Tenene Chume

> "*Hapes can only be as strong as those who lead her.*"
> ― Tenene Chume
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**Tenene Chume** is the reigning Queen Mother of Hapes; the head of the House of Chume, the royal family of Hapes; and the leader of the Hapes Consortium. Once sharing the crown with her twin sister Tenena Chume at the wishes of their mother, the former Queen Mother, Tenene is suspected of orchestrating the assassination of her sister in order to become the sole reigning Queen Mother.

She is celebrated as a quasi-religious figure within the Consortium and her regnal title is 'She-Who-Ran-With-Wolves', alluding to her menagerie of Loth-wolves that she keeps.

Her elder daughter, the deceased Teneniel Chume-- Once rumored to be the daughter of her lover, known only as 'The Wanderer' --was next in line to the throne before being killed in the Disciples of Ragnos crisis, having led Hapan forces in the battle against the Empire Reborn. Teneniel's daughter & Tenene's granddaughter, Tenel Ka Djo Chume, is therefore the unofficial heiress of Hapes and is presently a Padawan in the New Jedi Order. Tenene's younger daughter, Ylissa Chume, is currently the Queen Consort of New Alderaan, married off to the nascent but historically significant monarchy in a political alliance that is unprecented within Hapan history, and a sign of how reformative Tenene is as Queen Mother.

It is thanks to Tenene's political machinations that the Consortium is now an honorary member of the New Republic and a celebrated ally, having fought alongside them and the New Jedi Order to defeat Zsinj's Empire in 4 ABY and later in the Disciples of Ragnos Crisis and the shortlived conflict with the Empire Reborn, though it cost the Queen Mother her eldest daughter and heiress. She is revered as being the monarch to finally and safely integrate the Consortium into the wider galaxy.

## Biography

Tenene was born to the former Queen Mother of Hapes the eldest of a set of fraternal twins. Her younger sister, Tenena, was often viewed as the more charismatic and carefree of the royal sisters, with Tenene being more practical and stoic. Both were beloved of the Consortium, though were the target of distant relatives seeking their inheritance from a young age and grew used to growing up in danger. Still, unlike many other royal family members, the twins knew peace for most of their life, and their early childhoods and teenage-hood were kept mostly private.

When the twins came of age, the proclamation was made by the Queen Mother that both of her daughters would co-rule Hapes when she passed away, naming both of them *Chume'da* in a flagrant disregard for the traditions of their people. Tenene was enraged by the edict, believing her sister was stealing her sole rightful inheritance, while Tenena worked hard to prove to the people of the Consortium that they could only benefit from the co-rulership. Eventually, their mother would quickly die of a plague that struck the Consortium, and the two sisters were both crowned the Queen Mothers of Hapes in a unique double coronation in line with the deceased Queen Mother's ruling. Tenene took the regnal name of 'She-Who-Runs-With-Wolves', while Tenene called herself 'She-Who-Loves-Her-People'.

Both sisters proved that a system of co-rule could work; Tenene took over responsibilities of the legislative and militaristic variety while Tenena became the public face of the Hapan throne, often holding court from the *Star Home* as she toured the various planets within the Consortium. Five years into their joint rule, Tenene took a Hapan husband, a man named Savan Gale. He would come to serve as Tenene's spymaster as well as her 'consort', and drove a wedge between the sisters as he would often point out how Tenene's sister appeared to be the more popular and beloved of the twins, stoking fierce resentment. Tenene would be the one to have a child first, giving birth to a daughter named Teneniel Chume shortly after her marriage in 14 BBY, though with the child looking nothing like the alleged father, rumors began to spread that a man Tenene had welcomed to court to tend to her Loth-wolves, a warlock from Dathomir, was the true father of the child. Those rumours would die down after the birth of Ylissa Chume, Tenene's second daughter, in 11 BBY, who allegedly shared a birthmark with Savan that proved the paternity. All the while, Tenena remained a chaste queen.

Little is known about the assassination of Tenene's sister, though reports are that the sister-queens had an argument surrounding naming Teneniel the heiress to Hapes. Allegedly, Tenena rejected the notion, wishing for them to jointly adopt an outside heiress. Enraged, it's believed that this argument was what led Tenena to use her husband's agents to poison her sister, as the fellow Queen Mother didn't survive the night and was found dead in her solar aboard the *Star Home* the very next day.

Whether or not Tenene was behind the deed is irrelevant when it came to the grand gestures the now-sole ruler of the Consortium did to commemorate to her twin sister. She declared a year of mourning and erected statues of her twin throughout space, intending on not having a soul in the Consortium that did not remember Tenena's face. All the while, Teneniel was quietly named *Chume'da* and would go on to leave a solitary life as the heiress of Hapes, sparking quiet scandal after having a daughter out of wedlock in 3 ABY, who she named Tenel. Tenel's father was unknown, and while Tenene was angry at her wayward daughter, she saw opportunity in Tenel and became heavily involved in raising her granddaughter, attempting to mold her into the perfect pawn.

8 ABY would see the Hapes Consortium be rewelcomed to the Galactic stage and they would fight alongside the New Republic against Zsinj's Empire in a brief conflict with the Imperial Warlord. Tenene famously met with then-Chancellor Mon Mothma to ratify the military aide the Consortium was offering by going in-person to Chandrila aboard the *Star Home*.

In 14 ABY the Disciples of Ragnos crisis would claim the life of Teneniel, who was twenty-six at the time and the one who'd led the Hapan forces into the fight with The Empire Reborn. With the death of her daughter, Tenene's granddaughter Tenel Ka Djo Chume was left as the unofficial *Chume'da.* In the same year, Tenene would give Tenel to the New Jedi Order after she was recognized as a Force-sensitive. Whether or not Tenel will ever inherit the throne is unclear, as the girl is mostly unaware of her massive inheritance and her powerful grandmother, focusing instead on her Jedi Training.