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What happens when you lose everything? What happens when Death embraces comrades and friends, family and loved ones? War provides answers to these questions differently to every person touched by its wrath. Some follow the call of the military, to protect or avenge. Despair washes away others, sometimes with their lives. Stepping away from reality may entice some. But most stay within three categories: action, despair, or rejection of reality.
When the Purge happened, a wave of carnage followed. Hundreds of people were killed. Most of them were Elyrius loyalists, a large fraction being the Imperial Knights, including Seneschal Electra Kadmon. Others fell to darkness, drowned in Bogan's charm, such as Emperor's Sword Stern Stark. But some survived. Some some chose to take arms and rebel against Darth Aevum and her usurping cabal. These brave men and women were Imperial Knights and soldiers who took lead under Knight-Commander Iona Peller and later Seneschal Bellatrix La Rouge.
Peller and Rouge massed together remnants, but after nine years in an attempt to dethrone Aevum's successor Darth Judicar, they failed in their ambush at Lehon. Peller lost her life and Bellatrix La Rouge, wife of the late Prince Fayle Elyurius, became the leader of the wayward knights. She had lost another great friend and comrade. Her conviction remained strong. But she was not the only one who suffered the fate of losing a comrade. A woman named Aÿisha Remy had also lost a close friend. During the Battle of Tanaab, then-Knight Andraste and allies had slain and bewitched her copatriot Jedi. At Hoth, seeking a place to call home with fear in her heart over failure, she encountered Bellatrix La Rouge and Ayumi Pallopides. There, she was embraced into the Imperial Knights.
Like Rouge, Remy had been touched by pain and had come out affected. However, whereas Rouge had rushed to action, fighting the agents of Bogan, Remy had fallen into despair. Fear, anger. As Yoda once said, "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." And suffer Remy did, emotionally, traumatized and scarred by the forces of darkness. She had been corrupted, signing devil's contract. She was in a cocoon to be reborn as a Sith. On her voyage for redemption with Rouge to Coruscant, she spit on redemption's face and destroyed the Coruscanti temple, the Will of the Force before that. From Remy's pain obtained from losing a life, she had taken Rouge's.
Bellatrix La Rouge's death impacted numerous people, especially the Imperial Knights. Months prior, a woman named Lamia Kressh had experienced torture where she was informed that both Bellatrix La Rouge and her master Matsu Ike were dead. The Geist Weiss-induced vision turned into reality for the poor woman, and she followed the same path as Remy. On that road, she bumped into Remy and completed her transition to the Dark Side by betraying the Imperial Knights, nearly wiping them out. But she too felt Death's grasp, and was killed soon after. In the valley of death, only Remy continued. Continued to survive. Continued to suffer.
But action and despair aren't the only reactions Death can impart on the links to departure. The third brings rejection of reality, running from the truth. Dementia and a false reality isn't the only way this forms. Running away and trying to ignore the truth is another method of conception. This last track was chosen by the third of this triad. This half-Morellian was Mordred La Rouge, the shadow child of Bellatrix La Rouge and Fayle Elyurius. When the Purge occurred, he went into hiding, both from the Sith agents who might be out to kill any Imperial Knights affiliates and from the truth.
His refuge was a crime syndicate, a Hutt cartel owned by Addipos the Hutt. Going by the name K, he quickly became the Hutt's right-hand man. He knew he was running, but he was content. His job allowed him a distraction, to think about those he had abandoned, including his mother. He became friends with some of the gladiators at Addipos' arena, including a man named Athos. They shared a bond, and he was glad for it, even though he had freedom and had escaped it but Athos was without freedom with no means of escape.
Then news hit that his mother was dead. He mourned for her, but could not do anything. Even if he had switched to the path of action, there wasn't anything that could be done, for the Imperial Knights were in hiding, thanks to the paranoia of newly arisen Ayumi Pallopides. However, she took perished, thanks to Remy and Kressh. The former agent K suspected had something to do with the machinations of deceit, but he never learned of Kressh's part in the galactic play called reality. Instead, he consoled himself with work, which presented a new enigma, a new captured gladiator named Balthazar Gallo.
