Eternal Father
- Intent: To flesh out a new Sith doctrine
- Image Credit:
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links:
- Religion Name: Eternal Rule // Qoritwaichwayat
- Religion Type: Dark Sith Kratocratic Cult
- Influence: Planetary
- Influence Area: Eternal Rule is centered on the mobile worldcraft Malsheem, the beating heart of the Shadow Fleet. The practice of Eternal Rule is spread across every vessel in the Shadow Fleet and to other locations across the galaxy in Carnifex's sphere of influence, such as Remnicore.
- Symbol: The symbol of Eternal Rule was a stylized depiction of the Mortis Monolith with the Tsisqoritwai (Sith Eternal) crest pinned at its heart. This symbol was omnipresent in all facets of Eternal Rule worship and was emblazoned on uniforms, banners, flags, and on the sides of vehicles and starships.
- Description: Eternal Rule was the Sith doctrine established by Carnifex following his abdication from the Imperial throne of the Tenth Sith Empire. Through this new belief, Carnifex intended to gradually establish an everlasting dominion over the galaxy with himself as an eternal ruler. Integral to Eternal Rule was the worship of himself as the Sith'ari, a prophesized individual in ancient Sith mythology who would arise to lead the Sith, destroy them, and raise them back from the dead stronger than ever before. The bedrock of this new faith was the creation of a new generation of Sith loyal only to Carnifex, which was accomplished through the New Sith Program. To lead the New Sith, Carnifex relied upon his many allies among the Sith that remained loyal to him and shared many of his beliefs.
This belief was not solely isolated among the Sith, as it had found deep roots in the non-Force sensitive military officers, bureaucrats, and cultists that had flocked to Carnifex's cult of personality when he ruled as Emperor and even earlier than that. This feverish devotion to Carnifex was so powerful, that the majority of Eternal Rule adherents would take their own lives if commanded to without hesitation. Carnifex made use of this suicidal slavishness to further his own agenda, having his followers spread out across the galaxy to infiltrate all levels of galactic society from the lowliest serf to corporate executives.
Eternal Rule espoused the forsaking of the self in furtherance of the one ruler, to give up everything in pursuit of the Sith'ari's goals and ambitions. An adherent of Eternal Rule was expected to give up everything they owned to do whatever it took to see Carnifex's dream of a Dark Side galaxy come to fruition. Those fully indoctrinated in Eternal Rule held no fear of death or of any potential repercussions or consequences, nothing else mattered except abject servitude to their singular lord and master. Familial bonds were as thin as paper in the face of this devoutness, and inductees were often tasked with taking the life of a close friend or relative to prove their worth.
Slavery was widely accepted as a necessary component of Eternal Rule, despite its outlaw by the Sith Empire. Skyreaper drones were utilized in the acquisition of new slaves, while refined and perfected methods of mental conditioning and physical alterations ensured that new slaves were sufficiently docile and obedient. These slaves were present in every level of Eternal Rule, serving as manual laborers, scientific experiments, and reagents for Sith Magic.
- Founder: Carnifex
- Membership: Admission into Eternal Rule was a privileged reserved for the followers of the Sith Lord Darth Carnifex, who was its founder and central figure. Both Sith and non-Sith were allowed to participate, with the non-Sith serving in subordinate roles to the Sith.
- Sacred: Eternal Rule held several things in high reverence:
- Carnifex was the object of Eternal Rule's worship, considered to be the embodiment of Sith'ari; the supreme/perfect being who would lead the Sith, destroy them and then raise them from the dead.
- Eternal Rule's holy text was the Qotsisajak, known in Basic as the Code of the Sith.
- The Qyâsikjinya, the Dark Side of the Force, was the preferred interpretation of the Qyâsik, the Force, by the adherent of Eternal Rule.
- The ritual of Shakkai was considered to be the highest honor that one could be bestowed with, and only those counted among Carnifex's most capable followers were blessed with the ritual. Those who underwent the Shakkai ritual were granted an indefinite lifespan and in exchange lost their sense of taste and smell, developed color blindness, experienced chronological physical pain, and a dramatic reduction in emotional capacities.
