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Izaak von Schwartzkrieg

Alignment: Galactic Empire
Species: Coruscanti Human Clone

The Good

Lovers-

Lady Kisheelah of House Roetblume (Dead) - It was the latter days of the Old Republic that the Obsidian Lord approached the young child who was to become Lady Kisheelah, the head of an influential and prestigious family within the Commenorian Court, approaching the girl and introducing himself as Isaac Cromwell, he visited her family estate often, quickly becoming a close friend to her father and playing the role of an older cousin or friend. But it was apparent that he did not age. Over a decade he spent his time with her, the family noted that despite his appearance of a man in his early twenties, he appeared to be exactly the same as when he had first approached their family. He helped her in her studies; he groomed her and educated her in the affairs of the courts, politics, noble manners, and the way of the gentry. Ten years after he first met her on her sixth birthday, they had gotten very close, and many expected Lord Cromwell as he referred to himself, to marry into the family. Upon her twenty sixth birthday, she inherited her parents' title and sought her childhood companion to marry her. Upon revealing himself to be a long living clone of a man who lived two thousand years before, she yet requested to bear his child. Duke Doosel Zenos, a longtime friend to the two agreed to cover up the situation by taking Lady Kisheelah's hand in marriage, and bringing up their offspring as his own. The Obsidian Lord in thanks supported the two families and bestowed upon them considerable influence and power on Commenor. 19 years before the battle of Yavin, she gave birth to Geherin Zenos, Isaac Cromwell was introduced as Kisheelah's cousin and Geherin Zenos would come to grow up to be his favoured nephew. 15 years before the battle of Yavin, Doosel Zenos was assassinated by a rival nobleman but the plot failed to kill Lady Kisheelah and Geherin Zenos due to Isaac's Intervention. At the age of 70, she passed away, 36 years after her husband's death. At the Zenos estate, their graves are visited on an annual basis by a young regal man, where he always leaves a bouquet of black roses before each.

Closest Friends-

Duke Doosel Zenos (Dead) - Adopted father of Geherin Zenos and a close friend of the Obsidian Lord, he was a prominent military man before the fall of the Old Republic and a lesser nobleman of Commenor. During his lifetime, not only did he improve his status to becoming one of the three major Houses of Commenor, he effectively ruled the planet until the rise of the Empire. As a man who opposed the Empire and its policies of annexation, his 'son' took over his work when he died. Geherin Zenos suceeded his father at a young age and secretly built up the networks required to overthrow the Imperial presence on Commenor. Doosel himself was a kind hearted man who loved Kisheelah since childhood. Often, he would come and visit the Roetblume household and receive tutoring under Isaac of House Cromwell. Isaac, the alias of Lord Obsidian at this time, watched first hand as Kisheelah and Doosel grew up to become the pillars of Commenorian society and supported Doosel's rise to prominence. One of the few true friends of the Obsidian Lord, Doosel was one of few select people to find out about Isaac's background and his ambitions. While he did not agree with Isaac's plans for the future, he did also consider Isaac his friend and he was also concerned about Kisheelah's feelings towards him if he opposed her lover. When she bore Isaac's child, Doosel covered a potential social crisis by claiming the son as his own and declaring a marriage between the two native houses of Commenor. But even after marriage, he did not bear any child with Kisheelah for his respect to his greatest friend. In return for this unexpected show of support, Lord Obsidian kept Commenor and thus Kisheelah, his child and Doosel safe from rival factions on Commenor as well as beyond.

Allies-

Locount Lazrus (Alive) - The Obsidian Lord refers to this individual as Lord Lazrus. They were responsible for the orchestrated 'civil strife' that broke out in the Galactic Empire on 24 ABY between the Nobles and the Imperial Army, the Warmaster Otto von Reuentahl and his Droid Army, and Grand Admiral Giddeon Tork and the Imperial Navy. Serving a higher authority to their respective organizations, these two have effectively ruled the majority of the Galaxy in one form or another in an attempt to mould the Galaxy in their ideals. Recently out of contact with each other to fulfil the needs to keep secret their agendas, now, with Izaak's return to Coruscant, their alliance is threatening to be exposed. However, as long as the Rebels believe that Otto von Reuentahl was the single shadow that cast the Republic into a dark corrupt age, their operations appears to be safe, allowing them to abide their time to plot anew their dreams of Galactic Conquest. After almost a year of returning to Imperial Service at the behest of the Order that they are both influential mebers of, Izaak has left the Empire once more in the sole hands of Lord Lazrus, their relationship remains a secret, known only to the handful of members of the Order. Their dark designs continues to be realised while those who oppose them strive to grasp at phantoms.

Darth Malak (Alive) - The clone of the grandson of Luke Skywalker, created by the former Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Tigon, Malak is in essence a three year old Sith Lord in a teenager's body. Guaranteed immortality by the hands of Izaak and his scientists, his reign as Dark Lord stands solely because of the co-operation of the Order of the Contra Mundus. Regardless of his abilities as a Sith Lord, Malak's body suffers from accelerated growth and extensive use of the Dark Side of the Force, resulting in a short life span that would have resulted in his death sooner or later. Knowing this in his childish mind, Malak trusts Izaak as far as a Sith can trust another individual. Izaak considers Malak, like any of his clients, a valuable customer. While betrayal is not at all in the eyes of the Obsidian Lord, mutual use of each other is the closest they ever become.

