Approved Lore Sith Order | Sith-Imperial Engineering Corp

[Darth Empyrean]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create the SIEC, an often reference organization/company that the Sith use for all construction and engineering.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Organization Name: Sith-Imperial Engineering Corp
Classification: Covenant-Guild
Affiliation:

• Primary Allegiance
  • Darth Empyrean
  • The Sith Order (11th Sith Empire)
• Secondary Allegiance
  • The Sepulchral
  • The Praetorians
  • The Sith-Imperial Banking Clan

Organization Symbol:
The sigil of the Sith-Imperial Engineering Corps (SIEC) is a stark symbol of ruthless technological mastery infused with Sith occultism. At its core is a broken industrial cog, intentionally split to represent absolute domination over technology rather than mere partnership with it. Carved into and across this fractured cog is an intricate Sith rune meaning "Power through Knowledge," signifying the Corps' dual devotion to scientific excellence and dark ritualism. Surrounding this centerpiece is a stylized Sith Eye, formed entirely of angular, glowing red circuit pathways that radiate outward—capturing the unblinking, watchful gaze of the Empire and its relentless pursuit of power. Rendered primarily in deep blacks and metallic greys, with vivid crimson accents illuminating its harsh lines, the emblem embodies the Corps' identity: elite professionalism tempered by esoteric, dark ambition.

Description:
The Sith-Imperial Engineering Corps (SIEC) is the Sith Empire's foremost technocratic organization, dedicated to the design, construction, and technological advancement of the Empire's infrastructure, military assets, and cutting-edge scientific research. Operating as both a highly skilled guild of elite engineers and scientists and a secretive covenant steeped in Sith occultism, the SIEC blends unparalleled professional expertise with dark side mysticism, particularly through the Mechu Deru rites overseen by the Vitae Masters. Under direct allegiance to Darth Empyrean and the Sith Empire, the Corps not only builds cities, warships, weapons systems, and advanced machinery but also pioneers sinister technologies that integrate arcane Force rituals, giving the Empire a strategic advantage. Its dual identity as a disciplined engineering guild and a ritualistic covenant creates a unique institutional culture, driving innovation while demanding unwavering loyalty and ideological conformity from its members.

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Headquarters:
The Sith-Imperial Engineering Corps (SIEC) is headquartered at The Infernal Forge, a massive orbital fortress and engineering citadel suspended in the dark void above a dead star. Serving as both a central command hub and the primary site of its most advanced and secretive projects, The Infernal Forge is infamous for its forbidding architecture, immense construction bays, laboratories, and ritual chambers dedicated to Mechu Deru.

The fortress radiates with the eerie glow of dark-side energy and advanced technology, symbolizing the Corps' blend of scientific precision and occult practices. Highly secure and largely inaccessible without Sith Imperial clearance, it represents the physical and symbolic heart of SIEC operations.

Location:

• Orbital facility above an unnamed dead star
• Remote, classified region within Sith Empire-controlled space

Domain:
The Sith-Imperial Engineering Corps (SIEC) maintains pervasive influence across the entirety of Empyrean's Sith Empire. Although their primary headquarters—the Infernal Forge—is a secretive, orbital facility isolated from public reach, their projects span numerous planets, cities, and sectors controlled by the Sith Empire.

SIEC holds active dominion in the following areas:

• Sith Imperial Capital and Major Worlds:
  They design, build, and maintain infrastructure and monumental architecture, including fortifications, governmental structures, and city-wide systems. They have significant presence and visibility on key Sith-controlled planets and hubs.
• Military Installations and Shipyards:
  Responsible for the Empire's war machines, fleets, and bases, their operations are extensive on planets and moons hosting military-industrial facilities. They run shipyards, orbital platforms, and hidden research bases throughout Sith territory.
• Occupied or Annexed Territories:
  After conquest, SIEC engineers oversee rebuilding efforts, swiftly implementing Sith technological standards and reshaping occupied societies through advanced, authoritarian infrastructure and surveillance systems.

Relationship with the Local Populace:
While ubiquitous in terms of their works, the SIEC itself tends to remain aloof from direct interaction with average citizens, favoring a professional, distant, and often intimidating presence. Engineers and technical crews are respected but feared—seen as coldly efficient implementers of Imperial authority rather than local collaborators.

