Vitakara: Dossier
Nul'sorras'haramoalian
"If Miridian is the mastermind behind the Nulorian, Sorras is their most dangerous weapon."
- Zar'Chon'ravarian'vitiary
ZARARCH ADVISORY WARNING
MANDATORY PUBLIC POSTING
APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL OF DATH'HARAM
SANCTIONED BY THE AUI'VITAKAR
REMOVAL IS SUBJECT TO INVESTIGATION, ARREST, AND PROSECUTION OF ALL INVOLVED PARTIES
Subject: Nul'sorras'haramoalian – "Sorras" | Former Name: Dath'sorras'dathyasith
Age: 62
Race: Dath'Haram
Skin Color: Green
Physical Condition: Excellent
Affiliation: Nulorian
Relatives:
- Dath'sirraria'dathyasith (Mother)
- Dath'kiaval'dathyasith (Father
- Chief Hunter Dath'impara'dathyasith (Sister)
Associates:
- Miridian
- Various Nulorian contacts and associates
Overview: The Nulorian identified as Nul'sorras'haramoalian is wanted for his actions of terrorism, murder, and other major and minor disruptions and threats to well-being of the residents of the Haramoalian territory and the Vitakara species as a whole. This individual is extremely dangerous, and should not be approached by any civilians. Immediately report to your local Zararch outpost if you have information on his whereabouts, plans, and motives. Cooperation with this terrorist outside of duress and violent coercion will lead to interrogation and execution.
Criminal Overview:
- Responsible for the Great Fire of Haramoalian (14 lethal arson attempts on record, both successful and unsuccessful).
- Responsible for eighteen counts of bombing with targets ranging from schools to chemical labs.
- Responsible for over six hundred murders of adult Vitakara over the span of the past twenty years, including three Bladedancers, as well as multiple Zararch, Lurainian, and Runianarch soldiers and operatives.
- Responsible for over three hundred murders of primarily Dath'Haram children, both consequential and deliberate.
- Thirty-seven counts of distribution of anti-government and anti-alien propaganda.
- Has provided Dath'Haram and Vitakara secrets to the Nulorian terrorist organization.
- Four hundred and seven counts of producing extreme violent content and videos and attempted distribution to civilian and government officials.
- Has provable links to other Nulorian terrorist activities resulting in multiple casualties.
- Fifty-two confirmed counts of breaking and entering.
- Eleven counts of state and local sabotage of equipment or projects.
- Responsible for a minimum of one hundred and six counts of torture of both civilian, government, and military individuals.
- Has a minimum of thirty counts of desecration of corpses, gravesites, or other kinds of burial activities.
Skill and capabilities:
- Normally seen wearing civilian or camouflaged clothing.
- Skilled in Bladedancing.
- Documented marksman.
- Has extensive knowledge of government and military organizations of the Vitakara.
- Has extensive knowledge of the Haramoalian Forest.
- Has Nulorian support.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INTERACT WITH OR ENGAGE THIS INDIVIDUAL AS HE IS CONSIDERED HIGHLY DANGEROUS. IMMEDIATELY REPORT ALL SIGHTINGS AND INFORMATION ON THIS INDVIDUAL TO THE ZARARCH.
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE BY ZAR'CHON'RAVARIAN'VITIARY
Operation: Green Death
Division: Nulorian Counter-Intelligence
Report Author: Zar'zaryas'dathyasith
Authorization: Zar'Chon
To the Zar'Chon,
I'm pleased we're finally deciding to address this threat. While in the grand scheme of things, one Nulorian isn't an existential threat, he is nonetheless a danger to our citizens and more importantly is a textbook example of someone who exists outside of all modern psychological models and predictions, and the danger one can pose as the result of radicalization.
Nul'sorras'haramoalian, or more commonly known as "Sorras" is one of the few public Nulorian and perhaps the most infamous terrorist post-plague and our subsequent union with the Ethereal Collective. I won't repeat a significant amount of common details. You know his reputation, and I will not give the very basic overview that is posted in the warning advisories.