Lord Naverton (Alive) - A cloned human body with the spirit of Naga Sadow posessing the empty shell, Lord Naverton is a testament to a collaboration of the Order of the Contra Mundus' scientific advancements and the fel sorcery of the Sith Lords and their Dark Side mastery. Lord Naverton holds a special place as the leading figure in the Dark Lord's Council. If Izaak von Schwartzkrieg runs the day to day runnings of the visible Sith Praexium, Lord Naverton holds the fragile Praexium together with his leadership. Weakened by the non-sensitive body's lack of a connection to the force, Naga Sadow is compelled to remain within this prison-like shell, and abide his time for the resurrection of the Sith Empire he so grudgingly lost many millennia before. Whether he believes Izaak's ambitions to be the key to the resurgence is unknown, however, the two have been considered close allies within the Sith Praexium, their partnership has resulted in minimal conflict within the Praexium for now, how long this situation will last remains to be seen.

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Unit 0391 a.k.a. Terkos (Dead) - The Director of the Blood Red Sun, unit 0391 was a prototype/test type Clone Unit of the Shadow Directorate on their experiments on pre-programmed military protocol tactical specialist units. He was to be the first of millions of clones to be shipped out in stasis from their primary headquarters, the World Craft Shadow Citadel. However, Unit 0391 suffered from an overload in military protocol, and was written off for execution. However, the newly appointed 'Tarkor' of the Shadow Directorate, Unit 0400, declared that Unit 0391 was to be shipped to Imperial Space to see how long he would last as a Naval Officer 20 years after the Battle of Yavin. To their delight, Terkos as they dubbed him, worked perfectly to complete the inbuilt conditioning and brain washing that was part of their programming, and not only set up an organization of his clones in a depraved copy of their Directorate, and also established himself as a Captain of a Victory-class Star Destroyer Oblivion, which he used, or more like abused, to its maximum potential, calling it down for Cantina fights to enforce his Authority in a planet that did not accept Imperial Rule, using it to bully his way through negotiations and subjugating entire worlds after enforcing Base Delta Zero on several occasions. Finally, his madness overtook him as he hallucinated his Headquarters being overrun by Rebel forces, in the wake of the Fall of Coruscant, and ordered a self destruct of their facilities despite the fact that he was still in it. All the while, Unit 0400 looked on in great interest, having his people take down notes on the effects of Clone Madness.

Unit 0400 a.k.a. Tarkor IV (Dead) - The title of Tarkor, given to the Director of the Shadow Directorate, is a play on word from the family name of the founder of the entire operation, by the name of Roktar. The clones of the Double Zero series, 0000 (Double Zero Squared), 0100 (O- One Double Zero), 0200 (O-Two Double Zero), 0300 (O-Three Double Zero), and 0400 (O-Four Double Zero), can trace their Genetic Source to a single Individual, the Obsidian Lord, their founder and creator. For Five Generations, they continued to be the primary source for experimentation and manpower, feeding the gluttony and greed infesting their umbrella organization, the Order of the Contra Mundus, and their ambitions for Galactic Conquest. Almost simultaneous to the death of Captain Terkos of the Imperial Navy, in the confusion following the fall of Coruscant, a mysterious individual joined the Imperial Forces as an agent of Imperial Intelligence. He climbed his way up the ranks in the wake of the aftermath, using the confusion and the deaths of the high command to his advantage. By the time Emperor Craggnosk and Grand Admiral Thrawn disappeared, Unit 0400 was ready to take over the Empire with the Intelligence agency at its pinnacle. Using his access to the Imperial archives and using his authority given to him by swallowing the ISB and COMPNOR to the banner of Imperial Intelligence, he effectively ruled the Empire for a couple of years. In addition, he copied all the details of the Imperial Archives and subsequently the Republic and Jedi Archives, and transferred the data to his Liege, Lord Obsidian. Obtaining details to long forgotten experiments such as the Grievous Project and Vader's transformation, he began to invest his Directorate's research in Cybernetics. Finally, he infiltrated the Imperial Structure almost on all levels by flooding an army of clones into every crevice he could find. They spilled over the borders and began to assemble in hidden cells throughout the Galaxy. He participated in several political plots within and without the Empire. He interfered in Sith politics, supporting 'Grand Lord' Hertzield's bid for the Throne of the Dark Lord, only to betray him to Darth Rage and Lady Daragon's intrigue. In the deep core, his World Craft, The Shadow Citadel, which in reality was a misnomer, since it was simply a metallic celestial hollow orb that was chock full of cloning cylinders, and practically little else, served as the Directorate's primary HQ. But like most Clones in the Directorate, Unit 0400 suffered from Clone Madness. In fear of death which he knew was coming, in fear of losing what he had gained, he childishly sought refuge in whatever he could get. Believing that losing his humanity would give him immortality, he had his scientists rip his mortal shell layer by layer in a painful and wasteful ceremony. His memory and personality was preserved in his brain that was put inside a machine block. This complex computer became the heart of the Shadow Citadel, his life, attached to it. In the end, his creations and his madness would be his undoing. Upon von Reuentahl's realisation that his implanted memory was a lie, the half human half machine appeared before Unit 0400, and destroyed the Citadel by plummeting it into a star it had orbited in silence.

