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.