The Inner Rim Imperium

Kel'Al Raganella All good, I did the same for a while there. So far the only main change is the IRI moving from Obroa-Skai to Hapes for a permanent home. We've been working on spreading some of the love around. Li'nara Trasc is going to run a story about the Queen Mother returning to Hapes after the fall of the Coalition. Hapes got some preferential terms for joining the IRI.

I can do that, no objections here.
Li'nara had fought among the Coalition prior to the battle of Fondor (technically still is, but would skip that part ahead since Hapes joining the IRI would indicate that the CC has already failed and fell apart), so agreements with other gouvernments with whose members they were allied prior isn't a problem for her. Not to mention that having contacts to the Five Worlds is never a bad idea for a new rising faction.

Kel'Al Raganella That works. I've mentioned there's no current Queen Mother and that a council of noble houses has been ruling in her stead. I've kept details to a minimum to allow for the story to work around it.

Members are active, though admittedly I don't know the status of everyone involved.
Any specific story line you're looking for?

In that case technically the First Order under the command of Nicademus Delvardus IV would be a good opportunity, when it comes to classic Imperial allies, that follow the ideals of the Fel Empire. Unlike the canon First Order from the current movies, the First Order here mostly has only inherited the name and tech of the naming faction, but bases it's principles on a variety of Legends Imperial factions, leaning a lot lately into the doctrines of the Fel Empire. Both the Knights of Ren and the Imperial Knights serve as the bodyguards and swords of the Emperor.
A third group with the Inquisitors might follow, but so far these two are the most dominant force user groups, that exist like Yin and Yang.

The IRI does lean into a more commonwealth approach from what I understood, so we're mostly our own thing here. Goal is pretty much to unite and hold the regions that are the Inner Rim with the intention of defying the First Order, as the FO is currently the strongest faction on JvS.
It's pretty much guided by a council of worlds, from which one leader gets elected, so it's a democratic system.
I'm not really certain so far on what will be the plans for the future on this faction, but if you need any Hapans involved in your story line, I can serve with that as well.

Could be an idea, although there are currently no open plans on Bilbringi. Best to discuss this also with the First Order folks (having there an account as well), as that might be more fun, given that they know their own arsenal the best and could react properly.
I'm however not certain how active the IRI is going to jump straightly into conflict with the FO, because while there are plans to the IRI to become a major faction, that might oppose the FO in the future, they're still in their forming stage. So not much happening at the moment.

As another idea for a force user that actively defys the First Order there are also the Jedi Orders an idea, including the Jedi Lords, the Corellian Jedi and the Jedi on Felucia.
Although most of their factions aren't in an active war with the FO (Corellian Jedi only because of the FO's current campaign against the Corellian Coalition), the Jedi are opposing the autocratic rulership of the Empire and thus are someone, the FO views upon in distrust.
The Jedi Lords are the most active among these factions and currently are preparing to hold their ground against a dark side invasion upon their territories. That one is currently planned out and might enter soon an active phase.

Can certainly see from where you're coming, but at the moment there's not many tensions. IRI is one of the newer factions, that attempts to form a union with most of the Inner Rim planets - some of them like Onderon, Thyferra and Hapes were under the controll of previous factions that resisted the FO, but most of them are new additions. The only FO planet under actual FO controll was Bilbringi, but it had already been under their controll before IRI formed.
So most stuff will have to form up most likely. Storywise most of our founding members like Hapes have still to recover from their recent defeat over Fondor and from the fall of the Corellian Coalition. We had so far only the formation RP from what I saw, which will hopefully become more in the future. ^^

But yeah the idea sounds interesting. Guess that can certainly help, though the Imperium elects their leader unlike the Fel Empire. So I assume that the Inner Rim Knights serve the current elected Master of the IRI and the High Council? It might at least be a good consideration.

Seems I was pinged so allow me to jump in here.

Hello! I am Nicademus, Emperor of the First Order. I see you wanna help the IRI with the Bilbringi situation and try to push Imperial influences out of the area. I do welcome the idea, but not to discourage you, I have had this discussion with the current ruler of the IRI. Main issue being that, unlike the rest of the possible and current possessions of this nation, Bilbringi is very isolated from it. Main reason being that Bilbringi sits on the Namadii Corridor which runs north to south, not east to west. As a result, it sits between the Coreward and Rimward territories of the First Order. It's lack of access to the Inner Rim Imperium would be an issue I would say. I helped the leader find out that Hapes has loads of shipyards though, facilities that they utilized to rebuild their fleet during the Vong Invasion.

