Tenebrius Volucra

Grand Admiral was the head of the Second Fialta Imperium's Imperial Navy during the mid-400s A.U. Acting with the support of a cabal of Othali nationalists, he oversaw the disastrous invasion of the Thalranese Marches that precipitated the Second Coalition War. 
After the war and reduction of the Fialta Imperial naval budget by Emperor Neptos I to meet the fiscal demands of the Bank of Valdos and Church of Dalthad, Tenebrius formed the Black Navy, an off-books Othali naval force that sustained itself through piracy, privateering and embezzlement of state funds. Both the Emperor and Grand Admiral were clandestine Othalis, and the Black Fleet acted with the tacit approval of the monarchy in executing such destabilizing acts as raids into Celestial Space, facilitating outbreaks of Mind Virus in Naga Space and at the Forgotten World, arming Perfect Prince renegades against the Aeldman-backed Kingdom of Veran, privateering against Nipponese interests and identifying and excavating a Black Pyramid at the backwater world of Nas'au. The Black Navy also undertook extralegal attacks on Alusian exploratory and colonial ships, formed unofficial diplomatic relations with the Thannasid God Kings and conducted joint Thannasid-Othali experiments to produce "Blood Vessels" powered by horrendous human sacrifices. Finally, the Black Navy was complicit in the Saldanese Resurrection Crisis, providing intelligence, lore and protection on behalf of Emperor Neptos to the Saldanese Executive Board.
After the succession settlement embodied in the Fialta Imperial Constitution, the Black Navy largely reintegrated into the Imperial Navy, understood as the de-facto Othali representative within the government. The Othalis receded into obscurity during the subsequent two generations, even allowing a Thalranese Grand Admiral to come to power and act to protect the ascension of Dalthadi Emperor Leutarus, in violation of the Othali-Valdosian grand bargain under Neptos I.
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