Approved Lore Prefsbelt Command: Dosuun's Legacy

[Caarlyle Rausgeber]

PREFSBELT COMMAND: THE HAND BEHIND THE NEW IMPERIAL NAVY​

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The NIV Tregessar patrolling New Imperial space with the First Prefsbelt Squadron. ​

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Organization Name: Prefsbelt Command
• Classification: Warlord Fiefdom
• Affiliation: While there is undoubtedly an understanding amongst the personnel of Prefsbelt Command as the allegiance they owe to then Sovereign Imperator Tavlar and now Rurik Fel, their true and ultimate loyalty is owed to Admiral Regent, Carlyle Rausgeber and his agenda.
• Organization Symbol: The Prefsbelt Command sigil is that of their flagship, the NIV Tregessar menacing over Prefsbelt IV, marked in red. The symbol compliments and is an homage to that of the Imperator Command symbol. The sigil used by Grand Admiral Rausgeber to denote his personal command fleet.

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• Description: Prefsbelt Command operates in a multi-faceted manner. At its core, it’s a constituent partner of the New Imperial Order. By necessity, with it influencing a planet and governing its burgeoning populace, its description does surpass something more than a small cadre of ambitious officers. But it takes up a number of niche roles and objectives including the following:

o Research and Development into Weapons Technologies​

o Research and Development into Industrial Technologies​

o Biological Warfare Research​

o Providing naval command staff​

o Manufacture of armaments and military equipment​

o Manufacture of starships ​

o Industrial manufacturing​

o Agricultural Industries​

o Labour Camps​

o Special Warfare​

o Military Operations​

o Military Policing​

o Production of Entertainment ​

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Fortifications atop the mountains of Prefsbelt IV. ​

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GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

• Headquarters: Fortress Dosuun, Prefsbelt IV [x]. Fortress Dosuun is the mountainous military headquarters isolated in the northern hemisphere. Capable of being seen from orbit, it’s a metropolis underground. A sort of doomsday bunker, where each and every denizen within and around it, preparing for the inevitable struggle against Prefsbelt Command’s enemies.
• Domain: Prefsbelt Command as the name suggests, is based out of Prefsbelt IV, a mountainous planet which has quickly become the secretive and fortified realm of Rausgeber. Prefsbelt Command has spared no expense or effort in redeveloping the sparsely populated world with fortresses and vast underground cities, packed with foundries producing arms, armour, vehicles, components and other equipment which is sent across New Imperial space. As of 865 ABY, Prefsbelt Command provided 3% of the New Imperial industrial capacity, while producing 15.7% of its gross armament products. On a broader scale, Prefsbelt Command personnel have increasingly been denoted as taking charge of naval operations. And can be found within, and beyond New Imperial space, embarking on clandestine operations.
• Notable Assets:
  • Prefsbelt-Class Super Star Destroyer// NIV Tregessar [x]: One of the finest engineering feats of the New Imperial Order is the NIV Tregessar. Named after Grand Admiral Cyrus Tregessar of the First Order, the Tregessar is one of its largest achievements. At 10km’s long, the vessel harkens back to era of the Executor-Class Super Star Destroyers of old.
  • Prefsbelt IV [x]: Perhaps the largest asset Prefsbelt Command operates is the actual planet, Prefsbelt IV. Acting as a base of operations, Prefsbelt IV and its denizens, citizens and immigrants are without question placed under the purview of Prefsbelt Command. As per the agreements signed with New Imperial leader Irveric Tavlar, Prefsbelt Command is free to perform whatever constructions and modifications deemed necessary.
  • Reprisal-Class Star Destroyers [x]: Wherever Carlyle Rausgeber cannot personally oversee operations, he dispatches the Reprisal-Class Star Destroyers. Gargantuan battlecruisers, formerly of the First Order vintage, Resurgent-III Class. These vessels act as the fist of Prefsbelt Command, oftentimes sighted at the edge of New Imperial space, undergoing specialised military operations, or engaging in the covert agenda of Prefsbelt Command .
  • Project RUUSAN [x]: One of Prefsbelt Command’s key developments is Project RUUSAN. Named after the Ruusan Accords which outlawed the use of the dark side of a bygone regime, Project RUUSAN is a part of a long term effort to create weapons against force users. Specifically weapons that are biological in nature and target midichlorians with startling efficiency. The explicit end goal of the project, at least amongst the upper echelons privy to it, is to create weapons of such ferocity to exterminate Jedi, Sith and other force users permanently. Extinguish it as a means to suffocate the oft competent, but maligned non-force users. In order to test the weapons, and develop them, Prefsbelt Command has discretely put bounties on Force Users, and also uses clandestine forces to kidnap and experiment on. Typically to determine the lethality of prototype weapons, but also as blood bags to breed the microbes within them.
  • The Naraka Project [x]: Prefsbelt Command’s remarkable industrial efficiency relies heavily on the imports of prisoners both of war and typical petty crimes. Prisoners on Prefsbelt IV are forced into large groups of cells, which are attached to weapons foundries, shipyards and other industrial facilities. Given their status as trespassers against the state, prisoners aren’t treated as well, and their daily provision of bread is often levied against them as a tool to punish a lack of progress, or to reward those who have gone above and beyond quotas. However, those who repeatedly disobey, fail to meet targets or just die, are put into the Naraka series worksuits. Where their bodies are harvested steadily, until nothing remains all the while working autonomously.
  • Fall Untoter [x]: A contingency plan to be enacted in case of an attack on Prefsbelt IV. Fall Untoter is a military operation which would see all of the prisoners of Prefsbelt IV liquidated and their bodies stuffed into Naraka suits. From there, they would work as a reserve of manpower, to support defensive operations on the planet.

Prefsbelt Command propaganda, lauding the bravery of the Prefsbelt Stossjaeger against the Sith Empire.

