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The Chiss Ascendancy Intelligence Network, commonly shortened to CAIN, is a syndicated federal entity of the Chiss Remnants. Originally a body reigning over Chiss diplomacy, intelligence, and internal security, it has survived the economic collapse that struck the Chiss Ascendancy. Weakened militarily by war, CAIN has continued to fuel its political power. Beliefs CAIN continues to strive to expand its political influence, through intelligence and manipulation. Learning that entering the war directly has negative consequences, CAIN seeks to influence the war through indirect means. Over the last few years, it has worked to infiltrate several organizations. Through intelligence gained, CAIN is willing to sell information to an opposing side in order to promote a more favorable outcome. With the Chiss Ascendancy fragmented into isolated territories by struggling Ruling Families, CAIN is one of the last bastions of order in Chiss Space. As such, it employs some of its resources to get ahead of plots and stop them from expounding into larger incidences. While some parts of CAIN consider itself the true government of Chiss Space, CAIN has kept to the shadows as much as possible, preferring to puppeteer other entities in keeping the peace. CAIN's remnants hosts a legion formed by the surviving elements of the Ascendant Guard, Security of Internal Affairs, and some CEDF forces, CAIN rarely engages in combat. Military forces can occasionally be seen in operations, but most are scattered across the galaxy, in infiltration missions, reconnaissance, and assassinations. The makeshift fleet that houses CAIN is generally used to keep CAIN mobile and separated, rather than as a military threat. CAIN has managed to stay afloat economically through the profits of the Chiss Ascendancy Research Division, controls the Chiss Engineering Shipyards. Willing to sell to anyone for the right price, CAIN hides backdoors in its technology, allowing unfiltered access and espionage. CAIN's Diplomatic Bureau a decade ago forged the Chiss/Sith Internship Program. As such, CAIN is more receptible to non-Chiss, ignoring the xenophobic misgivings of the past. Unlike now defunct CEDF and other Chiss agencies, CAIN employs non-Chiss employees. CAIN officially does not blame the New Sith Imperium for the economic collapse. While relations with the Imperium are somewhat tense, it recognizes poor financial management and the Hutt Cartels' greed were largely responsible for the downfall of the Chiss. Due to the collapse of the Chiss Ascendancy and the Mandalorian Clans, it no longer feels obligated to respect the pact made to Mandalore Corden Vencu a decade ago. CAIN no longer is fully affiliated with the New Sith Imperium, willing to deal with whomever allows them to manipulate the galaxy from the shadows, with a mole here and a well-timed intel leak there. Organization The Chiss Ascendancy Intelligence Network is a collective of CAIN's surviving assets, along with annexed remains of Security of Internal Affairs and CEDF. Though losing many agents in the Hapan Campaign and the Immortal Order crisis, it remains a political power in Chiss Space and, according to some, the galaxy. Built on the back of its intelligence network, it operates by infiltration, espionage, and covert ops. CAIN's remnants hosts a legion formed by the surviving elements of the Security of Internal Affairs, and some CEDF forces, CAIN rarely engages in combat. Military forces can occasionally be seen in operations, but most are scattered across the galaxy, in infiltration missions, reconnaissance, and assassinations. The makeshift fleet that houses CAIN is generally used to keep CAIN mobile and separated, rather than as a military threat. CAIN has managed to stay afloat economically through the profits of the Chiss Ascendancy Research Division, which had been the chief manufacturing entity of the Chiss Ascendancy. Willing to sell to anyone for the right price, CAIN hides backdoors in its technology, allowing unfiltered access and espionage. Once filled with Force users, a unit known as Chevaliers, it has lost most of the Chiss Force users in the Third Galactic War, only a handful remaining. CAIN regulates diplomatic relations between Chiss Space and the rest of the galaxy, though the collapse of the Ascendancy has limited interaction available. When the Chiss economy collapsed, CAIN struggled to keep itself running. As Chiss assets were taken by the Hutts and lives ruined, CAIN struggled to collect any remnants of Chiss power it could take, from CARD to a few naval vessels. Originally housed in The Imperator's Hall on the planet Arch, the Immortal Order crisis devastated the headquarters. Since then, CAIN has remained mobile aboard the two Chiss patrol frigates (constructed by CARD) and six Crusader-class corvettes (purchased from MandalMotors by Mar'tel'nuruodo).