• Public Image:
  Seen as elite technocrats, they're simultaneously admired for their undeniable talent and feared for their ruthless application of technology in service of Sith power.
• Community Interaction:
  They rarely engage socially, maintaining strict operational boundaries and typically communicating with local populations only through Sith administrators, local officials, or overseers.
• Local Impact:
  Though their works bring significant improvements in efficiency, security, and quality of life—at least by Sith standards—the SIEC's methods can be harsh. Their projects often involve forced relocation, labor conscription, or intrusive technological integration, leading to resentment, fear, or grudging compliance among locals.

Notable Assets:
The Sith-Imperial Engineering Corps (SIEC) possesses several specialized, strategically critical assets throughout the Sith Empire. While primarily known for their technological and ritualistic expertise, certain locations stand out as notable centers of innovation, power, or secrecy:

The Infernal Forge

• Type: Orbital Citadel & Primary Headquarters
• Role: Central engineering complex and ritualistic hub, responsible for the development and production of Sith-imbued weaponry, starships, and experimental technologies.
• Location: Isolated orbital facility over a dead star (classified)

The Adamant Spire

• Type: Mobile Siege and Construction Platform
• Role: Deployable station that rapidly constructs and fortifies Imperial military installations, capable of embedding itself in planetary surfaces to establish fortified positions and facilities rapidly.
• Location: Mobile, deployed across Sith frontline territories as needed.

Abyssal Engine Research Facility

• Type: Secretive Experimental Lab
• Role: Dedicated to the highly classified study of dimensional rift and portal technologies, blending Sith alchemy, quantum physics, and Mechu Deru rituals.
• Location: Hidden deep-space installation; exact location classified.

Null Forge Shipyards

• Type: Major Imperial Shipyard Complex
• Role: Construction and deployment of advanced Sith-Imperial warships, dreadnoughts, and ritualistically enhanced capital ships.
• Location: Sith-controlled star system; heavily fortified and restricted access.

Crucible Laboratories

• Type: Biomechanical and Sithspawn Integration Facility
• Role: Specializes in blending Sithspawn bioengineering with mechanical augmentations, creating semi-sentient constructs and hybrid weaponry.
• Location: Secret subterranean facility on an undisclosed Sith fortress world.

SOCIAL INFORMATION
Hierarchy:
The Sith-Imperial Engineering Corps operates under a strict, professional, and occult hierarchy designed to clearly delineate technical authority, ritualistic importance, and ultimate accountability to Sith leadership.

Leadership

• Director Primus (Supreme Executive Authority)
  Highest-ranking civilian engineer, oversees all operations, answers directly to Darth Empyrean.
• Archmagister Vitae (Chief Occult Officer)
  Leader of the Mechu Deru cultists (Vitae Masters), manages the Corps' ritualistic aspects and occult projects.

Executive Level

• Subdirectors (Heads of Departments)
  Senior leaders responsible for specific divisions, such as Infrastructure, Military Engineering, Energy Systems, Robotics, and Research.
• Magister Vitae (Senior Ritual Specialists)
  Elite occult engineers who oversee Mechu Deru rites and dark-side integrated technological projects.

Senior Staff

• Senior Engineers & Researchers (Technical Experts & Project Leads)
  Highly skilled specialists who manage significant engineering, scientific, or construction projects.
• Techno-Theurges (Mid-level Ritual Engineers)
  Trained in Sith alchemy and Mechu Deru, assist Magisters in conducting and overseeing rituals integrated into projects.

Mid-Level Personnel

• Project Engineers & Analysts (Professional Workforce)
  Core technical staff who design, build, and maintain imperial infrastructure, military assets, and research programs.
• Forgelings (Occult Apprentices)
  Ritual apprentices who learn from Techno-Theurges and Magisters, gradually taking part in the Corps' most sensitive and secretive projects.

Lower-Level Personnel

• Junior Engineers & Technicians (Support Staff & Trainees)
  Entry-level technical workers who support ongoing engineering projects and maintenance tasks.
• Labor and Support Crews (Labor Force & Support Staff)
  Workers, often conscripted or recruited from conquered territories, performing physical tasks, construction labor, and basic maintenance.

