters combat droids, and transmogrifiable terrain allowed Carnifex to hone his own skills while also presenting various challenges for his apprentices.
- Hyperspace Tracking Chamber: Buried deep within the heart of Malsheem was a data center dedicated to intense brute-force number crunching and analytical algorithms, designed entirely to calculate hyperspace routes made by external vessels and plot their trajectories. This kind of data was then used to follow vessels through hyperspace, chasing ships down regardless of where they jumped to in the galaxy. Every capital-grade ship in the Kainate could tap into this vital resource remotely.
- Medical Centers: Hundreds, if perhaps not thousands, of medical centers were evenly distributed throughout Malsheem. These ranged from small clinics to full-scale surgical facilities that could treat everything from the most minor affliction to the most serious wound. Each of these centers was manned by clones of I Irajah Ven , harvested from the doctor's severed hand kept in cold storage by the Sith'ari.
- Oculus Chamber: Hidden away from the rest of Malsheem was the Oculus Chamber, which contained the Dark Oculus. This device allowed the Oracles of Carnifex to peer through time and space to divine the future with the power of Darksight, and even manipulate events to achieve certain outcomes. Few on Malsheem knew of the Oculus' existence, let alone where it was kept. This secret was tightly kept among Carnifex and his most loyal followers.
- Overbridge: Located in the upper northern hemisphere was the Overbridge, the operational command center of the entire worldcraft analogous to any command bridge found on conventional warships. It favored no external viewports, rather relying on a series of large hexagonal screens tied to the worldcraft's sensor systems, which in turn could produce accurate and detailed data about the worldcraft's surroundings up to over a parsec away from the station. It was connected to a holonet booth for communications with other parts of the station or with any ship in the Kainate and beyond.
- Raw Material Warehouses: What the automated production facilities and shipyards of Malsheem did not use, they stored away in city-sized warehouses for later use. These warehouses were segregated via category and material type but were interconnected via tram and transport rails, facilitating ease of movement between the warehouses and the automated facilities.
- Refueling and Supply Zones: Malsheem had the capacity to dock entire star destroyers and other vessels within its superstructure, and could refuel and resupply them using the resources collected within itself. By this system, the Kainate was virtually self-sustaining and separated from the galactic supply chain.
- Research Laboratories: Located in isolated blocks from the rest of Malsheem were the research and development laboratories utilized by the Sith'ari's most talented and gifted scientists to advance their understanding of science and the Dark Side of the Force. Unfettered by ethics and morality, the experiments conducted in these labs broke every societal taboo and every code enshrined in galactic law.
- Staging Areas: For when the armies of the Kainate need be mobilized from Malsheem itself, dozens of massive staging areas were built to house the many legions of the fleet's ground assault branch. These areas could hold anything from seemingly endless ranks of troops to vehicles and anything else that could contribute to a surface attack or operation. Reinforced lifts on the floor could bring in and take away entire battalions, with a complex tram system spread beneath the staging area.
- Starfighter Assembly Lines: Located next to the larger assembly facilities for warships and destroyers were starfighter assembly lines, which also utilized automated systems to construct new starfighters. Designs for starfighters were stored in databanks and could be accessed by the processing computers for different batches.
- Strand-Cast Gestation Facilities: The genesis of the Kainate's infinite armies, the culmination of years of research into biotechnology and cloning. These gestation facilities were manned by clone homunculi who were utterly loyal to the Sith'ari, their sole purpose was to prepare new batches of fresh artificial soldiers to bolster his armies and replenish any losses they might have suffered. The majority of technology in these facilities were those supplied by Spaarti, Aurora Industries, and the Globex Corporation.
- Sustenance Synthesization Plants: To feed the permanent occupants of Malsheem was a daunting task, but one that was eagerly confronted by the scientists of the Kainate. Applying the concept of molecular furnaces to raw materials such as sugar and carbohydrates, they were able to manufacture food synthesizers that operated in a similar manner to the automated production systems used to build war material. With basic raw materials, these synthesizers could produce any type of food in the known galaxy on a mass industrialized scale, although most of the food produced was similar to polystarch and veg-meat to conserve resources.
