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Therj'en'nuruodo is a Chiss male of the Nuruodo family, born on Dromund Kaas in 3665 BBY and raised within the structured traditions of both the Ascendancy and the Sith Empire. Though Force sensitivity among the Chiss was rare and often condemned, his abilities manifested early but remained concealed from Imperial attention through strict self-control and disciplined restraint. At the age of eight, he was conscripted into the Imperial Navy and trained within its officer academies as part of the Sith Empire’s conscription protocols on Dromund Kaas. His aptitude for command and tactical jurisprudence quickly distinguished him among his peers.
By the time his latent Force abilities were formally discovered at the age of nine, he had already earned the respect of several naval instructors. Rather than execution or exile, he was reassigned by Imperial decree to the Sith Academy, where the Sphere of Laws and Justice claimed oversight of his development. His studies combined the legalistic doctrine of Imperial administration with the philosophical tenets of Sith order and control. He rose through the Academy ranks, completing his training with distinction and receiving his title as a Sith Lord by early adulthood.
Appointed under the Sphere of Laws and Justice, Therj’en’nuruodo was entrusted with direct oversight of the Imperial Navy’s judicial and operational discipline. He served as both magistrate and fleet commander, ensuring adherence to Imperial Code and Sith hierarchy across multiple sectors. His dual authority as Sith Lord and naval officer gave him influence over fleet conduct, officer tribunals, and the legal interpretation of wartime directives. During the later stages of the Great Galactic War, he commanded the Harrower-class dreadnought Judicator, supported by a Fury-class interceptor of the same name for reconnaissance and diplomatic operations.
His tenure within the Navy reflected the ideals of structured dominion rather than unrestrained conquest. He believed the Sith Code was not a license for chaos but a system of order sustained by strength and accountability. Many within the fleet referred to him as the “Silent Adjudicator,” a commander whose discipline matched his power. Reports from the period describe him as detached yet exact, judging officers and apprentices alike by merit rather than ambition.
Following the collapse of the Sith Empire, Therj’en’nuruodo withdrew from known space aboard the Judicator. He entered a state of deep Force meditation within the ship’s sealed sanctum, a chamber that would become both his refuge and prison. For centuries, the vessel drifted through uncharted regions until rediscovery in 43 ABY. Salvage crews from the Dark Jedi Brotherhood found the ship largely intact, its systems in minimal standby, and its commander still alive in sustained trance.
Upon revival, Therj’en’nuruodo displayed no signs of physical decay, his biological age held in suspension by his command of the Force. Records recovered from the Judicator confirmed his last entries as dated to the waning years of the old Empire. The Brotherhood granted him provisional status, later confirming his allegiance under House Tyranus of Clan Plagueis. Though he no longer claimed the mantle of Sith Lord in name, his mastery remained unquestioned. He resumed study and counsel within the Brotherhood, serving as legal scholar, archivist, and advisor on Imperial jurisprudence and Chiss philosophy.
His worldview remains shaped by the fusion of two legacies: Chiss discipline and Sith law. He views power as the means to sustain order rather than disrupt it, and the Force as a reflection of law itself—capable of destruction but created for structure. Within the Brotherhood, he acts as a strategist and arbiter, often mediating between conflicting interpretations of doctrine. His restored Fury-class Judicator serves as both residence and mobile archive, while the derelict Harrower-class vessel remains preserved in orbit above Aliso as a monument to Imperial order and endurance.
To his peers, Therj’en’nuruodo is less a relic than a reminder—that law and discipline, not chaos or domination, built the empires of the past. His presence commands quiet deference. Those who serve beside him often remark that when he speaks, he does so as if the centuries themselves were listening.
Character History
Early Life and Heritage
Therj’en’nuruodo was born in 3665 BBY on Dromund Kaas to a distinguished Chiss family of the Nuruodo line. Though his family’s ancestral home remained on Csilla, both his parents were stationed within the Sith Empire. His father, an officer in the Chiss Expansionary Defense Force, had been seconded to the Imperial Navy to coordinate navigational strategy between the Ascendancy and Imperial command. His mother, herself a Chiss officer within the Imperial Navy, served aboard a Harrower-class dreadnought in the Kaas system. His father was killed in action during a frontier campaign in 3660 BBY, and his mother succumbed to the Rakghoul plague three years later. Both sets of grandparents were from Csaplar, the capital of Csilla, and maintained distant ties to the Nuruodo ruling house.
Among his siblings, Therj’en’nuruodo was the firstborn and the only child born on Dromund Kaas. The remaining children were born in Csaplar, where the Nuruodo name carried considerable weight. Several of his siblings entered the Chiss Expansionary Defense Force or Ascendancy bureaucracy, while others pursued mercantile and diplomatic roles within the outer sectors. A few lived long, distinguished lives, while others died young under mysterious circumstances linked to offworld assignments. Of them all, only one sister shared his sensitivity to the Force, a navigator within the Ascendancy known as a Sky-Walker. She remained alive as of his final entry aboard the Judicator, though her fate after his long meditation remains uncertain.
