Unreviewed Hunt for the Faithless

[Darth Carnifex]

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• Event Name: Hunt for the Faithless
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  • Sith Covenant Conquest of Coruscant
  • Kainate Incursion to Byss
• Location: Across Former Galactic Empire and Neutral Space
• Galactic Standard Year: 904-905 ABY
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  • The Kainate - The Kainate served as the principal architects and executors of the Hunt for the Faithless, orchestrating a galaxy-wide extermination campaign against the surviving Dark Side institutions of Darth Solipsis' fallen Galactic Empire. Led by Darth Carnifex and Darth Prazutis , the Kainate deployed Shadow Armada fleets, Sith strike forces, intelligence operatives, and Blackblade Guard kill-teams to systematically hunt down remaining Dark Jedi Elite warbands, Church sanctuaries, and Imperial loyalists across former Imperial territory.
  • Dark Side Elite - The Dark Side Elite were the personal Dark Side enforcers of Darth Solipsis' Galactic Empire, evolving from the traditions of the Imperial Knights into a ruthless order of Dark Jedi devoted entirely to the Emperor and the Dark Side. They functioned as military commanders, inquisitors, executioners, and ideological overseers throughout the Empire, wielding immense authority during Solipsis' reign. Following the Fall of Coruscant, surviving members of the Elite became primary targets of the Hunt for the Faithless, with many retreating into hidden fortresses, warlord enclaves, and scattered survivor bands before being systematically destroyed by Kainate forces. Their final major stronghold collapsed during the Kainate assault on Byss and the destruction of their flagship-temple, the Sepulchre.
  • Church of the Dark Side - The Church of the Dark Side served as the state religion and ideological backbone of Solipsis' Galactic Empire, institutionalizing Sith doctrine across Imperial society through worship, propaganda, ritual, and fanatic devotion to the Dark Side. The Church cultivated widespread loyalty to Solipsis and spread Sith teachings among civilians, military personnel, and political elites alike, becoming deeply embedded within Imperial governance and culture. During the Hunt for the Faithless, the Church's sanctuaries, priesthoods, hidden congregations, and ritual centers were relentlessly targeted by the Kainate, who viewed them as dangerous ideological rivals. Though the organization was shattered by the campaign, scattered cults and isolated faithful continued to survive in secrecy long after the destruction of the Empire.
• Brief Overview: The Hunt for the Faithless was a galaxy-wide extermination campaign conducted by Darth Carnifex and Darth Prazutis to systematically destroy the surviving remnants of the Dark Side Elite and Church of the Dark Side following the collapse of Darth Solipsis' Galactic Empire.
  • Sith Covenant Conquest of Coruscant (904 ABY): The Sith Covenant captured Coruscant and overthrew Darth Solipsis' Galactic Empire. During the chaos, Arris Windrun turned the Empire's own internal purge protocols against itself, triggering catastrophic infighting, automated security crackdowns, and mass political executions that caused the Imperial government to rapidly collapse from within.
  • Collapse of Imperial Authority (904 ABY): As communications and central command structures disintegrated, surviving elements of the Dark Side Elite and Church of the Dark Side fled across former Imperial territory. Entire sectors descended into confusion as Imperial officials, military commanders, cult hierarchs, and Dark Side adepts attempted to establish isolated holdouts or escape the spreading collapse.
  • Beginning of the Hunt for the Faithless (904 ABY): Having aided the Sith Covenant for his own strategic gain, Darth Carnifex initiated a systematic extermination campaign against the surviving Dark Side institutions of Solipsis' Empire. Alongside Darth Prazutis, he declared the remnants of the Dark Side Elite and Church of the Dark Side to be the "Faithless," illegitimate rivals to the Kainate's self-proclaimed "Faithful."
  • Expansion of Kainate Purge Operations (904 ABY): The Kainate launched coordinated military and intelligence campaigns throughout former Imperial space, targeting surviving Dark Jedi, Sith cultists, Church congregations, and loyalist enclaves. Hidden sanctuaries, fortress-monasteries, and clandestine gathering sites were systematically infiltrated, besieged, or destroyed by Shadow Armada forces and Blackblade Guard kill-teams.
  • Isolation of Byss (Late 904 ABY): The ancient citadel world of Byss, one of the last major bastions loyal to Solipsis, was secretly blockaded by Kainate forces to prevent news of the Fall of Coruscant from reaching the system and allowing organized resistance to fully mobilize.
  • Kainate Incursion to Byss (Late 904 ABY): Once the blockade had sufficiently isolated the system, the Kainate launched a massive assault against Byss and its surrounding defenses. The operation targeted Solipsis' immense citadel complex as well as concentrations of Dark Side Elite and Church personnel entrenched across the world.
  • Destruction of the Citadel and the Sepulchre (Late 904 ABY): During the climax of the battle, Kainate forces destroyed Solipsis' citadel and the Sepulchre, the colossal flagship-temple of the Dark Side Elite that had remained moored above the planet. The crippled vessel fell from orbit and crashed into the cityscape below, devastating vast portions of Byss' capital city and annihilating much of the remaining centralized leadership of the Faithless.
  • Final Extermination Campaigns (905 ABY): In the aftermath of Byss, surviving members of the Dark Side Elite and Church of the Dark Side fragmented into scattered warbands, hidden cults, and isolated fugitives across the galaxy. The Kainate intensified its pursuit through assassinations, raids, interrogations, and systematic sweeps of former Imperial territory.
  • End of the Hunt for the Faithless (905 ABY): By the conclusion of the campaign, the Dark Side Elite and Church of the Dark Side had effectively ceased to exist as organized powers. Most surviving members had been killed, captured, or driven into permanent hiding, leaving only isolated remnants scattered throughout the shadows of the galaxy.

