Notable Humans

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This is a page dedicated to notable Humans across the Orion Spur. These are the most influential and important individuals whose actions sway the galaxy and its history at large.

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The Trasen Family

The top of the food chain, the Trasen family’s status is legendary on the galactic scale. Virtually everybody has heard of them, and their monopoly over Phoron and stranglehold over Tau Ceti has raised them to be the most influential and powerful individuals in Human history.

Information on the Trasens can be found here.

Megacorporations

See: Notable Megacorporate Figures

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Sol Alliance

These are individuals relevant to the Sol Alliance.

Prime Minister Hendrik Strom

Birthdate: January 18th, 2396

Born on Venus to a working-class Jintarian family, Hendrik “Henry” Strom was the only member of his family to go to college. Disgusted by the excess he had seen working in Binyaria as a dishwasher to pay for his education, Strom joined the civil service after finishing his master’s degree and set about investigating and rooting out corruption in the Venusian government. Quickly finding himself frustrated with government inaction, he resigned his post and ran for a local representative’s position on an anti-corruption, pro-Jintarian platform. He won in a landslide.

In Venus’ government Strom’s dull, grey business suits stuck out amongst Cytherean fashion and he quickly rallied an anti-corruption coalition around himself. Many of his efforts concentrated around public services and his greatest accomplishment was, to him, breaking up pricing cartels for power services. As his fame grew he began to form a populist movement around himself which accused corporations, and an uncaring Solarian government, of neglecting the common Solarian in favor of cheap alien labor and quick profits. He rode the populist wave to the Solarian Senate, where he worked to ban tajara from the Alliance.

In 2462, following Frost’s assassination, Strom was picked to replace him as “acting” Governor of the Sol System — de facto becoming the new Prime Minister — by the junta. As the highest civilian authority in the junta, Strom saw sweeping anti-corporate policies enacted and became immensely popular following the end of the Solarian Civil War in 2465. In February 2467 he was elected Prime Minister of the Alliance in a close victory over Anastasie Renaud (Solarian Popular Democratic Party Senator for Callisto). Now, the first democratically-elected leader of the Alliance since (arguably) the 2450s, he must navigate a reduced Alliance through the rigors of interstellar politics -- and hopefully to victory.

Senator Le Hanh Trang

Birthdate: February 22nd, 2419

Born in Cua Song, New Hai Phong, to two civil servants, Tran served as an Assistant Solarian Alliance Attorney for the crime-addled Ton Gwai Pei before entering into politics following a corruption scandal that accused the city’s Solarian Attorney’s Office of conspiring with the Pou Zyu Sau, an organized crime group, to lighten sentence for its members. With her name already stained by association Tran entered politics in the city, winning on a local socialist party’s platform that called for a nationalistic Sol-first policy.

In office Tran became known for her hard stance on Hephaestus Industries and the megacorporation’s control of the planet. Reforms proposed by Tran and her New Hai Phongese Socialist Party did result in some divestment of Hephaestus but, to her, it was never enough and she took herself — and her party — into the Solarian Senate in the late 2450s, where they were involved in several brawls with ATLAS members in the Senate. She first became famous in the Alliance for a photo of her raising her fist, with her knuckles bloodied, as an piece of anti-corruption legislation she had advocated for was passed in 2459. In 2460, when Frost came to power, Tran and her party were back-benched aside from the Third Tajara Ban, which they managed to attach anti-corporate legislation to.

In 2462 Trang was brought in by the junta to be the Speaker of the Senate, which has remained in a diminished form after ATLAS was evicted from the government. There, she was instrumental in passing anti-corporate legislation in 2463 and retains much of her influence. Now, some see her as the likely next Prime Minister, though her connections to Einstein Engines — and failure to totally evict Hephaestus from New Hai Phong — continue to haunt her. She currently leads the Solarian Socialist Unity Party as one of the Alliance's major political parties, though one smaller than all others aside from the communist party.

