Mid-Rim | Senex Sector | Karfeddion
From the void erupted a light, a second, a third, a fourth. Many more followed as ships exited hyperspace in the light of the Karfeddion system and star. Their speartip-shaped hulls announcing the presence of what would eventually set course towards the Galactic Alliance and cause havoc, a foreshadowing of what was to come. But today, they were not here to send their legions to bloody conquest, but to a orderly transition of order.
The Senex-Juvex axis was a formidable bastion of economic wealth, strategic location and opportunistic nobility. And nowhere was that as strong as on Karfeddion, homeworld of the ancient House Vandron. Through several brief exchanges and previous subversion by the Mortis Chamber of his Knights Tenebrus, the head of House Vandron, Lord Lukas Vandron, was awaiting the arrival with pride and eagerness. Greed played a big role in his submission, for money and for glory. To be promised to rise to the rank of Moff for the Sector was enough to make him cave, favor with a Dark Lord though, offered an opening of the gates.
On the bridge of the Dark King, Darth Imperius throned and observed as his small fleet left hyperspace and arrived over the world. It was not an invasion force, but it carried the foundation of the Hand's presence in the Sith regions outside the Sith Worlds. Behind the Dark King were two of its sister ships, one of the freshly commissioned Ark Arxeum facilities, full on cargo to deliver the resources required to construct Darth Imperius headquarters on the world from where he intended to bring the war to the Alliance and several more Harrowers and Terminus Destroyers.
Greeted by the system's and sector's own defence forces, both a measure of security and to honour the arrival, the Sith Lord and his 'retinue' descended onto the surface. The welcome of Lord Vandron and his dignitaries was short, the exchange of pleasantries equally so, mostly because Darth Imperius cut it short and to the point. They had surveyed the planet already months prior and were now starting the project of constructing what would be the visible headquarters of the military arm of the Hand of the Heir, of the Heir's Fist.
But it was not mere presence on the planet that was now enforced under the close auspices of the Sith. The Dark Lord established a tier of tithes for the people and nobility, conscription was one part, while the nobles youths, higher or lesser, would be recruited into the newly created Sith Trooper Corps, the lowborn would serve in the Stormtrooper Legions. Payout was not possible and due to the previously high slavery presence, the requirement for employment was more than necessary. Droid workforces were brought in from Zakuul and Iokath to support the local industries and create a basis from which the economy would function while the sentients and organics would experience that service was the only way forward in the Sith society. Only by fulfilling their imperial duties, they would earn their future.
First Karfeddion, then the Senex-Juvex axis would soon develop into a bastion of the Sith Empire and its military might. With its resources focused, its population readied and its purpose clear, Darth Imperius had set up his banner of order, rationality, purpose and tradition.
