Darth Soudain

> There is no dishonor in retreat. If there is no possibility of victory, fall back, regroup━learn about your foe, adapt, and strike again when you have the upper hand. The Sith of ages past were defeated because they attacked feverishly without regard for the fight tomorrow.
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> ━Darth Soudain

**Darth Soudain**, formerly known as **Cerris Octavious**, and later the head of the **Xetrian family** following his parent's betrayal, was a human male Dark Lord of the Sith and a member of the Sith Empire’s ruling Dark Council as head of the Sphere of Military Command. The son of two members of the Dark Council, Darth Dewitt, the head of the Sphere of Expansion and Diplomacy, and Darth Silent, the head of the Sphere of Imperial Intelligence, Cerris developed a more militaristic lifestyle, preferring the theater of war rather than the niceties of diplomacy or the subtleties of espionage.

At some point in time, he passed his trials at the Sith Academy and was taken by the individual known as "Synthesis Seven" as his apprentice, albeit with resistance from his family who later accepted it suddenly. Throughout his apprenticeship, Cerris would be known as a fearsome warrior and stalwart defender of the Empire through his military exploits. Ten years later he ascended to the title of Darth and was rechristened Darth Soudain as eventually Synthesis Seven would be reported missing-in-action and declared dead. It wouldn’t be until within a year later, Soudain would be recalled to the Imperial capital by an emergency session of the Dark Council and upon arriving, seeing his parents bound and restrained by Sovereign Protectors. Beginning the Council session, the Emperor entered the room shortly after everyone had been seated, stating that the two before them were traitors to the throne and had conspired to undermine Imperial authority and by extension, the Emperor’s throne. Darth Soudain, having been trained by possibly one of the most loyal individuals in the Empire, understood the costs of treason, feeling disgusted and disappointed his own parents would stoop to such lows against the Empire they all served. Complying almost unhesitatingly with his orders, he publicly executed his parents on an Imperial-wide holo announcement, following the Emperor’s lengthy speech about the cost of treason and the price traitors must pay.

Following the execution, Darth Soudain would change his family name from Octavious to Xetrian as a means to erase his family’s history and begin with a renewed loyalty to the Empire. At the behest of the Emperor, Darth Soudain would be placed on the Dark Council as head of the Sphere of Military Command, as a result of his military ingenuity and tactical prowess.

Ultimately, upon the disappearance of Darth Deceptious and critical Imperial leadership, Darth Soudain would perish in a final battle with the emboldened Galactic Republic by crashing his dreadnought into a Republic base, leaving the Republic to reconsider how far the Empire would go to achieve its goal. It would not be until thousands of years later, following the fall of the Galactic Empire and the death of the last two Sith, that he would be resurrected by the Sith Emperor, who revealed his death was but a facade. Pledging his loyalty to a new order and Empire, Soudain was once again placed in command of the Sphere of Military Command of a new Imperial Military.