Fauthian devastation

"Not a single star, planet, asteroid, or speck of space dust–not a single thing shall be denied me."

- Raixan Fauth Over a thousand years after Darth Wredd's insurgency and the Second Imperial Civil War, dark side warlord Raixan Fauth launched a conquest of the galaxy. Building a ragtag fleet of various military forces that had been long-defeated or in hiding, Fauth's expert military strategy allowed him to score a long-series of devestating victories against the Galactic Federation Triumvirate, driving them out of the Outer Rim and pushing further towards the core. As the GFT teetered on the edge of collapse, it formed the Triumvirate Subversive Intelligence Service, better known as the Underground, to continue the fight in the likes of the Unkown Regions, Wild Space, and the Outer Rim where regular Triumvirate forces had abandoned him. The SIS would later become the main opposing force against the invasion as the war continued to be waged. As thousands, if not millions of planets were conquered, a loose Fauth State was established to govern them, which became the main symbol of Fauthian forces and the namesake of the conflict.

The conquest was briefly stalled when Fauth directed his fleet to hunt down the Aranyan holocron, which he believed would grant him even dominance over the light side of the Force. The Underground moved to stop him, culminating in the blockade of Aranya and later on the Battle of Hideaway, the first official military engagement between Fauthian forces and the SIS, with the Underground narrowly winning.

Beaten but not broken, Fauth proceeded to launch the Second Great Jedi Purge in the hopes of extinguishing the New Jedi Order, which led to the destruction of Taivas and Ossus. The campaign concluded with the Battle of New Tython, which, while a technical Triumvirate victory, led to the Jedi being nearly eradicated and scattered throughout the galaxy, and Fauth continued on his assault as the SIS also struggled to recover, largely unchecked.

The war reached its darkest stage with the Fall of Coruscant, in which the capital of the GFT was taken. The Triumvirate fragmented and virtually lost all power, with the Fauth State becoming the dominant galactic government as remaining opposing forces allied with the Underground, who proceeded to launch Operation: Homefront. Its aim was to find the location of Fauth's homeworld, believing that it would open up a potential option for his ultimate defeat and the end of the war.

Asrai cult massacre
Following their defeat by the Jedi Order, the Asrai cult retreated into the depths of the Unknown Regions, where they hoped to rebuild their forces and one day strike back at both the Jedi and the Galactic Republic. This was not to be, however, as the Republic was soon reorganized into the Galactic Empire, technically ending their chances of revenge. However, they would not be dissuaded from their path, and the Asrai continued their efforts, building up massive fleets and forging alliances with the remnants of a variety of defeated foes as galactic history proceeded, with the Empire eventually being toppled in the Galactic Civil War and replaced with the New Republic, which itself was defeated and reorganized into the Galactic Alliance during the devestating Yuuzhan Vong War. Eventually, this too was destroyed in the Sith–Imperial War, and the galaxy fell under the dominion of the Sith once more in the form of Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire. Finally, this too was defeated, and a new Galactic Federation Triumvirate took power in its place, managing to survive Darth Wredd's insurgency, which lead to the final defeat of the One Sith, purging them from the galaxy for the time being as the Triumvirate led it into a new era of peace that would last for around a thousand years. All this time, the Asrai cult continued to build up its forces, as well as institute a rigorous breeding program in the hopes of creating a being who could lead their new forces to ultimate victory; a dark reflection of the Jedi's own Chosen One who would bring ruin upon their new Order.

