Aurelia Cluckus

### Relatives

Maisy (daughter), Arthur (son), Merlin (son), Hillary (adoptive sister), Merida (adoptive sister)

### Affiliation

Honkus Science Innovators (previously), Cluckus Industries, Cluckus Alliance

## Appearances

### Appears in

Time and the Cluck, LPIW, A War on Two Fronts, Bon Voyage Hillary, et al.

### Debut

Time and the Cluck

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*"Contrary to popular belief, I am* not *the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company."*

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-Aurelia Cluckus, Peace In Our Time

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Aurelia Cluckus was the CEO of Cluckus Industries from 2017-2019, and again in 2023.

### Early Life

#### Life at Hens Made Easy

For two months after she was hatched, Aurelia Cluckus lived on a farm outside of Dairsie. She mainly spent her time with her brothers and sisters foraging for worms. It is mainly unknown if anything interesting happened to her during this time.

##### Being Bought

On the 2nd of August, 2015, Aurelia, Hillary and Merida were bought by Tristan's parents, to be kept as pets.

#### Early Days at 59 Lade Braes

After beign bought, the three chickens were taken to Tristan's home, 59 Lade Braes. While Hillary tried numerous ways of breaking out, Aurelia used the situation to her advantage, and acquired a job at the nearby Honkus Science Innovators. She started out on a decent salary, working as a secretary to one of the researchers.

### 2016

#### Promotion

During the 2015 Christmas period at HSI, Aurelia was promoted to be Preston Honkus's personal assistant and secretary. Aurelia filled her new role easily, providing insight into Preston's ideas and observing them from a different angle. She aided in his plan to attempt to recreate scientific experiments from video games, to see if they were possible in real life.

#### End of HSI

After Nathaniel Honkus supposedly murdered Preston, HSI was disbanded. Nathan had no plans to do anything with the mineshaft in which HSI was located, but when he learned that Aurelia lived right above it, he gave the deeds to Aurelia as compensation for losing her job.

#### Beginnings of Cluckus Industries

With the knowledge she had gained from working as Preston's assisstant, Aurelia decided to start her own science company. Nathan agreed to help, and the beginning of the 6 year long construction project Project Safehouse began. Alpha Safehouse began construction on the 1st of August 2016.

##### Randolph Safehouse

Despite Aurelia being in charge of all Cluckus Industries-related construction, she never went to Randolph Safehouse.

##### Chicks

In 2016, Aurelia hatched three chicks: Maisy, Merlin and Arthur.

### 2017

#### Cluckus Industries

Cluckus Industries saw its biggest progression yet in 2017. After the closure of HSI, Cluckus Industries easily made a name for itself. Aurelia spearheaded this effort, deciding which paths would be most profitable for Cluckus Industries to progress down. Around this time, Cluckus Industries secretly bought out human companies such as Pegasus Airlines, Pfizer, and Lundinor Supermarkets Ltd. Aurelia also gave Hillary and Merida the executive power to headhunt and hire new employees.

#### Personal Life

In 2017, Aurelia threw her all into Cluckus Industries. She did not hatch chicks, or do much for herself in the year. However, in December, Maisy died of a heart attack. Aurelia, having even fewer reasons to spend time for herself, would spent hours building Alpha Safehouse on her own until Hillary or Merida stopped her.

### 2018

In 2018, Aurelia allowed Hillary to do the day to day running of Cluckus Industries, while she spearheaded Project Ritz. When Project Ritz finished, she realised what a good job Hillary had done running the company. Around this time, Project Safe Haven was also proposed, but soon dismissed.

### 2019

In February of 2019, Hillary and Merida managed to convince Aurelia to step down as CEO, for her own health. Aurelia officially retired, and made Hillary the CEO. Aurelia then retreated into the shadows of Cluckus Industries, leading many to believe that she had died. She would occasionally help out Hillary or Merida, but spent most of her time in her personal quarters with her sons Merlin and Arthur, or using her science expertise from HSI to help out young scientists.

### 2020-2022

From 2020 to 2022, Aurelia mainly watched from the shadows as Hillary and Merida went along with Tristan's crazy plans and schemes. She got involved a couple of times, like staying with The Cluck for a while to keep her company. After the launch of COHQ, Aurelia moved there and began working again, as a scientist in a lower level lab.

### 2023

#### Move to the Centauri System

When COHQ was towed to the Centauri System, Aurelia remembered Project Safe Haven, from back in 2018. She secretly met with scout teams to send them to discreetly find out if Proxima Centauri b was habitable by Cluckus Industries. One of these meeting notably happened in the COHQ cafeteria, when Tristan attempted to (and failed to) arrest James Pond, leading to Aurelia yelling, "You missed! How did you miss, he was three feet in front of you!"

