Olivia Hartman

Prim. Proper. Deadly serious. Olivia Hartman is a power player in the Dragonian Inner Circle. Rubbing elbows with some of the most powerful people in Dragonian society, she is a clear aspiration for many of Dragonia's wealthy and powerful. But who exactly is Olivia? Is she available? Regardless of these questions, what's known is that she is the one of the top 10 most powerful people on Dragonia and in the Aegian system as a whole. - Quote from a celebrity magazineOlivia Hilliard Hartman is the currently serving Senator-General of the Shield Arm of the Grand Army, making her the most powerful woman on Dragonia outside of the royal family. She is one of the top 10 most powerful people on Dragonia. She is the second in command of the Shield Arm and the provisional commander of all Shield Arm troops in the Aegian system. Xan Kriegor gives her almost complete control of the Shield Arm leading many to assume, without any real evidence, that Xan Kriegor might be grooming her to take over his position. Whatever the case, none question her position, power, authority and standing in Dragonian Society. She has jet black hair with a red streak that she dyed through it that she keeps dyed as it is sort of a badge of honor for when she made her first kill as a Dragonian soldier on her first campaign. She is a tall woman, standing at just shy of 6 feet tall. She has crimson eyes, which is not her natural eye color. That was a body modification she made in order to increase her intimidation. Olivia is unmarried and has no children. Olivia is good friends with Celia Orientail. Seemingly destined for greatness, Olivia can directly trace her family line back to the first Grand-General Jason Terwiliger on her mother's side.
As of 2640, Olivia has succeeded Xan Kriegor as the Grand-General of the Shield Arm of the Grand Army making her the second most powerful woman on Dragonia and one of the 3 more powerful people in entirety.
== Background and Personality ==
An expert at hand-to-hand combat, Olivia knows numerous fighting styles both unarmed and with weapons, several of those styles are lethal. Not only that, she is an excellent shot scoring in the top percentile of army marksmanship trials. Olivia joined the military the day she turned 16, much to her parents protests. Because of this, for the first 10 years of her career she didn't speak to her family at all. Olivia has a patriotic zeal that can, depending on who's looking, borderline on zealot-like. Olivia worked her way up the ladder from Private all the way up to Senator-General through determination, grit, leadership skill and all other skills relevant to advance. Unlike most other officers Olivia received a field grade promotion to 2nd Lieutenant during an operation that went wrong when their then Lieutenant got their platoon ambushed and then subsequently got killed. Taking control, then Sergeant Hartman rallied the platoon and not only got out of the ambush, they beat it back and still managed to complete their objective with reasonably minimal losses. This got her noticed by High Command. Steadily working her way up through Captain up to Colonel, she was given command of her own brigade. Olivia sat comfortably as a colonel for about 20 years before she got her major break and was given the opportunity to send her Brigade to fight in a skirmish outside of the home system with the Sword Arm as part of the Proving Grounds Trial. She immediately took the opportunity without a second thought. She left Dragonia with her men as a colonel and returned a newly minted Brigadier General.
Olivia is a very serious woman, often adhering to a strict personal code of behavior and standards. Her hair is always styled right, every single time. Her bed is always perfectly made, so much so that one of her personal maids even said that "You could bounce a credit chip off of it, it's that immaculate". Her uniform is never out of regulation. This is not only because respects the military standards but also, unknown to almost everyone else, she has minor obsessive-compulsive disorder. Things have to fit in line or she gets real antsy about it, almost as if it's mocking her or the standards set. Olivia can't be missed. Her demeanor in public can be noticed from substantial distance from her iconic gait to her pencil straight standing.
This has, for better or worse, given her a reputation as being a prude. To some degree it's correct but she doesn't think of herself this way. While she seems unapproachable she will make small talk with people around her. She also authors a young adult book series called "Little Miss Millie's Magical Quest" under the pseudonym "Via Cressler". It's a big hit and in order to keep her actual identity secret she cultivated an CommNET persona using a digital AI personality named "Via Cressler" who interacts with fans.
== Command Style ==
Olivia is all business in the field and she often has to be. Olivia is the front-facing commander of the Shield Arm and is the one who does the talking, so to speak. Xan Kriegor rarely ever makes an appearance and it's her job to do that. She is a substantially efficient commander that can admit when the enemy has a leg up on her own troops. She took no small amount of inspiration from the AcDragonian's in both the Dragonian Civil War and the Corsari Conflict in how they rapidly move their troops around the field to make up for their lack of superior firepower. Olivia has personally reached out to Thundra Orientail in order to conduct war games with her so that she can adapt the Shield Arm into a force that can more easily fight in and around cities and other confined areas where the full force of the Grand Army can't be used. These games have paid off, because Olivia and the Shield Arm have begun deploying troops in unorthodox ways to maximize enemy casualties. Olivia also stopped relying on the Osiris Network for eyes on the battlefield. She considers it a "tool" that can be broken or removed at any time and as such restructured the Shield Arm's training to include a greater emphasis on land-nav, map reading, communication and any other number of tasks without the network's help. This way, the Shield Arm will not be paralyzed again if the Network ever goes down like during the Civil War.
Olivia doesn't play games. Once she is given an objective, she WILL get that objective done. She pays heavy mind to the cost of campaigns in both material and manpower but will push through regardless. Olivia has never lost a campaign, however she has been pulled out of a few. When these happen, she tends to retreat away from everything for a week in order to reflect on what went wrong and how she can do better in her next campaign. Xan Kriegor knows about these retreats and seamlessly takes control of the Shield Arm in her absence.
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