Taltrix III

The **Last Emperor** of the **Rothian Corporation**. **Taltrix III** ruled from **2401** to his death in **2420** on **Canaan Station** orbiting **Roth Prime (Roth I)** during the **Roth/Strategos War of 2420**.

## Biography

### Early Life

Almost nothing is known about the feline that would become **Taltrix III**, as no historical records exist of his birth or life before ascending to the **Rothian Corporation Throne** as **"Chief Executive Officer"** or **"Emperor"**. There are many differing accounts of his birth, including a fantastical one that stated he was born on **Zoranastris** during the early **22nd Century**. These claims have been widely discredited by **Rothian Historians**, who attribute them more to Taltrix's campaign of propaganda to make themselves seem immortal.

The **Official Account** of his birth indicates that he was born on **Monarchia (Zeta Felis XII)**, the **Throne World** of the Rothian Corporation, that had been kept a closely guarded secret during the reign of the Corporation. This has led some to believe that Taltrix was actually **Genetically Engineered** with **Zoranastris** **DNA** to create a hybrid between to two species, as it was believed that the Zoranastris had some sort of **"Special Insight"** into the universe following their extinction during the reign of **Malv II**.

### Ascendance to the Imperial Throne

In **2401**, Rothian Corporation Emperor **Malv VII** died with no heir. Although his death was recorded as natural causes due to the advanced age of the Emperor, some speculated that Malv may have been poisoned as Taltrix, his **Chief Advisor** at the time had put himself forward as the next imperial candidate almost directly after the death of elderly Emperor. This move was seen as highly suspicious by the rest of the **Rothian Aristocracy** however none opposed it as Taltrix had promised a large amount of lands of citizens for each of the **Aristocratic Corporations**.

For the next **19 Years**, Taltrix fostered an atmosphere of fear and cruelty throughout the **Rothian Corporation**, regularly playing the **Aristocratic Corporations** against each other for his favour and drawing ever closer to the **Cult of Monarchia**, a secret organisation on the planet of Monarchia that worshipped Taltrix as a **"Living God"**. Children and adults were gathered from across the Rothian Corporation to be experimented on by the cult as Taltrix himself became increasingly obsessed with preserving his youth and eternal life.

### Conflict with the **United Commonwealth of Planets**

In **2420**, the **Rothian Corporation** made first contact with the **United Commonwealth of Planets**, an organisation that had been founded by aliens to the **Black Eye Galaxy**, just a year earlier and had successfully defeated the spread of **Void Space** across the galaxy, including into Rothian territory.

During first contact with the **U.S.S. Hiryu** in early **2420**, Taltrix learnt about a previously unknown form of **radiation** known as **Metaphasic Radiation**, which had been present inside the cellular scans of Hiryu commanding officer, **Captain** **Orion Windwalker**. Having not encountered this radiation before, **Pu'rik Industries**, one of the largest **Aristocrat Corporations** at the time, convinced the Emperor to attempt to obtain more samples of this radiation for new **Cosmetic Products**, which could help to expand the Rothian lifespan.

Motivated by his own age and failing body at the time, the Emperor launched an unprovoked attack on the Commonwealth, forming an alliance with the **Strategos Collective** of the **Tau Quadrant**, who had become concerned regarding Commonwealth incursions into the Tau Quadrant.

During the course of the war, Taltrix was able to gather more samples of Metaphasic Radiation by extracting it from the crews of captured Commonwealth ships that had vacationed on the planet of **Ba'ku** in the **Alpha Quadrant** of the **Milky Way Galaxy**. Thanks, partly due to Pu'rik Industries, Taltrix learnt that Metaphasic Radiation could be combined with currently existing **Rothian Genetic Technologies** to create a means of **"Essence Transfer"**, a way to convert the consciousness of a Roth into pure Metaphasic Radiation and enter another body as a way to cheat death.

Emboldened by this discovery, Taltrix III ordered the **Cult of Monarchia**, in secret, to begin creating clones of his body once the technology created by Pu'rik was complete. However the beginning of a **rebellion**, led by **Ues'sos Arran** complicated matters, destroying the Pu'rik lab that was housing the essence transfer technology.

After the Rothian loss at the **Battle of the Robun Nebula**, Taltrix became increasingly unhinged, replacing his **Royal Guard** with members of the **Cult of Monarchia** in order to complete the Essence Transfer technology. However the destruction of **Canaan Station** and the end of the Roth/Strategos war resulted in Taltrix's death and the death of a great number of the aristocratic class.

### Rebirth

In **Late** **2420**, the **U.S.S. Normandy (NCC-61944-A)** discovered that Taltrix III had survived the destruction of Canaan Station despite the incomplete state of the **Essence Transfer Technology**, however the procedure had only been partially successful, with the **Clone Body** used by the Emperor rapidly decaying. The crew was successful at defeating the Rothian Emperor using a **Commonwealth Tank** and **Hataxi's Khydallan Energy Surge**, once the Rothian Emperor had lost control of their body and transformed into an **Amorphous Cloud** that began to blanket Monarchia.

It is currently believed that all traces of Taltrix III ended when **Monarchia** itself was destroyed when **The Circle** exploded in 2453, during the incident with the **Rannis Consensus**.