Jelknai Heral

"Attacking the Dragoians at this time is tactically unwise. I know you want to start your reign with a glorious victory, but picking on our strong and mostly civil neighbours isn't the way to do that!" Jelknai talking to Atheai shortly before The 300 Year Conflict.
Jelknai is a Bluescale Androgian and one of the most senior and respected Admirals during Atheai's reign.
==Profile==
*Name: Jelknai Heral
*Birth Date: -39,237
*Height: 39ft 7in
*Species: Androgian
*Gender: Female
*Weight: 624,885 Kg
==Overview==
Born into a poor family, Jelknai joined the military at a young age to escape her miserable life. Originally posted, like many Bluescales, to logistics, Jelknai would gradually claw her way up the ranks of logistics and get the posting she wanted, a minor crew member of a starship after an agonisingly slow 112 years.
Her time in logistics taught her many organisational skills that caught the eye of her captain, and saw her swiftly promoted back into logistics, albeit this time a more senior role and on board a starship. When her ship came under attack during a skirmish and suffered heavy damage in the area Jelknai worked, her true colours started to show, with her selflessly making sure every other crew member got out of the damaged section before she did and doing her best to stop the damage spreading. These actions further impressed her captain, who promoted her and offered her a position on the bridge, which Jelknai accepted.
The centuries continued to pass and Jelknai slowly but surely managed to rise in the ranks becoming a Captain in -38,799. Considered abnormally and agonisingly slow by almost all standards, but also a rarity for a basic grunt, logistics or combat, with no formal officer training to make it to Captain at all. In just under a century of making Captain, she got promoted to Admiral after a string of impressive victories. Her unorthodox way of making Captain, and later Admiral, had also seen a boost in morale among the lower ranks who saw Jelknai as a success story.
Her centuries as an Admiral came with many successes, but also came with a resentment to the Androgian culture of the strong dominating the weak. Starting to question herself as to why the Androgians felt a constant need to fight and prove themselves strong with long and bloody wars. These feelings were already becoming less personal once Atheai Kilas took the role of Androgian leader, and rapidly became less personal and more public when Atheai seemed to embody this culture of strong dominating the weak. During the years leading up to The 300 Year Conflict, Jelknai had spread her quiet dissatisfaction of Androgian culture to several other admirals who were all opposed to Atheai's plans to start a massive war with the seemingly sole goal of making a bloody mark on history. These protests against the war were all but ignored by Atheai, who started the war anyway by making tensions worse when an Androgian scouting vessel seemingly went rogue and attacked an Ancient Dragoian mining colony and then destroyed itself in -38,208.
The 300 Year Conflict took a heavy personal toll on Jelknai, who was against the whole war to start with and would deliberately and subtly sabotage many major offensives at random by secretly tipping off the Ancient Dragoians in an attempt to drag the war into a stalemate and hopefully a ceasefire. The Ancient Dragoians realised these tip-offs were never going to be completely reliable as they were clearly aiming for a stalemate rather than an Ancient Dragoian win, but the Ancient Dragoians still considered them to be useful as whenever a tip-off told them of an Androgian attack, it always resulted in an Androgian attack nearby to the stated location, allowing for a rapid deployment if not catching the Androgians off-guard. The creation and rapid rising through the ranks of Jaksnai Devagra concerned Jelknai, as her fleet's unpredictable and often gruesome attacks threatened to tip the balance back to the Androgians and threaten the painful, but not devastating, stalemate that Jelknai was increasingly desperately trying to force to end the war without one side decimating the other.
==Relationship With Atheai==
Jelknai has a poor relationship with Atheai and sees it as her job to point out Atheai's tactical blunders and other mistakes when other, younger, Admirals are too scared to. Atheai finds this behaviour annoying and will often physically hurt Jelknai in disgust, often breaking something. However, Atheai sees Jelknai as a useful if annoying person owing to her almost unparalleled centuries of military service and unrivalled seniority in the military giving her a different, and effective, view point during armed conflicts due to having fought through so many before.
To stop Atheai catching on to Jelknai's deliberate sabotage during The 300 Year Conflict, she'd deliberately only tip off the Ancient Dragoians about fleet movements from admirals who were for continuing the war, and even then only infrequently and at random to stop the other admirals catching on, a strategy that worked well given the Ancient Dragoian's less than trusting nature of the tip-offs.
==Combat Style==
Jelknai will fight with a pistol when she has to and has somehow managed to be completely average with it throughout her centuries of service. She prefers to be on the bridge of a starship than anywhere near ground combat where she can use her intellect rather than her lacking physical abilities.
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