Gargantine Kersal

"I want Gretchen Serai captured, interrogated, then brought to me bound on a platter. Am I clear?" Gargantine giving orders after hearing of Gretchen Serai's escape.
"If only I were a bit bigger, I could eat one of those sure to be tasty Shadraxians..." Gargantine day-dreaming during a inter-species meeting.
Gargantine is the Selde Fleet Marshal.
==Profile==
*Name: Gargantine Faine Kersal
*Birth Date: 624
*Height: 121ft 8in
*Species: Selde Giant?
*Gender: Female
*Weight: 23,885,368 Kg
==Overview==
Gargantine, named by her two giant parents for her highly above average size and weight at birth, is the immense commander of the Selde fleet, and the overall ruler's Military Adviser.
Despite her increasingly awkward size as she grew, Gargantine's childhood was mostly normal for a Selde Giant with military parents, attending the most prestigious Military Academy on Seldeynia, but defied expectations by earning high grades across the board upon graduation, earning her a higher than average commission, even for a Giant, in the military, with her curiously choosing to take a position within logistics.
During her decades within logistics, she slowly increased in rank and took an unusually active role in operations, often leading them herself, mostly just to get outside of buildings that were too small for her. During her time in logistics, she was viewed by many as cold-hearted even by the already poor standards of Selde giants, but also a capable commander who would reward those under her who worked hard. After nearly 100 years in logistics and after a slew of bad military rulers to the adviser, she finally felt ready to advance her career beyond being a logistics Admiral and applied to challenge for the Military Adviser position and it's unique rank of Fleet Marshal, having seen for many decades that it was the true power in the Selde ruling system.
Everyone knew going into the challenge that Gargantine's size and strength was unmatched among the Selde, easily surpassing any living Selde. When the day of the challenge happened, the results were just as expected, with Gargantine easily destroying the previous military adviser in the ritual combat by grabbing her by the head and smashing her skull with her grip in what was the shortest ritual combat ever recorded. Shortly after this event, she was questioned by the media as to why she didn't challenge the ruler despite clearly being strong enough and replied with the simple answer of "If I wanted to, I would've" before brushing the reporters off.
Ever since her ascension to military adviser in 745, Gargantine has often been challenged many times by lower ranking Giant Selde military officers who disagreed with her often harsh orders, and unlike other long term advisers, has defeated and devoured every single challenger she has had, often after ripping them in half in what many believe was a response to the common criticism of her initial challenge of lacking spectacle. By 761, the challengers stopped coming, mainly due to Gargantine's reputation for devouring everyone she beats in the ritual combat, but also due to the fact she had gained a reputation for being unbeatable even with lots of cheating such as sneaking weapons in.
It didn't take her long to develop a "Do what I say or I will challenge and eat you" relationship with whoever was the current ruler, and would use this threat to stay above the law and push through harsh policing policies, including the reclassification of numerous petty crimes into more serious crimes. Any ruler change was merely an inconvenience to Gargantine, with the majority being threatened into submission on their first day and those that weren't quickly submitting when a provisional challenge letter with Gargantine's signature arrived on their desk, often with a copy of footage of Gargantine's previous challenges.
In 821 she decided to have fake incriminating evidence created for Selde she wanted to devour finding her previous crime reclassifications hadn't gained her the steady supply of Selde to devour that she wanted, especially Selde Giants for which she had developed a taste for during the days when other 'Giant' Selde challenged her. This evidence was normally planted on 'Normal' Selde, but every year she would incriminate at least 12 'Giant' Selde just to keep herself happy (devouring at least one a month as a form of execution, but keeping the arrests sporadic). Should her plans be discovered, she would incriminate anyone involved with finding her out so that their knowledge dissolved in her gut.
Gargantine also enjoys performing random inspections on Selde settlements with the sole purpose of terrifying them into submission. Before leaving the town she inspected, she would often grab a group (at least 10) of 'Normal' Selde, normally the bulkiest she could find, and stuff them into her massive breast crack, so they could be softened up by the jiggling of her breasts, while she walked back to the capital, where she would extract the softened and sweat covered Selde and devour them as a snack. 
