Talk:Battle Among the Stars
Mal's NPC Stable
House Metherly
During the early Imperial Era, the founders of House Metherly were aristocratic navigators who charted unplotted starways and new worlds within the vast gulf of the Zedan Circuit. As reward for their efforts they were granted the sole right to charter trading guilds and monopolies in the northeastern empire. Their descendants, today based on the garden world of Metherlence, play a delicate game with the Crown every fiscal year. No house is more punctual with their royal taxes than the Metherlies – or has the Crown as deeply indebted to it.
In general the house has extensive ties with both the Hansa and the Crown and are much more about manipulation and connections than fighting. Being as their only real rivals in wealth are technical guilds related to military production, the Metherlies would really rather everyone stop fighting so they can trade instead.
House Traits
High Noble
Willful
Aislin Metherly
Aislin Metherly is the visibly aging matriarch of House Metherly and a Great Duchess of the Empire. As the leader of one of the greatest and most established houses, she has spent her lifetime guarding this power jealously. She demands respect from outsiders and obedience from her tree of descendants. Now and again, she is referred to in court as the archetypical iron lady. Her younger, more dynamic days (when she had a complicated relationship with then rising courtier George Wattenberg) are long past and she responds to the increasing willfulness among her descendants by tightening her grip. She remains a personal friend of the Prime Minister and thus has a strong presence in imperial politics despite not having appeared personally on Zeus for some years.
Personal Traits
Machiavellian
Command Traits
Diligent
Fleet Traits
Large Fleet
Flaws
Lazy – Just getting too old.
Psychological Flaw – Risk averse. Aislin has spent all her years maintaining her house's power and protecting it from competition. She does not like taking risks.
Zhukov – As the matriarch of one of the wealthiest clans in the empire, the lives of individual soldiers in her mind have long since turned into a set of account balances.
Marcel Metherly
A grandson of the matriarch, Marcel Metherly has been a fleet admiral since after the Freeholds' Operation Jubilee. Her grandmother got him assigned to a patrol fleet in a nearby sector to groom him eventually to control the house fleets. However, he chafes under her strictures as of late and has never been keen on hunting pirates or putting down small time peasant rebels – he would much rather be fighting a war he doesn't really know much about.
Personal Traits
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Command Traits
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Fleet Traits
Large Fleet
Space Patrol
Flaws
Romantic
Lunavia is the youngest of Aislin's direct great granddaughters and is the spitting image of her in her youth so she's special – all of the doting the great matriarch never felt she could afford to give anybody is applied to Lunavia. The teenager was recently introduced to the salons of Zeus and immediately made waves in the social scene for her beauty, etiquette and pretty much anything you'd want in a blooming aristocratic socialite. Unfortunately, Aislin's memories of her own youth are completely rose shaded and for all her machiavellian experience, can't quite grasp that her great granddaughter is indeed a teenager.
Personal Traits
Charismatic
Willful
Command Traits
(not a commander)
Fleet Traits
(not a commander)
Flaws
Bad Judge of Character
Easily Tricked