Senator Anastasie Renaud

Date of Birth: May 15, 2434

Anastasie Maria Renaud is the leader of the Solarian Popular Democratic Party, or SPDP, and has been in the Solarian Senate since 2460. She is the youngest leader of a Solarian political party and a former candidate for Prime Minister, having come in second only to PM Hendrik Strom in the ‘66-’67 election. She is the Senatorial Shadow President, and leads the opposition.

Renaud was born into a middle-class family on Callisto. She studied law at the Federal University of New Edinburgh and worked as a personal injury lawyer prior to entering into the political arena in 2457 with her election to district council at the age of 23. Already heavily involved with the Solarian Federation of Labour Unions prior to her entry into politics, Renaud quickly made a name for herself as a reformer and opponent of both ATLAS and the ruling Sol First Party. She verbally sparred with then-PM Michael Frost on multiple occasions throughout 2460-62, calling him a puppet of the Solarian Navy and a threat to the already-fragile state of Solarian democracy. She was famously briefly imprisoned by the Navy in November 2462 following the death of Frost, and may have been executed if not for the intervention of Solarian Army troops on Unity Station.

While she ultimately lost her campaign to become the Alliance’s youngest prime minister, Renaud and the SPDP form a strong opposition to Strom’s ruling SPP-SFP alliance and will almost certainly be able to force the prime minister to the negotiating table on sweeping legislation. She remains dedicated to her pursuit of a democratic Alliance not involved in foreign military adventures and committed to its people, regardless of where they come from.

Senator Toshiyuki Sumida

Date of Birth: February 25, 2398

Toshiyuki Sumida is the leader of the Sol First Party, or SFP, and is a veteran member of the Solarian Senate who has been a senator since 2445. Sumida is the Senatorial President and leads the first democratically-elected senate since 2462.

Sumida was born into wealth on Luna and attended the University of Tokyo, where he led a SFP student organization, where he graduated with a doctorate in economics. Before being elected to the Senate he served in several academic positions, most notable as the dean of the school of economics at Harmony City Federal University, and provided consulting to local and interstellar corporate entities. His academic background and business connections allowed Sumida to quickly rise through the ranks of the SFP, and he was elected party leader in 2462 shortly before the start of the Solarian Civil War. Since then he has worked to purge the SFP of its far right elements while promoting an image of it as a pro-business, pro-development party centered around ensuring a prosperous economy for a prosperous Alliance while maintaining its reputation as a pro-military, “soft” nationalistic party. Doctor Sumida was a critic of PM Michael Frost’s economic policies, and cites them as a causal factor for the Alliance’s current economic misfortunes.

While he is now de facto the second most powerful man in the Alliance, Sumida has the unenviable task of balancing his pro-economic platform with the more jingoistic campaign promises of PM Strom and the more leftist policies of the opposition. His reputation for being a tough negotiator and a charismatic leader have secured him his role in the Senate, and must now help him create the SFP’s vision of a prosperous Alliance for future generations: one that has cut the bureaucratic tape down, encouraged businesses through deregulation, and opened the Alliance’s markets back up to foreign, non-megacorporate investors.

Senator Erkan Muhtar

Date of Birth: 17 November 2416

Erkan Muhtar is the leader of the nationalist faction within the Solarian People’s Party and represents its “hard right” wing. A veteran politician, he has been a member of the Senate since 2449. He is widely respected by Solarian nationalists across the political spectrum for being one of the first politicians to speak out against the secession of Tau Ceti in 2450 and his incorruptibility.

Muhtar was born into an upper middle class family in Harmony City, Luna, and graduated from Harmony City Federal University with a fine arts degree. He worked for the Solarian Navy as a civilian artist before joining the Sol First Party as a propagandist. Recognized as a gifted speaker by the SFP’s leadership, he won a Senate seat representing Harmony City in 2449 by pulling votes from ATLAS with his nationalist rhetoric and history with the military. Since then he has been an ardent voice against Tau Ceti and broke from the SFP to join the SPP in 2452, dissatisfied with his party’s stance on Tau Ceti. Muhtar was briefly detained by ATLAS in 2461 for opposing Frost’s takeover of the government by coup, but was freed during the following year’s counter-coup.