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• The Stossjaeger Corps [x]: The collapse of the First Order brought into sharp relief the lack of a real central, organized force. The First Order of the time held four major military organisations under its purview. The Stormtrooper Corps, Planetary Defence Corps, Army Regulars and of course Special Warfare Brigades under the Navy, Security Bureau and Army respectively. Since their reorganization under Prefsbelt Command these units have been put under the umbrella of the Stossjaeger, a multipurpose military organisation. Their veterancy ensures that they are a capable fighting force, who are exceedingly versatile in regards to combat roles. Able to fulfill a number of roles including but not exclusive to; quasi-special forces work, armoured warfare, mechanised warfare and marine forces.​
• The Prefsbelt Auxiliary Corps [x]: For those recruited within the Prefsbelt Command, but deemed physically unsuited for elite training or perhaps not ideologically rigid enough, the Prefsbelt Auxiliary awaits. There they train in defensive combat, nominally used to organise fortifications and police vast populaces left under Prefsbelt Command’s vision. The Prefsbelt Auxiliary Corps are the everyday face of jackbooted authority on Prefsbelt IV.
• The Work Labour Camps [x]: An innovative form of labour, Prefsbelt Command has instituted vast open air work zones to be used for resource extraction. Prisoners are dropped in the middle of an open air prison, given tools, self-defence weapons and told where to drop off any ores or valuables they find. Fighting in these camps between adhoc gangs of prisoners is often filmed, and documented. Sold as dystopian fiction over the holonet as either avant garde serials or for drinking money.
• The Carderise Flats Shipyards [x]: Draining Prefsbelt IV’s largest lake, Lake Carderise, Prefsbelt Command has dug into the very soft bed of it. Creating a planetary shipyard which provides the command of an indigenous production of vessels. Although large in number of vessels produce, the complex has the capacity to provide dreadnought sized vessels for Prefsbelt Command.
• The Industrial Zones [x] : Effectively gargantuan underground prisons, the Industrial Zones are the key to Prefsbelt Command’s survival. Using both paid citizen, and slave prison labour, many of the New Imperial Order’s weapon systems are manufactured here. Rausgebergrad, or X-4 being the single largest of these.

Prefsbelt Stossjaeger overseeing the construction of a military installation by Sith-Imperial POW's. ​

SOCIAL INFORMATION

• Hierarchy:
  • The Grand Admiral Carlyle Rausgeber: Undisputed king of the realm and final authority of Prefsbelt Command. Having founded the organisation when it was a floundering remnant, Rausgeber keeps it on a tight leash, pushing more than anything for results in his quest for domination and power. His word is law, and for those unfortunate enough to have failed him, anything from reassignment to distant posts to summary execution await. Rausgeber typically acts as the organization's public face in affairs diplomatically, and internally with the New Imperial Order.
  • The Fleet Admirals: The Grand Admiral’s chief lieutenants and fixers. All three of them served as Rausgeber’s deputy commanders during the First and Second First Imperial-Galactic Alliance wars, and because of that are held in great esteem and confidence. They carry more often than not his seal, and personal authority in both affairs of Prefsbelt Command and the New Imperial Order. They are often found either execution Rausgeber’s will in more covert affairs, or alternatively on Prefsbelt IV ensuring the effective prosecution of Prefsbelt Command’s day to day operations.
    • Karlist Rax
    • Anastasi Braisley
    • Hieronymous Bosche

The Central Council meeting in the bowels of Fortress Dosuun. ​

• The Central Council: Since settling on Prefsbelt IV, the needs of the warlord fiefdom have grown from that of an insular military organisation to that of a highly regimented remnant, to that of a planetary government. They now occupy a system of their own and a place of importance in the New Imperial organisation, with a large population of both foreigners and immigrants. This was the impetus for the creation of the Central Council. Which works as an organisational body, which supplies the Fleet Admiral and Grand Admiral with reports regarding infrastructure projects, military affairs and production quotas. Each of the officers within the Central Council has extensive military or governmental experience, and the meetings of said council are more often than not convened as a military tribunal.
  • Major General Euwig Kliest [Prefsbelt Special Warfare Command]
  • Lieutenant General Advika Urus’nasara [Prefsbelt Office of Labour and Industry]
  • General Doctor Belladora Cuthbert [Project RUUSAN Head]
  • Major General Siegfried Mandle [Stossjaeger Command]
  • Lieutenant Colonel Henrik Gieves [Chief Civilian Affairs Officer]
  • Vice Admiral Hiram Voss [New Imperial Naval Affairs]
  • Lieutenant Colonel Ishmael Hemms [Prefsbelt Office of Secrecy and Efficiency]
  • General Pa’drari Jourv’iela [Prefsbelt Office of Information and Entertainment]
  • Brigadier General Arjun Par’eshi [Prefsbelt Office of Agriculture]
  • Major General Louvisa Hornell [Prefsbelt Auxiliary Corps]
  • Lieutenant Colonel Jeshell Tuttle [Command of Nova Avalonian Affairs]
• Membership: Prefsbelt Command is typically made up of two distinct cultural groups bound together. The first of these groups are exiles of the First Order under ex-Supreme Leader, Sieger Ren. The second group are larger, and are the Pa’Deshi entrants. Largely poor and disadvantaged members of a caste system who willingly departed with Rausgeber for a new way of life.

