Ozymandias
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To clarify on the Sith's border policy, and what has come of it.
- Canon: N/A
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: The Blackwall
Reform Type: Border & Information Policy
Reform Passage:
The Blackwall was enacted by Darth Empyrean through sheer will and dominance, an Imperial Decree that reshaped the very nature of the Sith Empire overnight.
- Context:
The Sith had suffered from internal dissent, infiltration, and espionage from both external spies and ambitious warlords who used outside resources to gain power. It became clear that if the Sith were to endure, they needed absolute isolation from the galactic stage—a barrier of shadow between their civilization and the wider universe. - The Enactment:
Empyrean's decree was simple: No one gets in. No one gets out. The Sith will thrive only among themselves. He enforced it with military restructuring, purges of suspected informants, and widespread digital blackouts. Entire sectors saw their holonet access severed overnight, and hyperspace corridors were rerouted, militarized, or outright collapsed. - Challenges & Consequences:
- The decree alienated many Sith Lords who profited from galactic black markets or ran intelligence networks outside the Empire. Some resisted, attempting to assassinate Empyrean or sabotage the new infrastructure.
- Empyrean executed dozens of high-ranking officials who defied the Blackwall, solidifying his control but also creating bitter resentment within some circles.
- Entire families and lineages within the Empire were suddenly trapped, unable to contact relatives outside. Some attempted daring escapes, but the new surveillance system ensured that few, if any, succeeded.
- Only those of substantial influence were able to move through the Blackwall, or those given special exclusion passes.
The Blackwall is a sweeping policy enacted by Darth Empyrean upon his ascension to Emperor, designed to completely sever the Sith Empire from the outside galaxy. It establishes an impenetrable blockade, both physical and digital, preventing the movement of people, information, and resources in or out of Sith space.
The purpose of the Blackwall is total isolation, ensuring the Sith remain self-sufficient, uncorrupted by foreign influence, and hidden from external observation. By eliminating external trade, espionage, and defection, Empyrean ensures that all struggle, power, and knowledge remain within the Empire, forcing Sith to rise solely through the Doctrine of Ascension rather than external alliances or off-world support. It transforms Sith space into a fortress-state, where mystery and fear replace open conflict, and where even rumors of the Sith become uncertain myths in the greater galaxy.
Beyond its role in isolating the Sith Empire from the greater galaxy, the Blackwall also serves as a mechanism to prevent internal military coups. Each Legion of the Empire is assigned designated Blackwall re-entry points, and no Legion is permitted to cross back into Sith space outside of these authorized ports. This restriction, enforced by the Black Fleet and the Silent Veil, ensures that no Imperator can march their forces upon the capital or seize power by force.
This safeguard prevents ambitious warlords from 'crossing the Rubicon'—any Imperator who attempts to force their way through the Blackwall is immediately marked for destruction. Only through sanctioned re-entry points, under strict oversight, can the Legions return home, ensuring that all power struggles within Sith space remain political rather than military.
SOCIAL INFORMATION
Notable Figures Involved in the Reform:
Public Reception:
Responses to the Blackwall Reform
1. The Government's Response – Fear, Resentment, and Forced Compliance
The enactment of the Blackwall sent immediate shockwaves through the Sith government and ruling elite. While Darth Empyrean's decree was absolute and unquestionable, its execution required compliance from Sith Lords, governors, and military commanders—many of whom relied on foreign trade, mercenaries, or espionage networks for power.
- The Most Powerful Sith—The Exempted Few:
- A select group of high-ranking Sith Lords, megacorporations, and military leaders were granted exclusionary status, allowing them limited movement and communication beyond the Blackwall.
- These Sith became gatekeepers of external influence, growing vastly more powerful as only they could import rare resources, exotic artifacts, and forbidden knowledge from the wider galaxy.
- However, their status was not guaranteed—any sign of disloyalty, and their privileges were revoked permanently.
- Those granted passage through the Blackwall were not simply given clearance codes—they were entrusted with Sith-crafted Waystones, dark artifacts bound to the attunement of the Void Storms. Only those possessing a Waystone could carve a stable hyperspace path through the chaos, ensuring that even among the privileged few, only the truly loyal could move between the Sith Empire and the greater galaxy.