Since then he has risen to dominate the right wing of the SPP and is arguably the most powerful member of the party after PM Strom. His opposition to appeasement of Tau Ceti has placed him in opposition to his party’s leader following the reopening of diplomatic relations, and rumors have begun to circulate he is planning to take action within his bloc. With an already powerful opposition. With Muhtar’s credentials as a nationalist and the presence of a strong opposition party, Strom’s greatest challenge may come from within his own ranks.

Senator Eirlys Llewellyn

Date of Birth: 22 January 2315

Eirlys Llewellyn serves as the deputy leader of the nationalist faction within the Solarian Populist Party. Llewellyn is typically seen with her leader, Erkan Muhtar, and handles much of the populist “hard right” faction’s internal organization. She has been a member of the Senate since 2451, and was one of several politicians to break with the Sol First Party in 2452 over its handling of Tau Ceti’s secession.

Llewellyn was born into a middle-class family in Gomel Catena, Callisto, and had a distinguished career in the Solarian Navy before entering politics in a special election as a SFP member. She broke with the party in 2452 to join the new Solarian People’s Party. Llewellyn is a controversial figure in the Senate and is regarded as its furthest right member, having worked with former PM Michael Frost prior to 2462. She is a gifted orator with a reputation for stirring crowds into action, and was allegedly involved with paramilitaries during the Frost era. Llewellyn claims megacorporations and Biesel are behind many of the Alliance’s problems, from Frost’s assassination to corruption on New Hai Phong.

Despite her controversial reputation she has retained her senatorial seat and — following a rift with Senator Muhtar during the Solarian Civil War over action against Biesel — reemerged as the deputy leader of the populist’s nationalist faction. Her staunch opposition to the Republic of Biesel and megacorporations has made her a powerful voice within the nationalist faction.

Secretary of Defense Lucien Courtois

Birthdate: March 14th, 2429

Born in Harmony City, Luna, as the eldest child of a wealthy naval family, Lucien was always destined for service in the Solarian Navy. He showed exceptional dedication to the Alliance and remarkable leadership, quickly proving himself an asset to the Admiralty and becoming a full admiral at the young age of 30, assuming command over the 29th Fleet in 2459, an understrength fleet assigned as a garrison for New Hai Phong. Why the rising star was given an understrength fleet remains unknown, but some historians say this was a punishment by the Admiralty for his well-known reformist views. Three years later his leadership would be tested as the Solarian Civil War began and the 67th Fleet assaulted New Hai Phong in November 2462, hoping to seize it for itself.

Faced with a numerically larger force and with reinforcements unavailable during the early Civil War’s widespread communications issues, Lucien used repurposed civilian vessels and prepared defensive positions to drive off the 67th with minimal losses to the 29th and severe losses to the 67th, which later defected to the Anti-Corporate League and was totally destroyed in 2465. Lucien became a hero overnight and the 29th became a renowned fleet as it quickly moved to secure the border with the “Wildlands” near New Hai Phong. He would ride the wave of heroism into 2464, when he became the Alliance’s youngest Secretary of Defense.

As Secretary, Lucien has seen massive reforms to the Solarian Navy and Admiralty carried out that have allowed its successes in the Solarian Civil War, which was brought to an end in mid-2465 as a the final breakaway states either capitulated or reintegrated into the Alliance. With the worst of the conflict behind the Alliance, many wonder what is next for Lucien and the Solarian Armed Forces. Will they continue to look inwards, or look outwards to the remaining systems that broke away from Sol in 2462?

Fleet Admiral Ingrid von Varnhagen und Langenburg

Date of Birth: September 23, 2425

Born the first child of the elite von Varnhagen und Langenburg family, a union of two prominent naval families known for service dating back to the Alliance’s founding, Ingrid’s only destiny was serving in the Solarian Navy. All other goals would have to be pushed aside in favour of this, and thus keeping the family’s honour intact. Exceptionally gifted and lavished with the best tutors money could afford, she entered into the naval academy and graduated top of her class alongside future Minister of Defense Lucien Courtois, who has become a lifelong friend of hers.

