Approved Location Sith Citadel | Exegol

[Darth Solipsis]

“At last the GREAT ERROR has been corrected. The time of victory is at hand, the time of the Sith."​

• Intent: To update the Sith Citadel.
• Image Credit:
  • Headers by Ingrid L'lerim-Vandiir
  • DIV coding by Darth Mori
  • Throne of the Sith submission picture: Destiny Hive Throne by Mark Van Haitsma on Artstation, recolored and altered by myself on Photopea
  • Exegol by Ian Ellsworth on Artstation edited by myself using photomosh and photopea
• Canon: x
• Permissions: N/A
• Links:
  • Reclamation
  • Heart of Darkness | BotM Capital Crowning of Exegol
  • Broadcast from Exegol | Sith Civil War Ends
  • Broadcast from Exegol | The End is Near
  • The Prophecy
  • A Symbol
  • Throne of the Sith
  • Exegol

• Structure Name: The Sith Citadel
• Classification:
  • Sith Temple
  • Fortress
• Location: Exegol
• Affiliation:
  • Brotherhood of the Maw
  • New Sith Order
  • Church of the Dark Side
• Accessibility:
  • Accessing the Sith Citadel is a simple matter if one can make it to the surface of Exegol. The Red Honeycomb Zone and the Galactic Barrier, a chaotic web of anomalies that prevented travel, surrounded the Exegol System. The region was chaotic and deadly to traverse, only with a Sith Wayfinder could one locate a safe passage to Exegol through the Red Honeycomb Zone.
  • The Brotherhood of the Maw’s Armada orbit Exegol when not on deployments across the galaxy, ever since the Great Exodus from Rhand, the Mawite Hordes and military forces of the Final Dawn patrol the throneworld of the Dark Voice regularly for intruders.
  • To enter the Sith Citadel, one must simply step foot on the surface and walk under the inverted, floating citadel to the moving platform. Once there the individual is lowered into the depths or raised into it’s heights.
• Description:
  • The Sith Citadel is an ancient fortress located on the hidden world of the Sith, Exegol. It is the seat of power of the Sith throughout the galaxy, the throneworld of the Brotherhood of the Maw, the headquarters of the New Sith Order, and the religious center of operations for the Church of the Dark Side. The Citadel is both under and above ground, with the latter being a large upside-down pyramid made of black stone. The structure floated above Exegol's surface, with a platform being used to lower individuals into the underground portion of the Citadel which contained an immensive hall filled with ancient Sith statues which included likenesses of Locphet, Mindran, Sissiri, Felkor, Nihilus, Naga Sadow, and many others. At the end of this great hall laid a laboratory constructed by Darth Sanguis and later used extensively by Darth Sidious and his Sith Eternal. It is here that genetic experimentation, cloning, Sith Alchemy, and dark science was performed, numerous strand-casts and abominations were birthed in the vats contained in this sinister laboratory. A massive amphitheater served as the Sith Throne Room which held the ancient ruins of the Throne of the Sith before it was restored.