Unit 0440 a.k.a. Otto von Reuentahl (Alive) - Former Warmaster of the Galactic Empire, this Cyborg is a metallic monstrosity. No one is certain if any portion of his body remains human, but this individual was forged by the phantoms of the Grievous experiment, Vader's transformation, and two thousand years of effort at the hands of the Greatest Scientific minds of the Galaxy. The base subject of this monster is a Human from the Core Worlds, his origins and his original name is unknown. To fulfil the Obsidian Lord's desire to create the perfect sentient being, Unit 0440 was sentenced to cybernetic enhancements by the Shadow Directorate's mad Director Tarkor IV, who then occupied the Title of Director of Imperial Intelligence. Given his name, Otto by his Unit number, Izaak von Schwartzkrieg approached this experimental unit and named it a success. He christened his new Monster with the noble title of von Reuentahl, he gave it a seat in the Order of the Contra Mundus, his secret umbrella organization that ran, funded and commanded the Shadow Directorate. Welcomed as the Iron Lord, he was charged with establishing an absolute military dictatorship within the Galactic Empire. The mechanical enhancement made him into a cruel but clever Commander. He inspired fear and dread in his enemies and servants, while at the same time enticing those under him to work with the utmost efficiency. Rising in the Imperial Naval Ranks and for his loyalty and service to the newly crowned Emperor Thrawn, he was given the title of Grand Admiral. In turn, as the Emperor achieved Godhood, the Empire declared von Reuentahl the title of Warmaster. Sensing that his Servant had antagonised the powerful enough with his meritocratic and Machiavellian policies of a Military Dictatorship, Izaak von Schwartzkrieg and the Order of the Contra Mundus called on von Reuentahl to declare open war against the Nobility and the Army. At the same time, to ensure that the Galactic Empire would not be critically wounded in this struggle, von Reuentahl bestowed the rank of Grand Admiral and thus command of the Imperial Star Fleet to a man who they expected to take a passive and neutral role in the conflict. They elected this subject to be Giddeon Tork. This war that they waged was to be forever referred to by the Obsidian Lord, as the Civil Strife of the Second Dawn. Working with the chief organiser of the Noble faction, Lord Locount Lazrus, they successfully orchestrated a small scale war that saw the death of Emperor Thrawn, the return of Emperor Toran I, a puppet Emperor, and the rebirth, or a Second Dawn, of the Galactic Empire. After orchestrating absolute defeat, Otto von Reuentahl planted his own Warrant for Arrest for High treason against the Galactic Empire. Faking his death, those who survived the Obsidian Lord's purge in the Order of the Contra Mundus and himself fled to Sith Space.

During Izaak's dangerous experimentations at force sensitivity, the Spirit of Darth Ruin possessed the Obsidian Lord and threatened to undo their ambitions that had been attended to for two millennia. In their attempt to seal the Dark Lord away for someone to undo the powerful Umbaran's takeover, the other Dread Lords of the Order of the Contra Mundus sacrificed their lives and allowed Otto to seal their Liege Lord's body in stasis. In the ensuing battle, their vessel, the Eye of Roktar was severely damaged and accidentally sent into a random jump into hyperspace. The Sith on Dherik never heard from the heavily modified Providence-class Destroyer again.

Almost a year later, he re-emerged as the shadow behind the new Zenos Administration. Part by luck, part by design, he and Zenos manoevered the senate to their paths of destruction. The result is the Zenos Resolution, where those who tried to cast down the administration to save their Republic resulted in giving the political basis and justification to declare Mon Mothma and her supporters the treasonous ones. With her death over Taris and the loss of General Garm Bel Iblis, Carlist Rieekan, and Borsk Fey'yla, the Second Republic was dealt a blow it would never recover from. Inviting the separatist movement of the Pact of Commenor to succeed and replace the Second Republic.

After this, Otto once again departed from the stage as he helped run the League and the Imperial Security Bureau under a programme name "Oh Four Fourty". After Izaak's flight from Imperial Space, he helped secure the physical loyalty of the Sith armada, giving space and air superiority to Lord Malak's rebellion against his master, Lord Tigon. Now, as the Sith launch a new campaign against the galaxy, Otto von Reuentahl has returned to his physical shell to lead a new army against the Galactic Empire and the Rebellion, indeed, known civilization itself.

Otto von Reuentahl is now gifted with a new more skeletal body, the durasteel armour plating that is fused onto his frames are molecularly bonded, based on the technology utilised at the Corporate Sector Authority's Star's End Prison facility. Thousands of thin metallic tendrils flow down from his shoulder blades fusing together when necessary to appear as if he has a dark ethereal cape blown by supernatural air currents felt not by others. These tendrils extend down to his heels, and can at any time reshape into sharp claws, or tentacles, giving the monster extra limbs to grab, lift and rip to shreds his victims without ever so touching them with his hands. His hands themselves are shaped like claws, vibroblade technology makes them a dangerous weapon and keeps the image that the Warmaster remains at all times unarmed. His brain is mostly replaced by computer enhancements, and their new headquarters, the colony ship Deus Ex Machina is him. His personality and his very being is the massive computer that occupies the majority of the ship, his consciousness is uploaded into his mechanical shell, making him nigh on immortal. His consciousness is also always connected to the Holonet, thus destruction of the vessel does not guarantee his death. He has installed within his mind the best hacking and programming software, and the computer onboard the vessel has a larger memory capacity than ten Imperial Archives combined. He can effectively slice into any archives or facilities, and anything that is dependent on an AI and machinery runs a risk of being touched by his Will. If people had faith that he had any humanity left within him, they are to be disappointed. He has transcended human limitations. He is a Machine with a Human Will and human Intelligence. It grows and gains experience and learns like any human. He is truly worthy of being the right hand man to the Obsidian Lord, the Everliving Enemy of the Galaxy.