Origin: In a break for us, we actually know who Sorras was. He was born sixty-two years ago, to two parents who were perfectly normal and law-abiding citizens. His father was a teacher and his mother worked in the Hunting Parties. He has one older sister, and you will be interested to learn, if you didn't already know, that she is the Chief Hunter of the parties. What I will also note is that he had a twin sister, who he was very close to growing up.
From interviews with his family, he was not an atypical child. He was interested in weapons and the hunting parties, but that is normal for Dath'Haram children. Even as a child he was noted to have significantly above-average intelligence, and schooling posed no challenge for him. From what he told them and from his records, he was interested in physics-based weapons research.
There was a distinct catalyst, which happened when his twin sister – Dath'tessia'dathyasith – vanished. The official Zararch investigation found no leads, no suspects, and it was as if the child had vanished into thin air. Digging slightly deeper has not revealed any additional clues. Given what we know now, and the impact it had on Sorras, I have a theory as to what happened to the unfortunate twin.
It is not out of the question that the Nulorian are always looking for new and intelligent recruits. Sorras would be on a list, assuming they have one, and is it out of the question that they would plan the kidnapping and murder of a sibling for the sole purpose of twisting them to their own ideology? This is, admittedly, an extremely long-term operation, even by our standards, and again, this is only a theory.
For what it is worth, the body was never recovered.
Sorras took the disappearance hard, and was noted as becoming more and more withdrawn from the family. He presumably threw himself into his studies and spent an extensive amount of time training with his older sister with various kinds of weapons and building himself towards peak physical condition. None of them knew anything else beyond this, and he was not communicating – which should have immediately been a massive warning sign. Dath'Haram have a psychological tendency to heal from mental trauma in groups or with family.
That Sorras was rejecting this is the first recorded instance of psychological abnormality.
From what was later described, Sorras just disappeared one day. He left a note and a datacube. The note is as follows.
To my family,
I will be forward – I am leaving. My reasons for such have been the result of nearly a year of investigation and realization about the state of our species and those who are over us. Tessia was abducted and murdered, and I know who was responsible. I did not tell you because you would not believe me, and because it could quite possibly lead to the arrests and executions of all of us.
But if I am leaving, you deserve to know. The Zararch were behind her murder. If you immediately disbelieve this, then look into the datacube I've left behind. She was not the first person abducted and killed, and she will not be the last. I do not know why they considered her a target. Perhaps she found something she shouldn't have, or she started thinking the 'wrong' way.
Something I've learned to hide better than she could, apparently.
It's eye-opening when you realize just how trapped our species is. We live in supposed freedom under the generosity of the Elders. We focus on our small goals, our families, our own lives. But if anyone wants to make a difference – or merely has a different idea than tradition… that is not tolerated. We live in a glass prison under the control of the Zararch, who are in turn puppeteered by the Ethereals.
Our species has been under the control of aliens since the "intervention" of the Elders. They saved us and in return we became willing slaves under them. I will not be party to the continued enslavement of our species, and it is time that we as a species force change. Until I am killed I will ensure that people like Tessia are protected when they dare question or go against the accepted norms.
Be careful with whom you ally yourself with. This battle will not be won without blood. Our race must adapt if we want to thrive, and I will force that change by any means necessary.
Nul'sorras'haramoalian
His family immediately forwarded the letter and the datacube to the local Zararch outpost and made efforts to tryand contact him. It didn't work, and it appeared Sorras had gone and joined the Nulorian. Reading this letter, Sorras seemed initially to start out for a supposed 'noble' cause, and had the style of one who could possibly be reasoned with.
During this time it is likely that he had been approached by a Nulorian agent, and been radicalized from there. Sorras was young and impressionable then, despite his intelligence. What was on the datacube was indeed several reports of Zararch operations where we had to remove individuals for interrogation – individuals I will note were connected to Nulorian agents. These were no innocent people here, but Sorras likely overlooked that point. And a connection with a living, breathing Nulorian recruiter likely mellowed his opinion towards them.
As a side note, we should ensure that our schooling covers what to do if you suspect you are being approached by a Nulorian agent. Our species, and Dath'Haram in particular, are largely too trusting. We need to encourage a healthy skepticism of strangers.
