Unreviewed The Emperor’s Citadel | Byss

[Darth Solipsis]

THE EMPEROR’S CITADEL
BYSS​

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create a Dark Fortress.
• Image Credit: Emperor’s Citadel Article on Wookieepedia
• Canon: Emperor’s Citadel, Byss (Legends)
• Permissions: N/A
• Links:
  • How Liberty Dies (Invasion Thread)
  • Galactic Empire

SETTING INFORMATION

• Structure Name: The Emperor’s Citadel
• Classification: Imperial Fortress | Sith Citadel
• Location: Byss
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Galactic Empire
    • Darth Solipsis
    • DARK SIDE ELITE
      
      
• Accessibility: Heavily restricted. The Citadel is located at the heart of Byss, a fortress-world surrounded by defense platforms, interdiction fields, and mass shadow generators. Entry is restricted to the highest levels of the Imperial hierarchy. Civilians, politicians, and dignitaries are forbidden from entry into the structure. The only spaceport access to the Emperor’s Citadel is a subterranean Imperial Gateport with multi-phase clearance.
  
  
• Description: A towering black and red-tinted monolith that rises from the center of the Imperial control sector, the Emperor's Citadel is both Sith temple and throne-world fortress. Constructed on the bones of the ancient Imperial structure, the Citadel pulses with dark side power. It is simultaneously a symbol of Imperial tyranny and a hidden center for Sith alchemy, sorcery, and dark prophecy. Its design evokes despair: spiraling hallways, obsidian walls, alien archways, all meant to physically embody the founder of the New Sith Order.

POINTS OF INTEREST

• The Emperor’s Throne Room: The Emperor's Throne Room is a vast, vaulted cathedral, perched at the peak of the Citadel and modeled directly after the ancient plans used by Emperor Palpatine for his own sanctum during the Dark Empire era. The towering chamber is windowless, illuminated only by shafts of unnatural red and violet light that descend from crystalline domes carved from bled kyber. These ambient rays twist and dance across the durasteel and obsidian columns like liquid shadows.
  The architecture is deeply ritualistic and symbolic, arched walls and massive statues of long-forgotten Sith Lords loom over all who enter. At the far end of the hall leads to the foreboding Throne of the Sith, recovered shortly before the destruction of Exegol and restored utilizing Sarrassian Iron. Above the throne, a massive holographic projection of the galaxy pulses with crimson threads, showing shifting fronts of war, planetary unrest, or reported Force-sensitive anomalies across known space. Behind the throne, a towering mural, a vision of the galaxy in flames looms over all. This image, woven with alchemical pigments and dark side essence, shifts subtly depending on who gazes at it.
  • The Throne of the Sith: The Throne of the Sith, also known as the Second Dark Throne and originally as Kujet's Seat, was a throne created by the Zeffo Sage Kujet during his ruthless authoritarian rule on Dathomir. Its original purpose was to serve as the ceremonial seat of power for the Dark Side practitioner and was crafted from obsidian in a way to focus his Dark Side energies. Millenia passed, the throne remained in obscurity until the waning days of the resurgent One Sith's rule when it was rediscovered by a team of Sith archeologists and brought to Coruscant for the 'Immortal' Dark Lord of the One Sith. Before it could reach it's final destination Coruscant was sacked and the Dark Lord slain, the loyalists fled to the Deep Core with the throne and many other artifacts in order to await the return of the Dark Lord, until decades later the arrival of Darth Solipsis who claimed it as his own and brought it to the Holy City of Gehinnom and later to the hidden Sith redoubt of Exegol. The Dark Lord of the Sith toiled in ways mystic and alchemical, altering the ancient Zeffo seat to replace the ancient long destroyed Throne of the Sith and serve as the new seat of power for all Dark Lords that succeeded him. Darth Solipsis , @Darth Mori, and Darth Ptolemis have each held the throne, with ultimately it returning to the reborn Solipsis by the time of the Dark Empire.
    
    
• The Great Hall: The reception hall of the Emperor, filled with alien shaped edifices and deep hues inspiring dread. Many works have survived or have been recreated with replicas to resemble the destroyed Great Hall of the Sith Citadel on Exegol.
  • Replica of Exegol’s 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’s 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
    • Ambush at Cato Neimoidia
    • Fall of Empress Teta
    • The Battle of Tython (Annihilation)
  • Statues added by the Church of the Dark Side:
    • Darth Bane
    • Darth Sidious
    • Darth Moridin
    • Ashin Cardé Varanin
    • Daella Apparine
    • Soeht
    • Darth Voyance
    • @Kascalion Giedfield
    • Darth Caelitus ( Halketh )
    • Darth Vinaze
    • Darth Mori
    • Darth Ptolemis
    • Darth Bellum
      
      
• Great Sith Forge: A massive forge created for Sith alchemy, and aspiring Dark Side Adepts, to utilize in mastering the art of crafting dark armor and alchemized weaponry.
  