Schultz Sarath (Alive) - A mute young man with blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin. A street urchin from lower Coruscant, Otto von Reuentahl found him in his many travels down there as amusement and away from his Imperial duties. Seeing potential in this boy, the Cybernetically enhanced human back then accepted him and had him trained by captive noghri assassins. While the Empire had abandoned their programme long time ago, Izaak had taken the interest in studying them, and so, from time to time, they abducted a few to do their bidding and fight meaningless battles against beasts and other sentient species whenever they had the chance. One was given a choice on whether to train the boy or to perish. Reuentahl gave the name of Schultz to the boy, and gave him a last name based of Saul Karath, a Republic naval commander who had betrayed his friends to join with the Sith Empire almost four millennia before. Thus Schultz Sarath was brought up to be the new enforcer and right hand man to von Reuentahl. However, the Cyborg kept his project a secret from the Obsidian Lord until after Izaak lost his will to Phanius. Then, in need to find someone to oversee Geherin Zenos' actions in the Republic, Sarath was brought forward to command the newly established Galaxy Enforcement Regiment, as both Zenos' jailer as well as his protector. Infiltrating the New Republic Intelligence agencies, he had Zenos authorise the deployment of political Overseers in every Republic warships. GER Overseers became a feared and yet hated front of the Zenos administration and as Geherin Zenos' influence increased, so too did Sarath's. When Martial law was declared on Taris, it was Sarath that had mobilised the NRI and GER personnel beforehand to enforce the decree. He allowed his men to use extreme force if resistance was deemed 'suitable' on the field. His men in steel grey combat tunics brutally arrested those who could not flee to the safety of their homes fast enough and opened fire against any protests that may have taken place in the upper city of the World spanning Ecumenopolis. His Overseers selected the ambitious, the morally corrupt officers from the New Republic Defence forces and gave them fast track promotions, while they singled out idealistic or incompetent individuals for reassignment to backwater posts. On Denon, a modified Lucre-hulk Trade Federation Battleship was outfitted to become a mobile headquarters for the GER. As Geherin Zenos' administration crumbled, the Gathering Shadows departed from Denon, and jumped into hyperspace. The GER at the time of establishment was 100'000 man strong, composed of the best operatives and spies the Empire and the Republic had to offer. Those who proved incapable of conforming to the needs of their Commander were sentenced to brain washing and conditioning procedures. These men, women and aliens are as silent and as efficient as their Commander, Schultz Sarath. They enforce His will without question and are rightfully feared by all departments of the New Republic. Even now, as Lord Rahven and Duke Geherin Zenos has taken leave of the Republic, leaving the stragglers to their own devices, the 100'000 operatives work within the Command Structures, ready to follow the orders of the Contra Mundus to the death. With each passing day, more of these agents are trained and sent in. If the Republic thinks they can rid themselves of Lord Obsidian's shadow so easily, they are in for the most unpleasant of surprises.

Benjamin Cromwell (Alive) - Officially, the butler to Duke Geherin Zenos, this middle aged man actually served Otto von Reuentahl as the Warmaster's eyes and ears. He was also charged with Geherin Zenos' protection, tasks which he executed perfectly. He was in fact, named after the Obsidian Lord's alias Isaac Cromwell. Rumour within the Order of the Contra Mundus states he was picked up by the Obsidian Lord in his many visits to Commenor, however, Benjamin remained a loyal servant to Geherin Zenos attending to the Duke's needs. A cultured and educated man, he is nonetheless, Schultz Sarath's counterpart. Often serving as his mute companion's mouth, he is charismatic and polite, covering for Sarath's militant attitude. A clone of an unknown man from Commenor, Benjamin Cromwell was given an incomplete memory of Moonstone, Obsidian's counterpart. Izaak considers Benjamin to be like a relative and has shown his compassionate side to his toy. Benjamin knows not whose memory he has, but he knows he holds Izaak dear. The wishes of Izaak are his wishes, and he will blindly follow the Everliving in his quest for Galactic Dominion.

Doctor Varz (Alive) - A fairly new addition to the Order's service. This mad scientist is a genius in the fields of biology and human physiology. He heads the research into the Obsidian Lord's most vital and most favoured plans, the Artificial Force Sensitive Project, and the Judgment Day Initiative. The AFSP is the attempt at creating an artificial Force Sensitive as part of the ambitious plan of creating the Perfect Sentient Being, just as its name implies, by continuously producing tens of thousands of clones of Izaak von Schwartzkrieg only to harvest them of their Midi-Chlorians using nano-machine Technology to concentrate these Symbiotic Organisms to the Blood Stream and then keeping them in a single limb. When the time comes for the transplant, they commence with withdrawing the Midi-Chlorian rich blood from the unfortunate bodies, and filtering the nano-machines away from the transplanted blood, this concentrate is then pumped into Izaak's body in a painful process, and then assimilated into his system. Because they all have the same genetic code as the new host, a small portion of these symbiotic organisms manages to survive, continuing this process, and expanding his knowledge of the force using the Jedi and Palpatine's archives stolen from the Empire, will result in a continual increase in the Midi-Chlorian count within the Obsidian Lord's body, eventually perfecting him as a proper Force Sensitive. The Judgement Day Initiative is a series of operations that spans the course of the next four thousand years. The Initiative involves operations such as the Galactic wide War, the destruction and the restructuring of the Galaxy, the extermination of all Jedi, Sith and Shadows, and the complete and utter purge of all force sensitive beings from the Galaxy. The final goal is to establish an eternal order, where the Galaxy shall be ruled by an Immortal Obsidian Lord. In a Galaxy where none know of the Force and Force Sensitivity, his seemingly supernatural powers shall be heralded as Divine, and he, the Everliving shall rule forever as a Demigod. With these two vital missions in his hands, Doctor Varz intends to follow Lord Obsidian and aid the Demigod in his rise. But for the moment, he is content to take things slow. He knows he is immortal, his memories and his DNA safely stored in the memory of von Reuentahl, even if his mortal shell shall fail, he is confident, his shell would be made anew, and he would walk behind his Liege for all eternity. Currently, he is fond of collecting archaic household goods and antiques, is fascinated by Ewoks and Pink Bunnies, and likes to dress in women's' clothing.