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• Amphitheater | Throne Room
  • Throne of the Sith
• Great Hall
  • Great Hall Expansion
    • Second Great Hyperspace War Mural
      • Destruction of Csilla
      • Battle of Ilum
      • Great Battle of Korriban
      • Rise of Halketh , the Carlaci Rebellion and the Assassination of Irveric Tavlar
      • Battle of Goshen, Lao-Mon
      • Battle of Rhand, Tegan Starfall sacrifice and Gehinnom’s Fall, Devouring of Life by Darth Mori
      • Destruction of the Jakku Jedi Enclave
      • Great Battle of Coruscant, Sacking of the New Jedi Temple
    • Statues added by the Church of the Dark Side:
      • Darth Bane
      • Darth Sidious
      • Darth Moridin
      • Darth Isolda
      • Ashin Cardé Varanin
      • Daxton Bane
      • Daella Apparine
      • Soeht
      • Darth Voyance
      • Darth Carnifex
      • Kascalion Giedfield
      • Darth Vinaze
• Great Sith Forge
• Embrace of Pain Chamber
  • Built to resemble the chamber from the One Sith Temple on Coruscant, installed at the behest of Darth Solipsis .
• Chamber of Sacrifice
  • A sacrificial chamber where Jedi were slain upon the sacred altar. It was long abandoned until the New Sith Order’s restoration of the complex. A new altar brought in from one of the many worlds in the Unknown Regions where an Altar to the Dark Side was discovered and brought to Exegol for renewed use.
    • Basin of Balaya
      • An ode to one of the greatest alchemists of the modern era, Balaya Praelior Zambrano , pieces of the alchemical basin were collected by Sith cultists of Prakith during the Fall of the One Sith. The basin was reforged using Sith alchemy and Sarassian Iron, with the ascendancy of the New Sith Order it was brought to Exegol where it lays now.
    • The Eternal Pyre
      • Near the Altar of the Dark Side, a great pyre burns from the pit crafted to hold materials from the original Eternal Pyre on Korriban. Some of the spoils of victory from the Battle of Korriban.
• Hall of the Terracotta
  • Built to house survivors of the shattered Old Sith Order after the Sith Schism, misfortunate individuals are subjected to the Sith stone ritual by members of the New Sith Order. The victims survive in perpetual agony forever sealed within a stone prison and put on display like ‘trophies’.
    • The Black Obelisk
      • At the tail end of the Hall of the Terracotta lies a tall, dark obelisk crafted from obsidian carried from the ruins of Fortress Vader. It is a monument celebrating the Great Sith Gathering and the start of the Sith Purge by the New Sith Order and the Warlords of the Sith whom later joined in with the once fledgling order.
• Citadel Laboratory
• Numerous Qabbrats
• Proving Grounds
  • An open area extended from the Great Hall that was ruined in the Final Battle of Exegol. The area was cleared out and strengthened by supports lining it’s perimeter. An ode to the Lord of Strength, Delsin Shaw , a stone statue was erected to watch over those who fought to prove themselves worthy of attaining a place within the New Sith Order.
• Deep Chasm Atrium | Kyber Crystal Chamber
  • Great Crystal of Aantonaii
    • Retrieved from the Sith Shrine in the Depths underneath the New Jedi Temple during the Great Battle of Coruscant by Darth Mensis and brought to Exegol.
• Underground Shipyards Entrance

• Maximum
  • The Sith Citadel hosts the New Sith Order, the Throne of the Sith, and the Church of the Dark Side’s highest adherents. Sith cultists roam the halls of the vast citadel along with various experiments, sentries, and not to forget the Sith themselves. This place is the beating heart of darkness, the bastion of the Sith, to enter here is to invite disaster.

The Sith Citadel on Exegol was one of the earliest bastions of the Sith, as mentioned by the Jedi writer Kli the Elder in the Rammahgon, Ixigul (or Exegol as it would later be known) once had a fertile environment, until the ancient Sith colonized it and laid waste to the planet just as they did with Korriban, Ziost, and Asog. The Sith Citadel was built for meetings and rituals to be conducted within, faithful Sith loyalists excavated the world's large and deep planetary fissures in hopes of reaching a transportive vergence believed to lie beneath the planet surface.

Legend has it that, two Sith Lords, Darth Noctyss and Darth Sanguis, reached Exegol in their quest for immortality, which the former hoped to learn from the latter. Unknown to Noctyss, Sanguis had achieved immortality by transforming himself into a horrendous creature. Tricking Noctyss by not revealing himself as Darth Sanguis, Sanguis managed to be killed by Noctyss in a ritual to acquire immortality, leading Noctyss to conclude too late that Sanguis had tricked her into becoming a creature like him and freeing him from his miserable existence. Such was the price of immortality, such was the price of the Dark Side, a lesson to be learned.

