Callian Vecturis

Callian Vecturis is the bonded husband of Keirix Victus and stepfather to his daughter, Livia Victus. Before retiring, he served as a senior C-SEC enforcement officer on the Citadel alongside Keirix, who was his junior patrol partner. He has been in a relationship with Keirix since he was assigned to him as his junior partner, while the both of them were still in the Palavenian Military Police Corps, the relationship officially beginning almost a year after Keirix's assignment.

## Biography

### Birth and childhood

Callian was born in Aventinus, Palaven's second-largest city. Passing Bootcamp with above-average aptitude scores at the age of sixteen, he was singled out for showing potential for a career in law enforcement.

### A broken betrothal

Callian severed all ties with his family after they attempted to force him into an arranged marriage to conceal his sexuality. While he initially agreed to the union, albeit reluctantly, he panicked at the last minute, leaving his bride-to-be (a woman from a prominent local family in their district) jilted at the altar. His actions disgraced not only himself but the entire Vecturis family in the eyes of their community. Where once they had been respected now they were shunned, with both metaphorical and physical doors being slammed in their faces whenever it came to promotions and social patronage.

Rather than face his mother's scorn, Callian chose to flee to Cipritine to try and start his life over. While his social ostracisation left him at a severe disadvantage in his early life, he has learned to embrace his newfound freedom to live as he pleases. His mother has since attempted to contact him several times but he has thus far left her every message answered.

### Policing career

#### Palavenian Military Police Corps

##### Aventinus Constabulary

Callian completed his military police training and entered into the ranks of the Palavenian Military Police Corps at age seventeen. He was assigned to the Aventinus Constabulary to serve his local community as a police constable. As the years passed, he became a highly competent and well-respected officer, praised for his adaptability and ability to comprehend a situation from multiple perspectives by his superiors. At the age of twenty-two, his sergeant put him forward for emergency response training, which included mandatory vehicle pursuit and first aid training courses. Callian passed with flying colours, earning him a promotion to the rank of response officer. In this new role, he was tasked with providing a frontline response to assess any immediate threats and quickly decide the best response to protect life, restore order, prevent offences being committed and bring offenders to justice.

After the incident with his betrothed, Callian was socially blacklisted by the majority of his peers and many of his superiors, who viewed his behaviour as a display of unprofessionalism and selfishness. Fellow officers refused to work with him. His sergeant began to send him into increasingly mundane and tedious situations, allocating more serious crimes to greener officers, despite his well-earned reputation for handling dangerous situations calmly and effectively. Callian, frustrated with the situation, requested a meeting with his chief inspector to request a transfer to Cipritine. His superior was initially confused by this request, citing Callian's resume as exceptional for such a young officer, until he explained the situation to her. Knowing that his potential would be forever wasted if he remained in Aventinus, she granted him his transfer and wished him good fortune. She made no reference to the social stigma he had unwittingly accrued on his transfer papers, instead listing the reason for his transfer as *"His exceptional talent for policing could be better applied in the more challenging environment of the capital."*

With his transfer documents in hand, Callian emptied his locker, packed up what few belongings he still possessed and boarded a maglev train for Cipritine that night.

##### Cipritine Constabulary

Callian arrived at Cipritine in the early hours of the following morning. With nowhere else to go, he walked halfway across the city to the military police barracks to hand in his transfer papers; without legally recognised employment, he would not qualify for citizen housing, which he would sorely need if he was to make a new life for himself. He presented his papers to the ranking on-duty officer, informing him he had been sent from Aventinus by order of his former chief inspector. The officer told Callian that it would take a few days to process the transfer and suggested that, in the meantime, he book himself into a hotel. Callian did as he was bid, renting a room at a hotel in one of Cipritine's less affluent districts to keep costs down. A few days later, he received a call from the barracks to confirm his new placement at the Cipritine Constabulary. He was also told to report for duty at 7 am the following day for an orientation briefing. Callian spent the rest of the day on the phone with the Citizen Housing Bureau, trying to obtain some permanent accommodation for himself.

The next day, Callian was introduced to his new sergeant, a man named Octavius Capito, who presented him with a new uniform and a prescribed selection of lethal and non-lethal armaments. Octavius shadowed Callian for the first week on the job, taking notes and assessing his capabilities. Impressed by Callian's professionalism and competency, Octavius happily promoted him back to his old rank of response officer and authorised the provision of a rapid response vehicle. With the legal confirmation of his employment status, Callian was contacted by the Citizen Housing Bureau a few days later to confirm the allocation of a one-bedroom flat for him in the Suburra neighbourhood, a large, working-class district of Cipritine. Callian moved in immediately, grateful to finally be out of the seedy hotel room he had been residing in for the past two weeks. While he had brought very few possessions with him from Aventinus, he attempted to make it his own as best he could. He also had his state-supplied rations redirected to his new address, enabling him to cook for and feed himself.

Callian excelled in his new position at the Cipirtine Constabulary, quickly making a name for himself among his fellow officers. Over the next three years, he bolstered his service record with a number of pivotal arrests and successfully contained emergency situations. At the age of twenty-six, he was promoted to the rank of senior response officer and was approached by Octavius with the offer of a mentoring role for the training of new response officers. Callian accepted, simply grateful for the chance to finally prove himself. It was then that he was assigned to mentor an eighteen-year-old Keirix Victus, the son of *Primarch* Fidellion Victus, who had been with the force for a little over a year. As the junior officer, Keirix would accompany Callian while he was on duty to learn from his example in the field.

### Marriage

After the death of his mother-in-law, Keirix and his wife, Leila Aventen, chose to amicably divorce, each wanting the other to be able to live their best lives without having to compromise their true selves. With encouragement from Leila, Keirix then asked Callian to marry him. Callian, overcome with joyous disbelief, accepted Keirix's proposal. Fidellion generously offered to financially contribute to the couple's wedding ceremony, but Callian rejected his assistance, telling him:

> *"While I am moved by your generosity, Sir, Keirix is my responsibility now. As his husband, I want to provide for him myself, with the credits I have earned, rather than relying on others. Keirix chose to be with me, knowing full well the reality of what that choice means. We will never be wealthy but we will be happy. You love your son, and so do I; trust me to care for him, as I trust you to support him."*
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Keirix convinced Callian to partially compromise by allowing his father to contribute towards Keirix's wedding robes, as a wedding gift from his birth family. Fidellion, having taken his new son-in-law's words to heart, gifted Callian with a holo-journal, telling him to *"...fill it with the memories that the two of you will make together."* Callian was moved by this gift, realising the gravity of its deeper meaning: Fidellion giving his blessing for Keirix to become completely independent from him and the insular life of the imperial court.

With this assurance in mind, Callian and Keirix began to plan their wedding together, handcrafting it to suit their personal tastes and desires. In comparison to the grandiose event that was Keirix's first wedding, it was extremely simple but both of them preferred it that way. They were married during a private ceremony at a small temple, which was attended by Keirix's family and the couple's closest friends. Callian chose not to invite any of his own family, wanting nothing more to do with them. The newlyweds then relocated from the Citadel to Palaven, taking up residence in Cipritine to enable Keirix to be closer to his daughter's family.

By marrying Callian, Keirix willingly forfeited the prestige and privilege associated with his Victus birth name, becoming Keirix Vecturis. Now finally able to live openly together after decades of being forced to conceal their relationship, Callian and Keirix chose to mate for life, marking each other as soulmates for all eternity.