A R C H I T E C T
KORVAN
A 'Church of the Dark Side' story
A 'Church of the Dark Side' story
Cademimu V, Outer Rim systems;
Located near the borders of The Diarchy;
One year after Operation Cinder (903 ABY);
St. Korvan's Cathedral, The Church of the Dark Side.
"...The sacrifice of the Imperial Despot, Ignacious Korvan, had become the stuff of legend. His final act of defiance against the Galactic Alliance soon-to-be immortalized in the annals of history. Declared the "Restorer of the Empire" by the Emperor himself, Korvan's posthumous ascension to martyrdom sent shockwaves throughout galaxy, rallying imperial loyalists from every hidden corner of Imperial Space to his cause..."
-- Excerpts describing the deceased Imperial Despot, Ignacious Korvan, on the eve of his funeral held on Cademimu V.
Cademimu laid in a state of ruination. Catastrophe had come for them in the form of Operation Cinder. What had once been a buzzing ecumenopolis and industrial centre for the Dark Empire had been turned into a crypt of despair. Piracy and criminality had brought upon the wrath of loyalists to destroy them all on the advent of the second campaign in the Core Worlds. The attackers had left behind a shell of it's former self when the work had been done. It had been a dark day. Stormtrooper helmets impaled by spear and bone were held up as monoliths upon the walkways or city streets as a reminder to the survivors of Cinder that betrayal would earn you fire. However, despite the destruction they had wrought upon the planet wide city, the Imperials had left alone one monument erected within the city limits that they had dared not to touch-- a place of worship, and reverence to the power of the Dark Side of the Force.
It is a holy place belonging to the Church of the Dark Side and the burial site for a martyr to the Imperial March upon the Stars.
Ignacious Korvan, the former Imperial Despot of the Dark Empire, sacrificed himself in a last, valiant stand against the Jedi rebellion during the first campaign to eradicate the Galactic Alliance during the Battle of Tython. This last heroic effort had earned the Dark-Imperials victory over their enemies and subsequently marked one of their earliest wins against the Jedi that would later lead to their capitulation birthing the rise and consecration of the Galactic Empire. Even today Korvan is still fresh in the minds and hearts of the Imperial forces he had gathered under his leadership. In death he remained an important figure to the cause, and the Church continued to stoke the flames of his story to inspire the Imperial advance upon the Galaxy.
A summit held on Cademimu (years before Cinder) would see Korvan posthumous ascension to martyrdom, and a declaration from the Emperor himself, who christened this fallen war hero as the 'Restorer of the Empire'. Even in death the despot continues to serve the cause. While the Galactic Emperor has retired into the darkness, and away from the public eye, his devout followers continue his work. A cathedral called St. Korvan, which had been built as a place of worship for the Church of the Dark Side, and as the burial grounds for the martyr, was now set to become the venue of a meeting between the cultists and sycophants who were steeped in mysticism, prophecy and the arcane.
The Kuati-Architect (known by church followers as Vireth) has called for a summit to be held at the St. Korvan's cathedral in the wake of the Galactic Alliance's fall. It was not a co-incidence that this place had been chosen. Indeed, the Galactic Empire has been restored, and yet, the rest of the galaxy beckons for it. Quaking in fear, and timidity, in the face of invasion, annexation and, perhaps, reclamation of territory, for it was the Prophet Sidious who had proclaimed a thousand-years of peace upon the birth of a civilization set to rule the entire galaxy. In spite of the Jedi, and all those who would stand with them-- after centuries of famine, disease and stagnation-- the Dark-Imperials have carried forth the paradigms of the one true Galactic Emperor to see the birth of a true civilization to own the stars themselves thereby fulfilling the prophecy of Darth Sidious.
Followers of the Church, as well as other villains and tyrants from across the Imperial space, were invited to attend the summit, for Vireth was set to host holy mass in worship to the Sith'ari inside St. Korvan. As dissidents from across Cademimu were gathered in prostration, alongside those who had desecrated their homes during the day of Cinder, the Architect would see those who had served Solipsis so diligently in the dark, and who revered him as a deity manifested into flesh, to begin exercising their influence on behalf of their Dark Master so that decadence, decay or subversion of the Church's truth would not set itself within the ranks of those who had defeated the Jedi rebellion, destroyed the Galactic Alliance, and now looked upon the rest of the galaxy with a desire to conquer them all as well...
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