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The Chiss Ascendancy Intelligence Network, at the time called Ikegobo, was originally established during Thrawn's exodus in the Unknown Regions, where it was used to keep an eye on the Chiss Ascendancy. At the time, Ikegobo were spies inside the government, keeping an eye on the Ruling Families and the Ascendancy. Historians speculate on whether Ikegobo was an initiative by Thrawn to one day take over the Chiss Ascendancy through his infiltrations; if so, he never lived long enough to use them. Instead, between the end of the Thrawn Crisis and the Swarm War, a minor family called Arch, who were major agents in Ikegobo, decided to use it for their own gain when the Empire of the Hand was absorbed by the Chiss Ascendancy. Through Ikegobo, which was renamed the Chiss Ascendancy Intelligence Network, it used resources originally to spy on the Chiss Ascendancy to not only solidify internal affairs, but also gain intelligence on the rest of the galaxy.
During the "Chiss Civil War", CAIN helped identifies the contaminated Ruling Families and even assassinated a few leaders. Eventually the corrupted Ruling Families lost power. Arch used CAIN to propel themselves into the spotlight, securing the status as a Ruling Family by the time the Second Galactic Civil War started.
When Arch became a Ruling Family, CAIN originally dealt solely with espionage and worked with the military on internal security. In 666 ABY, the Fel dynasty ended and the Elyurius dynasty ensued. A cold war threatened peace between the Elyurius Empire and the Galactic Alliance. One of the Ruling Families, Yleba, attempted to try to steal power away from Nuruodo, which thanks to years of peace and Mar Family, had been on the decline. With a controlling interest over the Diplomatic Bureau and several covert ops. units, it attempted to conspire with a Fel loyalist to spark a Chiss-Elyurian War, in which to bring Yleba as the supreme Ruling Family and the Fels to return to power. However, CAIN Director Arch'eve'nuruodo discovered the plot and acted. CAIN assassinated Yleba's leader Yleba'rrel'nuruodo and several other Yleba and Fel loyalists, with some help from the Elyurius Empire. CAIN took control over the Diplomatic Bureau, to prevent it from going rogue. Yleba's covert ops. were either arrested, assimilated into CAIN, or executed.
However, Arch'eve'nuruodo was an ambitious time. Using his newfound momentum, he gained support for the establishment of the Grand Imperatorship. In effect, he attempted to make himself monarch of the Chiss Ascendancy, which at the time was mainly led by the convergence of the Ruling Families. As the 'hero who prevented an intergalactic war', he was chosen as the Grand Imperator. He was popular and well-respected, but even he knew he had enemies. Paranoid, he had CAIN establish the branch Security of Internal Affairs (SIA), which officially was used to keep peace in the Chiss Ascendancy though abused to keep denizens under his iron thumb.
Arch'eve'nuruodo's reign lasted for three decades before he passed away, supposedly of natural causes. His daughter, Arch'elle'nuruodo, managed to take the seat next. AIN and major military powers were dissatisfied with the apparently hereditary monarchy. Arch'elle'nuruodo refused to step down. However, when CAIN and several Ruling Families threatened to rebel, Arch'elle'nuruodo reorganized the Grand Imperatorship as an elected position. To satisfy the vexed Ruling Families, the CAIN Director at the time became the Vice Imperator, a position to help fill the void if the Grand Imperator were to ever die or a need to take away the Grand Imperatorship away from the current occupant; it was a threat by CAIN, that they would kill her if needed and reclaim the Chiss Ascendancy.