Though descended from naval aristocracy, Ingrid had become known as a reformer within the Navy. She frequently criticised the Admiralty and Frost, and only her surnames kept her from being sacked or reassigned to the Outer Ring. She instead rapidly ascended the Navy to become the commander of the venerable First Battlegroup — the Navy’s oldest and arguably most elite formation — in 2461. The First and Ingrid would be vital in ensuring the success of the anti-Frost coup after his death, seizing vital communications relays and orbital installations during the coup. She then worked to establish the reformed 1st Battlegroup in 2463, bringing it up to the task of intervening in the Solarian Civil War in 2465 and re-securing most of the Northern Reaches, becoming the first Solarian government representative to meet the leaders of the besieged San Colette.

Now, with the Northern Reaches once again under Solarian control, Ingrid and her fleet look across the border at Konyang and the Republic of Biesel’s Corporate Reconstruction Zone. Some on Konyang and in the Republic worry the Fleet Admiral will eventually cross their borders, bringing the full strength of ten Solarian fleets to bear — whether or not she is ordered to. Ingrid’s aims — often bolstered by Solarian intelligence reports — are known only to herself, and the upper echelons of the Alliance. Others must simply wait, watch, and worry.

Governor-General Tereza Varzieva

Birthdate: October 19th, 2429

Born on Silversun to a prominent family of naturalists originally from Visegrad, Tereza was the first person from her family to join the Solarian military and started her career as a Second Lieutenant in the 12th Silversunner Coastal Infantry Division. Quickly rising through the ranks and assuming overall command of the 3rd Brigade of the 22nd Army (Sol System Command (SOLSYSCOM) in 2460, Teresa’s forces were transferred to Martian forces (MARSCOM) in late 2461 due to increasing unrest, arriving in full strength in early 2462 as the Third Tajara Ban came into effect and civil unrest began to spread across the planet. Tasked with securing the Kunlun-Free Kunlun Zone and bolstering police forces there, the 3rd Brigade was in close proximity to one another when Violet Dawn occurred in late 2462.

Forces under Tereza’s command were able to secure the surrounding area and quickly moved to establish contact with other surviving government units across the planet, with her rising to command most of the earliest efforts to save lives and establish a safe zone in the Martian north, often without the Navy fire support the 3rd had been promised and with adverse conditions for operating most vehicles. For her actions she was promoted to Lieutenant General, then a full General, and the 22nd Army was placed under her command. In spring 2464, the 22nd — now reinforced with other troops and hardened air assets — launched the Reunification Campaign and brought Mars under Solarian control once again.

Now Governor-General (an emergency position normally only issued during a crisis) of Mars, Tereza is a steadfast ally of the Alliance’s return to democracy. But she is hounded by controversy for her troops’ actions during civil unrest on Mars, with troops of some accused of having open fire indiscriminately on protestors in 2462. The Army denies these allegations.

Klaudia Szalai

Date of Birth: July 09, 2428

A native of Visegrad, Klaudia was born into a working-class family employed in Zavodskoi Interstellar’s orbital shipyards and had a humble upbringing. Commissioning into the Solarian Navy at a young age she quickly rode through the ranks to the position of fleet admiral of the 5th Middle Ring Battlegroup, stationed on Visegrad, a year prior to the start of the Solarian Civil War. Prior to the Civil War she was one of the few non-Lunans to hold the rank of fleet admiral. During her rise to the position she did not express conservative or reformist naval views, presenting herself as focused on the Southern Reaches and her oath to the Alliance before any other movement.

At the onset of the Solarian Civil War in 2462 Klaudia quickly moved to secure Visegrad as the planet descended into civil unrest. As the civilian government struggled to maintain control over the planet she and the forces under her command stepped in and established an emergency military government — a process allowed under Solarian laws dating to the Interstellar War — which integrated the civilian administration, security forces, and significant economic assets into naval command. The Southern Solarian Military District, as it was known, became a beacon of stability in the Southern Wildlands as the nearby Southern Fleet Administration collapsed into anarchy and the Biesel-controlled Corporate Reconstruction Zone struggled with civil unrest and piracy. In 2465 Klaudia’s efforts would be rewarded as the Southern Solarian Reconstruction Mandate was formed, bringing the area under her command back into the greater Alliance.

