Satal Victus is one of the two battle teams in House Satal Keto of Clan Plagueis.
History
Ancient Tradition
The story of Satal Victus is one that spans the eons. Some 4,000 years before the Battle of Yavin, cousins Satal and Aleema Keto formed a secret Dark Side sect that they called the “Krath”, after demons from their childhood fairy tales. As members of the Tetan royal family and heirs to the throne, Satal and Aleema soon set to work using their power and influence to spread the Krath and to grow their own dark powers.
Satal and Aleema were soon discovered by the spirit of former Dark Lord of the Sith Freedon Nadd and taught the secrets of the Sith, which, combined with their own knowledge as the first Krath made them a force to be reckoned with.
Seeing a need for increased military power to combat the Jedi, Satal created a sizable Krath army and selected from its ranks his finest, most powerful followers to serve as his personal guard. This elite guard, known as Abyssus Victus, or Living Hell. These soldiers, all fiercely loyal to their master, combined the best of Krath illusion and mysticism with the ruthlessness and sheer power of the Sith. No one dared challenge the Dark Lord Keto in the presence of his angels of death.
The Abyssus Victus served Satal loyally for many years, fighting by his side in battle upon battle, and spreading their master’s teachings across the known galaxy and beyond.
Downfall and Betrayal
Despite Satal Keto’s personal power and his infamous body guard unit, his own cousin, co-founder of the Krath, Aleema Keto, proved to be his ultimate undoing. Tricked by Ulic Qel-Droma, Aleema took the supposedly fallen Jedi under her wing and even granted him command of the Krath military arm. Satal, not as easily deceived as his cousin, refused to believe that Qel-Droma had truly left the way of the Jedi behind him, and forced him to prove his loyalties by letting him choose what to do to a captured comrade of his, the Jedi Nomi Sunrider.
Ulic declared that the Jedi should be imprisoned, but secretly sent her a message that he was still on her side and was only biding his time. Satal intercepted this message sentenced both Qel-Droma and Sunrider to death.
Meanwhile, Abyssus Victus had been dispatched to eliminate known Jedi spies from within the ranks of the Krath Order, leaving only two of the elite guards to defend Satal Keto.
Unfortunately for Satal, Sunrider managed to escape from her imprisonment long enough to call for aid, which quickly arrived in the form of the Jedi Cay Qel-Droma and Tott Doneeta. The two Jedi were engaged single-handedly by one of the two Abyssus Victus guards, who managed to inflict severe wounds on both, but was eventually overcome when the third Jedi, Numi Sunrider, joined the battle. The remaining Victus guard rushed to his master’s aid as Ulic Qel-Droma confronted Satal Keto, but was struck down by the rogue Jedi during the battle. Keto’s death was immediately felt by his dispersed guards, who made haste back to their master’s side.
Dishonor and Rebirth
Unable to defend their Lord until their last, the guards of Abyssus Victus were left in dishonor. For millennia they and their descendents, while ceaselessly loyal to the Sith Lords, remained dishonored and broken. The once proud line of Royal Tetan Guards turned Dark Jedi elite had to redeem itself, and in doing so honor not only themselves but also the master they had failed so many centuries ago.
Abyssus carried on in the shadows until the fateful appearance of the Dark Lord of the Sith, Kane Vader. This powerful Dark Jedi united the scattered clans of the past once more under the banner of a single leader and in doing so he laid the foundations for the Aybssus Victus to reclaim their rightful place in history. Banding together with the other descendants of Satal and Aleema Keto’s followers, the Abyssus slowly began to make a name for themselves once more.
After several years had passed, the proud clan that had once been Clan Satal Keto had merged with another great clan, Exar Kun, to form the mighty Clan Plagueis, renown across the galaxy as a bastion of dark lore and brutal power. The closure of the Clan of Satal Keto had once again silenced the Abyssus Victus, but only for a short time.
In the midst of a violent Clan Feud – a very fundamental struggle for power within the Brotherhood – a need was once again seen for the ruthless cunning of Abyssus Victus, and the Sith Warrior BubbaX and his powerful ally, Sith Warrior Archangel, both descendents of the original Abyssus Victus, answered the call – this time, however, reborn under a new title that would honor the unit’s immense history and never allow past errors to be repeated: From this day forward, the reborn elite guard of Satal Keto would be known as “Satal Victus”.
Glory until Death
Since the rebirth of Satal Victus in the fiery gauntlet of a bloody Clan Feud, the battle team has made a powerful name for itself. The greatest pilots and strategists of Clan Plagueis swear their allegiance to the mighty guard that serves its new Clan and masters as fiercely as it served its progenitor.
In conflict after bloody conflict the new Victus has rallied to the cry of “Glory until Death!” as they make battle upon their foes, and crush the wills of their enemies. And, despite the incalculable changes in the galaxy since Satal Keto’s reign, the descendants of his feared guard carry on the traditions of their ancestors and will never forget the failure that haunted them for so long – the future of Satal Victus is one of honor and blood; conquest and suffering; glory until death.
Roll of Commanders
4/30/2006 to 5/19/2006: BubbaX
5/19/2006 to 6/23/2006: Raken
6/23/2006 to Present: Kal Vorrac