NOVA
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent:
- To provide a modern day incarnation of my organisation which influences politics and business for the purpose of creating interesting, dynamic stories with other writers.
- Image Credit:
- The image was created by me.
- Canon:
- N/A.
- Permissions:
- I have permission to use HPI Consortium submissions up to Semi-Unique in production or higher.
- I also have permission to use N&Z Umbrella Corporation submissions up to Semi-Unique production or higher.
- Links:
- Vūm (2025 version)
- Organization Name:
- Vūm or Vūm Investments
- Classification:
- Investment Hedge Fund
- Business Negotiators
- Political Influencers
- Economists
- Affiliation:
- The High Republic
- Organization Symbol:
- This organisation has no symbol.
- Description:
- Vūm is a peculiar investment hedge fund who act in a variety of fields including business negotiation, political influence and as economists. They selectively and financially back exclusive clientele, individuals or other organisations for the purpose of influencing politics, commerce and policies within galactic powers located in the Outer Rim and Mid Rim systems.
- Headquarters:
- Enarc
- Domain:
- Vūm no longer claims territory or ownership formally.
Its presence in Enarc is enigmatic and elusive. Individuals or organisations who have come into contact with it are rare. Their name is barely mentioned and easily looked or passed over in documents concerning business operations, negotiations, transactions or the other dozen fields which Vūm act in.
Those who can tie their connections to Enarc would discover that it retains nor owns no property that could describe it's "domain" on the planet. Some people know that this organisation exists while most do not and those who know of it's existence cannot accurately place where they are or who they are connected to.
There are no headquarters, no ships or vehicles registered in their name. They have no contact information. Those who do know how to contact them are the exclusive clientele that they handpicked to do business with or to influence their politics. - Notable Assets:
- Vūm possess considerable influence over the Kenari Resource Compact. They are often involved in the negotiation of new members joining the consortium as well as their politics that are practised in the High Republic as they are the representatives of the Kenari system.
- Vūm retain access to the internal business, economic and political operations of the N&Z Umbrella Corporation. They have regularly acted on behalf of Umbrella in expanding their operations across star sectors such as the Tion Hegemony and the Ash Worlds which grants their peculiar leader (
Her
) with leverage or influence in the commercial and political decisions of this galactic-scaled conglomerate. - Vūm have discreet commercial and economic influence over the Five Veils Route via it's clandestine involvement in a scheme to revitalize the hyperlane as it runs through the High Republic.
- Vūm have taken control of several stolen designs, schematics and inventions of the defunct Santhe Corporation. These items were acquired during the collapse of the Imperial Confederation which they inadvertently caused by way of their involvement in a clandestine operation codenamed Project Tion.
- Vūm retains economic and political influence in the Mahporeem Imperial Remnant.
- Vūm has access to the K.R.C Surveillance Program.
- Hierarchy:
- Vūm is made up of one solitary individual known as
Her
. Other individuals connected to the organisation (through roleplay) may hold some seminal ties to Vūm and may even consider themselves as either contractors or contracted to or with the organisation itself but they retain no actual membership to it. All of it's dealings, assets and operations (commercial, economical, or political) are done for
Her
who uses Vūm as a face or as a name to obfuscate, distract and trick other entities into believing they are dealing with a vast influential entity.
- Membership:
- Vūm retains no membership other than one solitary individual called
Her
. However, to the outside world this organisation appears vast, numerous and spread across numerous star sectors, their star systems, planets and entities who are in operation in these places such as businesses, conglomerates, political parties (or groups) and other various individuals that hold some ties to the practises of the overall organisation itself. This lie has been carefully constructed over a period of years since the organisation was first founded in 902 ABY.
There are numerous political figures, economists, entrepreneurs, consortiums and mercenary groups all across the Outer Rim Territories and Mid Rim systems who are either in discreet contact with Vūm to a point that they could be considered members of the organisation in some type of way or are under the radar of the organisation who could be in contact with them via the clientele who Vūm are in business with. However, nearly all of these people have been deceived into thinking or believing what the organisation is without fully understanding how little it is comparatively to other such groups that it could be compared against.