Arch would occasionally reclaim Grand Imperatorship, especially in the decades approaching the Elyurian Purge and the outbreak of the Third Galactic Civil War, CAIN generally remained in Arch's influence. Propelled by Arch'eve'nuruodo and other Archs over the years, it grew in power and authority, eventually gaining domain over intelligence, diplomacy, internal security, and other vectors. As to prevent either the military or CAIN from becoming too power and becoming a sole tool for tyranny, the two groups were kept separate. For decades, rivalry strained working relations. It wasn't until Arch'elie'lia became Director did relations mend.
In 972 ABY, CAIN's Director was Matra'be'lia, a strict woman who stubbornly sought peace with the Ascendancy's neighbors. However, a certain group of people were against that. These people were the Sith. They hoped to secure the Chiss Ascendancy as an ally. The Council of Eminence was split on whether to support the Sith or to reveal their existence to the Galactic Alliance in hopes of retaining peace. Grand Imperator at the time, Mitth'or'nuruodo, was against it. However, he hoped to pretend to be open to the Sith, as to draw them into a trap. However, the Sith were prepared, thanks to the help of Vice Imperator Arch'ao'nurodo. In effect, they outmaneuvered Mitth'or'nuruodo and were able to eliminate him, demonstrating their cunning and ability in the Force. Arch'ao'nuruodo became Grand Imperator and Matra'be'lia was forced to concede to the rest of the Council of Eminence. The Chiss Ascendancy, with CAIN, had become an ally to the Sith.
However, Matra'be'lia was never happy with the arrangement, especially since CAIN helped provide resources to the Sith, such as intelligence and removing Moffs and military individuals who were either too loyal to the Emperor to turn or too close-minded to the Imperial Knights. CAIN even provided falsified identities of "immigrants" coming from the Ascendancy to the Empire, including Geist Weiss'. Eventually, in 1,000 ABY, Matra'be'lia decided to betray the Ascendancy and CAIN, attempting to have a secret meeting with a Galactic Alliance representative. However, on his way to meet with the representative, a top CAIN agent named Arch'elie'lia and Caldrikah'iryc'nuruodo assassinated Matra'be'lia.
The Sith's secret never ended up leaking, due to Matra'be'lia's death and only top personnel of CAIN, the government, the military, and Immortal Order knew of the Sith and the Chiss' connection to them. A human served as CAIN's director after Matra'be'lia for a year, until he resigned. Arch'elie'lia was promoted to Directorship of CAIN where she and her brothers aided in expanding the Chiss Ascendancy's capabilities and connections with the Sith.
With the Sith taking control of the Empire in 1,002 and the Third Galactic Civil War sparking in 1,011 ABY, CAIN was active, ready to do damage. It cooperated with the Imperium to locate enemy cells, including Imperial Knights and Empire Liberation Front. CAIN would work together with the military to expand the Chiss Ascendancy's holdings. CAIN was greatly involved in the takeover of Yashuvhu.
Arch'ao'nuruodo had disappeared in 1,011 ABY; conspiracy theorists gossiped about CAIN or Sith involvement. Regardless of the truth, Vice Imperator Kodo'ran'nuruodo became interim Grand Imperator. Eventually, a vote was carried out and the CAIN Director Arch'elie'lia became Grand Imperator, with her brother Arch'avo'cnuruodo as Vice Imperator. Derro'an'nuruodo became the new CAIN Director. However, Arch'elie'lia would eventually resign, becoming Arch'avo'cnuruodo's Vice Imperator. Months later, she returned to Directorship.
CAIN's Diplomatic Bureau established a pact with the Mandalorians. It agreed that were one of the parties to be attacked, by either the Galactic Alliance or New Sith Imperium, the other would come to its aid. In waning months of 1,012 ABY, the Galactic Alliance declared war on the Mandalorians after Chief of State Bastele was kidnapped. In response, the Chiss Ascendancy declared war on the Galactic Alliance. During the Core Campaign of 1,013 ABY, CEDF and CAIN begun an invasion of the southern edge of the Galactic Alliance near Endor, a pincer against the Galactic Alliance. While CAIN and CEDF established garrisons on Endor and nearby planets, they would find themselves abandoned years later.