'sarim Malus (Alive) - A Crime Lord of Denon pushed into power by making a pact with Otto von Reuentahl. His crime syndicate ruled Denon with an iron fist while he accompanied Geherin Zenos to Taris as the new Senator of Denon at von Reuentahl's command. He set up office as a legitimate representative and was one of the chief supporters of Geherin Zenos' ambitious rise to power. Under the Zenos administration, he was the Chairman of the Science and Technology Council, and charged with the research and development of the Shadow Bomb as dictated in Senate Directive 2011. Before he could finish overseeing this new weapon, however, he was framed for the alleged involvement with the Nejdiv incident, and was due for assassination at the hands of BSP vengeance. Fleeing from Taris to Denon, he accidentally allowed the BSP Noghri assassin to follow him to the Gathering Shadows, where his audience with von Reuentahl was overheard. However, like many things, this was within the overall plan of the former Warmaster, after safely seeing off the Noghri's escape, Schultz Sarath had the unconscious body of D'sarim Malus thrown into the depths of Denon's Ecumenopolis. Like most servants of the Obsidian Lord's will, however, his death on Denon was not the end. Deep within the confines of the Colony Ship Deus Ex Machina, his new body is being grown. Within the next decade or two, D'sarim Malus would be reborn to serve the will of the Obsidian Lord once more. Until then, several clones are being bred with accelerated growth, each with a similar memory to their original. They will serve Izaak von Schwartzkrieg and their memories, their experience and the lessons of life taught to them, would be added to the primary clone, thus allowing the Obsidian Lord to make use of Malus' contacts and agents in the present while making way for the more permanent replacement.

Gregory Spite (Alive) - This Corellian idealist, like Malus was ambitious and sinful. Unlike many of his fellow Corellians, he had fled searching for a power base outside while using his Heritage to his advantage. Von Reuentahl found value in an ambitious and shameless coward and approached him with an offer to fulfil his greatest desire and a promise of immortality in return for his eternal servitude. This deal, was exactly the same as the one Malus had received and when Spite took the Cyborg's hand, he might as well have signed a pact with Hell. After the War of Second Dawn, he was called into serve the Will of their 'Benefactor'. For Malus and Spite had not been made aware of their Liege Lord's alias nor his identity. They were commanded to accompany Duke Zenos, an old friend of theirs, to Republic space and there he was to serve as the Representative to the Republic of the Corellian Government in Exile. He took charge as the Chairman of the Ministry Council under the Zenos administration and was looking into a promising future for himself. However, like Malus, he was framed by von Reuentahl on his involvement with the Nejdiv incident and was the first to die under the hand of the Noghri Assassin. But alas, like Malus, his Mortal shell destroyed, he is being grown once more, with several temporary bodies to serve as a quick fix to the need for time.

Lord Rahven of House Crowell a.k.a. Moonstone (Alive) - A native nobleman of Commenor before the rise of the Zenos and Roetblume families, this man has no original name, often claiming himself to have died one dark night at the hands of the Triumphirate. The Zenos, Roetblume and Cromwell families all one night had murdered the majority of Peers of Commenor, to take over the government. Realising one step away from certain death that his drink was poisoned, the young nobleman pretended to drink and watched with cold blood as his fellow peers collapsed in agony. He approached the three houses who stood standing with a handful of houses who were their vassals, and he requested to swear an oath of allegiance in return for power. Isaac accepted the terms and true to their words, a bond quickly emerged between the two. Over the next decades, Lord Rahven as he had been renamed, dissapeared from the Galaxy at large. The next time he was sighted, he had approached the Commenorian Self Defence Forces and had quickly, as in a matter of months risen to the rank of Commodore and took direct control over the Defence Fleet. This unnatural progression lead many on Commenor to fear as well as suspect him of foulplay and over the year while Geherin Zenos was away on Taris, no less than a dozen influential leaders of corporations and families, crime syndicates and media companies lost their place in society or in some cases found dead. Considering how corrupt Commenorian society had become, his victims' deaths and his rise was considered a harbinger of a new age free of corruption, but still bound by harsh realities of a heirarchical society. After the Zenos Resolution and the fall of Taris, Lord Rahven who by then had won the elections to become the Prime Minister, made contact with the supportive leaders of the Administration as well as the neutral parties in the senate and offered them a place in an interrim government based on Commenor to tally up the losses and to see if they could continue the Republic. The resulting conferences made via Holo-conferences and some selective personal visits, lead to an overwhelming support to Lord Rahven's proposal to declare independence from the Republic which was now bogged down with the symbols of inefficiency and corruption and create a new League.

This League made no effort to hide the fact that a new class of Oligarchs would rule the decision making body and that this government would not care for local politics. The League was an umbrella organization, not a grass roots movement and thus those with authority would represent their planetary systems, not the democratic rights of the citizens. From here on, a series of invasions followed, starting from Bothan Space, the League forces bolstered by power hungry lobbying corporations and their gifts, steamrolled throughout former New Republic space as the Empire watched on in silence. Indeed, few have realised this yet, but the League of Commenor was a puppet government of the Order of the Contra Mundus for eventual assimilation and annexation into the Empire once the League was deemed to have retaken most of the major Republic worlds.