- Temple of the New Sith: Built as a shrine to the tenets of Eternal Rule, the Temple of the New Sith was the nucleus for the New Sith Order that Carnifex had strived to create after witnessing the shortcomings of his Rule of Order. Located deep within the cavernous bowels of Malsheem, the Temple was where the New Sith were born through artificial means. They would spend the majority of their lives living within the Temple, trained in the Dark Side of the Force, and bent to the will of their dark master.
- Tivéan Bone Temple: Meticulously moved from Dathomir stone by stone was the Bone Temple of the Nightsisters, an altar to their dedication and worship of the Sith'ari. Led by Grand Mistress
Pom Stych Tivé
, the Tivéan Nightsisters were free to practice their dark and ancient magic without consequence or restriction. None but the Nightsisters and their living God were allowed to step foot within the temple under threat of agonizing death. - Training Centers: To prepare the forces of the Kainate took a great degree of planning and logistics, and Malsheem was equipped with hundreds of training centers to prepare these artificial warriors for whatever fight may lie ahead. The centers were equipped with dojos, tracks, physical exercise centers, and firing ranges all to be used by the newly born strand-cast soldiers.
- Transportation Causeways: Criss-crossing Malsheem was a massive web of railways and hover-car conduits that allowed the inhabitants of Malsheem to move quickly from one side of the station to the other. These pathways converged into a central network hub which was overseen by a combination of organic conductors and artificial intelligence to ensure that movement from one path to another was as seamless and efficient as possible.
- Warship Construction and Maintenance Facilities: Spaced throughout the worldcraft were entirely automated dockyards, each large enough to build starships of battlecruiser category. Entire warships could be constructed and launched from these facilities, with all manufacturing and assembly conducted by automated droid components. Technical readouts were stored in databanks and could be accessed for construction at any moment and for any purpose.
- Warship Docking Hubs: Malsheem had the capacity to dock hundreds of warships, from nimble corvettes to lumbering battlecruisers and everything in between. These docking points could range from external cofferdams to bays that engulfed the entire ship.
- Water Processing Plants: Water harvested from nearby planets or other celestial bodies is collected in large artificial aquifers within Malsheem, which are treated and processed for potability so that the water could be used and consumed by Malsheem's inhabitants.
- Rating: Maximum
- Outer Defenses:
- 60,000 Defensive Emplacements
- Multi-Layer Defensive Shield
- Inner Defenses:
- Malsheem was garrisoned by a force of Gelian Sentinels numbering nine-million-eight-hundred-thousand (9,800,000) strong, spread evenly throughout the worldcraft to guard nearly every major center.
- The Gelian Sentinels were supplemented by a variety of battle and security drones; X13 Paladin-series Synthmarines, ARAC-6 "Irontide" Spiderbots, C1 Security Drones, and the Mark I and Mark II variant "Scourge" War Droids. These droids were assembled by Malsheem's automated systems and could be replenished indefinitely when provided enough material.
- Malsheem featured many internal systems that could be activated to deter or contain any intruder entities:
- Turadium Blast Doors
- Laser Gates
- Force Field Generators
- Selective Blaster Neutralizer
- Rotary Autoblasters
- Door-Fields
- Echo Pulse Protected Computer Systems
- Nullifier Fields (Click)
- Malsheem was garrisoned by a force of Gelian Sentinels numbering nine-million-eight-hundred-thousand (9,800,000) strong, spread evenly throughout the worldcraft to guard nearly every major center.
During the reign of Emperor Voracitos, plans were devised for the creation of superweapons and other large-scale megaconstructs that would be used to destroy the Empire's enemies and bolster its fleets. Many within the Imperial government thought that these projects were far too costly and consumed too many resources, and thusly objected to their creation to the Emperor. The Emperor, greedy as he was, pushed several of the projects into the initial production phase.
By the end of Voracitos' reign, only the framework of Malsheem had been completed. Voracitos' successor, Tyrin Ardik, attempted to dismantle what remained of the project and divert its liquidated assets to other sectors of the Empire. Kaine Zambrano, one of the three Sith Lords under the Emperor controlling the Empire, moved the incomplete Malsheem to his territory and adopted the project as his own. Construction continued on Malsheem for the next year as Tyrin Ardik was dethroned and replaced by Dranok Lussk, who was then defeated and replaced by Kaine Zambrano himself. As the master of the Sith Empire, Zambrano could place great effort on completing Malsheem which he placed under the command of his uncle
Darth Prazutis
.