Even as the Chiss began to decline, CAIN and other Chiss forces were used to infiltrate the Hapes Cluster. CAIN approached upstart houses and promised riches, claiming CARD could improve their economy (an irony lost on history's pages), and preaching the Sith only sought a favorable voice in the Consortium. Eventually a chain of extortion, blackmail, and assassinations littered Hapan houses. News reached the ruling houses and conflice ensued. CAIN used its influences in these houses and infiltrations in the industrial sector to seize control of the industrial sector. Providing fuel to the upstart houses, CAIN assisted in its conflict against the ruling houses. During this time, CAIN laundered many economic assets of the Hapan industrial sector to feed itself, seeing the rapid decline in the Chiss economy. While much of the industrial sector was later taken by the Imperium, CAIN managed to keep influence on some aspects.
When the economy collapsed fully, CAIN was one of the many areas of the Ascendancy that felt the brute of its demise. Losing many resources to debt and the Hutt Cartel, CAIN struggled to stay alive and keep its assets. Succeeding in some areas, it lost others as well. The collapse of the Ascendancy saw the cessation of Diplomatic Bureau operations. The Security of Internal Affairs lost funding, with agents scattered to CAIN, Ruling Families, and unemployment. Chiss Chevaliers remained with CAIN, but a majority, comprised of Sith interns, returned to the Imperium. Ruling Families vying for power saw the Ascendant Guard fragmented and scattered to different territorial holdings. CAIN managed to keep CARD by fueling it using funds obtained from Hapes Cluster; in turn, it continued to operate, allowing funds to continually nurture CAIN operations.
Since the economic collapse, CAIN has sought to rebuild its political power. Though militarily weakened through the Third Galactic Civil War, its network remains alive. Headed by Aristocras Arch'elie'lia and Derro'an'nuruodo, CAIN has chose to not pick a side, but rather influence the galaxy from behind the scenes, along with keeping order in the order in Chiss Space. Now stationed in a scattered fleet, CAIN works to become a galactic power, albeit a shadow one, it was destined to be.
During the "Chiss Civil War", CAIN helped identifies the contaminated Ruling Families and even assassinated a few leaders. Eventually the corrupted Ruling Families lost power. Arch used CAIN to propel themselves into the spotlight, securing the status as a Ruling Family by the time the Second Galactic Civil War started.
When Arch became a Ruling Family, CAIN originally dealt solely with espionage and worked with the military on internal security. In 666 ABY, the Fel dynasty ended and the Elyurius dynasty ensued. A cold war threatened peace between the Elyurius Empire and the Galactic Alliance. One of the Ruling Families, Yleba, attempted to try to steal power away from Nuruodo, which thanks to years of peace and Mar Family, had been on the decline. With a controlling interest over the Diplomatic Bureau and several covert ops. units, it attempted to conspire with a Fel loyalist to spark a Chiss-Elyurian War, in which to bring Yleba as the supreme Ruling Family and the Fels to return to power. However, CAIN Director Arch'eve'nuruodo discovered the plot and acted. CAIN assassinated Yleba's leader Yleba'rrel'nuruodo and several other Yleba and Fel loyalists, with some help from the Elyurius Empire. CAIN took control over the Diplomatic Bureau, to prevent it from going rogue. Yleba's covert ops. were either arrested, assimilated into CAIN, or executed.
However, Arch'eve'nuruodo was an ambitious time. Using his newfound momentum, he gained support for the establishment of the Grand Imperatorship. In effect, he attempted to make himself monarch of the Chiss Ascendancy, which at the time was mainly led by the convergence of the Ruling Families. As the 'hero who prevented an intergalactic war', he was chosen as the Grand Imperator. He was popular and well-respected, but even he knew he had enemies. Paranoid, he had CAIN establish the branch Security of Internal Affairs (SIA), which officially was used to keep peace in the Chiss Ascendancy though abused to keep denizens under his iron thumb.