This however is not to say new blood is not accepted. Many civilians on Prefsbelt IV, as well as immigrants settled there, seek to join the Command as members. But the highest ranks they can climb, at least militarily, is within the Auxiliary Corps, where they are surveyed constantly for COMPNOR infiltration and any deviances in ideological rigor. There, those who join and their families typically perform policing and garrison work. Securing major lines of commerce and trade on the planet, but also occasionally supporting the off-world incursions of the Stossjaeger. ​

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Since the Grand Admiral seized command of the New Imperial rank of Admiral Regent, newer members have arrived in the form of naval officers. Rausgeber has taken great care to groom ever increasingly large portions of new cadets and officers into his line of thinking, becoming less loyal to the cause of the New Imperial Order, and that to Carlyle Rausgeber’s vision. ​

• Climate: Prefsbelt Command is a sort of culture viewed through multiple perspectives.
  • From the Outside: An outsider's perspective would typify Prefsbelt Command as callous and cold. Distinguished by their uniform and aesthetic choices (Deciding more to emulate the First Order of history) Prefsbelt personnel are cool and professional when dealing with foreign entities, although they are always willing to dig in the jackboot should they find it necessary to remind those who they are dealing with.
  • From within the New Imperial Order: Prefsbelt Command is considered with great suspicion from all facets of the Empire. But is considered a vital member state, with its contributions to weapons design and the way its leadership have foisted themselves to the naval affairs of the New Imperial Order. While some of the more liberal, or Pellaeonist minded Moffs, Governors or Warlords may be hostile to Prefsbelt, it is nonetheless an ally and bulwark against agencies such as COMPNOR.
  • From Inside: Those within Prefsbelt Command survived a collective trauma with the collapse of their beloved First Order. But through the pain and anguish of the collapse, they have prospered in a joint loyalty to the Grand Admiral and his leadership. An almost fanatical cult of personality which has deemed the man a deity-like presence, at least amongst the Pa’Deshi personnel. There’s a shared trauma which exists, and a determination to never again suffer such humiliations of having to struggle at the periphery for survival. To crawl in the dirt, slums and grime of a ruined Empire for sustenance. There is a drive to learn from the past and most importantly, avenge their Empire. Those within Prefsbelt Command are driven by a mix of determination and loyalty to turn the Galaxy to their design. To become the inheritors of Palpatine’s legacy, they believe they are.

Recruitment poster from the Prefsbelt Office of Information and Entertainment, lauding the Prefsbelt Auxiliary. ​

• Reputation: Prefsbelt Command is treated with arms length at the very best from the rest of the New Imperial Order. Even deceased Sovereign Imperator Tavlar viewed the warlord fiefdom as pragmatically critical, while considering the fiefdom with great derision and suspicion. While their methods are largely secretive, the sheer number of prisoners they take in raises certain eyebrows in other sectors of the Order as to how many survive on the hermit world. But despite these questions, the products of Prefsbelt Command stand up to scrutiny and their well- developed nature, mixed with the sheer numbers keep these questions at bay. Be it the newer model rifles, or the mass of industrial products produced and dispatched through the Order. One cannot deny their effectiveness of their industry.

On the field of battle, the Prefsbelt Stossjaeger and their assorted Special Warfare operatives exceed most expectations with a professional, veteran force of hardened units. The Prefsbelt Special Warfare Division has embedded itself with other New Imperial agencies, liaising with COMPNOR, the Stormtrooper Corps and other military agencies. ​

In the realm of naval combat, a Prefsbelt commander is viewed as an asset with any fleet, due to their discipline, and ability to read the enemy. Although some would deem them fanatic, even stubborn. They are not stupid and rigid, and do engage in strategic flexibility, understanding the worth of each vessel, and the necessity of their crew. But they are also, friendly. Not in a casual sense, but in a more team building sense. Often times trying to bridge connections with other commanders, and try to slowly press them toward a more Rausgeber-centric galactic worldview. To whom they also, frequently provide communiques to their Grand Admiral. ​

• Rules: Those in Prefsbelt Command adhere to a doctrine of total loyalty and submission to the rules and whims of their leadership. They are extremely militant in their conduct and this is imparted on their membership and dress. Even the civilian element of Prefsbelt Command is mandated with uniforms and military style dress. Citizens under the purview of Prefsbelt Command are encouraged to undertake similar conservative dress. To both destroy the individual identity and foster a sense of uniformity. Transgressions of these rules, and lapses in conduct can be disastrous, with results ranging from a stifling of a career all the way to summary execution. This creates an edgy atmosphere, where everyone's on their guard, and prepared to do what is necessary to one; not make mistakes. And two; if mistakes are made, immediately remedy them with little knowledge escaping. Or at the very least in three, being able to identify where things went wrong, and how to remedy them.
• Ambitions: As with any imperialist, or imperial style regime in the Post-Palpatine doctrine of governance, Prefsbelt Command is an organisation which seeks to carve out as much of the Galaxy as possible and dominate it. In the hopes of subjugating those within its immediate sphere, and then forcing their agenda on others. So long and so forth as to then conquer the Galaxy. However, while there are such lofty goals, there are also shorter term ambitions to contend with, and nuance within these goals.
• Short Term Ambitions: Of course dominance of a galactic scale does not happen overnight. And rather there are a number of shorter-term objectives the Prefsbelt Command has, which are tied to the agenda of the New Imperial government. These objectives are a mix of both open to the broader New Imperial Order and secretive objectives.
  • The Demise of the Sith Empire
  • The Demise of the Brotherhood of the Maw.
  • The Demise of COMPNOR as an effective political opponent
  • Ensuring the total loyalty of the New Imperial Navy and assimilation into Prefsbelt Command military structure
  • Becoming the chief arms manufacturer of the New Imperial Order
  • Fulfilling the potential of Project RUUSAN
• Long Term Ambitions: Prefsbelt Command’s longer term ambitions are tied to a larger brief, known as CASE RANCOR. A secretive series of policies, military operations and clandestine steadily implemented to turn Prefsbelt Command’s relationship as symbiotic with that of the rule of Bastion, to a domineering one. Where one day, the New Imperial Order is subjugated to Carlyle Rausgeber’s whims.
  • Taking Command of the New Imperial Order
  • The Demise of the Confederacy of Independent Systems
  • The Demise of the Galactic Alliance
  • The Demise of the Silver Jedi
  • The Genocide of the Bryn’aduhl
  • The Genocide of all Force Sensitives

Prefsbelt Command personnel assembled at the Colonel Rolf Amsel Memorial Parade Ground.​

MEMBERS

• Admiral Regent, Carlyle Rausgeber
• Fleet Admiral Karlist Rax
• Special Warfare Operative “REMUS” AKA: Rexus Wenck
• Special Warfare Operative “ROMMULUS” AKA Dergan Twigg
• The Stossjaeger Corps
• The Prefsbelt Auxiliary

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

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The Sixth Fleet, Imperator Squadron sigil.

