Aspect of Defiance
Character
Rimma Trade Route
903 ABY
The fall of the Rimward Trade League spurred a hundred worlds to action and debate, proselytising their own apocalypse at the iron curtain of the Sith and its inexorable approach. In these panicked council hearings, military strategy meetings, and executive briefings, some worlds folded to the coming threat. To save their worlds, they would surrender to the Sith’s approach, and with their cowardice came the continuation of their people’s lives.
While rebel forces continued to try and hold back the Sith, the majority of the Sith’s First Legion moved down the Hydian Way and Rimma Trade Route towards the Galactic Alliance’s border worlds. In the aftermath of their victory against the Dark Empire, the Sith redoubled their efforts to close the gap - so that they may still be taken off guard. A foothold had to be established before the war began proper, and so a blitzkrieg was brought to bear.
The Emperor Empyrean continued his war in the galactic north in the Tingel Arm, carelessly destroying world after world in his efforts to cow the local governments into surrender. Makem Te, Tion, and now Feriae Junction had found themselves the victims of this great genocide. Worlds turned to nothing more than burnt monuments to the dead, now left to die in the cold expanse of space as the Sith moved on to kill others.
In his absence, the Dark Council has taken the initiative to finalize the last stages of their war on the Galactic Alliance. Taeli Raaf, Gerwald Lechner, and Malum Marr each their own powerful entity in the Order, took the reins of the Emperor’s conquests and began to march. Their first goal, one of the greatest trade centers in the galaxy - a route connecting multiple massive hyperlanes trailing the entire galaxy.
With its conquest, the Sith would hold a veritable bounty to help stabilize their ramping economy, and in turn, allow for even greater production of their military-industrial complex. A second legion has been prepared by the Guilds and Ministries, they only need the funds and industrial capacity to begin.
The fall of Sullust will fuel this new army.
In fear of the approaching Sith War Machine, and the unbridled greed of Core Capitalists, the World-Nation of Sullust has spent years pushing its industries and capacity to its limits. Magma lurches in the depths of factory canyons, fed by the geothermal energy readily available to the world's inhabitants. There has never been a time where the world's output has been matched - but it has come at a cost.
The pressures of higher metrics, quotas, and the mass expansion of industry for the world's defences have proven too much for the billion and more people of Sullust. A trade union, named after its ancient ancestor and inspiration, has begun to draw the workers to their cause. Known as the Cobalt Laborers' Reformation Front, it strives to overturn the harsh and exhaustive production the people of Sullust have been subjected to.
With their economy redlined, and the struggle between their lower and upper strata coming to a head, the Tsis'kaar under the Guidance of the newly appointed Dark Councillor Darth Malum has begun to radicalize their movement further. Where once it was simply an economic debate about injustices of working conditions, has slowly transformed into a dangerous engagement between protestors and local security forces.
In Pinyumb, thereupon a great protest has begun. Anger and tension fill the crowds as security forces begin to corral them in. A single match could spark this protest into a riot, and a riot is only a few bloody moments away from a coup. Let the people of Sullust do our work for us. Start the flame of revolution, and then crush it under our foot.
Under the orders of the newly appointed Dark Councilor Taeli Raaf, Tshinral III has been marked for collection. Its ancient space station is a reservoir of old research, carefully collected and organized to understand how a planet could be destroyed through ecological disaster designed by man's hand. The grave world below is a testament to its efficiency - whose green clouds spin and swirl with tepid death.
However, after the Sith's arrival on Bpfassh, local worlds were alerted to what was to come. The station has been claimed by anonymous special forces, backed by researchers and stealth ships hidden from our sensors. If they are allowed to leave, terrorist cells may bring this technology to bear against our worlds. If allowed to do so, the consequences could be disastrous.
Blockade the planet, destroy the would-be pillagers, and find out where they intended to take that information back to. Anyone who has found this station may have already gotten word back elsewhere - and we can not allow this to spread.
There upon three hyperlanes intertwine, and one of the most important crossroads in the galaxy has fallen to the Sith - or soon shall. War machines march on the outlying planets, and entire nations and worlds fall in line as we prepare our front for what is to come. In the coming weeks, the Sith Order's legions will be on the border of the Galactic Alliance, and thus our greatest conflict to date will begin.
Our fleets begin to gather at a mustering point outside the known systems - carefully placed to allow the shortest route into Qat Chrystac and Ootoola's space. These worlds, bordering the Galactic Alliance, form the doorstep of the Jedi's bulwark. They beg and plead with the Senate for help, only to be ignored as the Alliances face a threat both within and without in the form of the Dark Empire.
As the ships of various lords arrive, a meeting is held where the Emperor watches from his great distance away. A war plan must be created for these worlds, and by extension, our opening volley against the alliance. We attack their underbelly, but they are not to be underestimated - put your strength forward, and decide how we will cut.