Due to the remote location and secrecy of Exegol, the Sith Eternal cult chose the Citadel as its base of operations. By the time of the Galactic Empire, Darth Sidious had intended for Exegol to become his permanent seat of power. Seeking to unlock the secrets of immortality, he began to experiment with cloning technology in a bid to extend his lifespan. Sidious modernized the ancient shipyards and began construction of a massive fleet of planet-killing Xyston Class Star Destroyers.

When Darth Vader and Darth Sidious had a falling out, the Dark Lord encountered the Eye of Webbish Bog on Mustafar, who gifted him with a Sith wayfinder that led to Exegol. It was here he sought answers from his master, accompanied by the Sith assassin Ochi of Bestoon. Vader fought through Sidious' defenses and spotted the severed hand of his son, Luke Skywalker, in the cloning center. Eventually, Vader and Ochi found themselves faced with a mountain sized kyber crystal being tormented by their master's followers so they can corrupt it to the dark side and used to power his fleet's cannons. The power of the crystal was too much for Ochi, whose eyes were burnt by its power, but Vader pressed on, intent to finally have revenge on Sidious. Nevertheless, the Sith Master taunted Vader, telling him of his power and how he could only share it if he once again accepted his position as apprentice. Although Vader received a vision of his son telling him he was destined to kill Sidious, Vader agreed to rejoin his master.

After Darth Sidious' first death during the Battle of Endor, the Sith cultists of the Sith Eternal continued to construct the Final Order in a bid to reconquer the galaxy. Kylo Ren would come to confront a reborn Sidious here, forcibly locked away in a decaying clone body. The Resistance later mustered it’s forces and fought a desperate battle against the Sith Eternal and the First Order in a final battle that ultimately, with the help of the citizens' fleet, was able to destroy the Sith Star Destroyers and end the first incarnation of the Sith Eternal.

The Sith Citadel was subsequently abandoned, the Throne of the Sith destroyed, along with most of the amphitheater. It was found again centuries later after the Gulag Plague had wiped out a significant portion of the galaxy and plunged civilization into a new dark age. As nations recouped, new powers forming in the galaxy, the Citadel remained largely empty aside from the occasional visitor whom would discover it’s presence. With the ascendancy of the Brotherhood of the Maw and the illusive New Sith Order, Darth Solipsis uncovered the location of Exegol after retrieving a Sith Wayfinder from the vaults on Thule after the Brotherhood dealt the Sith Empire a decisive defeat there over the Great Temple of Hurom.

After the Feast of Folly at Mustafar, the sacking of both Felucia and Thule, purging Sith from the Empire and the resurgent Eternal across known space. The Schism had ended, the New Sith Order stood victorious and so consolidated their power by journeying from their redoubt on Epoch to Exegol where they would establish their new ceremonial seat of power. It was here amidst the chasms of the Great Citadel where the Eldritch Prophet Darth Vinaze and Voice of the Maw turned Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Solipsis would walk the halls in rediscovery. The Church of the Dark Side was brought to the Holy World and set to work to restore the Citadel to it’s former glory and in the midst of the great renovation the Throne of the Sith was restored.

With the complete restoration of the Sith Citadel and notable expansions underway, the Brotherhood of the Maw crowned the hidden world of Exegol as their new throneworld and the Sith Citadel as the home of their Dark Voice. It was here that amidst the gathered faithful from the Church of the Dark Side spread across the galaxy, and the assembled New Sith Order that Darth Vinaze proclaimed Darth Solipsis as the second coming of the Sith’ari. After declaring himself Dark Lord then destroying the Sith and rebuilding them, assembling a New Sith Order to replace the old shattered powers, putting an end to the Sith Civil War, the prophecy had been fulfilled here in the Great Citadel where they would begin anew.

 

[Darth Solipsis]

Srina Talon at your leisure

 

[Onansi of Thyrsus]

Approved.