Aito Mikai Naddaa

**Aito Mikai Naddaa** was a nobleman of the Clan Mikai of Cantar Zhun. The Naddaa family branch of the Clan Mikai had long come into possession of the noble position of Venerable Duke of Cantar Zhun, which included the namesake world, Cantar Shaddai, and Cantar Zentsen under Aito's personal rule. Although he was duke, and his family hailed from the world of Cantar Zhun, he would rarely visit the planet himself as was custom for many of the more powerful Adaskan nobility. Rather, he would mostly keep himself to Cantar Shaddai as the centre of pleasure and wealth for many of his kinsmen.

The Naddaa family, like much of the Mikai clan, has their business interests revolving around financial markets. Aito himself became the Chairman of the Adaskan Central Finance Conglomerate, which was formed of successive mergers between several banking ventures held by Adaskan nobility. It became one of the largest private banking organisations within the Empire, with a vast network of datasets that permitted the transfer of incredible sums of money across the realm. As such, the family held onto its chair position with a paranoid jealousy. To further their interests within their field, Aito, as well as many members of the Mikai clan, served on the Interstellar Banking Association, which was a voluntary self-regulating body for several banking institutions.

## Early Life

Aito Mikai Naddaa was born in the 1,482nd year of the Gorenjilic Dynasty, under the reign of Emperor Tsunzhuro Tiure Gorenjilic. He was delivered in within one of his family retreats, Kantaay Hall, on Cantar Shaddai. He was the third of seven children to survive their infancy, a trial in which the weakest were refused assistance, and the strongest were encouraged to hoard food for themselves. This upbringing also saw minimal contact with his birth parents, instead being handed over to the care of a low member of the Naddaa family, a distant cousin, Lady Ranta Mikai Naddaa.

At the age of five, he was granted the title Count of Thamlam and started his formal education. He was provided with a fine education that fitted the son of a Venerable Duke. A retinue of private tutors, chroniclers, carers, and scribes saw to his instruction, which was geared towards financial conduct. Mathematics, economics, accounting, history, grammar, language, music, galactic geography, business management, and law (corporate, administrative, and equity). He would eventually be permitted to assist the Contract-Scribe of his father at the age of 17, learning more of the business in the process.

Throughout his educational period, he was left with little contact with not only his parents, but also his siblings, who were each assigned their own carers and tutors. This was, ostensibly, to ensure that siblings would not form unnecessary attachments, or rely on one another for studies and success in their education. Combined with an infancy that encouraged hoarding to the detriment of other siblings, there was little emotional investment between family members. This helped solidify the belief that whatever Aito could do to secure his grasp on the family wealthy was acceptable.

## Move to Rocan

### First Years

His first arrival on Rocan was in the 1,500th year of the Gorenjilic Dynasty. During this time, the imperial centre was host to great celebrations. These celebrations lasted months, an excuse for the most indulgent parties of the upper echelons of Rocanni society. Parades, balls, races, parties, speeches, and plays were held across the Empire, though anyone who was able visited the capital for at least a portion of the anniversary. The Emperor himself hosted several great celebrations at the mausoleums of the Gorenjilic, and permitted, for the first time in 500 years, the attendance of nobility to a great festival at the Great Imperial Palace with the auctioning of highly sought after tickets. Though Aito himself would be unable to attend, he was left greatly jealous that his father, mother, and eldest brother were purchased tickets through his father's immense wealth.

In the 1501st year of the Gorenjilic Dynasty, Aito was sent to the Imperial University of Applied Econometrics within the Santiniket district. This was an unsurprising choice, as the son of one of the foremost banking families in the core, such a prestigious economics-focused university was the first choice. These studies would last five years, but it was during this time that he was arranged to court his distant cousin, Canay Mikai Danaka. This was to solidify the appointment of her father, the Count of Khangno, to Chief Risk Management Officer.

Being on Rocan, he would successfully avoid the intrigues of his older siblings, with his sisters Tieka and Luni successfully getting their brother Jendo assassinated in 1503:12:02. This left Tieka as the favoured inheritor of their fathers banking empire, and necessitated the later alliance between Aito and his brother and sister, Daulte and Reya.

Upon his graduation from university, the now 24-year-old Aito received the position of settlements officer in the Central Finance Conglomerate, working with the his uncle-in-law in the post of Chief Loans Officer. Building up a private clientele and his own wealth would occupy him for the coming years.

### Corporate Affairs

During the waning years of his university education, the Tharwa were an increasingly organised crime syndicate operating within the outer-rim and commanderies on the periphery of the empire. This would eventually lead to the theft of chromium worth 30 million from the Adarna corporation, shipwrights of luxury star liners, operating within the zone between the mid and outer rims. Chromium was being transported by a joint effort of trading firms and Adaskan securities division, as part of the collateral for a new loan. The heist was, in fact, facilitated by Aito's brother Daulte, within the securities division, as part of their newfound alliance.

A similar sum of money was then transferred by Reya to funds held in Tieka's name, and Aito saw to it this information was leaked to the Adarna corporation. It's purpose was to convince the family of the Adarna corporation that Tieka was, in fact, assisting the Tharwa to her own benefit. Unsurprisingly, such information later led to the assassination of Tieka by agents from the offended party.