Peace is a lie, there is only passion.

Through passion, I gain strength.

Through strength, I gain power.

Through power, I gain victory.

Through victory, my chains are broken.

The Force shall free me.

As the dust settled before the wake of the Sith armada the once great fleet of the Antarans lie in ruin. The forces of the Seven Clans had proved victorious over the wothless pirates and at last what had begun two standard months before was finished. The War of the Sith, the Third War, was over. The remnants of the space raiders had been hunted down and destroyed, down to the last ship. The Iron Throne had triumphed. Antei was free.

For their victory over the pirates the Grand Master commissioned the youngest ship of the fleet to the grand Order of the Serpenti, the modified Victory II-class Star Destroyer Autarch, which would serve as their flagship, joining the Maleficarum and Kormandal as part of the Vorago Defence Force, guarding the fortified Gateway into the core of the Shadowplanes.

Alas the work continued, for with the battle won the High Warrior returned to his work, reconstructing the fragments of the long forgotten Sith Holocron, piecing together the history of the Third Order. The work was nearing completion with Chapters one through fourteen completed, leaving but the hidden truth behind the Order of the Serpenti to be uncovered, and for the Sith to reclaim their lost Powers and Lore. Even so, Lord Darth smiled on the High Warrior, for his real work was complete for the time, and his commitments could rest entirely on the completion of the Holocron. It would not be long now. The Sith would be reborn.

But in the silence of the momentary peace and celebrations the shadows cried out beneath the scarred surface of the sacred world. The dark spirits of an age long past had become restless. The Dark Side hungered...

The Darkness had become Darkness. Consumed inside and of itself... peace had been shattered, all that was left was passion.

The Great War was coming.

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Dark Adept Xanos Zorrixor Serpenti-Sadow
Sith High Warrior of the Dark Brotherhood
Prefect of the Order of Serpentis
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