Force sensitivity among the Chiss was rare and stigmatized. Discovery often resulted in exile or execution, and the Nuruodo elders took extreme care to conceal his abilities. As a child, Therj’en’nuruodo learned restraint to the point of invisibility. He used the Force only in subtle ways, never enough to draw attention. At eight years old, he was conscripted into the Imperial Navy through a merit-based youth program common on Dromund Kaas. His heritage and discipline advanced him quickly through the ranks of cadet command. His aptitude for both tactics and regulation earned him early notice within the Ministry of War, though no one yet suspected the Force that guided his precision.
At nine years old, an incident during a training exercise revealed his sensitivity. Though he managed to conceal the event, reports from those present suggest that he narrowly avoided detection by the Sith. For several years he continued to serve quietly, studying naval law and command ethics, until a later evaluation exposed his nature beyond concealment. Rather than execution, he was remanded by order of the Dark Council to the Sith Academy under the Sphere of Laws and Justice. What would have been a death sentence within the Ascendancy became an initiation into the Empire’s highest order of power.
Imperial Navy Service
By the time Therj’en’nuruodo reached maturity, his path within the Imperial Navy was firmly established. Though originally conscripted as a youth, he advanced through the officer corps with precision and restraint uncommon among human or Sith-born cadets. His early appointments included service aboard the Terminus-class destroyer Vigilant as a junior tactical officer, where his analytical methods and unflinching composure during engagements against Republic patrols gained notice from senior command. His ability to anticipate enemy maneuvers with near prescient accuracy, while keeping emotional detachment, made him a valued asset during the Empire’s frontier expansions.
After several campaigns, he received command of a Harrower-class dreadnought, the Judicator. Under his authority, the ship operated not merely as a weapon of war but as a judicial arm of the Navy. He was later granted jurisdiction under the Sphere of Laws and Justice, serving as liaison between the Ministry of War and the Imperial courts. The Judicator became the site of military tribunals, officer evaluations, and the enforcement of wartime edicts issued by the Dark Council. It was said that those summoned aboard the vessel were judged not by cruelty but by precision, for Therj’en’nuruodo viewed every decision as a matter of law rather than vengeance.
His command style was characterized by methodical discipline. He treated subordinates with impartial rigor, demanding obedience tempered by understanding of the Imperial Code. Under his direction, naval formations operated with exceptional cohesion, their efficiency attributed to his balance of logic and fear. Officers under his tutelage often remarked that he valued silence on the bridge as a weapon of control. He cultivated an atmosphere where duty itself was the only doctrine that mattered. This philosophy made him a stabilizing force during the turbulent years that followed the Sacking of Coruscant, when internal rivalries and Sith interference often crippled fleet coordination.
In recognition of his record and composure under pressure, the Dark Council formally conferred upon him the title of Sith Lord. His transition from naval officer to Sith command was not abrupt; he continued to operate the Judicator as his flagship while assuming legal and strategic duties across multiple fleets. The Fury-class interceptor Judicator was gifted to him by the Ministry of War as a personal transport and reconnaissance vessel, symbolizing his dual authority as jurist and commander. Unlike many Sith Lords who used power to impose fear, he ruled by discipline and principle. To his officers, he was the embodiment of Imperial law in motion.
During the Great Galactic War, his fleet participated in engagements along the Mid Rim and the Tingel Arm. His strategies were designed to preserve infrastructure and civilian stability, reflecting his belief that conquest without governance was futility. Reports from both allies and enemies describe his operations as surgical, leaving minimal collateral damage but achieving maximum compliance. He resisted unnecessary cruelty, maintaining that obedience achieved through respect endured longer than obedience born of terror.
As the war began to wane, Therj’en’nuruodo’s influence extended beyond the battlefield. He became a key figure in the codification of naval law, contributing to revisions of the Imperial Fleet Charter and the Articles of Engagement. His writings argued that the survival of the Sith Empire depended not on domination but on the integrity of its institutions. Many within the fleet considered his doctrines revolutionary, while others viewed them as heretical restraint. Yet even his critics admitted that his fleets maintained unmatched order and loyalty.
By the final years of the Empire, he commanded several squadrons under the direct oversight of the Sphere of Laws and Justice, acting as arbiter in disputes between Sith and non-Sith officers. His title of “Silent Adjudicator” originated during this period, as he often presided over court-martials in silence, rendering judgment only after every argument had been exhausted. When the Empire began to fracture, he stood among the few voices calling for reform rather than retaliation. His warnings went unheeded, and as rebellion spread through the ranks, he withdrew from the collapsing order that could no longer uphold its own law.
