Andrea Patrice

Rear Admiral was the commander of the Hybern Sector's Imperial Navy during the late Mage Imperium.
== History ==
=== Hybern Sector Fleet Rear Admiralcy ===
The Hybern Fleet had a history as old as the sector, first protecting supply lines for colonial ventures but quickly graduating into gunboat diplomacy and, eventually, wholesale subjugation. The Fleet's top brass consisted largely of veterans of the Episurean War 35 years ago, men and women who had brutally reminded the cosmos of what it meant to challenge the Imperium. This had produced something of a jingoistic "old boys' club" of grizzled captains with an abnormally high rate of live fire experience and more cybernetic implants than a Baradun tomb-site. In contrast, Rear Admiral Andrea Patrice (ironically called "Flashfire" by her more brazen detractors) was an explorer before assuming her current position, renowned in her right but, in the words of one veteran officer, "better suited to cocktail talk than commanding sailors." The job was likely to go to Lady Astrid Keith, but the events of the Milgravian Civil War had cast something of a pall over her career and somewhat reinforced her reputation as Grand Admiral Horatio's mad dog. There was much resentment of Patrice among the Episurean Veterans, and that seemed to have been the intention of the Brahms and their allies (who had pushed for her appointment by the navy), as under Patrice's leadership the Hybern fleet had been less coordinated operationally and politically, allowing private fleets such as the Hybern Consortium to expand. Lord Clarence Keith had been highly critical of the decision, though there was the obvious conflict of interest involving his sister, Lady Astrid.
=== Brahm Fleet Grand Captaincy ===
In , Patrice was forced to resign from the Rear Admiralcy as a result of Naval Competency Hearlings, and was replaced by Commodore Roland Drumpf. She was later instated by House Brahm as Grand Captain of the Brahm family fleet.
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