Now governor of the Mandate, Klaudia soon expects to hand over authority to a civilian administration as the Alliance looks to the end of the civil war and the emergency junta that has run the Alliance since 2462. Popular on Visegrad and throughout the Southern Reaches, some wonder if the fleet admiral will next attempt a career in politics, or remain in the uniform of the Navy.

Posthumous Figures

Admiral Michael Frost

Birthdate: April 14th, 2396

Date of Death: c. 11 November 2462

A towering, and loathed, figure in the modern Alliance, Michael Frost was born on Luna and quickly rose through the ranks of the Solarian Navy to become the admiral of the 33rd Fleet of the Solarian Navy in 2448. Using the pretext of Biesel constructing combat robotics, Frost launched the first Solarian invasion of Biesel in 2459, following a Solarian blockade of the Republic. Assuming control as a military governor, Frost’s brief rule of Biesel was marked by forced disappearances and the enslavement of free IPCs. Frost’s invasion led to the first major engagement of Solarian Navy vessels since the Interstellar War when the Navy’s 25th Fleet intervened and forced the 33rd to surrender and abandon their occupation.

While politically humiliating for the Alliance on an interstellar level, Frost’s invasion made him a hero of Solarian nationalists, particularly the far-right ATLAS, and Navy hardliners. In mid-2460 Frost came to power as Prime Minister of an ATLAS-led government following a Pirate attack on a Solarian Navy facility in the Sol System he and the 33rd thwarted. Frost’s government lasted for slightly under a year and was marked by corruption and paramilitary violence as ATLAS paramilitaries and Frost loyalists were placed into positions of power across the Alliance. While not the only cause of the Solarian Civil War (2462-65), it was a major contributing factor for much of the Middle and Outer Rings falling into anarchy.

In late 2462 Frost was assassinated in the Prime Minister’s residence by a still-unknown actor and a joint military-civilian junta assumed leadership over the Alliance in the name of preserving national unity and restoring democracy. Now, years after his death, Frost is reviled in much of the Alliance and his followers — including the 33rd Fleet — have died or been taken prisoner in the Civil War. He is the only man to have ever been stripped of an admiral’s rank by the Navy, with the Solarian Admiralty doing so in January 2463.

Admiral Terrence Hopper

Birthdate: January 28th, 2231

Date of Death: October 15th, 2325

Known informally as the “Butcher of Gadpathur” during and after his life, Hopper is the only person in history to have ordered, and carried out, the total orbital bombardment and destruction of a planet (known as “glassing” in the Solarian Navy’s pre-Interstellar War doctrine). Born in the United Kingdom during the Solarian hegemonic era — the height of its power — Hopper was a hardline Solarian loyalist during the Interstellar War who was placed in command of the 223rd Fleet (Ersatz) during the opening months of the conflict, having rallied loyalist forces in the Central Solarian Frontier together after narrowly escaping his duty station in near-Himeo orbit with a reduced loyalist force. Seeking to deny rebel forces a safe port-of-call to strike the Outer Ring from, Hopper turned every gun the 223d had on Gadpathur on October 10, 2278. By October 11, it had destroyed all population centers and orbital facilities. Hopper ordered his fleet to brace for warp and traveled to meet other loyalist forces for the Siege of Xanu.

The civilian ships that managed to escape the 223rd — either through luck, skill, or the few Navy officers who turned a blind eye to fleeing ships — spread word of Hopper’s actions across the rebel areas, horrifying the Coalition and Solarian populations who heard of it before Solarian Navy censors downplayed the story — a trend that continues today, with the Alliance’s history textbooks either minimizing or not mentioning Hopper’s bombing. Hopper would later attempt to coup the civilian government of the Alliance following the 2287 Treaty of Xansan and the war’s end. He would escape punishment for both actions, retiring from active duty in 2301.

