Brother of the Emperor
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Drill down on the SIBC Headquarters on Jutrand
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- Structure Name: SIBC Central Authority (Megaplex 034.11a)
- Classification: Imperial Ministry
- Location: Jutrand
- Affiliation: Sith Order
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- The headquarters of the Sith-Imperial Banking Clan (SIBC), known as Central Authority, is a fortress of finance and control—the heart of the Sith economy and the single most heavily guarded financial institution in the Empire.
Location & Accessibility- Hidden in Plain Sight – Unlike secretive Sith strongholds, Central Authority is not hidden or isolated. It stands as the crown jewel of Jutrand's financial district, a massive monolithic structure that dominates the skyline.
- Exclusive Access – While its exterior may seem like a hub of commerce, its interior is strictly off-limits to the public. Only high-ranking Sith, corporate leaders, and SIBC officials are allowed inside.
- Layers of Restricted Zones – Central Authority is divided into tiered security levels, with the lower levels dedicated to administrative functions, while the uppermost sanctums house the most classified financial operations of the Empire.
- Artificially Controlled Traffic – Only authorized financial transactions, secured personnel convoys, and high-value shipments are allowed near Central Authority, making it one of the most inaccessible locations in the Sith Empire.
- Defenses & Security
- Paramilitary Banking Guard – The SIBC maintains its own security force, independent of the Sith military, consisting of elite enforcers and financial auditors trained in both economic warfare and physical combat.
- Sith-Imperial Intelligence Presence – Sith-Imperial Inquisitors and intelligence agents routinely sweep the complex for infiltrators, sabotage, or potential security risks.
- Automated Defensive Systems – Turbolaser emplacements, ray shields, anti-personnel turrets, and droid sentries ensure the building is virtually impenetrable.
- Encrypted Financial Vaults – The deepest vaults of Central Authority contain planetary reserves, war funds, Sith economic archives, and secret financial ledgers known only to the Dark Council.
- Typhojem AI Surveillance – The Typhojem artificial intelligence, an all-seeing predictive monitoring system, analyzes every transaction, visitor, and communication to detect even the smallest sign of economic dissent.
- Symbolism & Influence
- A Monument to Sith Supremacy – Central Authority is not just a building, but a statement of power—its black durasteel and obsidian walls tower above the city, its Sith insignia radiating an eerie red glow.
- Forced Veneration – Visitors from vassal states and planetary governors must ritually bow before entering, reinforcing its role as a temple of economic dominion.
- A Cold, Professional Atmosphere – Central Authority does not resemble an ostentatious palace but a hyper-efficient, professional, and oppressive financial machine—a place where even Sith Lords must respect the numbers.
- Final Statement
The Nexus of Wealth and Order is where Sith economic dominance is forged. It is a black hole of wealth and control, absorbing the riches of the Empire and ensuring that no credit flows without Sith approval. In a galaxy where power is often measured by the strength of armies, the SIBC reminds all that true power lies in the control of capital.
- The headquarters of the Sith-Imperial Banking Clan (SIBC), known as Central Authority, is a fortress of finance and control—the heart of the Sith economy and the single most heavily guarded financial institution in the Empire.
- Description:
- At a glance, The Central Authority is a monolithic fortress of finance, a towering, featureless slab of blackened durasteel and obsidian that looms over the Jutrand skyline. Unlike the ornate palaces of Sith aristocrats or the jagged fortresses of warlords, this structure is defined by brutalist efficiency—a testament to the uncompromising power of numbers, wealth, and absolute control.
The building's seamless, angular exterior absorbs light rather than reflecting it, creating an eerie visual void against the sky. Only along its razor-sharp edges do faint crimson lines pulse in shifting Sith runes, a quiet, unsettling hum emanating from within—as if the structure itself is alive with calculation, surveillance, and economic domination.
At its entrance, a massive black gateway stands sealed, carved with the insignia of the Sith-Imperial Banking Clan—a six-spoked cogwheel encircling the Sith crest. The gateway is flanked by colossal statues of Sith financiers and economic enforcers, their stone expressions devoid of pity, monuments to conquest not of armies, but of capital.
There are no windows, no visible balconies, no signs of organic life—only cold, artificial efficiency. Armored enforcers clad in polished black duraplate stand in absolute silence at the base, their helmets featureless, their weapons idle but ever-ready. The air around the Central Authority is thick with unspoken menace, as if stepping too close without permission is itself an act of financial treason.
Above, distant ships pass without lingering—no one hovers near the Central Authority unless they belong to it. Hidden turbolaser batteries and defensive energy shields lie beneath its surface, ensuring that no one who enters or exits does so without the full knowledge and approval of the Sith-Imperial Banking Clan.
