House Telkana

## General Overview

House Telkana are one of the three largest *Great Houses* of the Aventis Empire. Although House Telkana originated from Aventis Prime, along with all the other current *Great Houses*, Telkana left the planet in order to colonise their new home planet of Wightnare in 2183.

House Telkana were originally a powerful family based on the southern most islands of *Aventis Prime*. As standard with Aventis History, the *Telkana* family were able to expand their influence through warfare, becoming the crowning family of the country of *Telkana* which successfully conquered the neighbouring states of *Maltir, Moeen* and *Aire*, increasing their wealth and power considerably.

House Telkana was eventually conquered by the legendary commander *Excalis I* in 2003 and became part of the new Aventis Empire under *Emperor Excalis I*. Despite *Excalis's* wise and benevolent leadership, House Telkana remained bitter from their forced participation of the Aventis Empire and secretly desired control over the entire Empire itself.

Within the Empire, House Telkana remained one of the three most powerful families, after the dissolution of *House Saxconis* by Excalis I in 2068, producing a wide variety of the Empire's military hardware.

In 2147, House Telkana enacted a centuries-old plan to take control of the Aventis Empire by the murder of *Emperor Altrius I*. The current head of the Telkana family at that time *Dalton* succeeded *Altrius* as Emperor *Dalton I* but was killed in a duel by *House Fullex* when Telkana's treachery was finally exposed.

Despite this incident, House Telkana was able to survive by claiming that *Dalton* had acted alone to usurp the throne and despite *House Fullex* wanting to remove Telkana from power, *Emperor Malastafis I* could find no conclusive proof that other House Telkana members were involved. In reality, this was because Telkana had destroyed most of the evidence after *Dalton* was killed and *Malastafis* wanted to unite the Aventis and avoid possible civil war, acknowledging the powerful presence of House Telkana which still existed within the Aventis Empire.

However House Telkana did not forget this embarrassment, instead electing to bide their time and wait, feigning conformity to the Empire and continuing to support the current line of kings.

In 2419, House Telkana discovered a crashed Pryde Crixis Class on the surface of a planet near Corneria (Lylat IV). Despite learning about The Pryde of Ma'lkon, Telkana elected to leave the scoutship on the planet in order to avoid drawing the attention of the Pryde.

In early 2420, House Telkana convinced the increasingly erratic Emperor *Dunnira I* to launch an oppotunistic invasion of the Rothian Union, which had been crippled following the *Roth/Strategos War* with the United Commonwealth of Planets

In 2420, House Telkana entered into secret talks with Rannis Kratz of the Chioni Collective and devised a plan to create chaos in the Black Eye Galaxy by luring the Pryde Worldship of The Pryde of Ma'lkon into the Galaxy itself. Both parties hoped that the Pryde would be successful in destroying both the United Commonwealth of Planets and the current Aventis Emperor, Ginwald I, who was "only a boy" at the age of 14.

Rannis Kratz sabotaged the engines of the U.S.S. Trident by connecting an Aventis Coaxial Warp Drive, provided by House Telkana, which propelled the Trident to the estimated position of the Pryde Worldship based on the projections obtained by House Telkana from the crashed Pryde scoutship earlier that year. As a result of this incident, the Trident was destroyed and the Pryde were successfully lured to the Black Eye Galaxy.

In December 2420, House Telkana recovered the *"Sword of Excalis"*, a mythical item which was said to grant the user the power to rule the Aventis Empire. Ginwald I learned about this through House Rumania's spies and requested the U.S.S. Claidheamh Mòr retrieve the sword.

The crew of U.S.S. Claidheamh Mòr were successful in retrieving the sword from a Telkana stronghold on Wightnare but also discovered that House Telkana was researching Nuridium-based technology from a captured adolescent Old Ones and were building an army to attempt to take over the Empire, hiring mercenaries from all over the Black Eye Galaxy.

In May 2421, House Telkana claimed to have recovered *Emperor Ginwald I*, implicating both *Fullex* and *Rumania* in a joint conspiracy to remove him from the throne. As a result, the Empire is brought to the brink of Civil War, despite the Upper Galactic Alliance attempting to remedy the situation with mediated talks.