#### CEO again

After Merida decided that she wanted to take a break from being CEO, and Hillary didn't want to take the position back, Aurelia stepped up and took on the role of CEO again. She quickly and efficiently assigned various departments to the problems Cluckus Industries was facing (notably the Kalron War), and officially restarted Project Safe Haven.

##### Project Safe Haven

Upon restarting Project Safe Haven, Aurelia ordered the construction of the village of Cluckinghamshire, in a grassy area of the newly renamed Paradise Falls. However, Tristan also found out about Project SH, and had Cox Manor built on a nearby hill.

##### Kalron War

Aurelia organised the Historical Council to come up with ideas to combat the Kalron. Julius Caesar suggested the idea of a Trojan Horse - a spaceship which would be percieved as weak, but was really deadly. This idea became the C.I.S. *Appalachia*.

##### Horsemen War

When the Kalron War escalated to the Horsemen War, Aurelia added various people of importance to the Historical Council, forming the Cluckus War Council. Aurelia did not like the war, disapproving of such great losses of life. This put her under stress, and she finally snapped when Tristan crash landed the C.I.S. *Yamato III* to bypass the shields around Kepler 42-E. She attempted to fine Tristan for vandalism of Cluckus property, the spaceship, but Tristan threw the rulebook at her and called her out for a violation of the Command Act. When Aurelia admitted that she did not know the rulebook off by heart, Tristan declared her an unfit CEO, and instated Mrs Pennyfeather as Acting CEO instead.

#### The See-saw Era

Over the next months, the title of CEO went back and forth between Aurelia and Mrs Pennyfeather until they agreed to both become CEOs, lightening the workload. By this point, Tristan had left Cluckus Industries, and Aurelia hired Antioch Yellowbeak as the new Right Hand Man.

### Other

#### Appearances

Despite being a key figure in the founding of Cluckus Industries and its history, Aurelia rarely appears until Book 75. She makes a brief appearance in Book 20, and cameos in Book 31, as well as appearing in Diary of an Araucana Hen.

Aurelia was actually a key figure in the Original Book 2, but this part was cut in the revised edition.

#### Character Design

Aurelia's name means 'gold' in Latin, and she is a Gold-Laced Wyandotte.

#### Quotes

*"Tristan left us something!"*

- Aurelia's first spoken line in the series, Book 20

*“You missed! How could you miss?! He was three feet in front of you!”*

- Aurelia's cameo in Book 73

*“You seem to forget you’re not the only two who’ve had a crack at running this motley crew of chocolate teapots.”*

- Aurelia, on running Cluckus Industries, Book 75

*“Preparing to promote Aurelia Callida Cluckus to CEO. Does Aurelia Callida Cluckus wish to proceed?”*

*“Why do you THINK I’m here?”*

- C.I.S. *Patriot* computer and Aurelia, Book 75

*“Unless I am very much mistaken, that is the symbol of the Bakrȇsh Star Empire."*

*“Oh. Bother.”*

- Tristan and Aurelia upon discovering the reemergence of the Bakrȇsh, Book 77

*"Oh, great. The \*\*\*\*ing Sahara, Part 2."*

- Upon accidentally time travelling to the 16th century, Book 78

*"Let me have my beauty sleep."*

*"You're a goose. That could take years."*

- Willoughby Waddle and Aurelia, Book 78

*“Chanticleer save us from whatever devious plan you have that ends in our untimely deaths.”*

- Aurelia to Merida, Book 80

*"You are literal children, I swear to Chanticleer."*

- Upon Hillary and Merida getting into an argument, Book 80

*"Oh yes, look at you, sailing through space majestically. Like an eagle. Piloting a blimp."*

- When Tristan announces how he likes flying the *Yamato III* with nobody else aboard, Book 82

*"Stuck-up, pompous, overbearing, infantile-"*

- About Valery, Book 83

*"When in the \*\*\*\* did he get time to do this."*

- Regarding Tristan's rocket in Quicksilver Safehouse, Book 88

*"Mrs P! Look! I did a thing!"*

- Upon activating an Akioxan star map in Ticonderoga Safehouse, Book 91

*"If [Tristan] could still fly the Columbia, that would be nice. You lot, go chuck LaVaunt and McCluck in the gulag or whatever."*

- In regards to Tristan accidentally becoming a goose, Book 91