Darth Prazutis
.
Unfortunately, a disastrous war with the Galactic Republic forced Zambrano to relocate Malsheem to the Unknown Regions. Kaine Zambrano would eventually join the One Sith Empire and be named Darth Vornskr by the Empire's Dark Lord of the Sith. He was also given the position of Voice and was charged with mapping the Unknown Regions and documenting its mysteries and secrets. On the Sith world of Tantorus, Vornskr was given a Sith Wayfinder after completing a series of trials for the local Kissai. This Wayfinder showed Vornskr the path to the long lost Sith world of Exegol.
Vornskr moved Malsheem into orbit above Exegol and reactivated the forgotten world's subterranean shipyards. He also took the time to ruminate on the Dark Side of the Force deep below Exegol's surface, communing with the ancient spirits who inhabited the crypts and mausoleums.
As Voice, Vornskr was free to move about the galaxy at his own pace. He used this freedom and authority to dispatch fleets to worlds within the Unknown Regions and strip them of their resources, amassing a massive stockpile which he then used to accelerate the construction of Malsheem. Vornskr was aided by
Taeli Raaf
, who used her connections in the business spheres of the galaxy to acquire more resources and, more importantly, advanced technology to outfit the station with. Seventy-five percent of Malsheem would be completed by the time the One Sith Empire's era had come to a close, and the station was again moved from Exegol to another forgotten world called Remnicore.
Taeli Raaf
, who used her connections in the business spheres of the galaxy to acquire more resources and, more importantly, advanced technology to outfit the station with. Seventy-five percent of Malsheem would be completed by the time the One Sith Empire's era had come to a close, and the station was again moved from Exegol to another forgotten world called Remnicore.
By this time, Vornskr had cast off his name and christened himself as Carnifex. As Carnifex, he reassembled the disparate Sith forces in the galaxy to create a new Empire in the vacuum left behind by the One Sith's implosion. He declared himself as Dark Lord of the Sith with the aid of several prominent Sith Lords and Ladies and would go on to crown himself as Sith Emperor following the reconquest of Dromund Kaas, cementing his position as the chief Sith in all the galaxy. Though the majority of his reign was focused on expanding his Empire and waging war on the Sith's enemies, he moved about in secret to continue the construction of Malsheem far away from the prying eyes of his Empire.
By establishing a powerful cult of personality in the Empire, Carnifex had a theoretically limitless pool of followers at his disposal. Through propaganda and magical manipulation, Carnifex amassed a secret following who were then moved into a permanent residence on the nearly completed Malsheem. They would serve as the bedrock for Eternal Rule, the secret ideology of Carnifex and his devout followers where through their devotion and his strength in the Dark Side of the Force they would establish an eternal dominion over all creation. Carnifex was the central figure in this belief and was regarded as an Immortal Emperor, a God-King, the Sith'ari of his chosen devotees.
Malsheem was completed nearly eight years into Carnifex's reign over the Sith Empire. With his mobile fortress now complete, he moved all of his nerve centers of power into Malsheem. Effectively, he would rule the Empire from a new throne world that was unknowable to all but his most loyal and dedicated servants and allies. Eventually, Carnifex would relinquish his hold on the Empire to focus more clearly on his personal ambitions and would hand the reins of power over to Darth Prazutis and
Joycelyn Zambrano
, who would rule as Dark Lord of the Sith and Sith Empress respectively.
Joycelyn Zambrano
, who would rule as Dark Lord of the Sith and Sith Empress respectively.
Carnifex seated himself permanently on Malsheem and formed the Kainate, a shadow dictatorship that was unfettered by supply lines and territorial holdings and could move throughout the galaxy unhindered. Malsheem would serve as the nucleus for the Kainate, producing warships and breeding warriors to bolster the Kainate's might. Carnifex also oversaw the creation of a new generation of Sith, known as the New Sith, who were completely loyal to him and him alone. One day, he would replace the old dying generations of Sith with his New Sith.
Malsheem was moved from Remnicore's orbit and back into the Unknown Regions to begin the next phase of Carnifex's dark ambitions.
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