Dame-Admiral Teria Val Sara Kuraas
A former con artist, Teria came to the attention of the Rupeean imperial court after she managed to lie and bluff her way throughout the palace bureaucracy and all the way to an audience within the throne room. There she attempted to extort money from the Emperor in person but failed to outdrink him in an impromptu contest, which no one has yet worked out the cause of.
Teria's skills in information handling and misdirection proved exceptionally useful when it came to bypassing red tape, making her slip naturally into the role of the Emperor's personal agent. Many believe this was her objective when first infiltrating the palace in the first place, and her grand show was little more than an elaborate job interview.
Installed as a privateer on lawless trade routes, then a flotilla commander managing or personally seeking bounties against minor criminal cartels, Teria proved to be a little too piratical in her methods but an inspired strategist. Almost impossible to pin down when she had a few connected systems to work with, and able to squeeze relevant data from careful study of almost any rumour mill, Teria was able to pacify, or at least eliminate competition from, large swathes of local space with close to minimal losses.
With war upon the Rupeeans, Teria has been offered a full fleet and directed at the corewards flank of the Terran Empire with a clear goal - disrupt trade across the area, shut down or destroy all the naval assets she can find, and teach the Imperial navy to fear and mistrust as only a poor con artist from the deserts can...
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Personal flagship, the heavy cruiser Berii
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