They believed that that person had emerged with the birth of Raixan Fauth, a young member of the cult who was extraordinarily powerful in the dark side of the Force. Recognizing his power, the Asrai began to actively train the young Fauth in the hopes that he would one day become their great leader. Placing him in charge of their forces in charge of subjugating the natives of their chosen homeworld, Raixan quickly rose through the ranks and within a year was fully commanding these forces. However, while this did hone his ability to command his men and his own strategic abilities, it also began to disillusion the young warrior. The constant killing and slaughtering began to wear on him, as well as the futility of the resistance they encountered. This ultimatley lead to a slackening of effort on his part, which lead to a disastrous attack that lead to the death of all the men he had taken with him. Slaughtering the remaining Skorians with his bare hands in order to survive, a heavily wounded Fauth stumbled away and accidentally encountered a near-infinite nexus of the dark side. Tapping into it and bathing in its power, Raixan came to a conclusion: the galaxy, no, the universe, was one ruled by chaos. There would always be those who kowtowed to it, would allow chaos to gain control of the galaxy under the guise of order and peace, when in fact there was none. The chaos and pain that he had observed on the battlefield and his homeworld was the same that dominate the rest of the galaxy, and those who held power had no desire to remove this chaos. Therefore, in his mind, the only way for the universe to acquire an order where pain and suffering would vanish would be a galaxy ruled over by a single, absolute will, and as one who had encountered such pain firsthand, he was the one who understood it the best, and therefore, the one who deserved power. With that in mind, Fauth donned a featureless, reflective mask, rejecting the galaxy and the way it was now, becoming an impartial observer who would dominate it and shape it in the way he saw fit.

With that decided, Raixan returned to his former cult, hiding his new view as he built his own lightsaber and used the power of the Spring of Malice in order to gain greater strength than he had even had before. That done, he realized that the Asrai had served their purpose in the greater scheme of things; birthing him. With that in mind, he gathered the remaining subjugation forces that retained their loyalty towards his cause, and proceeded to kill a great deal of them, only sparing those who agreed to pledge their undying loyalty to him. With that done and the only family he had never known extinguished, Fauth declared his goal to those who had sworn their souls to him: he would conquer every inch, every aspect of the galaxy, and would rule it with an iron fist in order to create a perfect golden age. He extended the offer to join him on this glorious endeavor to his new men, and emboldened by their leader's confidence, all there agreed.

Preparing for war
With his goal set and a practical army of loyal troops behind him, Raixan Fauth went to work. He quickly completed the efforts of the Asrai, closing negotiations and deals with the various remnants that they had united and gaining access to their stores of weaponry and spacecraft. Those that refused or reneged on their deals were harshly dealt with, available forces quickly killing their leaders and allowing Fauth to take control of their governments. Raixan quickly forced together these elements, combining all of their forces into a single armada that he began training and instructing immediately. Using his own experience as well as a newfound intuition with such things, Fauth created several brilliant strategies and training methods, earning the loyalty and devotion of those under him as well as a powerful new fighting force. He assumed total control over his forces, supervising every aspect of their daily lives, from how they were fed and equipped to how their training was going, occasionally admonishing or commending trainees personally. However, he knew that he could not command a galaxy-spanning force himself, and established a loose officer system who were all completely subservient to him, as well as establishing the post of General in order to command those under him, while he himself took the title of Overlord. That done, he managed to recruit a famed serial killer and maniac known as Sideral and gave him the job of general, training him in the ways of the dark side when he discovered that the monster was Force-sensitive and later leaving to him the discipline and training of the ordinary ground troops. Their own kind of soldier was quickly established, complete with unique armor and weapons, as well as several variants.

With their ground forces established, Fauth next turned his attention to the armada once more. While their hodgepodge of various ship types was already powerful, he was also aware that the Asrai cult had created some of their own ships, dreadnaughts and fighters to be exact. However, even then, Raixan suspected that they had developed several larger, more imposing weapons of war that could be used with great success. Diving deep into their records, he discovered the existence of several of these superweapons. While some of them could not be used, either having not been completed or having been damaged by time, at least two were fully usable. The first, the Dread Crown, was a series of orbital satellites that could reduce any planet's surface completely uninhabitable to any life following the bombardment, far surpassing the destructive efforts of any ships he currently had under his command. The other, and the most important, was the Ziz, a massive worldship that was larger than some planets. It had taken hundreds of generations to complete and was still unfinished, but Fauth immediately ordered that his troops go to work on its completion, wanting to use it as his personal flagship and the unofficial 'capital' of his forces until a more suitable place could be used. It took another three years for it to be fully built, and another two to stock it with all the needed supplies for it to be fully self-sufficient, but during that time Fauthian forces managed to build themselves up fully, becoming a powerful military force commanded over by two strategic geniuses. This done, Fauth ordered invasion.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The New Frontier (First appearance)
 * Star Wars: An Advancing Darkness
 * Star Wars: Flames of the Galaxy