Rule of Two
The Sins of Alicia Drey
Ring of the Rapture;
The far reaches of Wild Space.
"Presenting the Staff Director of the Empire of the Lost's New Imperial Security Bureau; an agent of Darth Solipsis' Dark Empire; and the figure who brought us to war on Tion, Darth Ayra... I say, if blood must flow today, it should be our enemy, and I am more than willing to be the executioner."
--
Darth Malum of House Marr
in The Rubicon.Hyperspace can be mesmerising.
Twenty-thousand years after the disappearance of the FOLLOWERS OF RAPTURE the Galaxy has changed much in that time, and yet relics of the past continue to persist through into the present day. At the turn of the ninth-century (following the conclusion of the BATTLE OF YAVIN) a conspiracy was born within the realms of the TION CLUSTER. Out of it were a series of terrible, unfortunate events steeped in blood, betrayal and deceit. The planet TION was left in ruin; an EMPIRE OF THE LOST teetered on the edge of oblivion; and the woman responsible for it all was found dead in her apartment strangled to death. In her wake the IMPERIAL REMNANT considered the ramifications of all that had happened to it. Were they the victim of a JEDI PLOT to destroy them, as the Trigonus Report would lead them to believe?
Or was there something more sinister at work?
The howl of an engine purred as it took them to the edges of the known Universe.
The subsequent purge of the FIFTH WING is a tale known not by many. This seditious organisation, who have embedded themselves deep among the Imperial elite on LIANNA, was designed to be compartmentalized, clandestine, and covert in nature. None of its members knew each other, and so when the LORD OF THE TSIS'KAAR sent his assassins to deal with those who were aligned to
Alicia Drey
, their screams went unanswered. Clever scheming, combined with well placed agents in the NEW IMPERIAL SECURITY BUREAU, would lead those which looked inward to the conclusion that the subsequent disappearance of personnel across the Imperial military complex-- as the scandal surrounding the death of THE DIRECTOR shook the Empire at its core-- to the TINGEL ARM COALITION: a rebellion which sought to liberate the planet of LOTHAL from the clutches of
Velran Kilran
following a slave revolt on ZYGERRIA, and therefore the culprits responsible for all the death which came about through the ill fated RIM WARS OF 902.But the SITH know the truth, and with their powers in the dark side, it has been obfuscated from being revealed.
However, DARTH VADER enjoyed staring at the kaleidoscopic and swirling patterns of light, and CRONAL found it soothing to gaze into what he thought of as the emptiness outside the Universe.
The DIRECT SURVEILLANCE OF DOMESTIC THREATS INITIATIVE has long since filed its late founder as TERMINATED since her body was discovered by the IMPERIAL IMMORTALS. Yet among the seditious Fifth Wing there has long been chatter along the IRCs belonging to the Lenoi networks that, perhaps, Director Drey is not as dead as they were led to believe. The organisation was purified from her influence, with only the likes of
Sieliel Dimegor
(and the other useful assets procured within the Empire) sparred the wrath of the malevolent TSIS'KAAR. Yet there were signs that something was afoot. Leaked intel pertaining to the ASHLAN VAULT on MALACHOR V to the newly risen DIARCHY served the cause well, for it was in their best interest to keep the newly coronated PHANTOM EMPRESS and the other Imperial elite distracted by a new adversary along the BRAXANT RUN, and yet despite the implications that it had come from the organisation itself nobody within the Fifth Wing could account for this act of espionage, and misdirection.
Are you enraptured with the truth?
On Stardate 300125 the user LAETOR accessed the DSDT Program and uploaded a star map that not been seen before. Users with access to the program (predominantly made up of members of the NEW IMPERIAL SECURITY BUREAU with clearance) often made uploads to the database where data was recorded on the local populaces of the TION CLUSTER and the other star sectors occupied by the Empire. What made this uncommon, and therefore an eerie coincidence was the fact that this particular user belonged to the late STAFF DIRECTOR. As the IRCs buzzed about this latest sign that
Alicia Drey
was not dead (for how else could she have uploaded to the program?) word travelled from the organisation to its main branch in the TSIS'KAAR until it arrived to the ear of the very man whom they all served.And We remembered Ayra. . .
Vincere.