- The Disenfranchised Lords & Officials—Bitter and Resentful:
- Mid-tier Sith Lords, warlords, and regional governors who previously relied on off-world supply chains, black-market dealings, or espionage networks were furious at being cut off overnight.
- Some attempted to defy the decree, smuggling resources in secret or maintaining shadow networks.
- The Specters, Empyrean's internal enforcers, quickly hunted down dissenters, executing or disappearing them to ensure compliance.
- With the Blackwall in place, power became even more centralized. The restrictions on the Sith Legions meant that any Imperator seeking to move forces internally would have to do so politically, not militarily. No longer could a warlord return from a campaign and march upon the capital—if they sought to change the Empire, they would have to do so within the structures Empyrean had created, through the Doctrine of Ascension, rather than by brute force. This effectively locked military power outside the Empire's core, leaving internal authority to those who played the political game rather than the battlefield.
2. The People's Response – Fear, Confusion, and a New Reality
For the citizens of the Sith Empire, the Blackwall was less of a law and more of a cataclysmic shift in daily life.
- The Sudden Severance – Families Lost Overnight
- Many Sith citizens had family members, business partners, or even entire livelihoods connected to the outside galaxy. The Blackwall cut them off instantly.
- Messages stopped mid-transmission. Merchants expecting off-world shipments never saw them arrive.
- Desperate families tried to flee—but the border fleets were merciless, and most never made it out.
- Within months, a culture of grief and paranoia took hold—people knew better than to speak of lost relatives or question the decree.
- The Enforced Narrative – The Outside is Corruption
- Propaganda rapidly rewrote history, portraying the outside galaxy as weak, diseased, and corrupt—filled with Jedi spies, traitors, and stagnation.
- Schoolchildren were taught that leaving Sith space meant death and that any foreign ideas were a Jedi conspiracy to weaken the Sith.
- Over time, younger generations simply accepted the isolation as normal, knowing only the world the Blackwall had created.
- The Trade Ports – The Last Remnants of External Influence
- A few select trade hubs were granted exclusive licenses to engage in limited commerce beyond the Blackwall.
- These ports became cosmopolitan anomalies—the only places where foreign goods, art, or people could be found.
- However, the Silent Veil kept these ports under strict surveillance, ensuring that no unapproved ideas or information spread beyond them.
3. The Foreign Response – Shock, Fear, and Misinformation
The Republic, Jedi, and even criminal syndicates initially sought to map new paths into Sith space, only to find themselves thwarted at every turn. Any probe droids or scouting vessels attempting to bypass the Blackwall's Stormseeds were met with impossible gravitational distortions, vanishing into hyperspace anomalies. The Jedi, sensing the dark corruption at work, warned that the Stormseeds were no mere natural occurrence—they were the result of Sith rituals that had woven the Dark Side into the very fabric of space.
- The Republic & Jedi – A Vanishing Enemy?
- The sudden disappearance of the Sith Empire from galactic affairs was terrifying to the Jedi and Republic.
- For centuries, the Sith had been an open enemy—now, they were an unknown, a silent, lurking presence with unclear motives.
- Some Jedi Masters feared that the Sith were preparing for an apocalyptic war, while others believed that they had collapsed from within.
- Republic Intelligence frantically searched for ways to breach the Blackwall, but any agent who tried never returned.
- The Jedi sought to counter the Blackwall's unnatural barriers, attempting to locate or craft artifacts that could override the Sith attunement. Their efforts were met with failure—the Sith had embedded their rituals so deeply into the Force that only Sith-crafted artifacts, bound to the Blackwall's energy, could navigate the storm. This ensured that even if a defector escaped, they could never return without a Sith's aid.
- Criminal Syndicates – Scrambling for New Profits
- The sudden closure of Sith space destroyed many criminal smuggling routes overnight.
- Hutt Cartels and Black Sun lost entire markets, unable to access Sith buyers.
