Eternal Father
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Codify the final chapter in Operation: Decimation
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- Media Name: Sith-Imperial Edicts: Treaty of Vanquo - Sale of Indentured Mandalorians Decree
- Format: Official documents are written on flimsiplast, copies are held digitally on holobooks.
- Distribution: Inter-Planetary
- Length: Short
- Description: The Treaty of Vanquo was a departure from the Sith Empire's typical procedure in dominating and suppressing the Mandalorians both within and without its borders. For the first time since before the First Battle of Mandalore, the Empire entered into cordial negotiations with a Mandalorian Clan with the intent on cooperation rather than subjugation. What was agreed upon ensured the independence of Vanquo in exchange for open trade and a manpower tribute of their youthful warriors to the Sith Empire. The Sale of Indentured Mandalorians which followed was also agreed upon in the same discussions and was one of the largest slave purchases in modern history, as the Empire sold over five-hundred-thousand slaves to Clan Solus for the sum of over three-billion credits.
- Author:
Darth Carnifex
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Cynthia Solus
- Publisher: Office of Imperial Truth
- Reception: Reception to both the Treaty and the Sale was mixed by those within the Empire. Many bankers and trade barons were jubilant at the accumulation of so much wealth and the opening of a new trade route on the Empire's southern border, but many slaveholders balked at the idea of giving away so much property to Mandalorians just to be freed after. Many of these slaveholder's woes were assuaged by financial compensation, especially the ones who lost slaves due to the Sale, but there remained those who grew worrisome that their own slave crop might be next.
- Both the Treaty and Vanquo and the Sale of Indentured Mandalorians Decree were distributed collectively throughout the Empire in a variety of formats, although the most common was via slim holobooks passed out to every Imperial household by the Office of Imperial Truth.
- Event Name: Summit of Vanquo
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- Participants:
- Sith Empire
- Clan Solus
- Overview: Emperor Carnifex and the representatives of Clan Solus meet on Vanquo to discuss the potential ramifications of an agreement regarding the tracking and capture/execution of the rogue warlord Kaine Australis. Ultimately, they agree on several provisions and the sale of Mandalorian slaves from the Empire to Clan Solus upon which they will be freed from bondage.
- Treaty of Vanquo
- Article I
- Clan Solus of Vanquo and affiliates agree to not raise arms or ferment insurrection against the Sith Empire
- Article II
- The Sith Empire respects and guarantees the sovereignty of the planet Vanquo
- Article III
- The Sith Empire and Clan Solus of Vanquo conduct mutually beneficial trade
- Article IV
- The Sith Empire will supply Clan Solus of Vanquo and affiliates with war material in their combined effort to hunt down and capture or eliminate the rogue warlord Kaine Australis and his collaborators
- Article V
- Clan Solus of Vanquo must volunteer a tribute of 1/5th of its upper youth (15-22) to serve as auxiliary to the Imperial Military for a period of 10 years with familial leave every 3 months, after which they have the opportunity to return to Clan Solus or remain in Sith service
- Article VI
- Manpower tributes are subject to options of renewal following the previous tribute's expiration
- Article VII
- Sith Empire civilians and military personnel are to not assault any member of Clan Solus of Vanquo, on penalty of reprisal
- Article VIII
- The Sith Empire will spread propaganda on any claimed Mandalorian worlds that exclusively denote the rogue warlord Kaine Australis by the Mando'a designation of Demagol'ka, a word which is unrestricted by the Empire's anti-Mando'a censorship laws
- Article I
- Sale of Indentured Mandalorians
- Article I
- The Sith Empire has agreed to sell the enslaved Mandalorian populations of Mandalore, Concord Dawn, and other similar former Mandalorian worlds to Clan Solus of Vanquo
- Article II
- The price for each individual slave was established at six-thousand-five-hundred (6,500) credits
- Article III
- Collectively, the price of the tallied five-hundred-and-four-thousand (504,000) Mandalorian slaves was calculated to be three-billion-two-hundred-and-seventy-six-million (3,276,000,000) credits, which was rounded down to three-billion-and-two-hundred-million (3,200,000,000) credits after negotiation
- Article IV
- Ratification of the sale was concluded on Vanquo, with Clans Solus and affiliates agreeing to pay the negotiated price
- Article V
- Transportation of the sold slaves was conducted in waves
- Article VI
- Slaves were then immediately freed by Clan Solus of Vanquo
- Article I
In the years following the Second Battle of Mandalore, the Empire conducted ever more brutal actions against the Mandalorian people still under their yoke. Most were enslaved, especially those who sided with the rogue warlord Kaine Australis during his failed liberation of Mandalore. Many more were simply killed off in purges. A small minority had remained loyal to the Empire and were spared the suffering inflicted upon their kin. Many of these 'loyal' Mandalorians had been on the fringe of previous Mandalorian societies for decades, for either possessing extremist ideas or having a lack of strong convictions to the Resol'nare. In exchange for safety and protection from the Empire's persecution, they eagerly sold themselves as soldiers or renounced their Mandalorian identity altogether.
For those who found themselves in bondage, life was just as brutal as it had been. They all remained bound to the worlds they once inhabited by the Empire's system of serfdom, and they were controlled by the ruthless slaveholding aristocracy which had prospered in the age since the Sith reignited the Outer Rim slave trade in the region. Many were used to work the land that the aristocracy had gobbled up following the collapse of the United Mandalorian Clans, while others worked in gargantuan estates as personal servants or entertainers to their cruel masters.
All of that changed when the Emperor met in secret with Cynthia Solus, the matriarch of Clan Solus of Vanquo. The meeting was arranged through the connections both had with the Mandalorian warrior Stardust, who happened to be the Emperor's cousin via his marriage with Gunnr Hadda Nussyn Fitz-Kierke. Together, they agreed upon a set of conditions that would be collectively ratified as the Treaty of Vanquo. Simultaneously, the Emperor and Cynthia haggled over the price of selling all slaves of Mandalorian descent from the conquered Mandalorian territories to Clan Solus.
The price of three-billion-and-two-hundred-million credits was agreed upon, and in the following months Clan Solus managed to pay off this sum to the Empire and were given the slaves they had bought. Upon their transference to Clan Solus, all slaves were immediately freed from bondage and integrated into the Clan. The Empire, having collected its demanded price, was free to divide the wealth into whatever projects it saw fit to fund.
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