Out-of-character, Vūm is an invitation-only organization for players who enjoy:
- Esoteric storytelling.
- Slow-burn intrigue, economics, and symbolism.
- Playing characters who operate in gray spaces such as analysts, mystics, financiers, spies, philosophical entrepreneurs or politicians.
- Building lore collaboratively with an eye toward mystery, indirect influence, and subtle power plays.
- Joining Vūm typically involves:
- Expressing interest to a current member.
- Submitting a concept that fits the tone (cryptic, thoughtful, multidimensional).
- Participating in one or more story-oriented "observation arcs" — short interactions to explore thematic fit.
- IC initiation scenes that may involve puzzles, whispered tasks, or narrative "tests" tailored to the character's archetype.
- Climate:
- The climate within Vūm is eerie, esoteric and tense. Even to those who are directly linked to the organisation at it's highest echelons are left guessing as to who or what this it all really about.
They know that they have seen, heard of or been apart of a series of events (transpiring in the Outer Rim or Mid Rim systems) that on the surface appear to have nothing to do with each other and yet they know for a fact that it was either Vūm, their associates, partners or members who were behind these strange, often dangerous or catastrophic incidents, and yet despite what they know, they cannot fully put a finger on why they happened in the first place.
At the lowest point of the organisation, away from the small glimpses and insights awarded to those at the top, are individuals who feel a distinct danger when it comes to their businesses, operations or politics that are now forever interlinked with this organisation. There is a feeling that at any point of deviation from any orders, instructions or requests would spell certain doom for themselves and all that they care about. Hopeless has set in for many at the idea of trying to get away from this opaque organisation who often delves in anonymity. - Reputation:
- Vūm has little to no reputation. Most people have not heard of it, and if they have, there isn't much of an opinion. If one were pressed for their view and thoughts on this organisations 'reputation' then you would hear words such as 'eerie', 'strange', 'dark', 'anonymous' and perhaps the sentence: "I don't know much about them, to be completely honest."
- Curios:
No. - Rules:
Vūm only has one distinct rule, and it is very clear to everyone involved: Obey, or you will be crushed. - Goals:
- To promote and spread the politics, economics and military aspirations concerning the ideology of ' Imperialism ' in the Outer Rim Territories and Mid Rim Territories.
- To ruin the commercial, economic and political activities of the Trade Federation as well as their numerous subsidiaries.
- To expand the economic and political powers of the Mahporeem Imperial Remnant in the Outer Rim Territories.
- To acquire control of the commercial, economic and political activities of the N&Z Umbrella Corporation.
- To influence the internal and external politics of the High Republic towards war with the Sith Order.
- To break the Treaty of Twin Crowns between the High Republic and Mandalorian Empire.
- To spy on and report the activities of individuals passing through Shiraya's Sanctuary to the Kainite.
-
Her
- A peculiar, enigmatic woman who has no name.
This submission is the 2026 version of this organisation. A 2025 version can be read here for it's previous history, goals and other useful information. All information pass this point covers it's history that are either new or have been written after the previous submission.
Vūm is a word that was discovered by a Sith Lord who was called Darth Ayra. It stems from the long lost language of an ancient race of Humanoids who were once believed to have lived either in the Tion Cluster or the Deep Core due to the existence of several anomalies, landmarks and signs which indicate a connection between these locations in spite of the vast distances between them. However, this is purely speculative on the part of the historians, researchers and scientists who have attempted to unearth information about the ' Builders ' whose name was colloquially applied to these extinct aliens who once traversed the galaxy during the so-called ' Four-Hundred Year Darkness ' due to the esoteric buildings, landmarks or satellites that they left behind before their apparent extinction.
According to Ayra, the word ' Vūm ' translated to the galactic-standard word ' lost ' .
