Laiel Sparatus

**Laiel Sparatus** is the turian representative on the Citadel Council. He was a respected Fleet Admiral within the Turian Hierarchy before his assignment to the Council.

## Biography

### Early Life

Born and raised in Cipritine, the capitol of the Hierarchy, Laiel was the child of two mid-tiered citizens within the stringent meritocracy of their culture. His father, Exton, worked as a mechanic for the city's public transit service while his mother, Anoli, walked the path of a public servant, protecting the public as a member of the Urban Cohort.

Well cared for and well-educated, Laiel attended the General Omnius Haberen Primary School, a devoted educational center particularly well-regarded within the city. His mother, serving mainly as a criminal detective within the cohort, instilled in her son a constant skepticism, a need to accept hard evidence over all speculation. Ever the turian, his father instilled in the boy a sense of servitude and gratitude for the Hierarchy, a reverence that would envy even the most brainwashed of batarians.

At the age of fifteen Laiel completed his primary education and moved forward with his first stage of public life, his mandated service to the Hierarchy.

### Early Military Career

Arriving at his designated boot camp, Pelanic Fields Basic Training Center, on the 6th of November, 2118, Sparatus was thrown into the fires of training as an individual to be forged alongside his companions as a single, well-structured unit. The yearlong ordeal he endured, as every turian did, changed the young man, deepening his paternally-instilled reverence and earning him new friends along the way. As time went on, it was realized that while he lacked the obvious leadership skills of some of the soldiers in his division, he did have a reverence for authority and a knack for getting others to speak to him.

Graduating Boot Camp one year to the day after entering, Laiel was interested to discover that he had been selected for Naval Service, and would go on for further training at the Arx Naval Educational Center. Another year of training later he was granted the rank of Remex and promoted one citizenship tier from the position of Civis. He was assigned to the flagship of the 12th Expeditionary Protection Unit, the *PFS Gythium*.

Leading the 12th, the *Gythium*'s main duties were the protection and touring of turian colonies, independent or Hierarchy-affiliated, that lie in the Terminus Systems. His commanding officer, Veni Osela Myrakus, was a woman dedicated to this cause, pursuing threats to the colonies viciously through the tumultuous region of space. Unfortunately so far disconnected from Hierarchy space, dangers came not only from without, but within as well.

### Cook, Confidant, Sailor, Spy

By the time of his fifth year aboard the *Gythium* in 2125, Sparatus had been promoted once more to Remex Secundus after serving his duties as a culinary specialist with distinction, not only becoming a well-regarded chef but also an open ear for the crew to express their feelings towards. Moving up in the Hierarchy as well to the position two slots above Civis, Myrakus saw in Sparatus someone she could trust, and utilize to gain a better understanding of her crew's positions.

Having dealt with more angst from independent turian colonies than actual pirates for much of the Unit's tour through the Terminus, her crew had become a quite disheartened and inefficient lot, mostly serving correctly, but without fervor. A slight paranoid, Myrakus was worried that the independent-minded turians of the colonies were having some impact on the ideology of her sailors, and she needed friendlier ears. Pulling Laiel aside one day, she ordered the man to listen in for any doubts or dissent expressed by the crew.

It didn't take long before Sparatus had the unfortunate responsibility of informing his Veni of a conspiracy aboard her own vessel. After visiting the distant colony of Altakiril, a world with a downcast view of the oppressive imperial might displayed by the Hierarchy, some of the crew of the *Gythium* had begun to express doubts in their own views, and a desire to split from the Hierarchy while they were out in the Terminus, in "free space". Led by Remex Primus Sidallia Gathuc, several members of the crew planned to vacate the Unit at its next stop, Triginta Petra, and vanish into the unknowns of the Terminus Systems.

With the unfortunate duty of arresting six of her own crew for conspiracy to derelict duty in hostile territory, Veni Myrakus was given one positive responsibility as well, the promotion of Remex Secundus Sparatus in both rank and title, and granting of him the opportunity to join the Acex Nivali, the office of naval intelligence.

### Naval Intelligence

Trained at the Naval Intelligence Facility on Aephus from 2127-2129, Sparatus was granted an officer's role as Vexillarius and boosted again in citizenship tier. He served with distinction in the Acex Nivali for decades, weeding out what little dissent there was within the navy while also seeking to gather the intelligence necessary for preemptive strikes or retaliatory engagements against pirates or other rogue elements that sought to undermine the Hierarchy.

His time with the Acex Nivali ensured his involvement with many different alien species and ideologies, though his deeply-instilled values and constant skepticism held him true to the tenants of the Hierarchy. After nearly fifty years of service with the office, he was appointed to its commanding position of Fleet Admiral on the 4th of May, 2173. A figure of both public confidence and political importance, he was often discussed when positions on the Council of Primarchs were opened.

### Councilor Sparatus

On the 18th of March, 2178, Councilor Rienn Asodel suddenly and unexpectedly died of an illness she had kept hidden from the public. Although her death came as a shock to many across turian space, the Council of Primarchs had prepared for the moment, and already selected Sparatus to become her successor in the event of her possible death. Appointed after a week of mourning, Sparatus took up the mantle of the turian representative on the Citadel Council.

## Personality

### Die For the Cause

The turian national anthem is "Die For the Cause", and that is a motto that describes Sparatus to the bone. The man is inseperable from the ideology of the Hierarchy, and his decisions are weighed against the benefits and hindrances they will cause for his own people above all others.

### It's in the Past

Once onboard with an idea, Sparatus wastes no time in seeing the idea through. He dislikes hashing over old arguments, especially when they are about his previous positions before he was persuaded to change his mind.

### Skeptical

Sparatus believes in hard evidence. Nothing more, nothing less. For him, the conclusion must be set in stone with all of the logical steps following suit, otherwise there is always room to criticize and question. While this is a prudent tactic, it also leads to him being more slow to commit to many, many issues.