Fiction:Hound Empire

After the Battle of Karn and the Massacre at Oth, the Sith under the command of Darth Cadeus turned against Emperor Nask. He launched a daring coup, marching with his cohorts straight into Nask's audience chamber himself, and killing the man who sat on the throne. After the man's death, Cadeus sat himself in his place. Noting the confusion and outrage from the members of the Senate Council who were present, he laid out the facts of life for them. Faced with little choice, the Senate Council swore loyalty to him; for the first time in ninety years, since Darth Clohath declared himself Emperor of the Hound Empire, a Sith Lord held the galactic seat of power. At once he set about imposing order on a galaxy that sorely needed it, but this too was an incomplete victory. The "Emperor" he had killed had been a double; the real Nask was a fully trained Imperial Knight and would surely have defended himself, rather than just stand there and let himself be slain. It was imperative that the real Nask be found before he recruited allies among the Senators, the military, or those Jedi who had survived the massacre at Oth..