Gretchen Gatelna

"The only way out of this brig is through me." Gretchen making a subtle joke about the only way to escape her flagship's brig is to be devoured by her.
Gretchen is an Algranian admiral known for her gluttony.
== Profile==
*Name: Gretchen Allison Gatelna
*Birth Date: 1554
*Height: 15ft 8in
*Species: Algranian
* Gender: Female
*Weight: 33,875 Kg
==Overview==
Born as the daughter to a rich family on one of Algrania's smaller colonies, Helgania. Gretchen always had a massive appetite and a desire to explore the galaxy in search of more creatures to devour.
She eventually grew bored of the limited menu available on her colony, and signed up for the military at age 32 seeing as the best way to explore the galaxy. She user her family funds to personally bribe an admiral, specifically admiral Chrona Dyl, into letting her join the military as a lieutenant but also skip the recruitment fitness tests which she was well aware that she would've failed.
For the first few decades, she effectively served as Admiral Dyl's personal assistant and would share the admiral's more lavish meals in return for the occasional bribe. Chrona and Gretchen quickly started to become friends and despite a lack of promotions, Gretchen gained Chrona's favour more than just the bribery allowed, becoming Chrona's most trusted officer despite being on paper nothing more than her personal assistant lieutenant. After a decade, Chrona started secretly training Gretchen up as her replacement.
By 1603, Chrona and Gretchen had become more than just best friends, having fallen in love and got engaged in secret. However just like the favouritism of the prior decades, Chrona decided to keep this secret, but gave Gretchen a promotion to Commander as an engagement gift along with a promise of a promotion to Captain on their wedding day.
Chrona and Gretchen got married, officially and formally in early 1634, breaking their secrecy and confirming the long held suspicions of the bulk of Chrona's crew. Mere days before the wedding Chrona promoted Gretchen to Captain and had given her an unusually high first command, the newly commissioned battleship A.S.V. Pride of Helgania, named after Gretchen's home colony and considered by nearly everyone to be a blatant gift.
Despite being on separate ships since the A.S.V. Pride of Helgania had entered service in late 1635, Chrona and Gretchen still slept with each other at least once a week, much to the nuisance of the crews of both their ships. Gretchen was considered a weak and ineffective Captain by the other Captains in the fleet, but her looser command style, partly from Chrona's teaching, partly from her own lacking skills, won her the support of the majority of her crew who appreciated her "As long as it gets done, I don't care how it was done" style of command and the freedom it gave them.
In 1737, Chrona decided it was time both for her to retire, and for her and Gretchen to have a child. This predictably resulted in Gretchen getting promoted to admiral and gaining control of Chrona's flagship the A.S.V. Glory of Algrania and fleet.
During the following centuries, Gretchen would lead her fleet across the galaxy, doing her best to expand Algranian interests along with her list of creatures she'd devoured, while simultaneously making sure at least one day a month was spent with her beloved Chrona and their three children on Helgania. Gretchen continued Chrona's less rigid command style of the fleet which helped smooth the transition, although Captains who disliked Chrona's command found Gretchen's less competent version of the same command style even more irksome. However, after several skirmishes with the Selde and other forces over the decades, Gretchen gained a reputation within her fleet of having an impressively well timed sense of when to retreat which improved relations between her and the Captains and crews in her fleet. Conversely, the rest of the Algranian admiralty considered this a weakness and would often reprimand her especially if such a retreat was ordered while engaging the Selde.
Gretchen died in 2031 in orbit of Helgania, using the battered remains of her fleet, which she had ordered to evacuate from the slaughter in the neutral zone after predicting a devastating Algranian loss shortly into the battle, trying to defend the colony, and more importantly to her, her wife Chrona and their 3 daughters, from the remnants of the Selde fleet. Her flagship, the A.S.V. Glory of Algrania, was destroyed by the S.W.V. Retribution's nova cannons trying to block their shots from impacting Helgania.
==Tastes==
Gretchen doesn't really care what she eats, as long as it includes meat she will happily shove great quantities down her maw.
Her favourite food is other DragonKin, particularly enjoying Selde, with any Selde unfortunate enough to end up in her flagship's brig all but certain to end up as one of Gretchen's meals.
Despite this love of eating other DragonKin, she has no interest in eating another Algranian and considers cannibalism to be an aberration, and personally despises the 'Giant' Selde for their common habit of devouring 'Normal' Selde and uses this as a reason to justify fighting to make the Selde extinct.
==Combat Style==
Gretchen has little use knowing how to fight as infantry, preferring to be on the bridge of a starship and not heaving her hulking, unfit, form through a battlefield. The only time she ever fires a firearm against a living target is when executing her next soon to be meal. Despite this, she practices with a standard issue pistol regularly and is just about capable of passing any standard proficiency tests with it.
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