Charingad Tagge

Charingad Tagge was a human politician from Tepasi, scion of the noble House of Tagge, and a keen man who wants the best for the galaxy. Born on Tepasi into the noble House of Tagge, he grew up knowing a life of wealth and comfort, though when he attended law school he was subject to a rude awakening and realized he needed to get savvy, and fast.

## Biography

The galaxy was a far different place when Charingad Tagge was born forty-four years ago. He was born into the House of Tagge, one of the noble houses in the sector who owned one of the galaxy's most powerful megacorporations, the Tagge Company, often shortened to TaggeCo. As scion of the House of Tagge, he and his family also held a private military of 5,000 armed scout starships and a million soldiers: led by his father Julius Tagge, who recently had succeeded his father as the Baron of House Tagge. His mother was the Baron’s young wife, Livia, an official in Alderaan's Ministry of Education and a noble in her own right.

Much like other noble scions of Tepasi’s noble houses, he was born there and even from birth, Charingad spent his early years split between Tepasi and Alderaan, where his mother was occasionally needed to represent their House on the High Council of Alderaan. As Charingad entered his teenage years, surprising news arrived: his mother was pregnant once again. His brother Marcus, twelve years his junior, was an unexpected addition to the House of Tagge, though he didn’t have many opportunities to spend with his brother who was being raised on Tepasi by his father while Charingad learned the art of politics and democracy on Alderaan, attending university. For the first time in his life, he was ranked among the top based on merit and accomplishment rather than House. His university experience was a breath of new air. He succeeded in his political studies in this setting, earning the attention of the liberal teachers, who found his open-minded viewpoints refreshing in comparison to the other noble pupils, chief of which was his political law teacher.

She encouraged him to make friends and connections in politics and by the age of 23, he knew quite a few people in the realm of politics and so was able to secure the junior Senatorship of Tepasi in addition to receiving his father’s backing and blessing. Now of course politics is volatile and sometimes tends to erupt: and indeed it did for Junior Senator Tagge. During this time he was able to reconnect with his family, which included his younger brother Marcus, who was now a teenager. His father pressed him to take a job at home and find a wife, but he still wanted to see more of the galaxy and so he was given his next diplomatic position: traveling to Skor II as Ambassador to the Squab system. Claudius and King Ebareebaveebeedee got along swimmingly. Claudius resided with a Squib family as was customary at the time. The Squibs believed that living with people was the greatest way to get to know them, and the family with whom he had been on Skor II gave birth to a daughter, whom they named Ewwiekewwieikkie, at the end of his stay. Charingad was one of the few non-Squibs invited to participate in the ceremonial welcoming of a newborn into Squib culture. The family honored him by designating him Guardian of their daughter, a ceremonial position accorded to close family members.

This was when he was recalled to Tepasi, where his father called a family meeting: he was to retire as head of the family, and bestowed the title of Baron of the House of Tagge onto Charingad. Obviously it was a prime opportunity for him to move up in the world so after he became acclimated to the political sphere of the Republic, he became the Senator of Tepasi.