Unknown planet
On an unknown planet, located somewhere in the Eastern part of the galaxy. 10,000 force sensitives who were kidnapped during the Sith Mandalorian war were tied up and locked in cells as they were being watched by Sith droids.
All of these droids were controlled by the 50 Sith Masters and Apprentices who all served Darth Rune. They had managed to escape extermination by the Darth Marr and the new Dark Council and fled to Darth Rune's secret base located on a world that had been hidden from the Sith Empire for decades.
On this planet was a secret cloning facility that Darth Rune had set up in case of his eventful death. It was also a place where he practiced the art of Transfer essence which was a dark side power used to transfer a person's consciousness into another body, or in some cases an inanimate object.
In this case, he cloned a body of himself and would use it to achieve his goal which was the destruction of the Sith Empire and the death of Daimon and his family. But his current cloned body was weak due to his lack of understanding. That is why he had the 10,000 force sensitive captives here. He would use them for experiments and consume their life force to create a more powerful cloned body that didn't have weakened abilities after he transferred his consciousness.
It didn't matter how long it took; he would learn to master this ability and use it to bring down his enemies.
Ever since he was beheaded by the Sith Emperor a few days ago, he has already begun his experiments.
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1 year later
Year - 6,159 BBY
Imperial year - 829
Daimon - Age: 901
Total Population - 22.7 Trillion
So far, the galaxy has seen some semblance of peace despite the small conflicts that were going on in certain places around the galaxy. The Republic has begun its first step towards a new age and restoring the democratic values that it held for tens of thousands of years while making sure that no single person could take power again.
By doing this, the powers of the Chancellor were significantly reduced and redistributed across a reformed Senate structure that included mandatory oversight committees with real investigative authority, term limits on executive office, and a new independent judiciary that answered to neither the Chancellor nor the Senate but to a constitutional framework that had been rewritten from the ground up.
Chancellor Solen had overseen the constitutional convention personally, which had surprised a number of observers who expected her to delegate the work. She had explained her reasoning in a public address that was widely broadcast across Republic space: a Chancellor who trusted others to define the limits of executive power was a Chancellor who did not truly understand why those limits were necessary.
The Jedi Order's reformation was proceeding more slowly than the political restructuring, as Daimon had expected it would. Institutions built around spiritual conviction did not reorganize themselves according to timelines. The philosophical reeducation programs that the Balance Keepers were producing mixed results.
Some Jedi had embraced the expanded doctrine with a sincerity that suggested they had been waiting for permission to think this way for years. Others complied in public while privately still believing in their old ways, which Daimon didn't find concerning as the young Jedi would surpass their numbers in a generation or two.
And since Daimon destroyed the Jedi Temple on Ossus, a new temple called the Jedi Grand Temple would be built on Coruscant on top of a Force Nexus thanks to Daimon's suggestion. Chancellor Solen agreed with this idea and granted the Jedi the land in return for their continued protection of the people of the Republic for the foreseeable future.
It would be built in traditional Jedi architecture, with some improvements here and there and to be massive. Unlike in Cannon, Daimon wanted the temple to be big to one house more Jedi and two turn it into a fortress for if and when Coruscant was ever attacked by another power.
The Absolutist remnants that remained had been reduced to isolated cells. The last significant concentration, a group of forty-three Jedi who had established a hidden enclave on a moon in the Outer Rim, had surrendered to an Ascendant task force six weeks ago after a three-day standoff that ended when their food supply ran out. This brought about an end to any remaining Jedi splinter groups, allowing the new Grandmaster to centralize the Jedi power structure on Coruscant.
In the Unknown Regions, the droid fleets were fully operational in the former Theocratic Dominion and Coalition territories. The twenty AI-commanded fleets that Cortana had overseen into production were effective at finding and getting rid of insurgency networks. They were also easily replaceable, making it hard for insurgencies to gain any ground.
The insurrectionists had built their tactics around exploiting how widespread the Imperium was. They targeted supply routes, nobles, and even captured a few of the local security forces on a few planets which consisted of their own people. They used tactics like this to try and demoralize the people from conforming to Imperial ways, but after six months of fighting against the droid fleets, they realized that things were not that easy for them.
As of right now, the insurrectionists were less of a military force and more like a collection of people who just opposed the Imperium's annexation of their species. But in a few years or generations, they would either die out or just become so insignificant that they can't do anything to harm the Imperium.
Dressia itself had quieted after Karnoss identified and arrested the people who organized the incident that occurred a year ago. After that protests and other demonstrations were now considered to be illegal and were shut down almost immediately.
This was due to the limited rights that the people of Dressia had. Under the first Imperial Amendment: The Supreme Authority & Governance Amendment which stated that citizens may petition the government for grievances and reforms.
However, citizenship was not extended to any people that were conquered int he recent war. It would have to be earned through service, education, or economic contribution. All species other than the Gen'Dai had to go through the same thing and were generally granted citizenship through economic contribution by paying taxes. The second was serving in the Veldari Armed Forces with education being a close second.
For a few months, they were permitted their demonstrations, but with the rise of insurrectionists, this was taken away from them and the Imperium had clamped down on it to eliminate it until they earned their citizenship.
The Mandalorian situation within the Sith Empire had also developed in ways that Vitiate found increasingly difficult to manage through conventional means. The independence movement had fragmented into roughly thirty separate clan factions, which on the surface appeared to weaken it but in practice made it considerably harder to decapitate.
You could arrest a leader. But you cannot arrest a movement that had deliberately distributed its leadership across three dozen competing power structures that shared a common goal while disagreeing on nearly everything else.
Darth Marr had presented the Dark Council with three options at their last session. The first was accelerated suppression, flooding Mandalore and its surrounding systems with Sith military forces until the movement collapsed under the weight of overwhelming presence.
The second was selective co-optation, identifying the most capable clan leaders and offering them formal positions within the Sith military hierarchy that gave them status and resources in exchange for directing Mandalorian martial abilities outward rather than inward.
The third was a negotiated autonomy arrangement, granting Mandalore a degree of self-governance within the Sith Empire's framework while retaining military oversight and resource extraction rights.
Vitiate had listened to all three presentations and then asked Marr which option he personally recommended. Marr had said the second, without hesitation. His reasoning was characteristically direct: Mandalorians did not stop being warriors because you suppressed them. They stopped being problems when you gave their warrior culture something worth fighting for that aligned with your interests rather than against them.
Vitiate had approved the co-optation strategy, though he had noted privately that it was the kind of solution that created dependencies rather than resolving the underlying tensions. A Mandalorian clan leader given status and resources by the Sith Empire was a clan leader whose authority now rested on Sith approval rather than on the respect of his own people.
That contradiction would eventually express itself in ways that were predictable but still inconvenient. He had seen it happen before with other subjected people. The intermediary class that served as the bridge between an occupying power and a restive population was always the first to be consumed when the arrangement collapsed, because they were trusted by neither side completely and needed by both sides temporarily.
It was a structural problem with no clean solution. You could manage it, delay it, and redirect it, but you could not eliminate it without either fully integrating the subject people or fully destroying their capacity for collective identity. The Sith Empire had never been particularly good at either option. They were, by their nature and ideology, better at domination than at transformation.
Daimon had noted this in his assessments of the Sith Empire, but he wasn't a saint. He wasn't going to solve all their problems for them. Either they would figure it out or they would fail trying to create a solution.
Failing was part of life for everybody. Every society that has been created, every government that has ruled, and every power that has existed was created by trial and error. Nothing can ever be a straight line as you are bound to encounter some bumps along the way. But as long as you don't give up, those bumps will get smoother and the path clearer.