So the leader and I did discuss the possibility of a treaty that would be the first IC interaction between the two nations. We really haven't interacted with each other since the formation of the IRI and I have no intentions of expanding any further. OOC wise, I just don't want to overextend myself. Hence I am planning, with those of the faction, a recession of the border after the upcoming civil war arc, no matter who the winner is. Bilbringi will become a part of the new Southern border, planned right now. But the treaty would allow the IRI access to utilize a percentage of Bilbringi's facilities for their usage. Perhaps see when this happens and react to that? That way you can focus on building these IRI Knights for the nation. I wouldn't mind some adversary writing when the time comes though.

It is unfortunate that we won't have the usage of your services as an Imperial Knight, but the idea of a similar organization for the IRI would certainly be welcomed by the leadership and have great potential to be brilliant. I had planned, in the next reign, as the story of Nicademus is coming to an end, that his designated heir, an Imperial Knight also, Octavian, will make the Imperial Knights more of a bodyguard too as they have wider responsivities right now but to better organize things, gonna need to downsize those responsibilities. Be more a Praetorian Guard as you say for the IRI. Plus, he will be the first Grandmaster of their Order, who was also Emperor at the same time, since Cade Fel was around.

Also, you mentioned being a rogue IK since the FO took over. I feel I have to mention this but the First Order didn't appear till some years after. And by that point, the remains of the Second Fel Empire that were the Deep Core Remnant had long since been integrated. There is still a respect for the Fels and institutions of the Fel Empires have been utilized, but there is probably little to no loyalty, at that time and now, towards the former nation. So, perhaps, I better suggestion for you is that you left the services of the Imperial remnants of the Second Fel Empire after the disappearance of Cade Fel and the rise of Nicademus, in his place, as Supreme Commander of the Imperial Military, hence head of state for the Deep Core Remnant. Nicademus didn't become Emperor till more recently in his storyline. Well, he was Emperor of Sinistra's Empire after she left, but that was a very short time and it was a dying nation.

You are welcome. I didn't want to rain on your parade, but felt some details needed to be said concerning Bilbringi since this discussion has come up between myself and the leader of the IRI in previous discussion. Plus, something key to remember is that IRI was created as a political and economic alliance of worlds to safeguard their systems and such from outside interference. More of a security pact than really a military treaty.

No need to concern yourself with leaving out details on purpose, but I felt that I needed to clarify the point that the First Order hadn't really existed when Fel loyalties would have still been strong. If anything, Nicademus, at the time, was a leader that was needed to keep things together while there was a hopeful return of Cade Fel. Eventually though, as he remained undiscovered, loyalties changed from Fel to Delvardus and the makings of a dynasty were formed to replace that of which had been lost. Hence why I kept the Imperial Knights around considering the ambitions of Nicademus and the fact that I love them as a concept.

Makes sense for the reasoning. First Order is pretty much the name on JvS. As mentioned before, its more a blend of good parts of the Fel Empires, the Imperial Remnant under Gilad Pellaeon, and aspects of the First Order from Disney Canon. Honestly, always said that loyalties can change based upon who leads. Nicademus isn't a Fel, so hence why some Imperial Knights wouldn't be happy. It happens and makes sense. We actually have had a storyline where the Grandmaster before the present one, the Empress Nikulin, tried to have Nicademus assassinated when he came to Muunilinst. And there was another defection some time later. Resulted in a small purge of the Knight's ranks due to concerns of security.

Octavian is still being built up, but the proposed idea is that whereas Nicademus is a Commander of Men, Octavian will be a Leader of Men. He will be a more skilled warrior and be a true Emperor in the sense of ruling compared to the rags to riches rise of his father and the more militaristic style of ruling Nicademus utilizes. He is out and about though so we can have some encounters if you want. As for difficulties for the IRI and FO, we will see what happens down the ways. We don't have Inquisitors though, not yet of course. We actually have someone in our ranks who was just named Grand Inquisitor in the hopes of making a new Inquisition but she is currently MIA due to RL. But this Inquisition won't be like the Old Empire. It will seek to eliminate troublemakers, defectors, and traitors of the Empire, both within and without. It won't actively hunt Jedi unless they are working against the Empire. So, Jayin could fall under that scope at some point. But we can figure some details out further once you get settled!