After his retirement Hopper would go onto become a foundational figure in Solarian fascist thought and a creator of a mythos where the Interstellar War would have been won, were it not for cowardly, backstabbing politicians in league with the Coalition government. Perhaps no other man is more responsible for the authoritarian character of much of the Solarian Navy until the rise of major reformists than Hopper. Today, he remains a reviled figure in much of the Spur and a downplayed one in the Alliance, where few are willing to discuss him and his legacy.

Coalition of Colonies

These are individuals relevant to the Coalition of Colonies.

Chief Representative of the Coalition Reilly Sianne

Birthdate: March 14th, 2421

Formerly a farmhand on Xanu, Reilly is the first Chief Representative of the newly reformed Coalition of Colonies. A staunch Xanu proponent of trade, she has pushed for more anti-piracy patrols in the Coalition’s south, near Zaurghis, and has advocated that the Coalition should expand its influence into the neutral zone formally. Sianne is, furthermore, a proponent of more megacorporation presence in the Coalition - a stance that has brought her into conflict with some planets within the Coalition. Sianne’s personality is difficult to decipher, with almost all of her own time dedicated to expanding on her political career. She is seen as a shut-in in this regard, with little in the way of social connections - in part due to her being elevated to the position by external forces and plucked out of a once-peaceful rural town life in her childhood.

First Speaker Marja-Leena Helminen

Birthdate: November 18th, 2417

Either the second or third most important person in the Coalition of Colonies, depending upon which person is asked, Doctor Helminen is the elected leader of the United Syndicates of Himeo and at times the greatest ally and worst enemy of Chief Representative Sianne. Unlike her counterpart on Xanu, Helminen has pushed against megacorporations having a further presence in the Coalition and believes that the Coalition should pursue closer relations with Elyra instead of formally expanding into the buffer zone near the Sol Alliance. She is also well-known as a major proponent of joint Coalition-Elyra anti-piracy efforts.

Eridani Corporate Federation

These are individuals relevant to the Eridani Federation.

The Board of Five

Headshot photo of Emanuel Alimayu, Chief Executive Officer of the Eridani Corporate Federation Executive Board. (artwork created by Sleepywolf)

Birthdate: N/A

While not a singular person, the Eridani Corporate Federation’s Board of Five represent some of the most powerful and influential entities in the Sol Alliance. The Board’s interests remain mostly shadowy, aside from being profit-focused. The Eridani Private Military Company, the largest PMC in the Orion Spur, ultimately answers directly to them and the non-aggression principle. NanoTrasen, much to its dismay, does not have a stake in the Board of Five - Einstein Engines, which controls two of the Five, has gone to great lengths to keep its main rival out of the Board.

Emanuel Alimayu

Birthdate: ???, 2418

Emaunel is an exceptional businessman and the epitome of a Eridanian "Corporate". Sitting as the current CEO of the "Board of Five" within the Eridani Corporate Federation as well as the Chairman of the Board for Sol Governance and Senator of the Epsilon Eridani region. Born on Eridani I and educated on Earth, Emanuel has a prodigious corporate career, starting as a Regional Sales Manager for Hephaestus Industries Emanuel has worked his way up the ranks to become the current CEO of the Eridani Federation.

Commander Filije Thiaw

Birthday: Circa 2395

Born a Dreg in the slums of Eridani I's underworld, Thiaw had absolutely nothing at birth. Her father is unknown, and her mother died of an overdose shortly after her daughter's birth. She grew up on the streets and found a family amongst a gang, until the age of eighteen - when they were captured by private military contractors. Her fellow dregs were written off as too far into gang life to be of use, but Thiaw was chosen to be reinstated and brought into the nascent Eagle Corp as a rank-and-file mercenary. Over the following decades, she has risen to be the Operations Commander of Eagle Corp through tenacity and hard work - and more than one extrajudicial killing. Commander Thiaw is the premier example of a reinstated Dreg, and is the wealthiest - and most powerful - former Eridanian Dreg in the Orion Spur. She has also been a major driving factor behind Eagle Corp's continued employment of Dregs.