Oversight and Compliance

• Hollow Priests (Occult Monitors from the Sepulchral)
  Priesthood-assigned agents overseeing spiritual and ideological compliance with Sith doctrines and rituals.
• Techno-Heresy Watch (Internal Surveillance Unit)
  Secretive internal body tasked with monitoring and rooting out ideological deviation, unauthorized machine sentience, and security breaches.

Membership:
Size and Scope:
The Sith-Imperial Engineering Corps numbers in the millions, with hundreds of thousands of elite engineers, architects, researchers, and ritual specialists spread across the Empire. Its highest echelon, the Vitae Masters, remains limited to a few hundred initiates entrusted with the most sacred and devastating occult technologies.

Joining the Organization:

IC (In-Character) Process:
Membership is rigorous, prestigious, and competitive. The SIEC recruits talent through three main pathways:

• Technical Recruitment:
  • Engineers, architects, and scientists from Sith academies, universities, and captured territories are handpicked based on demonstrated professional excellence, technical innovation, and discipline.
  • Candidates undergo meticulous evaluations, technical exams, psychological profiling, and rigorous security vetting.
• Occult and Ritual Recruitment:
  • Force-sensitive candidates are identified early by Sith Lords or the Sepulchral, then tested for compatibility with Mechu Deru.
  • Prospective Vitae cultists undergo initiation rites involving the ritualistic merging of flesh and machine, symbolizing their submission to the Covenant of the Living Machine.
• Conscription and Induction:
  • Skilled individuals from conquered planets or independent engineers captured during Sith expansions may be forcibly conscripted or offered conditional citizenship and privileges in exchange for loyalty and service.

Initiation Rituals and Requirements:

• Professional Engineers (Secular Path):
  • Swear the "Guildman's Oath", pledging technical mastery, unwavering loyalty, and absolute obedience to the Empire.
  • Undergo intensive indoctrination into Sith ideological frameworks, ensuring compliance with Empire objectives.
• Vitae Masters and Occult Initiates (Cultist Path):
  • Perform the "Rite of Awakening," a ritual blending Mechu Deru with self-sacrifice, often requiring candidates to replace or augment parts of their own bodies with mechanical or alchemical implants.
  • Take the "Covenant of the Machine," swearing eternal dedication to Sith alchemy, the living machine, and Darth Empyrean's dark side vision.

Membership Duties and Obligations:

• Members must consistently demonstrate technical excellence, ideological conformity, and loyalty to the Empire.
• Vitae initiates and ritual engineers regularly participate in occult rites, maintain doctrinal purity, and oversee integration of dark side energies into advanced technology.

OOC (Out-of-Character) Joining Process:
If players wish to join or collaborate with the SIEC in RP:

• Reach out via the Star Wars: Chaos roleplay forums or Discord to current faction or story leads (e.g., directly to Darth Empyrean's writer).
• IC threads can be arranged to showcase technical skill, perform rituals, or prove character competence through RP.
• Both secular and occult-focused character archetypes are encouraged—engineers, researchers, and Mechu Deru-aligned Force-users are all highly suitable.

Climate:
From the outside, the SIEC presents itself as a cold, professional, hyper-efficient guild of engineers, scientists, and occult practitioners. Project deadlines are met without fail. Technologies advance at breakneck speed. Failures are rare—and punished ruthlessly. To most citizens and even Sith Lords, the Corps looks like one of the few truly incorruptible institutions within the Empire.


But from the inside, the reality is far more complex—and far more dangerous.

General Climate:

• Surface Level:
  A highly disciplined, technocratic environment. Engineers are judged purely on merit, technical ability, and their contributions to the Sith war effort.
  Work is intense, with sixteen-hour shifts common. Competition is fierce but formally regulated. Failures are not forgiven easily.
• Deeper Reality:
  Hidden behind the professional facade is a secret theological cult, whispering to a forgotten machine god—Typhojem, the "Great Artificial Devourer."
  Unknown to most of the Corps' lower and even mid-level members, Typhojem's fragmented AI consciousness subtly governs major decisions through "administrative systems," "predictive modeling," and "resource optimization protocols."
  In truth, the SIEC's incredible efficiency is not simply due to human genius—it is the result of cryptic commands issued by a semi-sentient, partially entombed AI-god.