TIME UNDER THE FIRST ORDER
The origins of Prefsbelt Command can be traced specifically to that of the First Order of the 850 ABY. Specifically that of its navy, and in particular the Sixth Fleet. The First Imperial Sixth Fleet, the offensive hammer of the First Imperial Navy, was the toy of Grand Admiral Carlyle Rausgeber, whom with his adjacent Fleet Admiral’s had triumphantly secured victory over the Galactic Alliance in both the First and Second First Order-Galactic Alliance War. It had been the Sixth Fleet which had successfully defended the Ison Corridor against the Alliance offensive in 851ABY, ambushing and then encircling dozens of Alliance fleets and convoys in the midst of their failed attempt to secure footholds on Hoth, Bespin and Varonat. Although then only known as Sector Force Ison, the work of the fleet as a congruent movement could not be denied.

With the ascendency of One Sith alumni Cyrus Tregessar to the role of both Grand Admiral and Head of Navy within Central Command, the fleets within the First Order were reorganised. Carlyle Rausgeber, then an Admiral found himself at the head of the newly founded Sixth Fleet, headquartered at naval yards on Hoth. The fleets goal, unlike so many others, was two fold. Research and development of new naval technologies and shipbuilding along with offensive operations. In the shadow of the Ruusan Accord, which diplomatically sought to isolate the First Order, the officer corps of the Sixth Fleet was tasked by Central Command and Supreme Commander Asharad Graush with a critical objective: To attack the Hydian Way hyperspace lane. Seize control of a portion. Blockade and interdict all commerce. And finally to isolate and later secure worlds on the Outer Rim frontier of Galactic Alliance space.

The operation, was planned and masterminded by the then deceased Rausgeber, who with the authorisation of Grand Moff Natasi Fortan, and Supreme Leader Sieger Ren, commenced the operation in haste. The Hydian Way was successfully blockaded, and with the coordination of the nascent First Imperial rival, the Galactic Empire in a coordinated invasion of the Dagobah Sector, the Sixth Fleet secured the strategic initiative with a surprise attack. There was no formal diplomatic warning, no attempt to negotiate. Just the arrival of Star Destroyers, battlecruisers, and interdiction stations.

With Sieger Ren personally overseeing the operation, the Sixth Fleet mined a defensible stretch of the hyperspace lane, and at three key points stationed interdiction infrastructure, digging in their position. The surprise of the attack saw the first real resistance come from civilian traders, who were easily dispatched, and First Imperial supremacy stood. However, the inevitable counterattack was swift and brutal. Mustering as many vessels as he could, Supreme Commander of Alliance forces, Nemo Ven arrived personally aboard his command vessel, the Super Star Destroyer Itsukusk. The main battle waged was that against the backdrop of Interdiction Station Tiraxis, which was personally defended by Admiral Rausgeber. Although the Sixth Fleet did buckle, it would not break. And Nemo Ven, one third of the Alliance’s ruling triumveriate perished when he set his stricken vessel on a collision course with Tiraxis. The vessel was destroyed, and the symbol of the Alliance’s victory over the One Sith, crushed.

However the Galactic Empire’s forces were incapable of cutting off the rump of the Alliance, and within hours of securing victory, the newly gazetted Fleet Admiral Rausgeber was dispatched to Dagobah. While there was minimal combat above the planet, Battlegroup Imperator, Rausgeber’s core combat force pursued and destroyed the remaining Alliance naval presence within the nearby sectors. Thereby securing victory for the Order.

The end of the Second First Order-Galactic Alliance War would be concluded days later with an abortive raid on the Varonat Naval Yard. With vast portions of the Sixth Fleet repairing, Alliance forces attempted to lure out the promoted Grand Admiral Rausgeber, to cover covert operations undertaken on the tropical world. However mismanagement and a lust for glory from the Sixth Fleets bete noire, Therapy Command’s Cathul Thuku would have disastrous consequences for the Alliance plan as Thuku would proceed to jump into Varonat’s orbit. Thus throwing the plan. This, combined with concerted offensives by the Sith Empire on the Alliance’s Core World holdings saw the regime collapse entirely in the coming months. And securing the legacy of the Sixth Fleet.

LATTER FIRST IMPERIAL ERA
With the First Order’s arch-rival dismantled and destroyed, the regime solidified its holdings as the true power of the Western Outer Rim. The Sixth Fleet, no longer truly necessary as a force was shrunk in size. Much of its outer forces, given to sector fleets providing immediate security and patrols of nearby sectors. It was a new time for the Sixth Fleet, which assisted with the immediate annexation of several sectors as Supreme Leader Sieger Ren sought to become the lord of many of the now defenseless Alliance worlds. With its reputation within the navy and immediate dominion, the Sixth Fleet became a tool whose mere name was used to assert sovereignty.

The Sixth Fleet however would now make its mark in the realm of research and development. And while of course there was always to some degree this form of scientific endeavour and cultivation of it, it really was compounded. New forms of shielding were developed, weapons systems organised and developed. Making the First Imperial Navy a cutting edge force. This occurred in conjunction with Rausgeber’s assent to a seat on the table of Central Command where new political influence was earned and garnered.

The Sixth Fleet would also take part in the campaigns for both Terminus and Skor II against the Outer Rim Coalition. While these campaigns were unsuccessful, the professionalism of the Sixth Fleet

Prefsbelt Stossjaeger, on operations, scavenging Sith-Imperial cargo. ​

APOCALYPSE
When people speak of the collapse of the First Order, it is the suddenness of it all which is most shocking. It is one of the very few things which continues to harden the expression, and moisten the tear ducts of many Prefsbelt Command personnel. The Ssi-Ruuvi Imperium.