- However, some desperate smugglers still attempted to breach the Blackwall, trying to navigate uncharted hyperspace routes or bribe the few privileged Sith Lords with trade licenses.
- The Outer Rim – Myth and Misinformation
- Among the Outer Rim, stories spread wildly—some believed the Sith had become gods, cutting themselves off to ascend beyond mortality.
- Others thought they had wiped themselves out in a final civil war, with only ruins remaining behind the Blackwall.
- Rumors circulated that the Sith were watching, waiting, preparing for a return.
The History of the Blackwall Reform
The Blackwall was not merely a policy—it was a declaration of absolute control, a doctrine of isolation that reshaped the Sith Empire into a fortress of secrecy and paranoia. Its origins lie in the violent upheavals of the Sith Civil War, the treacheries of Sith politics, and the brutal vision of Darth Empyrean, who sought to transform the Sith into something the galaxy could no longer predict, manipulate, or understand.
Before the Blackwall – A Fractured, Corrupt Empire
Before Empyrean's rise, the Sith Empire was powerful but vulnerable.
- Internal struggles and corruption were rampant—rival Sith Lords engaged in shadow wars, using off-world mercenaries, intelligence networks, and economic ties to gain personal power at the expense of the Empire as a whole.
- Foreign espionage was widespread—the Republic, Jedi, and even criminal syndicates had infiltrated Sith-controlled space through bribery, informants, and hidden defectors.
- Power was decentralized—while the Sith Triumvirate officially ruled, true power was divided among ambitious warlords and trade magnates, many of whom had deep financial and military ties to external factions.
The Path to the Blackwall – The Rise of Darth Empyrean
The Sith Civil War – Betrayal and Consolidation
The catalyst for change came when Darth Empyrean seized power in the wake of the Sith Civil War. Aligning himself with Darth Ophidia and the Tsis'kaar, he betrayed Darth Carnifex, leading to a brutal, calculated war that reshaped the hierarchy of the Sith.
- Empyrean took control of Jutrand, the Empire's capital, and began a purge of all opposition, consolidating power in ways unseen since the ancient Sith Emperors.
- Darth Carnifex, though defeated, was sent to reconquer the Empire's holy worlds—a strategic move by Empyrean to eliminate an immediate threat while allowing Carnifex to burn his aggression on external war rather than internal rebellion.
- Ophidia, once an ally, was later betrayed and killed by her apprentices, allowing Empyrean to become the singular ruler of the Sith Empire.
With the civil war won, Empyrean saw an opportunity to enact a doctrine that would forever solidify the Sith in an untouchable position—a policy that would cut off all external threats, ensuring that never again would the Sith be infiltrated, manipulated, or diluted by foreign influence.
This was the birth of the Blackwall.
The Creation of the Blackwall – Total Isolation Begins
Once the Empire was his, Empyrean issued a decree unlike any before it:
The decree was absolute, immediate, and enforced with terrifying efficiency.
The Blackwall's Infrastructure
- Fleet Restructuring– The Black Fleet was created, an entire arm of the military dedicated solely to border enforcement. But beyond mere starships, the Blackwall's borders were also woven into reality itself—Sith Lords, under Empyrean's orders, enacted powerful rituals that birthed the "Void Storms," shifting hyperspace anomalies that could only be traversed by those attuned to the Sith's arcane pathing methods. These unnatural storms created a living, shifting labyrinth around Sith space, rendering external access impossible without Sith knowledge or artifacts attuned to the paths.
While the Blackwall's primary purpose is to isolate Sith space from foreign influence, it also serves a secondary function—limiting the movement of the Sith Legions within the Empire itself. Each Legion is assigned predetermined exit and re-entry points, preventing unauthorized deployments inside Sith space. This ensures that no Imperator can march their forces into the Empire without approval, effectively preventing any Legion from attempting to seize control of the capital or other key worlds.
For an Imperator to move their Legion into Sith space, they must return through their designated re-entry port. Any deviation from this system is considered treason, and any fleet or force attempting to breach the Blackwall outside these sanctioned corridors is immediately destroyed by the Black Fleet.- Interdiction Beacons were placed along hyperspace lanes to block unauthorized travel.
