Chrona Dyl

"She's weird and unpredictable, but you get used to dealing with her peculiar brand of "new" after a while." One of the A.S.V. Glory of Algrania's crew talking about Admiral Dyl.
Chrona is an Algranian admiral known for her unconventional style of command.
==Profile==
*Name: Chrona Nora Dyl
*Birth Date: 1228
*Height: 15ft 1in
*Species: Algranian
*Gender: Female
*Weight: 21,749 Kg
==Overview==
Born into a poor but large family on Algrania, Chrona always dreamed of seeing the galaxy from a young age.
After mandatory education had finished when she was 20, she immediately applied to join the military instead of one of the civilian starship operators, shocking her parents who both assumed she would go civilian.
During boot camp, her enormous arse but otherwise slight figure as well as her less than impressive strength and soft voice got her a reputation of being a delicate flower and numerous dating requests, mostly from larger and bulkier Algranian women who wanted a weaker mate but didn't want a male.
By age 31, she'd finally clawed her way out of boot camp and got assigned to a starship's force, and started to do what she'd always dreamed of, explore the galaxy. Her numerous deployments, even those other soldiers considered tedious such as being assigned as security to a freighter, were a joy to her for several decades, being satisfied and eager to do more as long as something new happened. These deployments were usually boring, but she didn't mind as long as something new happened, which given her definition of new was often as low as being served a different meal, always did.
In 1345, her eagerness in spite of decades of tedious duty was noticed by her ship's captain, and she was offered the chance to train as an officer. Ever eager to see and do new things, she accepted even if it meant going back to Algrania for officer training. She struggled with officer training, but by 1349, she was deemed fit to be an officer and got assigned to a different ship in a different fleet.
Over the next century, her eagerness to do new things got her noticed by the fleet's admiral, who saw the ever eager Chrona as a perfect replacement for her position of admiral, and started to train Chrona up as her replacement as was typical for an Algranian admiral. Chrona initially questioned the admiral's decision to train her, with the response that Chrona's eagerness to see and do new things was something the increasingly stagnant Algranian admiralty needed.
By 1493, Chrona had been promoted to Captain and got her first command. Her somewhat brief time as captain got her a mixed reaction from her new crew, with some disliking her more loose and random command where no week would ever be routine, and some preferring it to the rigid standards and predictable routineness of normal military life.
In 1526, after just 33 years as Captain she got promoted to Admiral to replace the admiral who trained her as she had decided that after over 700 years of service it was time to retire. This left her with a fleet of disgruntled captains annoyed at having a young captain with barely a third of a century of real command experience as their new admiral.
By 1586, things had settled within her fleet and the majority of captains as well as the crew of her flagship, the A.S.V. Glory of Algrania, knew to expect and embrace the different and new. This same year Chrona was bribed by Gretchen Gatelna into taking her on as a brand new lieutenant without any tests, she only accepted the bribe from Gretchen due to the sheer novelty of it and assigned Gretchen as her personal assistant, seeing the role as the only officer role an untrained civilian could perform even remotely convincingly.
For the first few decades with Gretchen as her personal assistant, she would share her more lavish meals with Gretchen in return for the occasional bribe, using the bribe to pay for the exotic parts of the meal, having seen a bit of herself in Gretchen, even if it was relating solely to trying new food. Chrona and Gretchen quickly started to become friends and despite a lack of promotions, Gretchen gained Chrona's favour more than just the bribery allowed, and became Chrona's most trusted officer despite being on paper nothing more than her personal assistant lieutenant. After a decade, this resulted in Chrona secretly training Gretchen up as her replacement.
By 1603, Chrona and Gretchen had become more than just best friends, and had fallen in love and got engaged in secret. However just like the favouritism of the prior decades, Chrona decided to keep this secret, but gave Gretchen a promotion to Commander as an engagement gift, and a promise of a promotion to Captain on their wedding day.
Chrona and Gretchen got married, officially and formally in early 1634, breaking their secrecy and confirming the long held suspicions of the bulk of Chrona's crew. Mere days before the wedding Chrona promoted Gretchen to Captain and gave her an unusually high first command, the newly commissioned battleship A.S.V. Pride of Helgania, named after Gretchen's home colony and considered by nearly everyone to be a blatant gift.
Despite being on separate ships since the A.S.V. Pride of Helgania had entered service in late 1635, Chrona and Gretchen still slept with each other at least once a week, much to the nuisance of the crews of both their ships. The days were completely random with no definable pattern.
In 1737, Chrona decided it was time both for her to retire, and for her and Gretchen to have a child. This predictably resulted in Gretchen getting promoted to admiral and gaining control of Chrona's flagship the A.S.V. Glory of Algrania and fleet. The move to settle down was seen as unusual by anyone who knew Chrona other than Gretchen, as it seemed to defy the randomness and unpredictability of the new that Chrona had become well known for. In reality, Chrona saw having children as a fantastically new and different event, and had sated her wanderlust centuries ago.
During the following centuries, Chrona would lead a happy life with her and Gretchen's three children on Helgania, while simultaneously making sure at least one day a month was spent with her beloved Gretchen, awaiting Gretchen's totally random monthly visits with the same eagerness for the new she had when she first joined the army. Much like their parents, Chrona and Gretchen's children loved to experience the new and thanks to Chrona's influence took joy in the smallest differences in daily life. Chrona passed much of her time farming, seeing it as not only a great passer of time, but also one of the great random events of life, where no two days were ever the same.
Chrona died in 2031 on Helgania when the planet was destroyed by the S.W.V. Retribution's nova cannons. One of the last things she saw was the A.S.V. Glory of Algrania and it's fleet trying but failing to hold off the Selde attack, having been too heartbroken seeing her wife's dreadnought be destroyed trying to save the planet to notice the rest of the Selde bombardment.
==Combat Style==
Chrona's early experience as a soldier saw her train primarily with the standard issue Rifle-Hammer but she never really accepted it, rarely making use of the piercing hammer. Other soldiers noted her oddly high accuracy in the field with the weapon and suggested she took a sniper exam which she did, and promptly failed, finding the scope on a sniper rifle hard to use.
Upon being promoted to a ship officer, Chrona still trained with the Rifle-Hammer, but decided to make her pistol her new primary weapon as it was what she was more likely to use.
Category:Algranian
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