  
• Memorial Hall of the Terracotta
  • Based on the original ‘Hall of the Terracota’ created by the New Sith Order on Exegol to trap rival Sith. The Hall of the Terracotta was made to house survivors of the shattered old Sith Order after the Sith Schism. Misfortunate individuals were subjected to the Sith stone ritual by members of the New Sith Order, forced to remain victims in perpetual agony, forever sealed within a stone prison and put on display like 'trophies'. The new hall has replica statues of these fallen prisoners with ‘some’ suspected to be potential ‘new additions’.
    • 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.
        
        
• The Savage Garden: A bio-alchemical landscape suspended in the upper citadel, filled with twisted flora from Dromund Kaas, Lehon, and Lao-Mon. Used for meditation and dark rituals, its roots are steeped in foul alchemical ichor. The trees whisper in ancient Sith tongue, and their fruit is said to grant temporary precognition at a cost. Beware, it is said many a personnel have gone missing inside this chamber. Rumors spread of sentient and carnivorous plant life.
  
  
• Detention Block: A subterranean prison meant to hold captured Jedi and Force-sensitives subject to interrogation, torture and experimentation. The brutal internments of this black abyss leaves those confined to suffer a nightmarish eternity until their final abominable fate.
  • Torture Chamber
    • Interrogation Chairs
    • Containment Field
    • Embrace of Pain Chamber:
      
      • Built to resemble the chamber from the One Sith Temple on Coruscant, installed at the behest of Darth Solipsis .
  • Universal Energy Cages
  • Prison Cells
    
    
• The Jedi Tomb: Built to resemble the ancient tomb within the Fortress Inquisitorius, this facility held the corpses of numerous Jedi slain by the Galactic Empire and its DARK SIDE ELITE. The corpses are openly displayed within the dark hallway in the Citadel depths, kept petrified in blocks of crystallized amber.
  
  
• Imperial Dojo: Located near the midsection of the Citadel, this combat training facility is reserved for the Imperial Sovereign Protectors and the DARK SIDE ELITE. Here, elite warriors are drilled in the art of melee combat, lightsaber resistance techniques, and anti-Force user tactics. Sparring takes place beneath holographic projectors simulating prior battles, often replaying scenes of Jedi defeat as instructional film. The Dojo is off limits to all others without military clearance.
  
  
• The Laboratories: The Laboratories, are an area of the Citadel that contain cloning vats coupled with technology and the occult to bring forth unnatural embodiments of the dark side. Numerous strandcasts and sithspawn are created using the unholy machinery of the laboratories in conjunction with the Dark Side of the Force. Most creations were kept within the lab, housed in tubes of nutrient-rich fluid tended to by Sith cultists. Larger Sithspawn are kept in specialized pits below, under watch and tended to by beast masters.

SECURITY

• Security Rating: Maximum
  • Members of the DARK SIDE ELITE
  • Imperial Sovereign Protectors
  • Imperial Sentinels
  • Darktrooper Garrison
  • Anti-air batteries
  • TIE Fighter patrols
  • Internal biometric security systems
  • Surveillance droids
  • Sith Cultists
  • Dark Side Adepts
  • Frequency Jammer
  • Missile Deactivation Transmitter
  • Planetary Shield Generator
  • Sithspawn
    • Chrysalide Ts'Kiza, "Branchlurkers"

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

With the conquest of the Deep Core and the reconsecration of Coruscant as Imperial Center, the Emperor withdrew to Byss to construct a spiritual successor to the Sith Citadel on Exegol, beyond the grasp of conventional warfare. The Emperor’s Citadel would be erected atop the ancient ruins of Palpatine's original tower, using both the labor of droids and indentured slaves. It’s immediate grounds made a forbidden zone even to many Imperials, and a place spoken of in whispers as the true seat of power away from the galactic capital of Coruscant.

The Emperor’s Citadel is frequented by the Dark Side Elite who often reside within when not aboard the Sepulchre, commonly found in drydock when not on campaign or engaged in missions for the Emperor. It is here where the Dark Side Elite learn to twist life to their whim and delve into the darkest secrets of the Dark Side.