The Central Authority is not merely a financial institution—it is a machine, a monument to wealth as a weapon, and a reminder that in the Sith Empire, the true chains of power are forged not in fire, but in debt.
- At a glance, The Central Authority is a monolithic fortress of finance, a towering, featureless slab of blackened durasteel and obsidian that looms over the Jutrand skyline. Unlike the ornate palaces of Sith aristocrats or the jagged fortresses of warlords, this structure is defined by brutalist efficiency—a testament to the uncompromising power of numbers, wealth, and absolute control.
The Central Authority is an impenetrable fortress of economic and financial control, designed with ruthless efficiency and layered security. Each section serves a distinct function, ensuring the Sith-Imperial Banking Clan (SIBC) can exert its unwavering dominion over the economy of the Sith Empire.
1. The Grand Ledger Hall
- A vast, dimly lit chamber where the Supreme Economic Council (SEC) convenes to dictate macroeconomic policies, financial strategies, and wealth allocation for the Empire.
- Gigantic suspended holoscreens display live economic data—war expenditures, planetary GDPs, tribute payments, and currency fluctuations.
- Rows of black-clad economic overseers sit in tiered formations, monitoring financial reports and executing real-time adjustments to Sith markets.
- The centerpiece of the hall is The Master Ledger, a colossal holo-display of the entire Sith Imperial economy, allowing the SIBC to observe and manipulate financial flows across the Empire.
2. The Vault of Dominion
- The most secure financial vault in the Empire, housing war funds, planetary tribute reserves, Sith-Imperial emergency reserves, and encrypted financial records dating back millennia.
- Located deep within the subterranean layers of the Central Authority, requiring multiple biometric scans, Sith authentication, and passphrase encryption to access.
- Guarded by elite SIBC financial enforcers, automated turrets, and Sith alchemized vault doors reinforced with Dark Side rituals to prevent unauthorized access.
- Within its depths: Sealed relics of financial conquest, including the original ledgers of fallen galactic banks, contracts signed in blood, and Sith-Imperial war bonds tied to entire civilizations.
3. The Tribunal of Economic Compliance
- A cold, judgmental courtroom where economic dissidents, corrupt officials, and defaulters on Imperial tithes are tried and sentenced.
- The Chief Revenuer of the Sith-Imperial Revenue Collection Authority (SIRCA) presides over cases with absolute authority.
- Defendants are brought before a faceless panel of financial inquisitors, whose rulings are swift and often brutal—penalties range from total asset seizure, forced servitude, or public execution.
- A transparisteel observation deck overlooks the trials, where Sith Lords, financiers, and corporate leaders spectate as a reminder of the price of economic defiance.
4. The War Investment Complex
- A massive holographic financial war room where Sith-Imperial war bonds, resource allocations, and conquest-driven investments are strategized.
- Home to the War Bonds Exchange (WBE) and Sith-Imperial Derivatives Market (SIDM), where high-ranking Sith Lords and military officials fund their wars through financial instruments.
- Holograms of ongoing conflicts flash across the walls, showing real-time battle expenditures, mercenary payments, and plundered resources.
- The room is monitored by Sith financiers and strategic war economists, ensuring that no credit is wasted in the pursuit of expansion.
5. The Sovereign Exchange Chamber
- The trading floor of the Sith-Imperial Securities Exchange (SISE), where approved Sith corporations, guilds, and vassal-state entities buy and sell stock.
- Unlike chaotic financial markets of the past, this chamber is eerily silent, as all trades are executed via high-speed quantum processors and predictive AI models.
- Sith financiers in black and crimson robes oversee transactions from high-rise balconies, ensuring that only Sith-approved interests profit.
- The most elite trading tier is The Apex Rotunda, a private trading platform reserved for the Dark Council and the Emperor, where galactic-scale deals are brokered.
6. The Debt Repository
- A towering, darkened chamber lined with endless rows of databanks, each one recording the debt history of every individual, business, and world under Sith control.
- Run by the Sith-Imperial Foreign Investment Board (SIFIB), this is where debtors are classified, assessed, and assigned "repayment options", which often include forced labor or military conscription.
- Debt collectors clad in ceremonial black armor patrol the halls, ready to dispatch operatives to extract payment from delinquent debtors.
- At its center lies The Red Ledger, a colossal digital archive that calculates the economic fates of entire planetary systems, determining whether they are ripe for economic strangulation, further exploitation, or outright conquest.
7. The Typhojem Surveillance Nexus
- A restricted, AI-driven security hub where the Typhojem Artificial Intelligence oversees economic surveillance, financial forecasting, and crime prediction across the Empire.