The First Orders’ relationship with the Imperium was by necessity, antagonistic. The two had a long feud which had begun with First Imperial forces chasing the Imperium’s forces from Endor, and then escalated into a full scale siege of Avalonia, the First Imperial capital. While of course retribution was swift, and the Ssi-Ruuvi were routed succinctly they were an enemy of the Order soon forgotten about. The Ssi-Ruuvi Imperium instead waited the course of the First Orders wars against the Galactic Alliance. Beginning a campaign of subterfuge and infiltration which, when sprung, wreaked havoc.

The first of these attacks was an assault and subsequent deployment of chemical weapons on Dosuun, the First Imperial capital. Ssi-Ruuvi vessels struck and debilitated the First Order government. It was this attack which sealed the fate of the First Order, as in one fell swoop it had eliminated most of Central Command. The civilian arm of the government, and even seemingly Sieger Ren.

The Sixth Fleet was one of the few naval forces able to cobble together close to full strength and managed for a time to stem the tide of the Ssi-Ruuvi into the Ison Corridor. But with no reinforcements incoming, withdrew to the edge of First Imperial territory, trying to muster as much strength as possible. Although having recovered a sizeable portion of the navy, it would be Grand Admiral Cyrus Tregessar, who too survived the onslaught, who would take much of the navy with him. Along with the First Order’s flagship, the Super Star Destroyer FIV Wrath, in a punitive campaign which slagged most of the Ssi-Ruuvi’s capital of L’weck.

With Grand Moff Fortan missing, and presumed killed. No heir to the government. And a hostile force seeming to have begun occupying the core home territories, Grand Admiral Rausgeber turned to the Unknown Regions. Hoping to lick the wounds of the First Order, and once again rise from the ashes to reclaim Palpatine’s Mandate.

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First Imperial remnant destroyer, FIV Malice, deployed in deep space search.


THE WILDERNESS YEARS
The remnants of the First Imperial military came to settle on Pa’Desh. The First Order had for a time been an ally of the regime there, and friendly relations allowed for Rausgeber to get a leg up in negotiating a lease on land there. The First Order, as a political entity now existed in the middle of the city of Pa’Dan, in a complex known locally as the Old Fort. An ancient castle, and fortification which was turned museum. Now turned adhoc refugee camp.

From these headquarters, the Grand Admiral turned his gaze abroad to the wider Galaxy. Military operations at this time were limited. And with what few Stormtroopers, First Order Army Regulars, Special Forces Operators and affiliated government troops, were all subsumed into a new force. Sort of a proto-Stossjaeger group known as the Retribution Corps. The Retribution Corps, working very closely with the Sixth Fleet’s veteran officers would depart on long term missions. These being to typically secure technical data from abandoned First Order facilities. To rescue civilians still trapped within Ssi-Ruuvi clutches or punitive campaigns against regimes like the Outer Rim Coalition or Confederacy of Independent Systems, seeking to engage and expand into the former First Order’s realm.

The Retribution Corps Logo​

It was this last objective, with which the Retribution Corps worked very closely with the Werewolf Partisans. Before the First Order’s collapse, it had begun the process of constructing intelligence and military cells. Designed to, in case of invasion via a foreign power, resist against them. Or alternatively in a situation as experienced, create military junta’s awaiting the resurrection of the First Order. While there were some attempts to resurrect smaller pockets of First Imperial power, these largely were thwarted by infighting, a lack of professionalism or outside forces like Ssi-Ruuvi or pirates. As it became clear that the Werewolves on the whole were incapable of defending themselves, the First Imperials pulled out as many as they could to their burgeoning refugee camp.

As the Outer Rim Coalition continued to expand, and the costs of embarking on these longer term missions became evident, Rausgeber pulled the plug on them. Only really performing reconnaissance as the mounting costs of intervention became clear. Now the work for a time, began on the interior. Trying to shore up numbers, heal the sick and militarise the lost and ashamed masses into a fanatical fighting force to be reckoned with.

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Grand Admiral Carlyle Rausgeber, leader of the First Imperial Remnant, and future ruler of Prefsbelt IV.


THE PA’DESH QUESTION
Pa’Desh while an ideal and isolated world to rebuild on was not one to be considered a true permanent home. The imperial culture of the First Order, and the rigid caste system of the Pa’Deshi were perhaps prima facie equal. But in actuality were very different. The First Order’s willingness to accept those from all works of life, and relatively more progressive gender politics were revolutionary. Even in the isolated interactions they had with Pa’Deshi citizens, the sight of women in officers uniform or stormtrooper plastoid certainly worked to frenzy an entire populace who had for centuries been relegated to the kitchens and brothels of a misogynistic society.

Thousands of young Pa’Deshi men and women, typically from the lower castes, threw themselves at the gates of the Old Fort. Begging for a chance to escape the poverty they would spend their entire lives in. And despite already suffering a great deal in regards to disease, a lack of a stable food supply and medicine, Rausgeber relented. Allowing tens of thousands to pour in. The reasoning behind this was the necessity of a surplus of bodies. Potential soldiers, engineers, scientists and officers to organise Carlyle Rausgeber’s proposed return to the galactic stage. Education became key, with a military style regimen. Training them in the means of writing, reading, technical work and basic military training. It would not be too long until there were Pa’Deshi logistics officers, helping to ration supplies and some even assisting the Retribution Corps maintain their weapons.

This culture war coincided with a broader, greater issue. The Pa’Deshi government realising that the First Order was not just a temporary presence. But may in fact be a very real, and permanent addition to its populace. An idea which was anathematic to them. At first, it was merely a series of conservative Raj’s, high ranking Pa’Deshi lords and government officials. At first they tried to press upon the Badishah, Pa’Desh’s God-Emperor the need to expel the interlopers, but were ignored. Their cries only intensified, but for now the Badishah was onside with the First Imperial Remnant.