The Hunt for the Faithless was a systematic extermination campaign carried out by Darth Carnifex and Darth Prazutis against the surviving remnants of the Galactic Empire's Dark Side institutions following the catastrophic collapse of Darth Solipsis' regime. Beginning in the immediate aftermath of the Sith Covenant's conquest of Coruscant, the campaign targeted members of the Dark Side Elite, the Church of the Dark Side, and other surviving loyalists of Solipsis' empire who had escaped the destruction of the Imperial government. Carnifex and Prazutis collectively referred to these groups as the "Faithless," contrasting them against the Kainate's self-styled "Faithful," whom they viewed as the only legitimate inheritors of Sith destiny and authority.

The collapse of the Galactic Empire occurred with extraordinary speed after Arris Windrun turned the Empire's own internal purge protocols against itself during the Fall of Coruscant. What followed was a massive internal implosion as paranoia, automated security directives, and political purges tore apart the Imperial state from within. Government ministries vanished overnight, military commands fractured, and entire sectors were consumed by infighting, executions, and systemic collapse. While Darth Carnifex had aided the Sith Covenant during the campaign for his own strategic benefit, he quickly moved to exploit the aftermath by initiating a galaxy-wide hunt for surviving Dark Side rivals before they could reorganize into competing powers.

Much like the concurrent Great Purge against the New Jedi Order, the Hunt for the Faithless relied upon relentless intelligence gathering, military suppression, infiltration, and targeted extermination operations conducted across former Imperial territory. Kainate fleets and strike forces pursued surviving Dark Jedi, Sith cultists, priests, inquisitors, military officers, and loyalist remnants fleeing the ruins of the Empire. Entire hidden sanctuaries, fortress-monasteries, and clandestine congregations of the Church of the Dark Side were rooted out and destroyed as the Kainate sought to monopolize Dark Side authority within the post-Imperial galaxy.

One of the most significant operations of the campaign was the Kainate incursion to Byss. Following the Fall of Coruscant, the ancient citadel world of Byss was quietly isolated under blockade by Kainate forces to prevent news of the Empire's collapse from reaching the planet and allowing organized resistance to form. Once the system had been sufficiently contained, the Kainate launched a devastating assault upon the world and its surrounding defenses.

The operation shattered one of the major strongholds loyal to Solipsis and destroyed vast concentrations of Dark Side Elite and Church of the Dark Side personnel entrenched within the Byssian citadel networks. At the center of the assault stood Solipsis' immense citadel complex and the Sepulchre, the colossal flagship-temple of the Dark Side Elite that remained moored above the world. During the final stages of the battle, Kainate forces destroyed both Solipsis' Citadel and the Sepulchre itself, triggering a catastrophic collapse as the crippled battlecruiser fell from orbit and crashed into the cityscape below. The impact devastated vast sections of Byss' capital districts and marked the effective annihilation of the Dark Side Elite's remaining centralized command structure.

In the aftermath of the destruction of Byss, the Hunt for the Faithless entered its final and most merciless phase. With the Dark Jedi Elite's command structure annihilated and the Church of the Dark Side stripped of its greatest sanctuaries, surviving loyalists scattered across former Imperial territory in desperate attempts to evade the Kainate. Small warbands of Dark Jedi fled into the fringes of known space, Church hierarchs disappeared into hidden shrines and forgotten Sith worlds, and isolated Imperial loyalists attempted to preserve fragments of Solipsis' ideology in exile. Darth Carnifex and Darth Prazutis refused to allow even these remnants to survive, and the Kainate doggedly pursued surviving members of the Faithless with relentless precision across countless systems.

What followed resembled less a conventional military campaign and more a prolonged extermination effort against a dying civilization. Shadow Armada patrols swept remote hyperspace routes while Blackblade Guard kill-teams and Sith agents infiltrated hidden enclaves, underground cults, and refugee convoys suspected of harboring former Dark Side Elite or Church personnel. Entire fortress-monasteries were erased in orbital bombardments, clandestine congregations vanished without trace, and surviving Dark Jedi were either slain, broken into servitude, or forced into permanent hiding.

By the conclusion of the Hunt for the Faithless in 905 ABY, the surviving Dark Side institutions of Solipsis' Galactic Empire had effectively ceased to exist as organized powers. While scattered fugitives and isolated cults endured in hiding, the Dark Side Elite and Church of the Dark Side were broken beyond recovery. The campaign cemented the Kainate as the dominant Sith-aligned force within many former Imperial territories and eliminated some of the last significant rivals to Carnifex and Prazutis' growing influence across the galaxy.