House Veritas Atra

“Fear is the breath of truth, and those who inhale it are reborn beyond death.”
 
A militant priesthood of dread, House Veritas Atra serves as the enforcers, inquisitors, and living sermons of Darth Vokun’zar’s transcendent philosophy of fear.
 
✠ Overview
Type: Theocratic-Militaristic House
Leader: Darth Vokun’zar
Doctrine: Dominion through Fear, Erasure of the Unworthy
Status: Autonomous Parallel Authority under the Sovereign Empire
Symbols: Barbed V with inlaid A
Seat of Power: The Sanctum Obscura
Size: House Major
Primary Domain: Military Workers - Soldiers (HVA Sable Wraiths)
Secondary Domain: Religion - Understanding (new religious philosophies)
Secondary Domain: Science - Produce (genetically adapted humans)
 
The Ascension of House Veritas Atra
"Let fear be the first and final truth."
 
House Veritas Atra was forged not from the ruins of Sith or Jedi legacies, but from the revelation that fear itself is the ultimate and transcendent force. Darth Vokun’zar’s vision rejected fractured ambition and empty dominion, instead embracing fear as the foundation of true power—a force to be wielded through devotion, ritual, and absolute obedience.
 
Vokun'zar recognized that power, when wielded by the unworthy, becomes entropy—a destructive force that consumes everything it touches. The Sith had long clung to empire and ego, building cathedrals to power they could neither control nor preserve. Their failure was not in their ambition, but in their fragmentation. Power without clarity. Authority without dogma. Dominion without doctrine.
 
In the vast emptiness of space and spirit, Vokun'zar uncovered the key to true dominion—not through brute force, but through fear as a transcendent, divine force. Fear is not weakness; it is the truth. It is a reality to which all minds must bend. Through this revelation, he saw that the true path to power lay in the shaping of will, not just through conflict, but through devotion, ritual, and absolute obedience.
 
Thus, House Veritas Atra was born—the militant priesthood of the Dark Truth. This was not a mere military order, nor a zealot’s cult. It was a fusion of the sacred and the deadly, a synthesis of war and worship that transcended conventional Sith thinking. At its heart, House Veritas Atra is a religious order of warriors, where fear is not simply a weapon but the core of their faith. This militant priesthood is neither mere soldiers nor fanatics; they are a sacred synthesis of war and worship, enforcers of the Black Truth. They worship fear not as a tool, but as an eternal, divine force embodied in Darth Vokun’zar.
 
 
A Theocratic-Militaristic House – A New Order
“Fear is the breath of truth. All who refuse to inhale it must choke on silence.”
 
Unlike traditional Sith legions, House Veritas Atra is an autonomous institution blending political and military power under the Sovereign Empire. It is a weaponized theocracy designed not just to conquer but to fundamentally reorder the galaxy according to the Dark Truth known only to Vokun’zar and his elect.
 
Vokun'zar’s insight was simple, yet profound. The Sith, in their endless cycles of ambition, had always fallen to their own vices. Theirs was an Empire of factions, competing visions, and internal decay. Military force, in their hands, was always a tool of expansion—a means to impose dominance, but never to reshape the very fabric of society. The House of Veritas Atra is different. It does not seek mere victories on the battlefield; it seeks the totality of dominion—a complete reordering of the galaxy to reflect the Dark Truth, a truth that only Vokun'zar and his chosen few can fully grasp.
 
At the core of the House lies its theocratic nature. The warriors of House Veritas Atra are not mere soldiers. They are priests of fear, bearing an unshakable loyalty to the sovereign will of Darth Vokun'zar, their divine master. They serve not just a leader, but a living embodiment of power, one whose authority transcends traditional politics or military hierarchy. To join House Veritas Atra is to submit completely to the doctrine of fear, to become both an executioner and a vessel of divine judgment. Submission is absolute; defiance is annihilation.
 
The Philosophy of the House – The Black Truth
 
House Veritas Atra is rooted in the belief that fear is the most sacred and absolute force in the universe—the only true constant, and the divine purifier of weakness. To its members, fear is not a weapon to be wielded lightly, but a holy mantle to be earned, mastered, and personified. Their creed holds that through the surgical application of terror, a new order may rise—one where false ideologies are dissolved, and the weak are forced to confront the truth of their powerlessness.
 
Service within the House is an initiation into deathless purpose. Warriors forsake identity and ego to become instruments of Vokun’zar’s will. They believe that domination without fear is hollow, and conquest without psychological annihilation is impermanent. Thus, they wage war as liturgy, assassinate as ritual, and manipulate as divine scripture.
 
Identity & Function
“Only through the crucible of dread does the soul shed illusion and become eternal.”
 
House Veritas Atra (HVA) is not a military battalion in the traditional sense. They are a zealot priesthood of annihilation, an elite order whose very appearance signals the final phase of resistance. Where they walk, defiance dies. Their presence is an act of divine judgment. To see the Black Truth is to see the end.
They are more than assassins or warriors—they are liturgical executioners, harbingers of fear, and converters of the soul. Every act they commit is ritual. Every death, a sermon. Every conversion, a sacrifice.
 
Pre-Battle Rite: Obex Tenebris (The Barrier of Darkness)
 
Before engagement, members perform a silent anointing. A smear of black ichor (made from alchemized ash, bone, and blood) is painted across the brow in the shape of the House’s glyph—a V inlaid with an A on their forehead.
 
Black banners soaked in ink and blood are raised. A dirge plays—tuned to psychologically disorient.
Enemy combatants who refuse the Rite of Awakening are offered as sacrifice in the sacred judgment.
 