What did turn him offside however was a student demonstration, needing to be quelled with violence. Along with allegations those at the periphery of his inner circle may have been organising a coups. Which was not the entire truth, Rausgeber had been trying to organise leases for more land and the ownership of several large estates with three Raj’s. The purpose to develop an increased agricultural yield. It caused quite the stir in political, and was the final straw for the Badishah in allowing the First Imperials to remain. However, the Old Fort was fortified, heavily. And bristling with troops. That and the naval presence within Pa’Deshi was overwhelming, meaning forceful eviction was not an option.

Ergo, the Badishah opted for subterfuge. Assassination. Using one of his force sensetive assassins, members of the Badishah Sparr, would on several occassions use ancinet trappings and passages to infiltrate, and attempt to kill Rausgeber and members of his inner circle. While there were casualties, these never eventuated. But it would be autopsies performed on these bodies, which would bear fruit down the line.

As a reaction to the increased, albeit discreet hostility, the First Imperial element began to steadily, using both espionage and blackmail, begin to collect large portions of Pa’Desh’s most abundant and precious resource. Kyber. Either through dummy companies, discreet purchases through the hand of the free market, or outright theft. The First Imperials began to collect and hoard it like treasure.

First Order Stormtroopers, the future backbone of the Prefsbelt Stossjaeger.
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DAWN OF PREFSBELT
With the domestic increasingly deteriorating, and news from scouts and outlying loyalist enclaves of an encroaching new power in former First Imperial space, the Eternal Empire, a decision was made to find an out. While the broader Galaxy seemed to have forgotten the legacy of Natasi Fortan, Sieger Ren and other alumni, new troubles brewed. Irveric Tavlar, an alienated and isolated general of the Sith Empire had declared a new regime. Rebelling against Lord Vornskyr and his acolytes, the Sith Empire, a former ally of the First Order against the Galactic Alliance.

While other entities were considered such as this Eternal Empire, Rausgeber believed that the New Imperial Order was a kindred spirit of a sort. A faction of Non-Force Users whose militancy and appraisal of military strategy over brute force was as such that he considered himself a good fit. Ergo, a message was sent to the provincial capital of Nirauan, heralded by Rausgeber’s own lieutenant, Fleet Admiral Karlist Rax and flesh and blood in Maxamillian Rausgeber. The meeting between the two was short, curt and effective. Rax bartered for passage and settlement right, in exchange for the elite naval forces and military expertise of the First Imperials.

Members of the First Prefsbelt Auxiliary Brigade, in parade uniform.​

But where to settle? The question would ironically be resolved with the encirclement and collapse of the Sith Imperial garrison of Prefsbelt IV, which was now undersupplied. Prefsbelt IV was an ironic choice, thanks to its patron, former First Imperial Moff, and now Sith Grand Moff Madelyn Lowe. A former colleague of Rausgeber’s, who had taken the world and began redeveloping it as a refugee world. Even going so far as to establish a settlement, known as Nova Avalonia. A name harkening back to the old age of the First Order.

Lowe and her forces departed, under a peaceful transfer, and upon the departure of most denizens and Sith loyalists, Rausgeber’s moved in. Establishing small garrisons, and settlements before moving the main force over. Codenamed: OPERATION MACHTWECHSEL, forces from Pa’Desh began to ferry over tens of thousands a day. Settling them in the largely empty Nova Avalonian settlement, before setting up pre-fabricated bases. It took several weeks, but in the course of that, chief of logistics, Fleet Admiral Anastasi Braisley estimated they managed to take approximately 96% of the equipment from the Old Fort and other installations. Leaving them a well armed and oiled mahcine in the process.

With effectively the world of Prefsbelt IV now under their domain with little oversight, the First Imperial Remnant transferred its flag and title to that of Prefsbelt Command. A strategic force designed to aid and abet the New Imperial war machine.

The Nova Avaolinia skyline. ​

THE EARLY DAYS
With now a safe, and reasonably stable haven, Prefsbelt Command went about establishing itself. With their bellies now full, the burgeoning class of eager Pa’Deshi denizens who had tied their loyalty to Carlyle Rausgeber’s post now began to embark on a mass industrialization campaign. While the Sith Empire had done well to effectively destroy and dismantle most industry as it departed from every front, Prefsbelt Command did well to scrounge and scavenge components. Building small scale industry to both support itself, and the war economy.

Unlike the worlds of other New Imperial Warlord factions, there was no popular mandate for Prefsbelt Command. No consensus as to their position, or an organic raising of a representative regime. They were as a matter of being, interlopers, who had now foisted themselves upon the local population. Pressing them into service in maintaining factories and building them. Dozens of them began to crop up in the mountains. Small mining camps, logistics depots and defensive emplacements were rapidly erected as a means to support the securing of the planet. Entire villages of locals were dislocated entirely to new industrial cities, dug into the earth as to mitigate both spying and potential attacks. The Third Imperial Civil War was far from over, and it still hung in the balance.

Among the new Prefsbelt Command military assets, the structure was changed up dramatically. The Retribution Corps was effectively folded into a new, and elite military force. The Prefsbelt Stossjaeger Corps, a veteran fighting force which was reminiscent of the original First Order’s own elite Stormtrooper units both in aesthetic and doctrine. Designed to be deployed quickly, and effectively, and push through enemy defences.

But there was also a need for a local defensive force, which was the Prefsbelt Auxiliary Corps. With some veteran Retribution Corps officers close to retirement staffing the upper echelons, the Auxiliary Corps began something of a mix between both local denizens of Prefsbelt IV, and many of the Pa’Deshi, and First Imperial refugees. Not considered good enough for frontline service, the Auxiliary Corps was drafted to provide planetary defence, oversee infrastructure projects and for some of their veteran units, logistical assistance on other worlds for the Stossjaeger.

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The Naraka Series Worksuit, a staple of Prefsbelt IV's factory floors.