Balthazar Gallo was an Imperial Knight. A strong, dedicated man, one that wouldn't let tyranny slide, including the grubby activities of one Addipos the Hutt. Amassing the gladiators, he rebelled, and won. Rather than killing Addipos, he spared him, and putting him in debt to the Imperial Knights. K made it out well, and through Athos and Gallo, K returned to the order that his mother had died to protect. He served with Gallo, then Athos, and finally under the current Knight-Commander (though Gallo had since fashioned the title into Pendragon), Lucian Fel, a descendent of the mighty Fels that had preceded the Elyurius dynasty.
K aided the Imperial Knights, but found himself continuing to work for Addipos the Hutt. It was ironic. He had decided to return to reality, to no longer run anymore, but had found himself in the same situation. After all, the Imperial Knights needed Addipos' connections and K was the best candidate as liaison. However, Addipos wasn't done with K yet. During his ambitious venture, the Aether Project, Addipos had assigned K to help lead Gambler's Utopia, a Cockaigne-class dreadnought, which would join the ranks of the Deeps Space Centers. The ship had a trade-off for the Imperial Knights too, dedicating the Red Sector and Mastema to the rebels.
Aboard Gambler's Utopia, K had many duties. First and foremost, he was the commander of the vessel, though occasionally went off-ship for missions, leaving his right-hand man Barrel in charge. As a part of Addipos' inner circle, he managed the Hutt's more 'shady' business transactions on the ship. This ranged anywhere from spice trading to false identities to illegal contracts. There were other jobs too, but at the current time, sitting in the Emerald Cantina, he was overseeing the bar and occasionally providing false passports and identities to customers, some scheduled, others walk-ins.
Today, there was only one customer he was expecting. The bartender had already been instructed to lead the woman to the VIP room nicknamed Fool's Gold when she arrived. He was surprised by this customer. It was a Jedi, from what his inquiry had found. Many clients were smugglers, trying to do business in the Imperium, not a Jedi. This customer intrigued his curiosity. Was she here for revenge? Or was she trying to protect someone? Had she fallen to despair and was on her path to darkness? Or was she simply running from the truth? Not even she may know the answer.
What happens when you lose everything? What happens when Death embraces comrades and friends, family and loved ones? War provides answers to these questions differently to every person touched by its wrath. Some follow the call of the military, to protect or avenge. Despair washes away others, sometimes with their lives. Stepping away from reality may entice some. But most stay within three categories: action, despair, or rejection of reality.
When the Purge happened, a wave of carnage followed. Hundreds of people were killed. Most of them were Elyrius loyalists, a large fraction being the Imperial Knights, including Seneschal Electra Kadmon. Others fell to darkness, drowned in Bogan's charm, such as Emperor's Sword Stern Stark. But some survived. Some some chose to take arms and rebel against Darth Aevum and her usurping cabal. These brave men and women were Imperial Knights and soldiers who took lead under Knight-Commander Iona Peller and later Seneschal Bellatrix La Rouge.
Peller and Rouge massed together remnants, but after nine years in an attempt to dethrone Aevum's successor Darth Judicar, they failed in their ambush at Lehon. Peller lost her life and Bellatrix La Rouge, wife of the late Prince Fayle Elyurius, became the leader of the wayward knights. She had lost another great friend and comrade. Her conviction remained strong. But she was not the only one who suffered the fate of losing a comrade. A woman named Aÿisha Remy had also lost a close friend. During the Battle of Tanaab, then-Knight Andraste and allies had slain and bewitched her copatriot Jedi. At Hoth, seeking a place to call home with fear in her heart over failure, she encountered Bellatrix La Rouge and Ayumi Pallopides. There, she was embraced into the Imperial Knights.
Like Rouge, Remy had been touched by pain and had come out affected. However, whereas Rouge had rushed to action, fighting the agents of Bogan, Remy had fallen into despair. Fear, anger. As Yoda once said, "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." And suffer Remy did, emotionally, traumatized and scarred by the forces of darkness. She had been corrupted, signing devil's contract. She was in a cocoon to be reborn as a Sith. On her voyage for redemption with Rouge to Coruscant, she spit on redemption's face and destroyed the Coruscanti temple, the Will of the Force before that. From Remy's pain obtained from losing a life, she had taken Rouge's.