- The Nexus monitors every credit transaction, taxation event, trade deal, and market shift to detect economic dissent before it manifests.
- Sealed behind layered ray shields and guarded by automated Sith battle droids, only the highest-ranking Sith-Imperial data inquisitors have access to this room.
- Unauthorized access is met with immediate vaporization, as the Typhojem AI is programmed to eliminate any threat to Sith economic stability.
8. The Chamber of Absolute Control
- A sanctified Sith conclave, where the Dark Council and the most powerful Sith financiers convene in secrecy to discuss classified economic warfare, corporate assassinations, and the Sith Empire's long-term financial domination plans.
- The black marble table is inscribed with ancient Sith runes, each seat representing a key faction in the Sith economic hierarchy.
- Decisions made here shape the financial reality of the Empire, determining which sectors rise, which guilds collapse, and which vassal states are bled dry through financial subjugation.
- A red-veiled Sith attendant stands at the center, reading from The Codex of Profit and Power, a Sith manuscript dictating that economics, like war, must be wielded as a weapon against the weak.
SECURITY
Security Rating: Maximum
The Central Authority is the most secure civilian financial structure in the Sith Empire, second only to the Dark Council Chambers and the Emperor's personal sanctum. While it is not a traditional military installation, its defensive measures rival those of high-command centers, ensuring that no unauthorized individual can breach its walls.
Perimeter Defenses:
- Fortified Durasteel & Obsidian Structure – The entire exterior is composed of reinforced durasteel plating, coated in Sith alchemized obsidian, making it resistant to blaster fire, explosives, and even limited orbital bombardment.
- Ray Shielding Network – Layered, multi-phase ray shields protect against aerial strikes, energy-based assaults, and unauthorized vehicle approaches.
- Perimeter Guard Towers – Black-armored enforcers armed with high-powered disruptor rifles are stationed at strategic watchtowers, covering every angle of approach.
- No-Fly Zone Enforcement – Sith-Imperial Air Patrols and auto-tracking turrets instantly disable or destroy unauthorized ships or aerial drones that enter restricted airspace.
- Sentinel Droid Patrols – Heavily armored, AI-driven security droids patrol the plaza and external corridors, scanning for potential threats.
- Encrypted Access Points – Only authorized individuals with biometric clearance and Sith-coded credentials may enter via the reinforced gates or executive turbolifts.
Internal Defenses:
- Armed Financial Enforcers – The SIBC maintains its own elite security force, trained in economic compliance enforcement and counter-intrusion tactics.
- Automated Defense Turrets – Hidden plasma and stun turrets are mounted within corridors, entry points, and key financial sectors, programmed to activate on unauthorized movement.
- Anti-Force User Countermeasures – Select corridors and chambers contain Sith-forged obelisks that dampen Force abilities, interfering with cloaking, mind tricks, and telekinetic attacks.
- Blast Doors & Lockdown Protocols – In the event of an attempted intrusion or internal threat, the entire facility can enter lockdown, sealing vaults, offices, and financial chambers behind impenetrable durasteel doors.
- Typhojem Surveillance AI – The omnipresent security AI monitors all movement, communications, and biometric data, detecting suspicious behavior before it manifests into a threat.
Vault & Data Security:
- Deep-Level Quantum Encryption – All financial records, wealth transfers, and SIBC documentation are stored using quantum-encrypted data systems, making them impossible to hack without Sith-grade authorization keys.
- Sith Alchemical Vault Doors – The Vault of Dominion is sealed with Dark Side-imbued metals, rendering them resistant to cutting tools, explosives, and even lightsabers.
- Adaptive Bio-Locks – Access to secure financial zones requires multi-layered verification, including DNA scans, Force attunement readings, and passphrase synchronization.
- Self-Purging Data Terminals – In the event of a breach, high-priority financial data can be purged or transferred to isolated, off-grid vaults, ensuring the SIBC's wealth and secrets remain protected.
Counter-Espionage & Emergency Protocols:
- Neural Scrambling Fields – High-priority sectors feature scrambling devices that disrupt unauthorized communication signals, preventing slicers from remotely accessing financial data.
- Sith-Imperial Intelligence Liaison Office – The Sith-Imperial Intelligence Division maintains a permanent presence within the Central Authority, ensuring that corporate sabotage, infiltration attempts, and foreign financial threats are immediately neutralized.