PREFSBELT UNLEASHED
Inspite of the work ethic of the refugees, Pa’Deshi and new citizen workers there was a need to expand. The reasoning behind that, was of course the fact that they could only do so much. There were only so many factories that could be built, and staffed. There was a need to expand. But how to industrially expand when one has a limited population pool? There are three answers to this:

1. Automation, but that is often technologically taxing, expensive and an option of only those with a rich pool of resources. Prefsbelt Command had neither.
2. Immigration. Of course, one could invite more people to settle. And there were many who did need help, fleeing from the tyranny of Darth Carnifex. However, they would need to be paid, and accommodated in conditions which would of course stave off rebellion. Which was difficult as they were still developing the world, and industry needed capacity before this could be achieved.
3. Slave Labour: Slaves didn’t need to be fed much. They could be beaten down, shackled. Prefsbelt Command had enough guns to shoot at them, and experience in suppressing revolts. Accomodations don’t have to be good, and payment was negligible. And what better slaves were there, than the brave fighting men and women of the Sith Empire?

Prefsbelt Command, at the discretion of the Imperial Assembly by the thousand, began funnelling POW’s of the Third Imperial Civil War to Prefsbelt IV. These prisoners were deliberately divided away from units, and squads. Torn away, and forced to perform manual labour. The luckiest, worked on the vast agricultural projects, farming, harvesting and maintaining crops. It guaranteed meals, and at least seven hours rest.

The next luckiest were the ones put into the Industrial Zones, who would have a roof over their heads while they worked. Standardised lunch breaks, and working typically under civilian contractors whom under NDA, would treat them well. Work hours were long, but for those who at least performed well, both extra rations and recreational leave would be approved.

It was those in the open air camps which suffered the most. Often walled off on a mountain top, with nothing but mining tools, a pistol and orders to dig. Prisoners at these facilities are forced to dig through inhospitable conditions, and provide massive amounts of ore to manufacturers. Food being often times provided only if There, with very little oversight, gangs form, and often engage in near tribal warfare against one another as they went feral.

Within months, as it was established, this system of gulags and work camps saw Prefsbelft Command climb in terms of industrial efficiency, and was soon one of the largest armaments producers within the New Imperial Order. With Rausgeber pressing his position on the Imperial Assembly to allocate more refugees and the settlement of more prisoners on its surface. With some minor chafing in that regard.

However the results of Rausgeber’s industrial effort were not unnoticed. And the requests were granted. But perhaps even more critically was the reward of a vessel. The allocation of a Super Star Destroyer to Prefsbelt Command. Armed and bristling with the kyber of Pa’Desh, the NIV Tregessar, named after the warden of naval affairs of the First Order was the first stepping stone in securing itself, as a new force to be reckoned with.

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The Fall Untoter sidgil.


STRENG GEHEIM
While on the surface, Prefsbelt Command’s dealing with Sith POWs was insidious. There was a larger game afoot. Within the bowels of Fortress Dosuun, the real heart of power on Prefsbelt IV, experiments were afoot. Now with a safe stronghold to organise them within them, and a pliant series of subjects to work on, Prefsbelt Command began the organisation of massive biological warfare projects.

The first and most prominent of these, was Project RUUSAN. The Prefsbelt Command solution to the issue of force users, elimination. While in exile on Pa’Desh, Carlyle Rausgeber had grappled with the thought of history. For generations, millenia, the machinations of the Force had kept thousands like him, the betters of society. The strategically minded, the strong, warriors who did not wield a lightsaber, in check. Supreme Leader Ren had even done it.

RUUSAN was based solely on the Badishah’curazi, a microbe local to Pa’Desh, which fed on midichlorians. Prefsbelt Command scientists had already attempted weaponisation, but now with the safe, sterile means to do so, began enriching and breeding them. Specifically using captured and lobotomised purrgills to provide them. While the project is ongoing, three ongoing strains were developed. The RAVENOUS strain, which depletes a hosts midicholorian count, and poisons them. The CHERNIL’BORG strain, which irradiated and kills those targeted, causing their flesh to melt from the inside. And the IMPERVIOUS strain, which is being developed as a painkiller.

But beyond the ambit of biological weapons is the Naraka worksuit project. While the abundance of Sith-Imperial POWs was a bounty for Prefsbelt Command industrialists, but what they found was that through skimping on PPE for the Sith-Imperials, they in turn lost productivity. Ergo, the Naraka project. The project found its inception in the way of a specialist worksuit, to make workers more productive. But instead, was modified.

The First Generation of Naraka worksuit were initiated as a way to put dead bodies back on a production line. Shoving a corpse into the sealed exo-skeleton, a droid brain would drill into the skull and maintain movement by sparking neurons in the brain, to force movement. As well as receiving commands from a central droid control system. Organs would be harvested progressively, until the muscles and or brain fully rotted. Turning a dead worker into a functional one for approximately 6-12 months.

The Second Generation was dispatched as a public torture device. Designed to force an insubordinate prisoner within, and confine them for several days without food or water, and just to work. In order to ensure compliance, those within had a wire drilled into their skull, forcing movements much like the generation one. This however caused death or permanent disfigurement and damage to ligaments in about one eighth of all subjects.

The Third Generation, unlike the second retuned to a dead body. With it stowed inside the bowels of the machine: there it’s bloodstream would be infused with proteins which would stimulate the creation of midichlorians. And using specialist machinery, would project a sort of Jedi mind trick aura in the immediate vicinity. As a means to keep production lines on track. However for those whom the truck did not work on, it caused abject anger, confusion and the development of acute schizophrenia.

With the development of Project Naraka, and a resurgent Sith Empire after the collapse of the Dantooine offensive, Prefsbelt Command authorised Fall Untöter. An operation to, in the case of an attack by the Sith Empire, mobilise a massive reserve force in the way of the Naraka worksuits. Liquidating Prefsbelt IV’s entire prison labour source and sticking them in suits to undergo combat which to. Whole not necessarily sophisticated combatants, with the droid command computer, they could act as a massed offensive force, or alternatively as the staff for artillery and or anti-air batteries.