Therj’en’nuruodo’s years within the Imperial Navy shaped him into a figure of paradoxical authority: a Sith Lord who commanded through law instead of fear, a naval officer who believed in justice above ambition. His legacy within the Navy survived long after its fall. Records recovered from the wreck of the *Judicator* include fragments of his final directive: “Law is not the chain of the weak. It is the spine of the strong.”
The Sith Academy and the Fall of Empire
When the Imperial Ministry of War discovered his latent Force sensitivity, Therj’en’nuruodo was recalled from naval service and transferred to the Sith Academy on Dromund Kaas. His admission was not voluntary. The Sphere of Laws and Justice claimed authority over his training, citing both his legal aptitude and his Chiss discipline as assets to the Empire’s judicial corps. The Academy records note that his arrival was met with quiet scrutiny. Chiss Force-sensitives were considered unnatural even among the Sith, and his family’s influence within the Ascendancy provided little protection within Imperial space.
Therj’en’nuruodo adapted quickly to the Academy’s harsh regimen. He studied not only the Force but also the legal foundations of Sith governance, including the Imperial Edicts, the ancient Codes of Arbitration, and the penal directives governing military command. His instructors observed a distinct absence of ambition. Unlike many of his peers, he did not seek the Iron Throne or personal dominion. His focus remained on the structural survival of the Empire itself. In debates and duels alike, he demonstrated restraint without weakness, arguing that law was the only force capable of tempering power.
Upon receiving the title of Sith Lord, he was assigned to the Sphere of Laws and Justice under direct commission. His duties extended across the Imperial Navy, where he served as both magistrate and commanding officer. He conducted tribunals for officers accused of dereliction or insubordination, presided over fleet code revisions, and ensured that the will of the Dark Council was executed through lawful decree. His flagship, the Harrower-class dreadnought Judicator, became both a mobile command center and a judicial seat, often orbiting contested systems where Imperial order risked collapse.
As the Great Galactic War drew toward its end, Therj’en’nuruodo found himself among the few who foresaw the Empire’s internal decay. He petitioned the Dark Council to reform the legal apparatus of the Navy, warning that power without structure would dissolve into rebellion. His requests were ignored. When the Empire fractured, he withdrew from active command, sealing himself within the Judicator and entering deep Force meditation. The ship vanished into the Unknown Regions soon after, presumed lost with all hands. Only centuries later, when the Dark Jedi Brotherhood uncovered the derelict vessel, did the truth of his survival emerge.
The fall of the Empire did not break his loyalty to its ideals. In later testimony recorded by the Brotherhood, he stated that the Empire had not been defeated by the Jedi but by its own failure to preserve justice. For him, the Sith Code had always been law disguised as power. In the silence of the Judicator, he resolved to wait until a new order—worthy of law and discipline—would rise again.
Rediscovery and Renewal
In 43 ABY, long after the fall of the old Sith Empire, a Brotherhood salvage detachment operating along a forgotten trade corridor near the Minos Cluster located a derelict Fury-class interceptor drifting amid debris. The ship’s nameplate, Judicator, was identical to the lost dreadnought once commanded by Therj’en’nuruodo. Initial scans detected faint energy readings from within a sealed meditation chamber. When boarding crews breached the inner hull, they found the vessel preserved by overlapping stasis fields of unknown origin. At its center sat Therj’en’nuruodo, unaged, seated in meditation before a still-functioning holocron keyed to the Sphere of Laws and Justice.
Records suggest that the Force stasis had lasted nearly four millennia. The ship’s chronometers registered no external activity since its disappearance. When the stasis field collapsed, Therj’en’nuruodo awoke in silence, requesting only a report of the Empire’s fate. Upon learning of its destruction and the rise of new orders, he accepted the truth without visible reaction. His first words to the recovery team were recorded by the boarding officer’s helmet feed: “Then the law sleeps, but it is not dead.”
The Dark Jedi Brotherhood brought him to Arx for study and eventual induction. His knowledge of pre-Republic Imperial law, naval doctrine, and Force jurisprudence proved invaluable to scholars of the Shadow Academy. Though no longer a Sith Lord in title, he was granted position within Clan Plagueis, where his temperament and command sense aligned with the pragmatic discipline of House Tyranus. In time, he accepted the Brotherhood’s authority, viewing it not as a rival empire but as a continuation of the same eternal pattern—order rising from decay.
His reawakening marked the beginning of what he called his “second service.” He resumed study of the Force not for conquest, but for preservation of structure amid the flux of galactic power. The restored Judicator now serves as both laboratory and tribunal, its central chamber repurposed for meditation and instruction. Those who enter its halls find the interior untouched by time, as if the old Empire itself lingers in its metallic silence.