Bellatrix La Rouge's death impacted numerous people, especially the Imperial Knights. Months prior, a woman named Lamia Kressh had experienced torture where she was informed that both Bellatrix La Rouge and her master Matsu Ike were dead. The Geist Weiss-induced vision turned into reality for the poor woman, and she followed the same path as Remy. On that road, she bumped into Remy and completed her transition to the Dark Side by betraying the Imperial Knights, nearly wiping them out. But she too felt Death's grasp, and was killed soon after. In the valley of death, only Remy continued. Continued to survive. Continued to suffer.
But action and despair aren't the only reactions Death can impart on the links to departure. The third brings rejection of reality, running from the truth. Dementia and a false reality isn't the only way this forms. Running away and trying to ignore the truth is another method of conception. This last track was chosen by the third of this triad. This half-Morellian was Mordred La Rouge, the shadow child of Bellatrix La Rouge and Fayle Elyurius. When the Purge occurred, he went into hiding, both from the Sith agents who might be out to kill any Imperial Knights affiliates and from the truth.
His refuge was a crime syndicate, a Hutt cartel owned by Addipos the Hutt. Going by the name K, he quickly became the Hutt's right-hand man. He knew he was running, but he was content. His job allowed him a distraction, to think about those he had abandoned, including his mother. He became friends with some of the gladiators at Addipos' arena, including a man named Athos. They shared a bond, and he was glad for it, even though he had freedom and had escaped it but Athos was without freedom with no means of escape.
Then news hit that his mother was dead. He mourned for her, but could not do anything. Even if he had switched to the path of action, there wasn't anything that could be done, for the Imperial Knights were in hiding, thanks to the paranoia of newly arisen Ayumi Pallopides. However, she took perished, thanks to Remy and Kressh. The former agent K suspected had something to do with the machinations of deceit, but he never learned of Kressh's part in the galactic play called reality. Instead, he consoled himself with work, which presented a new enigma, a new captured gladiator named Balthazar Gallo.
Balthazar Gallo was an Imperial Knight. A strong, dedicated man, one that wouldn't let tyranny slide, including the grubby activities of one Addipos the Hutt. Amassing the gladiators, he rebelled, and won. Rather than killing Addipos, he spared him, and putting him in debt to the Imperial Knights. K made it out well, and through Athos and Gallo, K returned to the order that his mother had died to protect. He served with Gallo, then Athos, and finally under the current Knight-Commander (though Gallo had since fashioned the title into Pendragon), Lucian Fel, a descendent of the mighty Fels that had preceded the Elyurius dynasty.
K aided the Imperial Knights, but found himself continuing to work for Addipos the Hutt. It was ironic. He had decided to return to reality, to no longer run anymore, but had found himself in the same situation. After all, the Imperial Knights needed Addipos' connections and K was the best candidate as liaison. However, Addipos wasn't done with K yet. During his ambitious venture, the Aether Project, Addipos had assigned K to help lead Gambler's Utopia, a Cockaigne-class dreadnought, which would join the ranks of the Deeps Space Centers. The ship had a trade-off for the Imperial Knights too, dedicating the Red Sector and Mastema to the rebels.
Aboard Gambler's Utopia, K had many duties. First and foremost, he was the commander of the vessel, though occasionally went off-ship for missions, leaving his right-hand man Barrel in charge. As a part of Addipos' inner circle, he managed the Hutt's more 'shady' business transactions on the ship. This ranged anywhere from spice trading to false identities to illegal contracts. There were other jobs too, but at the current time, sitting in the Emerald Cantina, he was overseeing the bar and occasionally providing false passports and identities to customers, some scheduled, others walk-ins.
Today, there was only one customer he was expecting. The bartender had already been instructed to lead the woman to the VIP room nicknamed Fool's Gold when she arrived. He was surprised by this customer. It was a Jedi, from what his inquiry had found. Many clients were smugglers, trying to do business in the Imperium, not a Jedi. This customer intrigued his curiosity. Was she here for revenge? Or was she trying to protect someone? Had she fallen to despair and was on her path to darkness? Or was she simply running from the truth? Not even she may know the answer.
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