Chella Nebai

**Chella Nebai** was the president and CEO of CompuNav, and the Serene Duchy of Aeldrum's Director of Technical Intelligence during the First Coalition War. She became one of the most powerful industrial leaders of Aeldrum, rising to the title of Baroness and achieving the offices of Doge of Estonne and ultimately Serene Doge. Her policies as Serene Doge largely extended those of the Emiir administration and the Bachelier Doctrine, though swinging harder toward a powerful ISC Board than her predecessor had supported. Her strengthening of the ISC Board is widely believed to have been instrumental in allowing Aeldrum to retain economic hegemony over its former coreworlds and colonies after the Devolution under her successor, Serene Doge Alaveth.

## Personality

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## History

### CompuNav

Chella was an elf of lower gentry who burst onto the industrial scene in the 370s A.U. with the technology for automated navigation and mapping. Her company CompuNav then expanded into various mechanical and etheric computing applications. But perhaps more interesting was her work on "living computers"—using the connection between genetics and the soul, CompuNav developed a line of biocomputers, using primitive organisms (gossamers, slime molds, etc.) with tweaked gene markers to create a distributed soul computing system that is immune to typical possession-hacking.

Chella was an expert on the occult, computing, genetics and etherics, and while not at the top of any of those fields, it was her breadth of knowledge that constituted CompuNav's secret to success.

## First Coalition War

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During the War of the Coalition, Chella served Serene Doges Leopold Orvhim and Bareth Aefendt as Director of Technical Intelligence, in which she was involved in counterintelligence, high tech and back-channel diplomacy.

## Fifth Century A.U.

During Bareth's Golden Age, she proved a loyal and effective ally of the regime, acting as one of its senior technocrats and enriching the Nebai Consortium (built off of CompuNav but eventually including such jewels as Aeldrum Mechatronics Corporation) to become one of the Serene Duchy's five largest industrial conglomerates. A key figure in the expansion of AeldNet to the wider cosmos, Nebai joined the inner circle of the Bareth administration in the 440s: rumors that she was being groomed to succeed the Serene Doge were cut short with Bareth's shocking assassination and the election of the Count of Montreal as a "defensive" choice for the astounded Duchy. Nebai retained a key position in the Montreal and Emiir administrations and was again developed as a leading political figure, winning the challenging Estonne Spire dogeship and finally being put put forward as the Industrialist candidate for Serene Doge in the election of 460 A.U. (having been carefully positioned by Montreal and his ally Count Solaire against the candidacy Count Sevrar Orvhim). Nebai lost the election to Orvhim, winning the votes of the popularly elected MPs but neither the aristocracy nor the special voting seats (governors, spires, etc.). Amidst mass protests at Orvhim's victory, however, the Count was assassinated three days into his tenure. After being cleared of any involvement in an investigation that revealed the assassins to have been in league with the Veiled Masters, Nebai was elected Serene Doge.