The Guttary Falls Dam. Damming the largest lake on Prefsbelt IV. ​

THE NEW ADMINISTRATION
With the continuation of the Third Imperial Civil War, Prefsbelt Command provided assistance in the way of logistical support nasally and militarily. It’s inner council sought to plunder the planets resources as much as possible, in an attempt to secure a greater industrial reach.

They were rewarded with an increase in access to immigration quotas, but perhaps the greatest bounty lay ahead. With the at the time temporary resignation of Tyrell Praxxus. The Admiral Regent, and head of the New Imperial Navy. Praxxus abdicated at least temporarily from his position on the eve of the Dantooine invasion. Ceding the role to Rausgeber. While the battle was a disaster, with the surprise intervention of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Rausgeber retained the position when Praxxus failed to return.With continued searches for the Admiral Regent having been in vain, Carlyle presumed the post with the ascent of the Sovereign Imperators consent.

Now with the charge of the Navy under his belt, the now Grand Admiral and Admiral Regent sought to exploit his position which provided a venue for access to the reigns of New Imperial power, and to engage in statecraft. The first real action taken by Rausgeber to discreetly place Prefsbelt Command personnel in the reigns of power of major sector and patrol groups, as well as recruiting ideologically sympathetic officers into the Prefsbelt sphere, while simultaneously sidelining candidates from other warlord systems. Or those whose personal aptitude was not for Prefsbelt Command.

As a military leader, Rausgebers command as a naval tactician against the oft strategically crude members of the Sith Empire paid dividends. With the Sith being routed on several fronts before their final destruction at the hands of a increasingly powerful Bastion Pact. Prefsbelt Command shared its spoils as a victor, but there was much in the way of fallout because of the conclusion of the Third Imperial Civil War.

Members of the 8th Special Warfare Stossjaeger Brigade, attired in Sith Imperial combat gear within the Iron Ring.​

THE PLUNDER OF THE IRON RING
With the collapse of the Sith Empire as an entity, the New Imperial Order created what was a cordon around what became known as the Iron Ring. A sort of ad hoc blockade around former Sith Imperial systems, which was patrolled heavily, at least on paper. But in between the period of its assimilation, and its beginnings, Prefsbelt Command sought to exploit the chaos and confusion that reigned within the Iron Ring, to its benefit.

The political end of Darth Carnifex’s regime saw the Imperial Assembly, at the direction of liberal Grand Vizier, Prince Enlil, seek to release a blanket amnesty for Sith Imperial POW’s of the Non-Force User variety. Either integrating them into the armed forces, or allowing them to depart entirely for parts unknown. This would have a potentially disastrous impact on Prefsbelt Command whose war economy relied on such individuals. There were measures to try and mitigate the loss. Such as deliberately destroying paperwork, executing prisoners to put in Naraka Worksuits, falsifying war crimes charges against them, or sabotaging logistical efforts to depart. But it would be a significant loss.

Enter however the Iron Ring, with most of the garrisons in the domain gone, Prefsbelt Command, using equipment grandfathered over from the defunct regime began discretely raiding the Iron Ring. Seizing industrial assets, such as factories, mines and other important amenities. Or taking the opportunity with Stossjaeger brigades garbed in Sith combat gear to take some civilians for slave labour, before burning their crops and salting them earth.

Then, in a machiavellian play, they arrive weeks later as a relief group. With the “Sith Imperial” perpetrators in tow, and a Prefsbelt officer offering both refuge and stores. And then allowing the beleaguered and starved refugees to then execute the supposed perpetrators Those who did not leave immediately, were supplied with resources to rebuild. These resources often tainted with surveillance equipment, allowing for the monitoring of villagers. It was a cold strategy, but it allowed for the New Imperial Order to quickly build a network.

Over the course of the year of the Iron Ring, approximately 694 villages were destroyed. Their denizens were either enslaved in Prefsbelt Command installations, or invited back to be trained as specialist labour. Many in the latter cohort never suspecting that it was these same benefactors who offered them a new home and training, had slaughtered their kin.

New artillery batteries constructed in the mountains of Prefsbelt IV.​

THE RISE OF THE MAW, AND THE FUTURE
The Brotherhood of the Maw as a rising threat did not elude Carlyle Rausgeber, who used his position as Admiral Regent to pursue a campaign of continued militarisation against it, and the fellow travellers of the Bastion Pact. Rausgeber felt that the other members of the Pact were not reliable allies, and particularly, scarred from his experiences with the last Galactic Alliance. However, the Maw particularly after the destruction of Csilla became an urgent priority, as did all other threats.

What solidified it, at least personally was the assassination of Irveric Tavlar, an event Carlyle witnessed personally, only scraping by by the skin of his teeth in surviving the callous event. The moment made the threat more present. And despite his misgivings, Carlyle at least publicly threw his support behind Rurik Fel. Understanding that the ascendant Sovereign Imperator would pursue a policy of militant opposition rather than the steady demilitarisation seen at the conclusion of the Third Imperial Civil War under his predecessor. Rausgeber has sought to curry favour with the man, revealing the existence of Project RUUSAN, but not its full extent of research.

Since that assassination, the forges of Prefsbelt IV have doubled their efforts, to try and arm more and more. But also, more discreetly, and far from the prying eyes of the Imperial Assembly and Rurik Fel’s gaze, the system has sought to become more self-reliant. Work camps triple their quotas, and more and more forts crop on Prefsbelt IV’s mountainside. The day will come when Prefsbelt Command is tested against the powerful political circles of the New Imperial Order. And when that day comes, Carlyle Rausgeber has no intention of allowing his machinations to come to ruin.

 

[The Mongrel]

Caarlyle Rausgeber

This is an incredibly detailed, incredibly sinister submission. And I thought getting captured by the Maw was bad! Approved.