Her
AYRA
The Imperial Confederation;
The Direct Surveillance of Domestic Threats Initiative.
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Karl Von Strauss
There is a conspiracy hiding among the Imperial cells scattered throughout the galaxy.
They found their footing on the planet Lianna some years ago now, during the height of the Empire of the Lost, when Velran Kilran had crowned himself and therefore became remembered as the Lost Emperor in death. When the Imperial Sector Authority was later formed, and the so-called Lost-Imperial bloc looked to rebuild their Empire (after surviving the Sartinaynian Crisis at Bastion), the sins of the past joined them in the new. While the Fifth Wing died with Director Drey, with their ilk consigned to a series of missing person investigations that led no-where, alongside a string of murders during that time of transition, another behind-the-scenes of that certain seditionist cell continued the work in kind, and so when the Imperial Confederation was founded on New Alderaan, the conspiracy adapted to a new era within this newly formed autocratic superpower as it filled the power vacuum left behind in and around the star sectors of the Tion Hegemony.
The Imperial Corrections Directorate had been busy ever since the beginning of the second occupation. Under the legislative powers of the C.O.M.E.C.I this police apparatus (created to eliminate dissidents and end civil unrest caused by the economic collapse of the Empire of the Lost) had gone onto take a series of steps which had served ulterior motives. Firstly, through the quarantine of the Tion system, and the opening of several Imperial factory prisons on it's scarred surface, to supply a conscripted work force to serve the paradigms of the new Imperial state which ruled from the capital city of New Aldera. The work labour forces consigned to these dark corners of the Confederation would go onto create a new boom in revenue and profits for the N&Z Umbrella Corporation (silent partners of the ICD) as well as the rejuvenation of the Santhe Corporation and the formation of a peculiar non-profit organisation known only to a few as Vūm with the latter going onto influence politics and economics, not just in the Outer Rim systems, but also in the Mid Rim Territories where the High Republic can be found.
Secondly, the creation of a clandestine operation called Project Tion, which had gone onto recruit specific personnel and individuals located throughout the Imperial Confederation with objectives to revitalize the tenants and philosophy of Imperialism across the Outer Rim Territories precluding the elimination of the alleged existence of the Sith threat located in the Thandon Star Nebulae. While the Battle of Brosi had been a bust (an all-out attack upon the Eleventh Sith Empire by Imperial forces inspired by the ideas of the project), and despite the removal of Liraeth Deschart from the office of Imperial Empress, the operation was still set to continue operating under the watchful eye of the Imperial Exarch. Indeed, lying with the truth proved to be a formidable tool in the arsenal of the woman behind these interlinked, extraordinary set of events.
Thirdly, in a discreet manner, the closure of the Direct Surveillance of Domestic Threats. Built across the former territories of the Empire of the Lost (during Alicia Drey's stint as Director of the defunct New Imperial Security Bureau) were installations, outposts or archives pertaining to a mass surveillance state bought and paid for by Emperor Kilran during the height of his reign. Since the economic collapse of the Empire of the Lost (engineered alongside the Sartinaynian Crisis) Her had been in the process of a cover-up to blur and obfuscate the lines which would lead an inquisitive mind back to them. Assassinations, kidnappings, and disappearances of Imperial personnel (all linked to either former Lost and/or ISA) had become a common theme since the formation of the Imperial Confederation alongside the assertion of the ICD that the people responsible for these incidents are operatives sent by the Sith and who were previously linked to the Fifth Wing.
As far as the ICD (and their Warden Primus) were concerned about the cover-up of the Direct Surveillance of Domestic Threats had been expediated and initiated in a way that should leave the organisation unblemished in the eyes of their superiors from the C.O.M.E.C.I. There was nobody left alive who could add to the testimony delivered by Dimegor. No paper or digital records to explain the plot behind the Fifth Wing. A black hole, both metaphorically and physically, had been left in the wake of Drey's death. A strangulation unanswered. Murder and disappearance cases cold. Nobody left to come forward and point the finger.
Bane had longed to create dynasty of perfect beings. A lineage of Sith Lords built upon the tenants that only the strong should rule, and the powerful to lead. Everything cannot be perfected, however.
As Her stood on the precipice of fulfilling Ayra's plan to eliminate the Sith vassal state another had been working to unlock the elusive enigma surrounding the strange, bloody, catastrophic events which surrounded the Imperial Confederation and the predecessor state that it had go onto succeed. While the Rule of Two speculated that the Imperial Exarch possessed the potential to uncover their conspiracy they had come to the conclusion that Karl von Strauss did not have the necessary tools, information or understanding behind their work to piece together the things that would lead him to discover the truth. After all, they had either killed, or eliminated the means, for their conspiracy to be discovered.
They were mistaken.
Unbeknownst to them von Strauss discovered the master code to the Direct Surveillance of Domestic Threats. He has since been combing through the digital records that were consequentially saved from the cover-up initiated by Her and their co-conspirators. The analysis was complete. Data had been turned into information. Secrets laid at the hands of the Imperial Exarch. They would tell him all that he needed to know about the crimson eyed woman who had, quite recently, used the ICD in a vain attempt to bully him into continuing Project Tion, and who had go onto threaten dear Augustus, his beloved son...
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