Arch'eve'nuruodo's reign lasted for three decades before he passed away, supposedly of natural causes. His daughter, Arch'elle'nuruodo, managed to take the seat next. AIN and major military powers were dissatisfied with the apparently hereditary monarchy. Arch'elle'nuruodo refused to step down. However, when CAIN and several Ruling Families threatened to rebel, Arch'elle'nuruodo reorganized the Grand Imperatorship as an elected position. To satisfy the vexed Ruling Families, the CAIN Director at the time became the Vice Imperator, a position to help fill the void if the Grand Imperator were to ever die or a need to take away the Grand Imperatorship away from the current occupant; it was a threat by CAIN, that they would kill her if needed and reclaim the Chiss Ascendancy.
Arch would occasionally reclaim Grand Imperatorship, especially in the decades approaching the Elyurian Purge and the outbreak of the Third Galactic Civil War, CAIN generally remained in Arch's influence. Propelled by Arch'eve'nuruodo and other Archs over the years, it grew in power and authority, eventually gaining domain over intelligence, diplomacy, internal security, and other vectors. As to prevent either the military or CAIN from becoming too power and becoming a sole tool for tyranny, the two groups were kept separate. For decades, rivalry strained working relations. It wasn't until Arch'elie'lia became Director did relations mend.
In 972 ABY, CAIN's Director was Matra'be'lia, a strict woman who stubbornly sought peace with the Ascendancy's neighbors. However, a certain group of people were against that. These people were the Sith. They hoped to secure the Chiss Ascendancy as an ally. The Council of Eminence was split on whether to support the Sith or to reveal their existence to the Galactic Alliance in hopes of retaining peace. Grand Imperator at the time, Mitth'or'nuruodo, was against it. However, he hoped to pretend to be open to the Sith, as to draw them into a trap. However, the Sith were prepared, thanks to the help of Vice Imperator Arch'ao'nurodo. In effect, they outmaneuvered Mitth'or'nuruodo and were able to eliminate him, demonstrating their cunning and ability in the Force. Arch'ao'nuruodo became Grand Imperator and Matra'be'lia was forced to concede to the rest of the Council of Eminence. The Chiss Ascendancy, with CAIN, had become an ally to the Sith.
However, Matra'be'lia was never happy with the arrangement, especially since CAIN helped provide resources to the Sith, such as intelligence and removing Moffs and military individuals who were either too loyal to the Emperor to turn or too close-minded to the Imperial Knights. CAIN even provided falsified identities of "immigrants" coming from the Ascendancy to the Empire, including Geist Weiss'. Eventually, in 1,000 ABY, Matra'be'lia decided to betray the Ascendancy and CAIN, attempting to have a secret meeting with a Galactic Alliance representative. However, on his way to meet with the representative, a top CAIN agent named Arch'elie'lia and Caldrikah'iryc'nuruodo assassinated Matra'be'lia.
The Sith's secret never ended up leaking, due to Matra'be'lia's death and only top personnel of CAIN, the government, the military, and Immortal Order knew of the Sith and the Chiss' connection to them. A human served as CAIN's director after Matra'be'lia for a year, until he resigned. Arch'elie'lia was promoted to Directorship of CAIN where she and her brothers aided in expanding the Chiss Ascendancy's capabilities and connections with the Sith.
With the Sith taking control of the Empire in 1,002 and the Third Galactic Civil War sparking in 1,011 ABY, CAIN was active, ready to do damage. It cooperated with the Imperium to locate enemy cells, including Imperial Knights and Empire Liberation Front. CAIN would work together with the military to expand the Chiss Ascendancy's holdings. CAIN was greatly involved in the takeover of Yashuvhu.