A whispered chant echoes:
"Veritas Atra. Voluntas Atra. Judicium Atra."
(“Dark truth. Dark will. Dark judgment.”)
 
Their appearance signals not battle, but judgment. Surrender is demanded in hushed tones. If refused, obliteration follows.
 
Battle Doctrine: The Sermon of Silence
 
Combat is not merely war—it is sacred liturgy. HVA warriors fight in complete silence, striking with clean and absolute efficiency as avatars of inevitable judgment.
 
Post-Battle Rite: Scales of the Unseen
 
After each conflict, Veritas Atra warriors hold a solemn review. The battlefield is silently reviewed. Only those who died in terror bear the mark of true judgment, receiving a sacred touch of ash and blood. Those who died without fear are burned, their ignorance erased.
 
Conversion Rite: The Veil Rend
 
Survivors face a stark choice: accept the Rite of Awakening and be reborn as Shadowed Converts, or be executed without mercy. There is no middle path—only submission or oblivion.
 
The Rite of Awakening is the pivotal spiritual and psychological ceremony offered by House Veritas Atra to all enemy combatants or captives who survive an encounter with their forces. It is both a sacred rite and a brutal ultimatum, designed to strip away illusion and transform the initiate into a living vessel of the Black Truth. The Rite of Awakening is both a spiritual rebirth and a method of control. It transforms fear from a paralyzing force into a weaponized tool of power and loyalty. By submitting to the Rite, captives become part of an eternal order, transcending mortality through fear’s unyielding embrace.
 
The Ceremony
 
Isolation: The captive is removed from the battlefield and placed within a sealed chamber known as the Obscura Sanctum, a space suffused with shadows, low chanting, and faint, unnerving whispers of the Black Truth.
 
Symbolic Anointment: The captive’s brow is marked with black ichor—a mixture of ash, blood, and sacred oils—bearing the House glyph. This mark is both a brand and a spiritual seal, symbolizing the start of rebirth through fear.
 
Trial of Terror: The captive is subjected to a series of psychologically intense trials, including sensory deprivation, whispered horrors, and visions of mortality. These trials expose the initiate to the ultimate reality: death is the only truth, and fear is the path to transcendence.
 
The Oath: After the trials, the initiate is presented with the stark choice. They must swear the Oath of the Black Truth, pledging obedience, faith, and the eternal pursuit of fear as divine illumination.
 
“I embrace the shadow that reveals all.
I serve the Vokun’zar’s will without question.
Fear is my salvation and my dominion.”
 
Transformation: Those who accept the oath are inducted as Shadowed Converts—warrior acolytes trained and enhanced to serve as the living embodiment of House Veritas Atra’s doctrine. Their minds are reshaped, their bodies strengthened, and their souls bound to Vokun’zar’s command.
 
 
The Black Fleet of the House
“You are seen. You are judged. Kneel, and be remade. Resist, and be erased. Conversion or Silence.”\
 
The Black FLeet is the sword and shadow of House Veritas Atra, a divine instrument of terror and judgment. Forged in secrecy and cloaked in the doctrine of fear-as-faith, this elite naval force exists for one purpose: to deliver conversion or annihilation. It does not wage war in the conventional sense—it performs sacred purges. When the Fleet arrives, it signals that diplomacy has failed, that the unworthy have resisted the truth of fear, and that Vokun’zar has decreed a reckoning.
 
The dreadnoughts serve as divine cathedrals of war, each led by high-ranking Wraithlords who serve as both admirals and dark apostles of the Black Truth. The stealth wings infiltrate systems long before battle is joined, spreading whispers, terror, and sabotage to prepare the way. The fleet’s destroyers and corvettes perform surgical annihilation of resistance, supported by interdictors and electronic warfare ships that trap and silence any fleeing heretics.
 
This is not a fleet of conquest. It is a holy procession of extinction, arriving only when it is time to cleanse a system of disbelief and carve the Barbed V into the stars.
 
The Black Fleet Order of Battle:
 
Harrower-Class Dreadnoughts (3)
ISV Vraath (Qazûth – “Ruin”)
ISV Sharûk (Sharûk – “Barb”)
ISV Karûn (Karûn – “Final Psalm”)
 
Terminus-Class Destroyers (5)
ISV Nahkaras (Nah’karas – “Nightwound”)
ISV Zûrnath (Zûrnath – “Dreadtoll”)
ISV Trakûl (Trakûl – “Unseen Chains”)
ISV Draleth (Draleth – “Veilborne”)
ISV Vahrûl (Vahrûl – “Funeral Flame”)
 
Gage-Class Transport Frigates (10)
(Names not listed as they are primarily logistical vessels)
 
Stealth and Infiltration Division
X-70B Phantom-Class Prototypes (4)
ISV Niraas (Niraas – “Ashwhisper”)
ISV Dravos (Dravos – “Relic”)
ISV Xavass (Xavass – “Wraithfang”)
ISV Vaxarûm (Vaxarûm – “Mercyless”)
 
Custom-Built Stealth Corvettes (6)
(Names not listed as they are covert vessels)
 
Interdictor-Class Cruisers (4)
(Names not listed as they serve support roles)
 
Gage-Class Light Carriers (Modified for Stealth Deployment) (2)
ISV Rekkûth (Rekkûth – “Vault”)
ISV Zarnak (Zarnak – “Benediction”)
 
Munificent-Class Frigates (Modified for Electronic Warfare & Support) (8)
(Names not listed as they serve support roles)