House Tagge

**House Tagge** or referred as **House of Tagge** were one of the richest oligarch dynasties from the early reign of the Empire to it's reorganisation as the Eternal Empire of Zakuul following **The Valkorion Conquests**. The first identified member of the House was Alexander Tagge, an extreme capitalist who created the - **United States Petroleum & Chemical Corp.**

Alexander fully endorsed and became a part of the Imperial Revolution in 2054 after becoming disillusioned and hateful of the failing presidential reigime feeling it was time for change. Due to the immense investment and aid Tagge provided, Alexander and his descendants were immeasurably rewarded for their help during the revolution granting them a privilidge as one of the richest and most well-respected Houses in the new Imperial Capitol.

The Tagge dynasty often had immense competition with members of House Zal as they challenged eachother for who could earn the Emperor's favor the most. In a leaked Imperial list in 2080, House Tagge was valued most by the Empire second only to House Musk.

## History

### Origins

Alexander Tagge, born in 2001, was born to an immensely business-motivated capitalist family in New York City. Alexander's mother died during the 9/11 attacks, in which Alex would grow up to despise the Taliban and middle eastern terrorist organisations viewing them as poison in a world of peace.

A very clever and educated man, with the help of his wealthy father, Tagge graduated at Stanford with a degree of Biochemistry in which he would achieve a pHD in later on. At age 39, Tagge inherited his father's Petroleum company. Deciding to expand it, Tagge took advantage of the growing US economic crisis and made deals with several FBI agents and officials to sell Petroleum and banned chemicals to the White House in return for hefty amounts of promotion to the outside world and of course, copious amounts of money.

In 2046, when the dollar began to crash, Tagge refocused his company in London, where the British Pound was equivalent to roughly $7. Using his ties with US government officials, Tagge did not need to pay any import fees or currency tax when converting his income to the dollar.

In 2048, Alexander profited a total of £1.89 billion which provided $13.83 billion in his pockets, which granted him and his son Orman, extraordinary wealth in a time of uncertainty and economic crisis.

When the Imperial Revolution skyrocketed in 2054, contrary to popular belief, Tagge originally opposed the reigime believing that if the Empire came out on top, the dollar would stabilise and with economic prosperity, the crisis he was manipulating for his own benefit would cease and his profits would decrease by over 1000%. However, in 2058, Tagge was personally contacted by campaigner for President, Arya Bell. Arya admitted he knew about Tagge's shady deals with the US government but told him that if he pledged his company to the growing Imperial reigime then he would be rewarded with unprecedented wealth and his company would remain afloat with Imperial investment. Tagge agreed and became a fanatic supporter of the reigime.

### Early Imperial Rein

Alexander kept his end of the bargain by investing a total of $10 billion anually into the movement. By 2060, Tagge continued his public displays of support to the Imperial reigime and became apart of Arya's close circle of allies to which Tagge and his son Orman became aqquainted to other wealthy supporters of Arya such as 'Ash' Musk, Illum Zal, and Kamal Hadley to which they would start a rivalry to who would become Arya's favorite. In 2062, when the Galactic Empire was officially founded, Arya rewarded the Tagge family immeasurably with a $600 million mansion, and elitist status in the new empire. Alexander and Orman also became Senators in the newly christened Imperial Senate.

   Tagge's Petroleum corporation continued to serve a purpose in the Empire and he became the representative of the Commerce Guild and became apart of the Corporate Alliance which gained prominence in the Senate. When the two political parties in the Senate were founded, Alexander became apart of the Core Faction, yet he sympathised with some of the policies the opposing Rim Faction advocated for such as free trade, economic liberalism and individual freedom.