Since then he has only become more radicalized and lethal. The Sorras that left in pursuit of vengeance has become a different individual entirely. A simple look at his criminal records will show this.
Terrorism Record: Sorras has, curiously, never bothered to hide himself when performing his actions. Maybe he seemed to think that it would galvanize the Dath'Haram in some way, but this has never seemed to completely work the way he wanted it to.
The first instance of Sorras's criminal activity was when he started the Great Fire in the Haramoalian forest. It grew to such large extent that help had to be called from other territories. A post-arson analysis showed that it was deliberately set in areas which had rarer species of plants and animals, and had been systematically poisoned and tamped with for months prior to actually setting it on fire. You shouldn't be able to set a fire this large, but given enough planning, it can be done.
Sorras claimed credit for this, and several Hunters began trying to track him down. He killed all of them, mutilated the corpses, and sent them back with mocking notes. He deliberately chopped off various pieces of them to give the impression that he took trophies (We are unsure if he actually does this, but the psychological effect it has on relatives can't be ignored).
To be completely honest, I am likely repeating events that you already know. You would not have commissioned this report otherwise. There is a significant amount of Sorras's crimes we could discuss. The random assassinations, kidnappings and murders of various Dath'Haram. The murder of three Bladedancers. The bombings of schools and hospitals. Poisoning wells and crops. The list goes on and on. Sorras is a monster, there is no question about that.
I will spend some time addressing his capabilities, though most of this you are aware of. He's an extremely dangerous soldier, marksman, and survivalist. He knows the Haramoalian Forest better than anyone alive with the possible exception of his sister. He's killed dozens of Runianarch, Lurainian, and our own agents over a period of decades.
He's an expert in Bladedancing, explosives, and weapons, with enough tactical experience to successfully plan multiple high-fatality terrorist attacks without being caught. He has enough foresight to plan attacks for months or years with deep contingency planning. He is not someone to be underestimated, and we do so at our own risk.
His own exploitation of our protocols should demonstrate this. I've seen more of his torture videos than I'd care to, and it's made me wonder how broken and warped this individual is. Sorras destroys the common Dath'Haram psychological model and seems driven to turn every single one of his kind into people just like him.
I would like to spend some time on the why of Sorras. He has a motive and goal for his acts of terror. If it was originally the result of manipulation or not, it doesn't matter anymore. Sorras has willingly turned himself into a monster in pursuit of his higher goal – and the question is what that goal is? His actions show him as someone who does not care about life and is focused on spreading terror and suffering.
I do not think this is the case.
Sorras wants to change the Dath'Haram. What this change looks like, I'm not sure if even he knows. But looking at his actions over the years, you can discern a very clear pattern. Children, wounded and sick, schools, the Bladedancers, communities, targets that would have the most emotional and psychological impact on the Dath'Haram.
For a near-universally empathetic race, such actions are nearly impossible to comprehend for them. They could not understand what would drive someone to do this. Sorras knows this, and he exploits it in his own way. Dath'Haram are mentally, very resilient. More so than you might expect given their pacifism and tolerance.
But they deal with death in their own way. They honor the victim or deceased and move on with their lives. They aren't interested in vengeance or revenge, or really even justice. They just want to be left alone to their own lives and for everyone to live in peace – even their enemies.
Sorras seems to hold a near-opposite mindset. He clearly despises the pacifism and complacency he sees in his race, and every action seems to be made with the explicit purpose of eliciting a reaction. Sorras wants to be hated, feared, and hunted. He wants the Dath'Haram calling for his head and taking matters into their own hands. He wants them to wish he suffers and dies.
Why? Because those reactions are not supposed to happen. A Dath'Haram who hates and calls for blood is looked upon with distaste and considered a deviant. Vengeance is not a call based on justice, it is a concept they never embrace in the first place. Sorras wants to break the Dath'Haram, and ensure the result is a race that is violent, vengeful, and dangerous. After that…I do not know what he wants. Perhaps that is all he wishes – to make the Dath'Haram turn into the exact opposite of what they are now.
I think the Dath'Haram know this is what he wants as well, and why they are so resistant to acknowledging him as anything more than a sad and pathetic Dath'Haram. They mourn the dead, cure the water, fix the damage, and move on. And I know that drives Sorras mad. For someone who wants an army sent after him, the worst insult you can give is to just ignore him.