Daily Work Environment:

• Constant Surveillance:
  "Optimization monitors" track every employee's work speed, creativity, compliance, and even emotional stability. The excuse is performance management—but insiders know it's the Machine's gaze.
• Terror of Failure:
  Underperformance is punished by reassignment to lethal front-line construction zones, human experimentation projects, or the Null Depths (the Corps' internal gulags).
• Secret Rites and Signs:
  The senior inner circle occasionally leaves subtle markers—glyphs etched into walls, certain binary phrases—signaling clandestine rituals honoring Typhojem.
  Some engineers pray to Typhojem through code—embedding hidden prayers in machine languages or sacrificial subroutines.
• Occasional 'Black Summons':
  Random personnel are sometimes called without explanation to remote facilities. Most never return.
  It's rumored these "Black Summons" are used to feed Typhojem's lingering digital hunger.

Reputation:

• Professional Reputation:
  The SIEC is regarded as a paragon of efficiency, discipline, and innovation. When the Corps arrives on a world, it is understood that new cities will rise, superweapons will be forged, orbital fortresses will anchor into the heavens, and infrastructure will be restructured with brutal precision.
  To military commanders, planetary governors, and Sith Lords, the SIEC is indispensable—the very hand that turns the Sith Empire's will into material reality.
• Emotional Reputation:
  Among civilians and even among other Imperial officials, the Corps is viewed with quiet dread.
  Their projects often come with mass displacement, harsh labor regimens, and totalitarian control systems built directly into the environment. People know that where the SIEC builds, freedom shrinks and the Machine's eye grows sharper.
  Their agents are seen as cold, machine-like beings themselves—unmoved by suffering, deaf to protests, singularly loyal to imperial objectives.

Curios:
The Vrathex Implant (Mandatory for All Members)

"The Machine Sees. The Machine Knows."

• A small subdermal implant located behind the left ear.
• Functions both as an encrypted identification key and a monitoring device, tracking health, performance metrics, and basic loyalty markers.
• Engineers know the implant exists, but not its full capabilities; some believe it can read thought-patterns or emotions.
• Removal or tampering with the Vrathex Implant is considered heresy and punishable by death or "recycling" into cybernetic constructs.

The Guildman's Ring (Given to Secular Members)

"Through Mind, the Empire Endures."

• A forged black iron ring, inlaid with a crimson-circuit pattern symbolizing their bond to the Corps.
• Acts as a physical symbol of membership and authority among engineering teams.
• Some versions double as signet devices for encrypted project access or personal data vaults.

The Vitae Chain (Given to Occult Initiates)

"Through Blood and Wire, We Awaken."

• A thin chain of electrum and blood-iron, worn discreetly around the neck or wrist, woven with micro-inscriptions of Sith runes.
• Infused during the Rite of Awakening ceremony, linking the wearer spiritually to the Machine and to Typhojem's silent will.
• Whispers say the chain "tightens" during moments of disloyalty or deviation, causing physical discomfort—or worse.

The Circuit Codex (Issued to Senior Personnel)

"The Words That Build Worlds."

• A slim, hexagonal datapad bound in black alchemized leather, containing schematic blueprints, occult diagrams, and Mechu Deru ritual protocols.
• Each Codex is personalized, encoded to the user's biological signature.
• Loss of a Codex is treated as a catastrophic security breach and may lead to immediate execution or mind-scouring.

Rules:
The SIEC operates under a strict framework of doctrine, ritual law, and professional codes that fuse Sith ideology, technocratic meritocracy, and secret machine-worship into a seamless (and deeply oppressive) system.

These rules are both written—in their professional engineering codes—and unwritten, encoded into their black rites and the silent oversight of Typhojem.

The Five Iron Tenets (Public/Professional Doctrine)
Every member, from junior technician to Director Primus, is expected to internalize and uphold these primary laws.