To the members of the Brotherhood, Therj’en’nuruodo remains a paradox. Some regard him as a relic sustained by obsession, others as a prophet of discipline in an age addicted to change. He shows allegiance neither to nostalgia nor to revolution. His loyalty is to continuity—the belief that civilizations survive only when their laws are stronger than their wars. Though displaced in time, he carries himself as though nothing has changed, moving through the corridors of Arx with the same measured calm that once ruled a fleet.
In his private writings, he refers to his reawakening as a judicial summons rather than a resurrection. “I did not return to rule,” one entry reads, “but to remember what rule was meant to be.” To this day, the Brotherhood’s archivists maintain that his memory of the ancient Empire remains intact, yet he speaks of it rarely, believing that the living must build their own order. To those who seek him out, he offers a single warning: “The Force is not chaos. It is structure waiting for will.” For him, the future is not rebellion against the past, but its lawful correction.
Physical Description
Therj’en’nuruodo retains the sharp, angular features of his Chiss heritage. His skin is deep cobalt blue, smoothed by the preservation effects of long Force-induced stasis. His eyes burn with crimson irises that shift subtly in hue with emotion, though he seldom allows any expression to reach his face. His posture reflects decades of naval discipline, shoulders square, chin slightly lifted, and every motion deliberate. His voice carries the quiet authority of command, low and precise, shaped by years of judicial rhetoric rather than battlefield shouting.
He is of average Chiss height, approximately 1.8 meters, and maintains a lean but defined build honed through martial training. His dark hair is kept short, streaked faintly with silver along the temples. When not in formal robes, he wears a modified naval uniform of the old Sith Empire, its black and crimson tones subtly adorned with the insignia of the Sphere of Laws and Justice. His lightsaber, a curved-hilt weapon crafted in the Makashi tradition, hangs from his belt beside an Imperial officer’s datapad still engraved with his original code clearance. Despite his centuries of isolation, his bearing is immaculate, as if time itself has been unable to erode his sense of order.
Personality and Philosophy
Therj’en’nuruodo embodies the precision and restraint of the Chiss Ascendancy, tempered by the philosophical austerity of the old Sith Empire. His manner is calm to the point of disquiet. He rarely raises his voice, preferring stillness and silence to dominate a room. To those who serve beside him, his presence feels less like command and more like judgment waiting to be rendered. He listens more than he speaks, and when he does speak, every word is measured with exact intent.
Unlike many Sith of his age, Therj’en’nuruodo does not derive strength from passion or emotion. His discipline was formed in the structure of law, where emotion is treated as instability. He believes that power must submit to order, and that law is the truest expression of the Force’s balance. To him, the Sith Code is not a license for chaos but a charter for controlled ascent. He once wrote that freedom without law is merely indulgence, and that the Dark Side, left without structure, consumes its own foundation. This belief often places him at odds with more volatile Sith, yet even his opponents acknowledge the unshakable authority behind his reasoning.
His view of justice is neither moral nor sentimental. He believes that fairness exists only through clarity, and that mercy without merit is corruption in disguise. Within the Imperial Navy, he was known for delivering sentences that were harsh yet exact, free from cruelty but absolute in consequence. Within the Brotherhood, he continues this practice as a mentor to those who seek balance between emotion and control. He favors discipline over ambition, and knowledge over dominance, seeing the Brotherhood not as a hierarchy of power but as a proving ground for those capable of mastering themselves.
Despite his stoic exterior, Therj’en’nuruodo is not devoid of conscience. He carries deep loyalty to the Chiss ideal of service through merit, and to the Sith conviction that will must be exercised toward structure rather than destruction. His detachment masks a quiet reverence for endurance, precision, and legacy. When speaking of the past, he does so without nostalgia, acknowledging the Empire’s fall as the natural consequence of unrestrained pride. Yet he remains unyielding in his belief that law, when wielded by the strong, can outlast even the collapse of civilizations.
In the modern Brotherhood era, he acts as a stabilizing figure within House Tyranus of Clan Plagueis. Many view him as an anachronism, a relic of extinct empires who nevertheless understands the machinery of power better than most living beings. He often serves as arbiter in disputes and as a strategist during joint operations, favoring plans that minimize waste and maximize control. His philosophy of order has begun to influence a small circle of apprentices and officers who refer to his teachings as the “Doctrine of Continuance.” To them, he represents the bridge between the ancient Sith and the disciplined modern force-user, a being who believes that true mastery begins where chaos ends.
Though centuries removed from his own time, Therj’en’nuruodo remains a servant of law. His purpose is no longer conquest but preservation—the belief that even in the ashes of empire, structure can be rebuilt. He moves through the galaxy as a living testament to endurance, a figure who speaks not of what the Sith were, but of what they could have been if discipline had survived ambition.