Empire of Dominia

These are individuals relevant to the Empire of Dominia.

The Royal Family

The five members of the Dominian royal family, including the current Emperor, are the most important people in the Empire of Dominia despite their roots as commoners. Universally-loved throughout the young Empire, many of their subjects view them as the glue that works to hold the young Empire together following its violent origins. The Emperor and Empress are the most prominent members of Dominia's royalty, though the Crown Princess is extremely prominent in her own right with her charity work and interstellar diplomacy. The Crown Prince and the younger Princess are less well-known, but still well-regarded throughout the Empire.

The Imperial Cabinet

Advisors and close confidants of the Emperor, the Imperial Cabinet holds vast sway over the modern Empire. They are:

• Angelika-Lina Strelitz, Colonel-in-Chief of His Majesty's Special Operations Group
• Izla Caladius, Chief Commissioner of Economic Development
• Eliza Volvalaad, Chief Commissioner of His Majesty's Imperial Military
• Antonio Caladius, Chief Commissioner of Imperial Sovereignty
• Alessandro Amadei, Chief Commissioner for Colonial Affairs
• Kasz Han’san, Chief Minister of Unathi Affairs
• Huiling Zhao, Grand Admiral of His Imperial Majesty’s Fleet
• Annaliese Strelitz, Chief Commissioner for Imperial Aviation
• Dorothea-Frieda Strelitz, High Lord General of His Majesty's Imperial Army
• Ngo Juric, High Seneschal of His Majesty's Justice
• Alojzia Molnarova, Director of His Majesty's Imperial Intelligence Directorate
• Theodora Gottlieb, High Inquisitrix of the Holy Tribunal
• Agnes Caladius, Immaculate Hand of Our Lady the Goddess

Great House Leaders

The masters of the five largest noble houses in the Empire, these individuals wield immense power and prestige. They are:

• House Keeser: Emperor Boleslaw Keeser I
• House Strelitz: Grand Duchess-Electress Dorothea-Frieda Strelitz
• House Volvalaad: Grand Duchess-Electress Landi Volvalaad
• House Caladius: Grand Consul-Elector Marcus Caladius
• House Zhao: Grand Duke-Elector Qishan Zhao

The Council of Imperial Governors

The seven members of the Council represent and contro the most significant possessions of the Empire. They represent the Empire's authority far from Moroz, and are trusted hands of the Emperor. They are:

• Territorial Prime Minister Elard Tarlev (the Imperial Territory of Fisanduh)
• Governor-General Theresia Sophie von Schulthais-Aichalden (the Imperial military's garrison in Fisanduh)
• Admiral-Governor Lanying Zhao (the Imperial Mandate of Zhurong)
• Governor Alphonse Caladius (the Imperial Mandate of Alterim Obrirava)
• Governor Victorie Caladius (the Tribunalist Mandate of Alterim Balteulis)
• Governor-Marchioness Anastazija Glavan (the Imperial Mandate of Novi Jadran)
• Viceroy-General Herman Gaufrid-Meinrad Strelitz (the Imperial Viceroyality of Sun Reach)

Posthumous Figures

His Majesty Emperor Godwin Keeser, Unifier of Moroz and Founding Father of the Empire

Date of Birth: July 15, 2326 Date of Death: December 18, 2436

The last king of the Imperial Alliance and first Emperor of a unified Moroz under the Dominian banner, Emperor Godwin (as he is commonly known) is a towering, near-mythological figure in Dominian history whose flaws have been suppressed and virtues emphasised by Dominian state media and the royal family themselves. Separating fact from fiction regarding Godwin is difficult for non-Dominian historians. In the Empire critical views of the late Emperor are suppressed by the state, and those who critique him are often discovered to have been shell infiltrators, Elyran spies, or heretics of the foulest degree.