- Trade corridors were rerouted, collapsed, or militarized, ensuring that all commerce passed through state-controlled hands.
- The Silent Veil – Information Control & Purge of Dissidents
- The Silent Veil was founded, a secretive force designed not just to control information, but to erase it.
- Holonet connections to external networks were severed—communications became internal and encrypted, with AI censors actively deleting any outbound messages.
- Data assassins were deployed, systematically hunting down defectors, spies, and informants who had escaped the initial purges.
- The Mass Purge of Foreign Ties
- Sith Lords who previously relied on external wealth, mercenary forces, or alliances were given an ultimatum—swear total fealty to the Empire or be erased.
- Entire Sith families with Republic connections disappeared overnight, either executed or exiled to hidden labor camps.
- Mid-tier Sith Lords who resisted were exterminated, their legacies purged from history.
- The Designated Trade Ports – Controlled Interaction
- Despite the Blackwall's extreme isolation, a few select trade hubs were permitted to conduct commerce beyond Sith space.
- These ports were heavily regulated, with strict oversight from the Silent Veil, ensuring that no information or unauthorized travelers entered or left the Empire unnoticed.
- Sith Lords granted licenses to operate these ports became some of the most powerful figures in the Empire, controlling the only legal flow of external wealth, resources, and technology.
- Even the designated trade ports exist within pockets of stability inside the Void Storms, accessible only through sanctioned hyperspace lanes dictated by Sith alchemical coordinates. Without Sith-sanctioned guidance, any vessel attempting to enter Sith space would be lost to the void or torn apart by the chaos of the storm.
- The Stormseeds – Anchors of the Void Storms
- At the core of the Void Storms are the Stormseeds—massive Sith-forged pylons, attuned to the Dark Side, placed along the edges of Sith-controlled space. These constructs serve as "anchors," sustaining the unnatural hyperspace maelstroms that cut Sith space off from the galaxy. Each Stormseed pulses with raw Sith alchemy, causing fluctuations in hyperspace that only those with the correct attunements—or wielding Sith-approved artifacts—can safely navigate.
Life Under the Blackwall – The New Sith Order
Once the Blackwall was in place, life in the Sith Empire changed forever.
For the Sith Lords – A New Hierarchy of Control
- Power was now entirely internal—one could no longer rely on off-world resources or external alliances to rise in power.
- The only path to power was through the Doctrine of Ascension, forcing Sith to compete, assassinate, and maneuver solely within Sith-controlled space.
- The most powerful Sith—those granted trade and border privileges—became even stronger, monopolizing external resources and controlling the few legal trade routes.
- All foreign communication ceased—families with off-world ties were left in permanent uncertainty, their loved ones either dead or lost beyond the Blackwall, never to be heard from again.
- Propaganda reshaped reality—citizens were taught that the outside galaxy was a diseased, weak, and decaying ruin, while the Sith thrived in pure, undisturbed strength.
- A culture of suspicion took hold—anyone caught asking about the outside world was assumed to be a traitor, a Jedi sympathizer, or worse—a spy, and swiftly disappeared.
- The Republic and Jedi were stunned—overnight, the Sith Empire vanished behind a wall of silence, its movements and plans entirely unknown.
- The Hutt Cartels and criminal syndicates lost access to Sith black markets, cutting off an enormous flow of illicit trade and destabilizing galactic crime networks.
- Rumors flourished—some believed the Sith had wiped themselves out, others feared they were preparing a war unlike any before.
The Aftermath – A Darker, More Fearsome Empire
With the Blackwall in place, Empyrean turned his attention outward once more, beginning his first major campaign: The Darktide.
- The Sith became a hidden force, no longer a known enemy to be monitored, but a ghost in the dark, unpredictable and terrifying.
- The Doctrine of Ascension thrived, forcing the Sith to fight and evolve solely among themselves, free from external influences.
- The Republic and Jedi, blinded by the Blackwall, could only guess what the Sith were planning—a mistake they would come to regret.
This is AI generated because I'm lazy, but I did make the ideas lmao.
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