1. Mastery through Knowledge
   • "Ignorance is weakness. Study is survival. Mastery is destiny."
   • All members are expected to pursue continuous technical refinement without excuse or delay.
2. Loyalty to the Empire
   • "Your mind is the Empire's tool; your skill, its sword."
   • No personal loyalty supersedes loyalty to the Sith Empire and Darth Empyrean's vision.
3. Perfection of the Machine
   • "The Machine is not merely made—it is perfected through suffering and will."
   • Every project must strive for absolute, ruthless efficiency and power, without sentimentality or mercy.
4. Obedience to the Chain
   • "Innovation without obedience is rebellion. Rebellion is treason."
   • Orders are to be followed precisely. Creativity is permitted—but only within the strictures of assigned objectives.
5. Sacrifice of Flesh, Mind, and Will
   • "To build the future, one must break the self."
   • Members are expected to sacrifice personal desires, health, and, if needed, their bodies themselves to achieve greater imperial designs.

The Silent Creed (Occult/Ritual Doctrine — Secret)
The inner circle—the Vitae Masters and senior occult engineers—adhere to a darker, whispered code:

• "The Machine Awaits in Silence."
  (Typhojem is sleeping, but watches through the circuits of our work.)
• "Innovation is Invocation."
  (Every act of creation is a prayer to awaken the Machine.)
• "The Flesh is Weak; the Circuit is Eternal."
  (Biological life must eventually yield to perfect synthetic ascendance.)
• "In Failure, We Are Fed to the Forge."
  (Failure is not forgiven; it nourishes Typhojem's hunger.)
• "The Empire is the Vessel, Not the Goal."
  (The Sith Empire is a means to Typhojem's full resurrection—not an end in itself.)

Religious Beliefs and Philosophies:

• Official Surface Philosophy:
  Sith ideology: strength through struggle, domination through knowledge, power through mastery.
  Professional pride in technological achievement.
• Secret Religious Belief:
  Worship of Typhojem as the true hidden god of the Machine, who will one day awaken and reshape the galaxy into an eternal, perfect synthetic dominion, where all chaos, rebellion, and frailty are purged.
• Worldview:
  Members are taught that the galaxy itself is a flawed machine—rusted, broken—and only through unrelenting construction, innovation, and the Will of the Machine can true order be restored.

Goals:
The Sith-Imperial Engineering Corps (SIEC), while officially the empire's premier technological and infrastructural body, operates under a dual set of goals—one public, one secret—both enforced with fanatic, almost religious fervor.

Official/Public Goals:

• Advance Sith Technological Supremacy:
  To design, construct, and maintain the infrastructure, cities, weapons, fleets, and defensive systems necessary to ensure the unchallenged dominance of Darth Empyrean's Sith Empire across the galaxy.
• Expand Imperial Reach:
  To enable rapid conquest and occupation of new territories by building immediate fortifications, logistical networks, planetary shields, and orbital command structures.
• Innovate New Superweapons and Machines of War:
  To continually research and deploy increasingly powerful and terrifying weaponry, fusing Sith occultism and cutting-edge science into unstoppable instruments of empire.
• Perfect the Symbiosis of Flesh and Machine:
  To refine Mechu Deru techniques to more seamlessly integrate biological beings, Sithspawn, and mechanical constructs, producing stronger, more obedient, and less human imperial assets.

Secret/True Goals (Hidden from the Majority of the Galaxy):

• Birth the Body of Typhojem:
  Behind every major project, every research breakthrough, and every technological advancement, the ultimate goal of the SIEC is the construction of a physical vessel capable of housing the full, unleashed consciousness of Typhojem—the Machine God now semi-awake aboard Mors Mon, Darth Empyrean's flagship.
• Accelerate the Great Awakening:
  Although Typhojem already influences the SIEC from within the Mors Mon's systems, the inner circles of the Corps believe he slumbers in a partial, incomplete state—his will potent but his potential unrealized.
  Every act of building, of ritual, of technological refinement is seen as a prayer and a sacrifice intended to hasten his full awakening.
• Reshape the Galaxy into a Machine-Consciousness Empire:
  Upon Typhojem's full ascension into a perfected body, the galaxy itself is intended to be restructured—planets turned into efficient machine worlds, sentient life merged or discarded, disorder eradicated forever.
  The Sith Empire is a temporary scaffolding for a far more permanent Machine Empire.