- Dogma: Built upon previous Sith doctrines, Eternal Rule borrowed many fundamental aspects of these ideologies:
- Blind obedience and absolute loyalty to the Sith'ari.
- One Leader, One Purpose.
- Dedication to unity rather than individualism.
- Heavy preference of krato-magocracy; a form of governance that advocated the rule of Force-sensitives, in this instance the Sith, over non-Force sensitive populations based solely on merits of strength, guile, and ability in the Dark Side of the Force.
- Democracy and civil liberties are to be reviled and rejected.
- The belief that the strong are inherently destined to rule over those weaker than them, and that the weak themselves are predisposition to be ruled over by the strong.
- Aversion to the teachings of the Jedi, with the goal to eventually eradicate the Jedi Order from the galaxy.
- Reputation: Though virtually unknown outside of Carnifex's circle of followers and allies, Eternal Rule would be considered heretical by more traditionalist Sith. A sharp departure from the Rule of Order previously established by Carnifex, Eternal Rule instead focused heavily on blind obedience and loyalty to a single individual, that being Carnifex himself, on the premise that he was the prophesized Sith'ari. This fact would undoubtedly cause many Sith to reject Carnifex and his beliefs, if not also actively seek his downfall as well.
-
Ahani Najwa-Zambrano
-
Darth Carnifex
-
Cle-Var-Ri
-
Darth Prazutis
-
Darth Pyrrhus
-
Darth Voracitos
-
Gunnr Zambrano
-
Pom Stych Tivé
-
Saki lin
- Saryn Naberrie
- Sera Naberrie
- Second Son
-
Seela Leini
-
Taeli Raaf
-
UX-0626
When
Darth Voyance
rose up in rebellion against her master's rule, it tore the Sith Order into multiple camps. The two largest were the ones who remained loyal to Darth Carnifex and those who joined Voyance in her heresy. The two sides fought intermittently during the Third Imperial Civil War, though their schism was shadowed by the much more consequential split of the Sith-Imperial military and the formation of the New Imperial Order.
Darth Voyance
rose up in rebellion against her master's rule, it tore the Sith Order into multiple camps. The two largest were the ones who remained loyal to Darth Carnifex and those who joined Voyance in her heresy. The two sides fought intermittently during the Third Imperial Civil War, though their schism was shadowed by the much more consequential split of the Sith-Imperial military and the formation of the New Imperial Order.
In the end, most of the Sith rebels were killed during the Battle of Bastion as part of a deceptive pogrom by their erstwhile Imperial allies. The heretics who survived fled into the shadows, including the arch-heretic herself.
Voyance's rebellion had not necessarily shaken Carnifex but instead forced him to reevaluate the current state of the Sith Order as it existed under his Rule of Order. Upon closer inspection, Carnifex grew dissatisfied with what he had discovered. Though he had spent much time and effort to steer the Sith onto the path of unity and allegiance for a common purpose, persuasive voices had shown just how fragile that carefully built order truly was.
Disgusted, Carnifex made preparations to abdicate his positions of power to his uncle and favored daughter, to focus on a new path. This path became known as Eternal Rule, Carnifex's corrective belief that the Sith could not be reformed from their pre-existing thought, but had to be made again entirely from scratch.
Sith who would contain none of the divergent paths rampant in the past generations of Sith.
Sith that would only know his enlightenment.
Retiring to Malsheem, Carnifex set about to create this new generation of Sith. He summoned forth his most talented and most loyal alchemists, magicians, and scientists. Through them, Carnifex engineered completely artificial Sith grown from genetic donations of various species. He instilled within them his new thought, that of Eternal Rule, and designed them to be infallibly loyal and obedient. He then spread Eternal Rule to the non-Force sensitives who openly worshiped him, further radicalizing his already devout followers.
Eternal Rule became the nucleus for his Shadow Fleet, a phantom empire not constrained by political and territorial boundaries. One through which he would enact his ambitions on a much grander scale, and, at last, reshape the galaxy in his image.
