The Architect
T H E_R E G E N T_A N D_T H E_M A R A U D E R
FINAL DAWN
O'REEN, UNKNOWN REGIONS
In this galaxy, things work in Black and White. You are either good or bad, a hero or a villain, normal or abnormal, a lightsider or a darksider, and so on. The vast majority of the galaxy has followed this mindset, holding firm to their beliefs and vilifying anyone who deviates from their ideology or system of beliefs. It is this black and white mentality that has caused the majority of the conflicts in the galaxy, most notably the millennia-old rivalry between the Jedi and Sith, both whom view the other was the bad guys in their story. This black and white mentality creates an endless cycle of conflict where no one can emerge victorious, where no side can truly claim to be superior to the other. Sularen had long despised the black and white mentality that had dominated the galaxy, as an amoral individual who did not belive in good and evil since his childhood, Sularen fought against those who believed in the established order, eventually aiming to reshape society into something "Pure" one that would not be described in black and white but in grey.
However his journey had taken a price on the once humble and innocent man. He rose to power in the Core Worlds under the Grayson Imperium only to be sacked by the same man who helped him rise to power in the first place, then he was betrayed by a Sith Lord who had funded and supported his revanchist movement against his foes in the Core, he joined the New Imperial Order only to once more get deceived and dishonorably discharged for pursuing a private war with the Zweihander Union, and was once more betrayed by the Galactic Alliance who branded him as a Tyrannical Imperialist through rhetoric and propaganda. All these factions, the Grayson Imperium, Zweihander Union, New Imperial Order and Galactic Alliance, they were dominated by those people who held such black and white mentality, who casted him out just because he did not fit their criteria of what was good and thus was automatically a bad person, and this very thing was about to repeat itself within the very group Sularen had sought refuge in : The Brotherhood of the Maw.
As Sularen built up his power within the Maw, recruiting new people into his Inner Circle and expanding the Final Dawn's Navy, he learned of a man who shared a similar experience to that of his own, the experience of being cast out of galactic society because of what you did, because you did not fit in with their criteria of what was acceptable. Sure he had terrorized people by taking the scalps from the bodies of his dead targets. But he was a mercenary, a gun-for-hire. Someone whose only job was to hunt down specific targets and either kill them or capture them. It didn't matter what happened to the targets, what matter was that the job was done. And yet people vilified him for simply doing his job as a Mercenary and he was cast out as a result. When Sularen heard that this man, going by the name of John Jewl had recently joined the Maw, he had quickly sought him out seeking to establish common ground between himself and John Jewl considering their shared experience of being shunned just because of their profession, and to perhaps recruit him and his gang into the Final Dawn, where they would have greater opportunities to exact revenge against those who deceived him while having access to modern equipment that would turn John's gang of bounty hunters, smugglers, pirates into a force to be reckoned with.
Thus, a message was sent to John requesting a meeting between him and Sularen to be held within the latter's palace on O'reen, within the Fortress World's Capital of Fort Maximus. They had alot to discuss and perhaps at the end of the day, both men would find themselves on friendly terms, considering their shared experience. Sularen's power was growing, along with his desire to rule the Core and get his revenge upon those who had wronged him, and having a group such as John's Gang on their side would only bring more fear upon those who had deceived not only the High Regent but the Exiled Marauder himself too. As such, from his personal office within the Grand O'reenian Place of Fort Maximus, the High Regent of the Final Dawn awaited the arrival of John Jewl ready to add a new recruit to his growing Inner Circle.
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John Jewl
John Jewl