This phase was deemed the Dominion of Commenor, assimilated into the Empire, the Dominion quickly lost any vestige of its independence from Coruscant. Its people were forced to or willingly subjected to the rule of the Galactic Emperor and to this day remain, at least in appearance as loyal subjects. With Izaak's flight from Imperial Space, Lord Rahven has yet to appear publicly, anywhere. The truth is that he has moved to Imperial Centre to become the castellan of the Roktar Estate. As the twin of Obsidian, Moonstone, Lord Rahven's memories are a clash of almost every lieutenant and lackeys who had served the Obsidian Throne. His mind is a broken mess that retains logic and common sense as a sidenote. He has succeeded the mantle of Moonstone and await his elder brother's return.

Lord Rahven himself, is a monstrous man who will not hesitate to lose every aspect of his humanity for power. Combined with Doctor Varz and Lord Obsidian's experimentations, he has been gifted with a combined memory of all the Element Lords and Dread Lords save that of Otto von Reuentahl and Obsidian himself. He considers all Force Users an unnatural and much hated mutation of the perfect Human Body, and is a secret supporter of the Human High Culture. Proud and in a sense very similar to Izaak von Schwartzkrieg, he is hypocritical and contradictory in almost every aspect of his being. He hates Force Users and yet holds no qualm with serving a Force User, he is a racist but is happy to associate himself with Aliens and Alien rights activists. While appearing eccentric and mad, he hides behind his effeminate features a calculating and cold mind. Few know what he truly wishes for in his existence, but most cannot conceive it to be any good for the Galaxy.

Tiferet and Chesed (Alive) - Fair haired, silver eyed twins appearing no older than ten years of age, they are the most recent product of Human experimentation. Children abducted from throughout the galaxy, be they slaves or otherwise, they are raised in one single room with different types of weapons ranging from slug throwers to sticks and told that they have to kill each other or be killed by each other. Most of them did not understand the very concept of death until very late and by then, the most bloodthirsty of them had survived at the ignorant's expence. They are innocent at heart in all respects and know not that they commit sin. To them, murder is a pastime activity, like hide and seek or participating in sports. These children, culminated into two 'twins' who were created from healthy specimens, the Twins were given all of the memories of almost four hundred children who all sat in one massive room filled with weapons and food. A boy named Tiferet and a girl named Chesed was the result. They love their 'Dear Uncle', the Obsidian Lord, and they are almost always accompanied by either him or 'Uncle' Schultz. They think that unless they kill people, they will be killed and they fear death above all others. They fight with Tiferet wielding two compact battle axes in melee distracting while Chesed with her heavy repeating slug thrower rifle taller than she is, supports him with suppressive fire. They find torturing others and finding creative ways of killing people their hobby and whenever they find a child of similar age to them, they beat them to submission and bring back home to their 'Dear Uncle' as a gift. These children in turn give new memories for the twins adding to their efficiency and deadliness. They are often covered in blood of their victims, wearing black and white, gothic mourning clothes. Chesed hides her weapon under a picnic blanket that she always carries the bundle around as if like a stuffed doll. Tiferet always wears a black coat where he hides his axes clumsily. They have innocent looks that act as their weapons, but more often than not, their malice and hostile intentions become clear through their eyes. A twisted pair as if from a horror story, they have been known to indulge in sick pastimes such as tasting the blood and gore of their victims as reference.

The Bad

Hatred-

Phanius a.k.a. Darth Ruin (Dead) - An ancient Sith Spirit that has possessed the Obsidian Lord's body, his dominion over the body was almost complete when von Reuentahl forced him into stasis, thus severing his chances of complete control. One year later, when the body was finally released, five Jedi knights, selected and gathered by Geherin Zenos at the request of von Reuentahl at an internment camp faced off against the ancient spirit and weakened it enough to force it into a partnership with Izaak's soul. In return for Phanius' consent to leave Izaak's body be and teach the Everliving the art of the Dark Side, the Obsidian Lord promised the Umbaran fallen Jedi Spirit, a new empty Clone body. To a long living clone, few things anger or annoy him, but Phanius is one of the few exceptions. Utter hatred and contempt are his feelings towards his invader and tormentor. But that is exactly what the two of them want. Lacking any mortal fears or anger, or hatred, Izaak would have been hard pressed to master the dark side of the force. By having Phanius take up the challenge of annoying the Obsidian Lord, they intend to let him master the Dark side enough to in turn feed on lesser beings emotions.

Deadly Rivalry-

Bitter Exes -

Annoyances -

Kalvin Strife (PC) - Like many nuisances that gnaw at Izaak's heels, Kalvin Strife is an artificially made nuisance to keep the Immortal Obsidian Lord entertained while they march towards the final Judgement Day. Kalvin Strife was introduced to Otto von Reuentahl when he fled the Empire to the Republic by Geherin Zenos who misunderstood the reasons behind Strife's defection. Amused by the spirit of Strife and the respect that the former Warmaster had for the Butcher of Nejdiv, he allowed the Corellian to ask any questions concerning their Operations within the Republic, and eventually for the future of the Galaxy. Expecting him not to be able to ask the right questions to get all the answers, Otto von Reuentahl was content to answer truthfully and extensively on several queries that the Defector had to ask him. Kalvin Strife is one of the few people in the Galaxy to know the danger their descendants face at the hands of the Everliving. Amongst the few, he is probably the one who is most knowledgeable in their immediate agenda and thus the greatest thorn in the Obsidian Lord's side. However, they are willing to leave him be. They look forward to what kind of resistance he can offer to stave off Izaak's boredom, and will welcome the day when they break his free will and subdue him to serve their needs for all Eternity.