What is known is that Godwin was born into the royal family of the Imperial Alliance — House Keeser — in the mid-2300s, a time of rising tensions across Moroz that descended into a full-scale war between the Alliance, its ally the Holy Kingdom of Domelkos, and the Confederated States of Fisanduh. Though fighting was bloody and spanned decades, the Alliance would eventually triumph over its enemy and claim sole control of Moroz. In 2385 Godwin declared a new state: the Empire of Dominia, and set about rapidly expanding and modernizing its economy and military to project itself over the wider Spur. He pursued closer ties with the Solarian Alliance for this purpose, bringing the Empire closer to it and proposing Dominia as a counter to Elyran influence in the southern Spur.

At the time of his death Godwin’s domain had grown to include multiple planets and he commanded a modern, well-equipped army and navy to support it. But he had made a system based upon conquest and war which required fresh conquests to sustain it, and a large underclass which had to be fed into its military complex to fuel it. Some question if Emperor Boleslaw, his only child, has ever grasped how to make this system work without bloodshed as the Empire creeps ever nearer to a hot war with Elyra or the Hegemony.

Immaculate Hand Giovanna Caladius, First of the Goddess-Touched

Date of Birth: March 20, 2146 Date of Death: Unknown

Arguably the most important figure in Morozian history, Giovanna was born to Valentia Caladius — a major secular figure at Landing Site Ofassel, which would someday become Domelkos — and is held by Tribunalist theology as the first to ever commune with the Goddess. From this communion arose the Moroz Holy Tribunal and its splinter faiths, which would come to dominate Moroz and the later Empire over the centuries. Much of Giovanna’s life is shrouded in myth and mythos, with Tribunalists across the Spur viewing her as a prophet and gifted seer. Official Solarian records from the colonial expedition to Moroz show her mother did exist, and contemporary records from Domelkos colonial administration list Giovanna as having existed. The matter of her existence cannot be denied, but none live who can separate the fact of Giovanna from the fiction woven around her.

A curious detail of Giovanna’s life is there is no listed date for her death, and none have ever reported having seen her pass on. Tribunalist history claims she withdrew from the public eye in the 2270s and simply vanished, disappearing into the pages of history. Some claim her powers were so great she was able to physically enter the Kingdom of Moroz — the Tribunalist afterlife — to serve the Goddess. Others claim she was gifted with immortality and roams the modern Spur, ever watching over the Goddess’ faithful and waiting for the day she will reveal herself to the modern Empire. Some dissidents claim her body was simply hidden by the Holy Tribunal to add to her mystique.

Grand Elector-Duke Wei Zhao, Founder of His Imperial Majesty’s Fleet

Date of Birth: November 17, 2298 Date of Death: December 13, 2387

Born into a noble family of the Holy Kingdom of Domelkos, House Zhao, Wei was educated as an engineer and spearheaded the launch of the Holy Kingdom’s first modern spacecraft, propelling his family into the highest echelons of noble society. There, he established House Zhao as a dominant figure in the Kingdom's industry, buying out or absorbing all competitors into the family cartel and making many former rivals members or affiliates of the house in the process. Eventually he would absorb all aside from House Kaneko, which maintained a steel cartel of its own. However, favours were exchanged and the two noble families agreed to cooperate rather than compete — a deal which would eventually see House Kaneko awarded Zhurong. He quickly made an acquaintance of King Godwin Keeser of the Imperial Alliance and has long been suspected to be a major figure in the decision to invade the Confederated States of Fisanduh, seeking to claim its industry and resources for the growing businesses of House Zhao.

As Wei aged and the war dragged on he looked to other ways of securing his prized wealth and land — if not for himself, then for his children and their children. He hired Solarian engineers and retired naval officers to design what would become the nucleus of the Imperial Fleet. With these vessels, House Strelitz forces were launched into Fisanduh’s heartlands as Imperial Army units swarmed their defenses, finally breaking through defensive lines after decades of warfare and tens of thousands of losses. While he would not live long after the Empire’s founding, his influence and successes would see House Zhao become one of the great houses of the new Empire. Today, the Imperial Fleet still honours his date of birth as Navy Day.

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Prime Minister Rasheed Tatenda

Birthdate: July 13th, 2421

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