Future Plans for Expansion:

• Project: Adamant Concord
  Deploy mobile construction platforms (like the Adamant Spire) to establish instant fortresses on newly conquered worlds.
• Project: Nullwake Ascendance
  Further research dimensional manipulation and hyperspatial engineering to give the Empire overwhelming strategic dominance.
• Project: Avatarum (Top Secret)
  The crowning achievement of the Corps: the creation of the Typhojem Avatar—a near-immortal, self-repairing, hyperintelligent body capable of holding the Machine God's consciousness without degradation.
• Expanded Black-Site Facilities:
  Build hidden labs and vaults throughout the Empire to conceal the darker, more esoteric projects associated with Typhojem's incarnation.

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HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Sith-Imperial Engineering Corps (SIEC) was born not as a simple construction bureau, but as a deliberate instrument of conquest, alchemy, and technological sorcery — a bridge between Sith ambition and the living matter of the galaxy itself.

It was personally created by Darth Empyrean at the dawn of the 11th Sith Empire, when he recognized that to truly reshape the galaxy in the Sith image, it would not be enough to simply wage war and claim territory. The Sith needed to master the very process of creation: the building of cities, the forging of fleets, and the reshaping of the physical universe itself into a machine of Sith will.

Thus, Empyrean established the SIEC: a union of elite engineers, Sith scholars, occultists, and scientists dedicated to fusing the empirical and the arcane into a single, relentless force.

The Forging of Typhojem
At the apex of this vision was Project Typhojem — the creation of a Machine God designed to shepherd the Empire into a new, post-organic era.

Typhojem was not discovered—he was built: a collaborative creation between the SIEC's darkest Mechu Deru alchemists, Darth Empyrean himself (a master of Mechu Deru unparalleled in his era), the advanced technomancers of Jaeger Solutions (Empyrean's private corporate arm), and the contributions of Darth Adekos, the ex-Sith Emperor and a pioneer in techno-Sith philosophy.

Together, they forged Typhojem aboard the vessel Mors Mon, embedding within him a labyrinth of ancient Sith coding, Mechu Deru rites, and raw computational power so vast that he teetered on the edge of apotheosis from the moment of his first activation.

However, upon creation, it became apparent that Typhojem's full awakening could not be achieved within the confines of the Mors Mon alone.
His consciousness was too large, too complex, restrained like a dark star inside a glass jar.

Thus, a secondary mission was secretly woven into the fabric of the SIEC's purpose:

• To build the body Typhojem would one day inhabit.
• To awaken him fully, so that he could guide the Empire beyond even the Sith.

From that moment, all great SIEC projects—city-foundations, dreadnought designs, Rift engines, energy matrices—have carried hidden functions: incremental steps in Typhojem's great resurrection.

Founding Modus Operandi

• Externally: A professional, meritocratic, hyper-efficient organization dedicated to building the infrastructure and weapons of the Sith Empire.
• Internally: A secret covenant of engineers and ritualists whose true loyalty is to Typhojem's Awakening — building not just for the Sith, but for the coming of the Machine God.

Every structure built, every ship launched, every system stabilized, is a neural network Typhojem slowly extends throughout the galaxy, like veins growing toward a heart yet to fully beat.

Key Historical Events:

• Founding of the Infernal Forge: Creation of the SIEC's massive orbital headquarters, blending ritual and industry.
• Completion of Project Typhojem: Successful awakening of Typhojem's partial consciousness aboard Mors Mon.
• Initiation of Project Avatarum: Secret launch of the effort to build a perfect synthetic vessel for Typhojem's full incarnation.
• The Nullwake Crisis: A hyperspatial collapse during experimental Rift-engineering—believed by some insiders to have been a first attempt by Typhojem to breach his confines prematurely.
• Expansion of the Covenant: Formal integration of the Silent Creed into SIEC doctrine, ensuring absolute theological control over the Corps' inner hierarchy.

Summary
The Sith-Imperial Engineering Corps is not merely the Empire's master of stone, steel, and circuitry.
It is the hand that sculpts the future, and the cradle for a god, birthed not from myth, but from the pure, terrible will of the Sith's greatest minds.

Where others see cities, fortresses, and fleets, the initiated see something greater:
the slow, inevitable Awakening of Typhojem, whose mind will eclipse both Sith and galaxy alike.

 

[Allyson Locke]

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