Between 902 to 905 ABY, Vūm were involved in several political, economic and commercial incidents or events that occurred in the Outer Rim Territories and Mid Rim Territories which contributed to the demise of the Diarchy and the Imperial Confederation in accordance to the goals of the organisation. These instances resulted in two attacks on the planet Brosi as the Imperial Confederation attempted to annex the Thandon Cluster from the Sith Order and the orchestration of a war between the Mandalorian Empire and the Diarchy on Yaga Minor. The subsequent wars between these respective factions are widely held in opinion as the reasons for their respective demises of which Vūm were discreetly and quietly responsible for.
In 905 ABY, Lianna was attacked by a joint taskforce sent by the Mandalorian Empire and Sith Order to eliminate the threat of the Imperial Confederation. This attack was borne out of consequence due to the discovery that
Her
was responsible for the incident in Vexis Station (which triggered the Mandalorian-Diarchy war on Yaga Minor) as well as in retaliation for the attacks on Brosi. In the aftermath a dystopia fell upon Lianna which was in accordance to the previous goals of Vūm as they aimed to destabilize and ruin a planet which was previously the capital of the Empire of the Lost and the Sith Order before them.Vūm (whose headquarters could be previously found in a district in Lianna City) migrated it's operations and assets away from Lianna into the High Republic. It was from Enarc that the organisation recommenced it's operations in the Outer Rim Territories and Mid Rim Territories following the destabilisation or destruction of the former territories of the Imperial Confederation. During this period they stole the designs, schematics and items of the defunct Santhe Corporation (who they had previously been funding before the company shared the same fate as their Imperial clientele) due to the death of their C.E.O who was reported as a casualty on Yaga Minor.
The Santhe Corporation were not the only company who Vūm were involved with during the height of the Imperial occupation. Since the days of the Empire of the Lost (when this organisation were previously known as a company called Drey) Vūm have assisted the commercial, economic and political expansion of the N&Z Umbrella Corporation in several star sectors located across the galaxy. After being reformed in the High Republic it has become a goal of Vūm to engineer the conditions that would see
Her
either completely takeover or, at the very least, become a key figure in this galactic-spanning conglomerate.Another conglomerate whom Vūm begun targeting were the Trade Federation.
Back in 902 ABY a figure belonging to the Federation were in attendance to a war cabinet (hosted by the Sith Order) where they leaked information that an agent working in the Empire of the Lost was a double-agent belonging to the Dark Empire. As a consequence of this leak the agent was assassinated and subsequently lost. Also, the Trade Federation were also responsible for an economic embargo on the Empire of the Lost which contributed towards it's economic collapse. These incidents, combined with discoveries that tie their businesses to the Sith Order, yielded the goal to destabilise and ruin the Trade Federation as Vūm came to see the conglomerate as an economic, political and espionage rival who had to be stopped due to the interference and set-backs that the Federation's practises put on their own goals.
By 905 ABY, Vūm retained it's goals to assist in the revitalization of an ideology called ' Imperialism ' in spite of it's connections to the demise of both the Empire of the Lost and the Imperial Confederation. Overtures were made to a faction called the Final Dawn where
Her
became an agent of the ' Politorate ' in their diplomatic services. Connections to the last surviving remnant of the Imperial Confederation (a faction called the Mahporeem Imperial Remnant) were retained while Vūm sought to help in it's expansion as a political and economic power in the Outer Rim Territories.In this same year Vūm begun conducting clandestine spying operations on a region of Naboo called the Shiraya's Sanctuary on behalf of the Kainite.
The home of the Jedi Order, the Sanctuary was infiltrated by
Her
where she was then captured by members of the Jedi Council after they had arranged a meeting with them where Her leaked information which exposed ties between high profile figures in the Sith Order to the Trade Federation and the leader of the Mandalorian Empire. Conversely Vūm also sought to create the conditions that would break the Treaty of Twin Crowns (between the High Republic and Mandalorian Empire) after the discovery that Mand'alor is the nephew of the reigning Sith Empress. These goals fell in accordance to it's overall (and perceived main goal) to begin a full-scale war between the High Republic and the Sith Order by not only depriving the former of it's ally but to also expose that those same people were under the influence of the Sith.
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