Jay Mertaal (PC) - Though unintentional, Mertaal was informed of Otto von Reuentahl's grip over the failing Republic, and remains one of the few people who do not serve the Obsidian Lord to know of their agenda. However, unlike Kalvin Strife who knows far more than anyone else in this matter, and unlike Eryk Aiden who could possibly pose a serious threat to their plans, Jay Mertaal and the BSP are often ignored by the Obsidian Lord, the pirate seemingly not even a challenge. Mertaal is more than capable, even more dangerous than the other two when it comes to the firepower, manpower and influence he might control, however, they see him incapable of rooting out their plans. In their analysis, he is far too simple, far too forward and far too blunt to capture them in a trap. Yes, he could possibly destroy the Deus Ex Machina…if he ever found it. Yes he could kill Izaak von Schwartzkrieg… if he ever found out of his significance and existence. Yes he could kill Otto von Reuentahl…if he ever found the Warmaster. But all of these they consider far too challenging for a man who they have not given enough clues to go by. No, they keep him in case Kal Strife and Eryk Aiden fail. They keep him and his ragtag group of misfits, to be a replacement.

Eryk Aiden (PC) - Jedi Master, Prudent Leader, and a Hero of his Time. He was hand picked by Izaak von Schwartzkrieg to lead his fellow Jedi into hiding in light of the Jedi Extermination. Using old recordings and holographic images, he sent a message warning the Jedi Knight to gather his people and all those who supported them, to find the source of the corruption in the Republic, to root it out properly or else face the consequences. Predictable, he moved as they wished. He met up and joined forces with a fleet prepared for his arrival, by allowing the New Republic Defence Forces to lose some ships to idealistic and concerned personnel. They gave him enough clues to piece together the siphoning of Republic resources to slavers, the knowledge of mysterious individuals contacting Minister of State Zenos, they let Jay Mertaal know of Otto von Reuentahl's involvement, confident when he realised Jedi Knight Aiden standing up to the challenge of cleansing the Republic of their shadow, that the Pirate would contact their new Champion. He is like Strife, an artificially made nuisance, an amusement for them to waste their time crushing beneath their heels. For this end, he will serve their needs without question. Thinking his Will to be his own, his decisions and actions to be his decisions. When compared to what boredom of Izaak von Schwartzkrieg will do to the Galaxy's fate, the sacrifice of one or two men, are quite cheap.

The Jedi Order - The first of the Force Sensitive Orders that has caught the eye of the Obsidian Lord's wrath, the Jedi Order was nigh exterminated when they were herded into Internment Camps under Geherin Zenos' administration. Those Jedi who fled to garner support from the BSP also met a similar fate as the Shadow Bomb was activated on Taris, the pro-BSP Jedi having returned to support Mon Mothma's insurrection against the Zenos administration. Now, lead by Eryk Aiden, they have hidden away from Izaak's wrath. This was partially his will but they remain a thorn in his side. He is confident they pose no real threat to his ambitions, however, a thorn is just what it is, a nuisance.

The Sith Order - The second of the Force Sensitive orders due to face Izaak's wrath. They have yet to be directly targeted by the Obsidian Lord. This is because he intends to destroy the two other orders first and let the infighting within a foe less Sith order to destroy itself while he himself will orchestrate their complete and utter demise. Technically, the Obsidian Lord follows their teachings more so than any other order, but that does not stop him from seeking ill will towards the Sith. They are closest to what he fears, for they have the potential to attain what he seeks and be just as powerful. He has yet to figure out exactly how he will orchestrate their downfall, thus they are a nuisance to his Judgment Day Initiative.

The Shadow Order - The last of the Force Sensitive Orders targeted by Izaak, the Shadow Order remains the least likely to be dealt any serious blow for the coming centuries. Secretive and unseen, they have proven that they are not a misnomer. The Obsidian Lord has yet to come up with any proper plans for their demise, however, if they succeed on escaping his wrath long enough, he intends for them to soak up the remnants of the other two Orders, and in their neutrality in the Force, unite the Force adepts under one banner. Having done this, they will be allowed to grow in power enough to foolishly show themselves before His Dominion, for what other options do they have but to face him or let him rule the Galaxy unchallenged. Once crushed, Izaak intends to cut down and hunt down every last one of them. In this way, he seeks to fulfil his dreams of eternal Dictatorship through the Judgement Day Initiative.