Arch'ao'nuruodo had disappeared in 1,011 ABY; conspiracy theorists gossiped about CAIN or Sith involvement. Regardless of the truth, Vice Imperator Kodo'ran'nuruodo became interim Grand Imperator. Eventually, a vote was carried out and the CAIN Director Arch'elie'lia became Grand Imperator, with her brother Arch'avo'cnuruodo as Vice Imperator. Derro'an'nuruodo became the new CAIN Director. However, Arch'elie'lia would eventually resign, becoming Arch'avo'cnuruodo's Vice Imperator. Months later, she returned to Directorship.
CAIN's Diplomatic Bureau established a pact with the Mandalorians. It agreed that were one of the parties to be attacked, by either the Galactic Alliance or New Sith Imperium, the other would come to its aid. In waning months of 1,012 ABY, the Galactic Alliance declared war on the Mandalorians after Chief of State Bastele was kidnapped. In response, the Chiss Ascendancy declared war on the Galactic Alliance. During the Core Campaign of 1,013 ABY, CEDF and CAIN begun an invasion of the southern edge of the Galactic Alliance near Endor, a pincer against the Galactic Alliance. While CAIN and CEDF established garrisons on Endor and nearby planets, they would find themselves abandoned years later.
Even as the Chiss began to decline, CAIN and other Chiss forces were used to infiltrate the Hapes Cluster. CAIN approached upstart houses and promised riches, claiming CARD could improve their economy (an irony lost on history's pages), and preaching the Sith only sought a favorable voice in the Consortium. Eventually a chain of extortion, blackmail, and assassinations littered Hapan houses. News reached the ruling houses and conflice ensued. CAIN used its influences in these houses and infiltrations in the industrial sector to seize control of the industrial sector. Providing fuel to the upstart houses, CAIN assisted in its conflict against the ruling houses. During this time, CAIN laundered many economic assets of the Hapan industrial sector to feed itself, seeing the rapid decline in the Chiss economy. While much of the industrial sector was later taken by the Imperium, CAIN managed to keep influence on some aspects.
When the economy collapsed fully, CAIN was one of the many areas of the Ascendancy that felt the brute of its demise. Losing many resources to debt and the Hutt Cartel, CAIN struggled to stay alive and keep its assets. Succeeding in some areas, it lost others as well. The collapse of the Ascendancy saw the cessation of Diplomatic Bureau operations. The Security of Internal Affairs lost funding, with agents scattered to CAIN, Ruling Families, and unemployment. Chiss Chevaliers remained with CAIN, but a majority, comprised of Sith interns, returned to the Imperium. Ruling Families vying for power saw the Ascendant Guard fragmented and scattered to different territorial holdings. CAIN managed to keep CARD by fueling it using funds obtained from Hapes Cluster; in turn, it continued to operate, allowing funds to continually nurture CAIN operations.
Since the economic collapse, CAIN has sought to rebuild its political power. Though militarily weakened through the Third Galactic Civil War, its network remains alive. Headed by Aristocras Arch'elie'lia and Derro'an'nuruodo, CAIN has chose to not pick a side, but rather influence the galaxy from behind the scenes, along with keeping order in the order in Chiss Space. Now stationed in a scattered fleet, CAIN works to become a galactic power, albeit a shadow one, it was destined to be.
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CAIN
Chiss Ascendancy Intelligence Network
Chiss Ascendancy Intelligence Network
Chiss Ascendancy |
CAIN |
| Motto: "Mi chi'nee keiya" |
| Anthem: "Ch'tra, re'datth" |
| Headquarters: | The Imperator's Hall, Arch |
| Flagship: | Peacemaker (formerly) Ikegobo |
| Demonym: | Chiss CAIN |
| Government: | Directorship (Aristocra) |
| Alignment: | Lawful Good |
| - Leader | Arch'elie'lia |
| - XO | Derro'an'nuruodo |
| Governing Body: | CAIN Echelon |
| Establishment: | c. 2 ABY (as Ikegobo) c. 23 ABY (as CAIN) |
| Size: | PC: 4 NPC: N/A |
| Wealth: | Moderate-Broke |
| Allies: | N/A |
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