Anthysius Soraysom-Calimondra
Heritor and Lord
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Anthysius Soraysom-Calimondra
was born to the Soraysom-Drel branch, a minor branch with relatively humble holdings. Nonetheless, his father, Monothus Orion, was a great duelist and warrior, even winning a Charge Matrica in his wife's name. The neglect of this branch of the family by the others, as well as the outsider identity of this family to the Sith elite thence and since has played a part in Anthysius' alienation from the Sith Empire as a whole.
Adera Vellas
, born Cora Aletra Soraysom-Calimondra, is the elder sister to Anthysius. Born without force sensitivity, Cora instead spent much time following her father around the Empire in his duties as governor and a private magnate. Witnessing the oppression used by the Empire and the Soraysom enterprises firsthand soured Cora to the Sith and created in her the seed of doubt and shame that would drive her to siding with the New Imperial Order later in life, defecting with a space station owned by her family.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
House Soraysom was an ambitious family of Sith lords and administrators, deeply woven into the civilian bureaucracy along the Braxant Run. Throughout the reign of the Sith Empire the upstart family began to form deep ties with the ruling elite of the Empire, including marriages to politically influential families. In an attempt to present themselves the way they wished to be viewed, the branches of its elderly patriarch took on the trappings of old-style Core World nobility, even as far as hyphenated compound last names to better present an image of widespread dynastic influence.
In truth, the Soraysom family built their power and fortune off a series of scattered trade outposts, space stations and minor holdings across the breadth of the old Sith Empire, buying up cheap space and land on minor worlds or minor systems and turning them into, if not productive, then profitable enterprises. Nonetheless, the clan was never as powerful or rich as they wished to be remembered as, and so in general only the most powerful or prestigious branches gained the favour and protection of its patriarch and his personal army. One these minor branches would be the Soraysom-Drel, a minor branch whose only son managed to snag a theoretically prestigious but politically irrelevant name, marrying into the Calimondra line.
When the Sith Empire fell, many of the Soraysoms' holdings were destroyed, appropriated by rival families, or were seized by the New Imperial Order. Little remains of its existence except for a small collection of mercenaries and even fewer Sith retainers that once were the private army of the Patriarch of Soraysom.
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Anthysius Soraysom-Calimondra
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Adera Vellas
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- Organization Name: House Soraysom
- Classification: Clan
- Affiliation: Sith Empire/Defunct
- Organization Symbol: [[Sigil]]
- Description: House Soraysom was an ambitious family of Sith lords and administrators led, by a seemingly immortal Patriarch, that ran a profitable trading network through ownership or governorship of minor, unexciting worlds and systems. Through this network, the many branches of the family made their fortune and came to own their own private army through which they 'protected trade' and 'maintained peace' among the minor hyperlanes of the Empire. With the fall of the Sith Empire the house has since been extinguished.
- Headquarters: The Patriarch's affairs were run from an oversized station orbiting Yavin, chosen for its location at the intersection of trade routes. Many of its branches owned large estates on Bastion and Korriban from which they ran their own affairs.
- Domain: House Soraysom used to own a plethora of space stations, trade outposts and various holdings on minor worlds that served as the 'secondary spines' of the Sith Empire's economy. Most of these locations have since been destroyed, abandoned or seized by the modern Empire and converted to state-run trading stations with little trace of its past owners
- Notable Assets: None extant
- Hierarchy: House Soraysom was divided into multiple branches representing the offspring of the children of its official founder, the centuries-old Patriarch. Each branch conducted its affairs relatively independently, and within each branch seniority in lineage and age took precedence.
- Membership: Although, like most noble families, the Soraysoms will claim that their members are either born or married into it, the truth is that its mercantile nature meant that those scions who could afford to would happily adopt successful adult Sith into their branch of the family to expand their prestige and power.
- Climate: Although the Soraysoms usually stuck together against outsiders, a strong element of intrigue and competition existed due to the Patriach's personal army being preferentially doled out to those descendants that held his favour or were the most prosperous.
- Reputation: To the Sith nobles that claimed ancient bloodlines, the Soraysoms were upstarts. To the Sith that most believed the Sith drew their worth from the inherent will to power, the Soraysoms were seen as foolish pretenders to an unworthy concept. To the mercantile class of the Sith Empire, the Soraysoms were a cunning and overbearing bunch. In general, it was no surprise the family was extinguished in the fall of the Sith Empire.
- Curios: The family has had multiple attempts at creating common identifying items, but the only one that has endured are that known as the Patriarch's Eyes; a catch-all term for the rare, unusual, and exotic seals and artifacts given by the Patriarch to those that he wished known to be favoured.
- Rules: Loyalty to the clan and especially to the Patriarch was paramount. Though a branch may fail or become destitute, betrayal will unerringly be met with annihilation.
- Goals: While the individual goal of most Soraysom scions involved money and/or power, the Patriarch's goals were much more nebulous, though none he knew for sure. Dominance over the Sith Empire's economy, respect, and 'name-recognition' appeared to be his long-term goals. A hidden truth was the Patriarch's goal of preferentially using the extended clan's pooled wealth, power and reach to groom something approaching a Sith'ari pretender amongst one of his descendants, and to either possess that chosen scion or bequeath his unnatural hoarded energies should they prove the superior.
Anthysius Soraysom-Calimondra
was born to the Soraysom-Drel branch, a minor branch with relatively humble holdings. Nonetheless, his father, Monothus Orion, was a great duelist and warrior, even winning a Charge Matrica in his wife's name. The neglect of this branch of the family by the others, as well as the outsider identity of this family to the Sith elite thence and since has played a part in Anthysius' alienation from the Sith Empire as a whole.
Adera Vellas
, born Cora Aletra Soraysom-Calimondra, is the elder sister to Anthysius. Born without force sensitivity, Cora instead spent much time following her father around the Empire in his duties as governor and a private magnate. Witnessing the oppression used by the Empire and the Soraysom enterprises firsthand soured Cora to the Sith and created in her the seed of doubt and shame that would drive her to siding with the New Imperial Order later in life, defecting with a space station owned by her family.HISTORICAL INFORMATION
House Soraysom was an ambitious family of Sith lords and administrators, deeply woven into the civilian bureaucracy along the Braxant Run. Throughout the reign of the Sith Empire the upstart family began to form deep ties with the ruling elite of the Empire, including marriages to politically influential families. In an attempt to present themselves the way they wished to be viewed, the branches of its elderly patriarch took on the trappings of old-style Core World nobility, even as far as hyphenated compound last names to better present an image of widespread dynastic influence.
In truth, the Soraysom family built their power and fortune off a series of scattered trade outposts, space stations and minor holdings across the breadth of the old Sith Empire, buying up cheap space and land on minor worlds or minor systems and turning them into, if not productive, then profitable enterprises. Nonetheless, the clan was never as powerful or rich as they wished to be remembered as, and so in general only the most powerful or prestigious branches gained the favour and protection of its patriarch and his personal army. One these minor branches would be the Soraysom-Drel, a minor branch whose only son managed to snag a theoretically prestigious but politically irrelevant name, marrying into the Calimondra line.
When the Sith Empire fell, many of the Soraysoms' holdings were destroyed, appropriated by rival families, or were seized by the New Imperial Order. Little remains of its existence except for a small collection of mercenaries and even fewer Sith retainers that once were the private army of the Patriarch of Soraysom.