Granted, we are not the Dath'Haram, and there is an obvious need to remove this problem so they can live without worrying about the next terror attack from this deranged individual. But as we know, Sorras is almost impossible to track down, and has a worryingly effective habit of kidnapping Zararch and other military personnel and torturing them to death while recording the whole thing and sending it off.
Luckily we always intercept them before they can be distributed, but in return we get to watch his torture with the insufferable speech he always gives. Most of them, as you know, are addressed directly to you. Others are more of a one-sided conversation. Others are addressed to specific people. It is…an unpleasant experience, and I've only seen a fraction of the recordings.
He is fully intending to collapse Vitakara, and specifically, Dath'Haram society. I hope that what I've written here illustrates how he wants to achieve this. The question of why I don't think can be fully answered based on what we know. We know he answers to Miridian now, and whatever his original reasons, he is fully committed to the Nulorian and their ultimate goals.
Thus, he poses a threat to us and he must be eliminated.
Recorded video attempted to be sent to the Council of Dath'Haram. Intercepted by the Zararch Network Authority and forwarded for review.
Advisory: Graphic content
Participants: Nul'sorras'haramoalian; victim identified as Dath'rasias'harasota
Video description: Entire recording takes place in an unknown location with grey walls and floors. Lighting is excellent and clearly illuminates entire room. Likely multiple light fixtures on ceiling. No identifying markings on any attire, tools, or furniture with the exception of the victim who wore a Dath'Haram Council Advisor Uniform.
Victim is restrained against the wall by multiple metal binders which can be adjusted for height and size, and are placed around the joints of all limbs, as well as the waist and neck. Victim is in sub-par condition at the time of video commencement with symptoms of malnutrition, and the fingers of her right hand mangled, broken, or severed. Multiple incisions, cuts, and tears of skin and clothing are noted on the victim. Suspected that torture had been started before video was commenced.
Video is in ultra video and audio quality. It is likely that there are microphones throughout the room as neither Sorras nor the victim wore visible microphones. There is no additional visual post-production or audio additions that have been noted nor does the camera angle change.
Transcript is as follows:
[Sorras]: "Break time's over. Ready to continue?"
[Rasias]: "You didn't even ask questions…"
[Sorras]: "No, I didn't. And I think you'd like to know why. Would you?"
Victim is silent.
[Sorras]: Audible sigh. "I like to know the tolerance of individuals. Gives me a better idea of what I can do. From what I've gathered, you're not exactly a woman with a high pain tolerance. You don't want to go through all of this again, do you?"
A few seconds pass.
[Rasias]: "If I tell you…will I be let go?"
[Sorras]: laughs. "Of course not. I'll simply kill you quickly and not draw it out. All I want to know are the typical schedules of the Administrative staff. Peak times, workloads, security tendencies, and so on. And don't pretend you don't know. I spent a good deal of time finding you."
[Rasias]: "So you can just kill them later? No…"
[Sorras]: "Little woman, they will die, I can promise you that. You will just make my job a little easier. You won't change anything by resisting me, you will only make it hurt more."
[Rasias]: "Then I'd rather die that help a monster like you."
[Sorras]: "I suppose I have my answer. Unfortunate, but I do want to ask you a question. What do you think the response will be when I send this video of your slow death to your colleagues and family? How will they react when you're slowly being cut apart and your organs extracted?"
[Rasias]: "We are better than you. Someday you will be hunted and put down like the animal you are."
[Sorras]: Chuckle. "I hope they share your enthusiasm. It's ok to hate me, woman. The problem with our people is that we let others control us. Our kind is weak and pathetic. And if we don't change, we will be rightfully purged from the galaxy. So when they hear you screaming, I hope their blood boils and they call for my death. We've wasted enough time. I want to get started."
Torture of victim continues for nearly two hours. Victim expires around one hour and thirty minutes with the remainder of time devoted to organ extraction and containment, presumably increasing Nulorian stockpiles of replacement organs.
This recording is not to be shared with members of the victim's family or the Council of Dath'Haram.