Crown Prince
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a dark side organization to use as a foil in Caelan's stories and Alliance stories.
- Image Credit: Created by me on https://creator.nightcafe.studio/
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- Links: None at this time. To be added.
- Organization Name: The Obsidian Syndicate
- Classification: Criminal and Dark Side Organization
- Affiliation: Loyal only to themselves.
- Organization Symbol: See the image to the right.
- Description: The Obsidian Syndicate is a dark side organization of religious zealots who steal Force sensitive children from their families, brainwash them, and turn them into soldiers for the order. Their ultimate goal is galactic dominion, and they seek to achieve this by covertly toppling governments and installing their own as leaders.
- Headquarters: Oricon
- Domain: They have secret operational facilities, like safe houses, on various worlds, but the crux of the organization is a facility on the world of Oricon where they do their training and plotting.
- Notable Assets:
- Oricon Headquarters: A large facility nestled into the volcanic landscape of the Moon where they do their training and plotting. From here they launch various endeavors across the galaxy.
- More Will be added as their story fleshes out.
- Hierarchy: The Obsidian Syndicate is led by the Ebon Council, a secretive circle of Dark Side sorcerers who each carry the title of "Shadowed One." The Council is composed of powerful, fanatical Dark Side users who value control and organization above personal ambition. They see themselves as architects of a new order, where the chaos of individual Dark Side pursuits is replaced by a single, united force under their direction. The Council is rarely seen, known only to a handful of operatives and upper-level leaders. Direct contact with the Council is limited to those who have shown the highest level of loyalty, obedience, and strength. Beneath them are Hands, who lead various groups of soldiers and operatives on covert missions to destabilize governments with goal of their ultimate failure and replacement by a Syndicate leader.
- Membership:
- Current membership is around one thousand individuals, with the largest group concentrated on Oricon and various other groups working in small numbers across the galaxy. The process of joining is not as simple as approaching them to become a member. The group is so secretive the only people allowed to join are Force sensitive children that are kidnapped from their families and then indoctrinated in the training facility on Oricon to the point their loyalty is only to the Syndicate. In present day, even the Ebon Council is formed of individuals indoctrinated in this manner. They are fanatical to the core.
- Soldiers of the Syndicate are all Force Users. They are trained in the arts of sorcery and carry dark side infused blades that taint anyone they strike with a darkness that wears on the soul, slowly weakening the individual over time. These people are skilled combatants. An army of dark warriors.
- Climate: Indoctrinated cult. These people are fanatical loyalists to the cause.
- Reputation: The Obsidian Hand is a sinister organization whose methods exploit some of the galaxy's most vulnerable—Force-sensitive children. They are seen as twisted zealots who manipulate, indoctrinate, and rob individuals of their identities for the sake of power. While some parents speak in hushed tones of children who "disappeared" after encounters with darkly dressed strangers, most view these stories as mere ghost tales.
- Curios: A tattoo behind the left ear that's pure black and in the shape of the organizations Symbol. Black, dark side infused swords.
- Rules: The Syndicate is one. They believe that they must all work in unison and to do so, the newest members are heavily indoctrinated until their entire personality revolves around doing the work of the Ebon Council. Doing anything outside of that work is forbidden to the point that a single violation is often met with a death sentence.
- Goals: The Obsidian Syndicate's ultimate goal is to amass a Force-sensitive army loyal only to their Order, one capable of toppling governments, seizing resources, and enforcing their power across the galaxy. This army is slowly amassed over generations, with each new recruit adding to their ranks in silence and secrecy. Their agents work covertly, planting seeds of influence and destabilizing governments to prepare for the day when the full force of the Syndicate can be unleashed, and they can conquer the galaxy.
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HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Obsidian Syndicate was born from a secret faction within the One Sith who sought to create an indomitable army of Dark Side wielders. Unlike the Sith, who sought individual power and dominance, the Obsidian Hand believe in cultivating an organized force of Dark Side warriors that would operate as a single, unbreakable entity. While they have a council that leads them, the council does so from the standpoint of benefitting the entirety of the order, not just themselves. In this way, all members of the order are equal, even if they aren't all part of the leadership structure.
While the One Sith was a prominent power within the galaxy, they had internal struggles, and several of its members of like-minded thinking were distrusting of the future of the group. That being the case, they went to Oricon, home of the ancient Dread Masters, and forged a facility of their own in secret. The founders of the group told no one of their endeavors, keeping all of their actions secret from the One Sith and the galaxy as a whole. For a fledgling group this was an essential practice lest they be destroyed before they had the chance to even begin.
Because their numbers were small, and in order to avoid too much attention, they decided the best practice for growth was to hunt down Force sensitive children and snatch them from their families. To do this, they forged a way to create synth crystals from magma that allowed them to pinpoint the locations of the Force sensitive. These were called Obsidian Shards. It was an extremely intensive task, and dangerous because the process of doing it involved so much power that sometimes the people forming the shards died from the exertion. As a result, the Syndicate is open to searching for other methods of identification, such as the Empeth crystals on Lazerian IV.
The presence of these Crystals has led to their first open foray into the galaxy, attacking the royal family that protected the Empeth Crystals. Doing so has allowed them to take over the Kingdom of Dewit largely in secret, granting them access to the crystals, though some have slipped away with enough knowledge that it could bring trouble to the Syndicate in the future.