And the Family

Azurael Roktar (Dead) - Over Two thousand years before the rise of the Empire, there was a man who had his siblings murdered, his father murdered, and violently took control of his family assets as he seated himself as the head of the Roktar Family. He was a handsome young man with raven black hair, fair skin and a sinister charm. His intellect and charisma was beyond compare in his family and under his leadership, the Roktar gained much power, much influence and much wealth. The Roktar family under his leadership was granted membership into the Order of the Canted Circle, by the time Azurael was in his sixties, he owned massive corporations that spanned the known galaxy. Yet this ambitious, cruel man feared two things. The Degeneration of Humanity, what he considered the best, the pure race; and Death. He sought to preserve the purity and superiority of Humanity, by creating the perfect human. But he knew he was limited to just a mere single lifetime of effort, and then his nemesis, Death will take his efforts and ground it to dust, and so, he instead concentrated in transferring his own memories, his personality, his wishes and ambitions, into a clone. He hired the brightest most talented scientists of his time, and together, they delved into the human physiology and stole cloning technology from as many cultures and planets as possible. His Family wealth was invested in this technology and while his goal was Immortality, in the ninety years of his life span, he could not manage it in time. The closest they managed to do was to create a Clone who would develop one biological year over the course of a century, they called it the Immortals. His DNA was used and his memory was planted into the Immortal. They named him Moonstone. But quickly, the new clone showed signs of mental and biological instability. He was physically weak and his body was falling apart even as it started to develop into a baby. Panicked by this turn of events, they created a second immortal fixing their mistakes and perfecting their technology. They granted this second Immortal the new memory of Azurael, and named him Obsidian. Five normal Clones were grown to support the Immortals, and they used the memories and Genetic makeup of the Scientists. For they sought to unlock the secrets of their art for all eternity and they knew with this new technology, it was no longer a pipe dream. Soon after the christening of Obsidian, Azurael Roktar took his last breath, leaving the Five Guardians in sole rightful possession of the Roktar inheritance. But the Guardians knew they were not the heirs to Azurael. Their minds had been altered to remain absolutely loyal to Obsidian. For generations, they watched their Liege Lord grow, and they realised three hundred years after the death of Azurael, that his intelligence was not lost to the infant clone. No, while physically incapable of anything more than the actions of a three year old, his mind was capable of thinking, commanding and plotting as much as any educated and intelligent adult. For Centuries, Obsidian commanded the Five Guardians to do his bidding. For Centuries, they expanded in power and influence, increasing their gene pool, collecting DNA samples and memories of the greatest minds, talents and geniuses of their time. Each one offered a chance at immortality in return for their servitude. In case they declined, their memory and DNA was taken from them by force and they were killed. As the centuries went by, they established puppet organizations to deal with the more menial tasks, and while Moonstone withered away and died after the first millennium, Obsidian continued to flourish and grow. In some ways, Obsidian is Azurael Roktar, however, for obvious reasons he has refrained from using the name for himself.

Duke Geherin Zenos (Alive) - The sole Biological son of Izaak von Schwartzkrieg and Lady Kisheelah, he was brought up by his mother and Doosel Zenos to be the next Duke of Commenor. An idealist and a man of his people, Geherin sought to better his fellow Commenorians' lives. Using slightly questionable means, he orchestrated with the 'Benefactor's' help, in finally winning Commenor her independence from the Galactic Empire 24 years after the Battle of Yavin. When the people of Commenor sought to create a Dutchy, under his Benevolent Rule, he answered their hopes by throwing down the crown offered to him and refusing the title of Grand Duke. The Palace they prepared for him he had converted to become the Centre of Government, renaming it the Ministry Palace. He also had them grudgingly accept their status as an Oligarchic Republic. The Nobles were stripped of their privileges and only Duke Zenos and his Cousin, Lord Rahven were spared from this purge. Lord Rahven for his part in the independence movement was given a position as a Commander of the Commenorian Defence Fleet, Duke Geherin Zenos for his leadership grudgingly was asked to retain his title and to continue to take a leading role in government. A Cult following sprang up and Zenos was lauded a Hero of Commenor. Believing that Commenor would not be able to face the Empire once it recovered from the War of Second Dawn, Zenos convinced Parliament and the Prime Minister's Cabinet that they should seek membership in the Republic. Convinced by von Reuentahl that what he was doing was the best for his people, he sought to strengthen the Republic into a proper Government lead by a Civilian Sovereign Body. He saw the Republic as a mere tool for the Military, the Heroes of the Rebellion and the Jedi to control the planets; he saw them as no different from the Empire, and sought to change it to keep safe his people from being ruled once more by an oppressive Regime. Upon his arrival, he proposed and forced through the Anti-Piracy Legislation, severing the Republic's ties with the Pirates. Claiming their continued alliance was sending the wrong message to the citizens of the Republic. He took the independence and sovereign rights of member planets very seriously and only trampled on Taris' rights. Believing that the Host planet needed to suffer this in return for the extra attention it would get and the extra prestige it would have amongst the Senate. He saw weakness in the Jedi and grabbed the opportune moment when the Jedi Temple was attacked…a second time, to declare the Jedi to be in need of protection. He sought to separate them from politics forever, thus denying them the temptation and a chance to be corrupted by the matters of state and government. He sought to let them establish their order outside the bounds of the Republic governance, but bound by Republic laws. He sought for them to be the Republic's guardians. To step in times of crisis, but to stay away if no crisis was seen. He reorganised the Republic so that a smaller group could make quick educated decisions without the need to wait for the Senate to all agree. The Senate Councils increased in power and authority, while all opposition to his ideals were told to remain silent by the GER without his knowledge. When the BSP turned its fangs against the Republic, Geherin had Mon Mothma, Leia Organa Solo and Admiral Ackbar removed from their posts, charged with plotting an unlawful attack against an ally, he sought to assure the BSP that they did not seek hostility against the Pirate Organization, but simply to keep them at arms length away. But the Pirate attacks continued, forcing the Duke as minister of state to declare war against the Pirates when his close friend Senator Gregory Spite was found murdered by the BSP. He authorised the research and development of new weapons and defensive technology that would help them in this time of crisis for the Republic and sought to solidify a Strong Civilian Powerbase for the future. He understood what he did was wrong but he accepted that his cause was just. As Mon Mothma's insurrection ousted him from office, he fled to Commenor. When the Republic fleet followed him intent on arresting him, Izaak's men came to smuggle him off world as Taris was destroyed and the republic fleet entered disarray. He now seeks refuge in the one Faction he sought to save his people from. Now content to take the blame for the Jedi Purge and to be labelled a dictator, he seeks to slow down the Imperial march against Commenor as best he can without gathering too much suspicion.