- Rapid Sith Deployment Beacon – Should a Level One Threat be detected (i.e., Jedi infiltration, major insurrection, or internal conspiracy), Sith strike teams are deployed directly to the Central Authority to eliminate the disturbance.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
History of the Central Authority: The Birth of the Sith Empire's Financial Stronghold
Origins: The Collapse of the Tenth Empire's Economy
The Central Authority was conceived in the wake of the Tenth Sith Empire's financial collapse, a period marked by rampant corruption, mismanaged war expenditures, and the unchecked ambition of Sith warlords who hoarded wealth instead of directing it toward conquest. The fractured economic structure of the Tenth Empire had resulted in Sith-controlled regions operating independent financial systems, leading to conflicting trade policies, black-market dominance, and unsustainable tribute demands that eventually bankrupted entire sectors.
At the heart of this economic ruin was the Great Sith-Imperial Fiscal Crisis, a catastrophic financial event in which:
- War bonds defaulted, leading to mass defection among mercenary forces and private military contractors.
- Vassal states failed to meet their tribute quotas, provoking military retaliation that drained further resources.
- The Sith-Imperial Credit (SIC) suffered hyperinflation, leading to planetary riots, economic instability, and systems declaring independence from Sith rule.
- Guilds and corporations amassed too much autonomy, resulting in private-sector dominance over Sith military production, weakening centralized control.
The Empire was, for the first time, on the brink of financial dissolution rather than military defeat. It was in this moment that Darth Empyrean, then the emerging force behind the Sith-Imperial unification movement, recognized the necessity of absolute economic control. His doctrine became clear: wealth was a weapon, and it must be wielded like a blade, not dispersed among squabbling Sith Lords who cared only for personal enrichment.
The Founding of the Central Authority
Upon the rise of the Eleventh Sith Empire, Darth Empyrean and his most trusted economic and military advisors sought to eradicate economic decentralization once and for all. To do this, they commissioned the construction of the Central Authority, a monolithic financial citadel that would serve as the seat of the newly unified Sith-Imperial Banking Clan (SIBC).
Key architects and figures involved in its creation included:
- Darth Empyrean – The Supreme Architect of the Sith-Imperial economic order, who envisioned an economy that was self-sustaining, militarized, and entirely under Sith dominion.
- Lord Amon Korr, the First Grand Revenuer – The head of the newly established Sith-Imperial Revenue Collection Authority (SIRCA), infamous for his brutal taxation policies and mass financial purges of rebellious planetary treasuries.
- Darth Xythis, Sith Lord of Coin – The first Overseer of the Supreme Economic Council (SEC), who devised the restructuring of the Sith Credit (SIC) and engineered the extermination of rival financial institutions.
- Vaelius Typhor, Grandmaster of Finance – A non-Sith economic strategist who assisted in creating the Sith-Imperial Securities Exchange (SISE) and restructuring the tribute system into a model that would ensure continued economic dominance.
- The Typhojem AI Initiative – Named after the dark deity, Typhojem AI was implemented to oversee Sith economic surveillance, making it the first autonomous, predictive financial intelligence system in the Empire.
The structure itself was built on the ruins of the ancient Odionate Treasury, an insufficient, bloated financial institution that had failed to enforce Sith economic power during the Odionate. In a symbolic purge, Darth Empyrean ordered the public destruction of the old Treasury's records, previous Warlord fiscal agreements, and more - erasing all debts, contracts, and prior financial agreements in a sweeping economic reset. This event, known as the Great Fiscal Cleansing, marked the beginning of a new, authoritarian financial era.
Role in the Modern Sith Empire
Since its construction, the Central Authority has remained the single most important non-military structure in the Sith Empire. While Sith Lords battle for military power and influence, the SIBC and its Central Authority dictate the economic lifeblood of the Empire, ensuring that:
- All wealth flows through Sith-approved channels.
- Tribute, taxation, and economic servitude are enforced with absolute authority.
- Private industry remains subordinate to Sith war efforts.
- Vassal states and conquered territories are economically bound to the Empire.
- Foreign investors and trade partners operate under exploitative Sith terms.
Despite the Sith's penchant for internal strife and political maneuvering, the Central Authority has remained untouchable. Even the Dark Council must adhere to the financial laws dictated within its halls, and any Sith Lord foolish enough to attempt financial rebellion finds their assets seized, their industries nationalized, and their war funds vanished overnight.
Legacy: The Indomitable Throne of Wealth
The Central Authority is not just a structure—it is a doctrine. It embodies the Sith belief that true power is not only won through war but through absolute economic subjugation. While armies may rise and fall, while Sith may betray one another, the economy must remain controlled, disciplined, and weaponized against the weak.
To this day, the Central Authority remains the undisputed center of Sith financial power, a dark colossus where wealth is not merely accumulated—but ruthlessly wielded as a tool of dominion.
