Octavia

was a member of the Court of the Second Fialta Imperium and head of the Fialta Security Bureau. After her meteoric rise to power culminated in leadership of the FSB in the mid-400s, she took an early retirement to be the inaugural head of the Networked-Etheric Security Academy (NSA).
==History==
Born to a human Kirvan family in the in the former Shantine Protectorates, Octavia fled her family early and was a member of various, minor criminal gangs and enterprises on her home world. She also began questioning her Kirvan faith and quietly converted to the Church of Dalthad shortly thereafter.
=== Early Professional Career ===
After a risky smuggling operation brought her to an Imperial world, one particularly bad set of circumstances landed her in the custody of the Fialta Security Bureau at the age of 20. She was given a choice—face certain imprisonment or prosecution, or act as a mole so the FSB could round up the rest of the gang. 
Not being the sentimental type, Octavia chose the latter. FSB lore states that her handler was so impressed with her skill as a double agent that they soon gave her a job as junior field agent, recruiting and managing low-level contacts among the criminal underworld. 
=== Leadership ===
After several successful operations, her star rose within the organization. Proceeding to work as an agent runner, propagandist, and analyst, she worked her way up to a senior rank at an exceptionally young age. This was much to the displeasure of many in the (predominantly Othali) old guard of the organization who attempted to hamstring her rise to power, leading to Octavia's career-long dislike of the Othali. 
=== Coup and Neptos' Reign ===
Her cunning caught the eye of Emperor Asterion's counterintelligence detail, for whom she worked until shortly before the Emperor's attempted assassination and coup. While Octavia had the chance to escape alongside Asterion, she decided to stay and later accepted the new Emperor's offer to head the FSB. 
While on Phillip Neptos' cabinet, Octavia played a key role in the Imperium's response to conflicts of the mid-400s, both as chief propagandist and spymaster. Perhaps her most lasting impact on the cosmos, her covert influence operations on Aeldrum through contacts in the press indirectly led to the rise of Chella Nebai and hastened the eventual retirement of Serene Doge Manuel Emiir.
=== Retirement ===
An early adopter of Ethernet espionage and propaganda techniques, Octavia retired from the FSB after founding the Networked-Etheric Security Academy. Built in partnership with the Church of Dalthad and the Imperium's new wave of Fialta academies, the NSA helped cement the Imperium as a new center of learning—and, many say, as a continued source of covert influence in this new medium.
==Trivia==
Octavia is named after a street near Nathaniel's house in San Francisco.
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