Gargantine was unusually popular with Normal Selde military officers, as her habits of rewarding hard work and loyalty from her logistics days carried over, having passed numerous military policies since becoming Fleet Marshal that dictated that the promoting officers was to be based on their work and loyalty to the military with no relation as to whether they were a Normal or Giant Selde. These policies also made her less popular with Giant Selde which only got worse when she would personally promote or demote officers in the military. Her personal promotions, and those performed by those she personally promoted, were often not strictly in line with her policies, as while they did respect the work aspect of the policies, the loyalty aspect was often twisted to be towards Gargantine and not the Selde Military itself. 
==War Policy==
Gargantine would like nothing better than to mobilise the Selde Fleet and conquer the Algranians for both slave labour and as a source of food, however, she realises that engaging the Algranians in all out war would involve the Sealachans and Shadraxians, something she admits the Selde could not fight against and win. Contrary to popular belief, she isn't ignorant of fleet tactics and would only order an all-out attack as soon as she was confident of Selde victory, even at extremely heavy costs, but wouldn't order an all-out attack unless she was confident in a Selde victory.
Critics of the Selde military suggest Gargantine is the reason the Selde-Algranian War escalated the way it did and no diplomatic solution was ever reached before it got out of control, but these critics cannot prove anything and cannot agree on Gargantine's possible motivations.
In the late 1700s it became apparent to Gargantine that with the Sealachans and Shadraxians involving themselves and an almost equal military build-up on both the Selde and Algranian sides that conventional standoff tactics wouldn't apply to any all-out attack on the Algranians and that any such attack would lead to crippling losses and no chance of conquering, it was at this point she decided to strike Algrania itself and began ordering military scientists to design and build a Selde Super-Dreadnought worthy of the Flagship title, this vessel was to be the S.W.V. Retribution, a mighty vessel to be built in secret, with it's true capabilities to be kept hidden from everyone except the scientists who designed it, senior members of the shipyard that built it, and Gargantine herself, with the purpose of taking out Algrania and it's defensive fleet on it's own if it had to.
==First Contact Mission Changes==
In 2011, Gargantine had an idea that would keep her fed, all while providing her with more variation in food, the only problem with her plan was the officer commanding the SEV Contact, Gretchen Serai, who had constantly proven that despite a flawless record, she was not a pawn and wouldn't follow questionable orders.
Her plan was simple. As the Selde were making more and more alien contacts, it only seemed logical for the new contacts to make trade arrangements. Gargantine's plan was to "selflessly" offer Selde "prison" space to the alien species' lifetime criminals so as to avoid costs to the alien species which Gargantine thought would be an excellent plan to keep her fed with non-native food as well as give a galaxy wide impression that the Selde were lawful and easy to deal with. She even found a ruthless and loyal captain who would follow any order without question to take command of the Contact, but first she had to remove Gretchen.
Framing Gretchen's trusted first officer was easy, as she had a questionable personal life anyway. This allowed Gargantine's chosen captain to get access to the Contact to plant the evidence against Gretchen, and then immediately take command after Gretchen's arrest. Gretchen's escape managed to greatly annoy Gargantine and prompted another loyalty crackdown on senior crew of the Selde Fleet, but still allowed the prisoner transfer plan to go ahead.
Within a few weeks, Gretchen had vanished, and Gargantine had started to receive the first of what she hoped would be many alien prisoners, who were led from the transfer ship, to a special cell complex where every cell was a separate unit and could be removed from the facility and given to Gargantine so she could open the cell and pull an unaware and horrified prisoner out and enjoy a snack. Gargantine restricted herself to just 7 prisoners a week, once a day. If any species asked for a prisoner back that Gargantine had devoured, it caused no end of trouble for the "Foreign Policy" Adviser who had to explain how once a lifetime prisoner was on Selde soil, it was subject to Selde laws as per the contract.
==Combat Style==
In combat, Gargantine uses her massive size to her advantage, often squishing smaller foes underfoot and using her brute strength when squishing underfoot isn't viable. For larger foes, she carries a cannon taken from a starship that she only uses when she it is not viable to get up close and flatten her foes with her huge form.
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