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| Rinelia su Kalgamania | |
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October 20, 2084 - December 26, 2099 | |
| Predecessor | Odysseus su Kalgamania (father) |
| Successor | N/A (last empress; Kalgamania dissolved following end of rule) |
| Partner | None |
| Children | None |
| Father | Odysseus su Kalgamania (2nd Emperor of Kalgamania) |
| Mother | Penelope su Kalgamania |
| Born | December 26, 2074 Leviticus City |
| Died | December 26, 2099 (age 25) Leviticus City |
| Religion | Catholicism |
Rinelia su Kalgamania (December 26, 2074 - December 26, 2099) was the third and final empress of the Holy Empire of Earth-Kalgamania (LVL's Urlum the Usurper) as well as Kalgamania's first female ruler. Taking the throne at a record young age of 9 following the murder of her parents and former rulers Odysseus and Penelope (allegedly at her own hands) su Kalgamania, Rinelia ruled the Holy Kalgamanian Empire from 2084 to 2099, when she was ousted from power by Urlum Eudae Kaywell during the Seraphim Rebellion of 2099. Rinelia was responsible for the conquest of the Ingffhaestian System and the transformation of Kalgamania into an interstellar power.
As empress, Rinelia ruled with an iron fist and was infamous for conducting oppressive policies towards minority groups including people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, political dissidents, etc. She was also a devout Catholic and took part in the religious persecution of countless religious minorities. However, her most notable act was the invasion of the Ingffhaestian Federation a year after she began her rule; during and after the conquest of Ingffhaestia, Rinelia closely involved herself in the brutal subjugation and oppression of Ingffhaestia's various alien races, whom she and her human subjects viewed as genetically inferior to them. She reportedly died on December 26, 2099 after being executed by the Seraph, leader of the Seraphim Rebellion which rose to oppose her rule.
Early Life[]
Rinelia su Kalgamania was born the daughter of Emperor Odysseus su Kalgamania and his wife Penelope on December 26, 2074 along with her twin brother Lenelius su Kalgamania. Though not much is known about Rinelia's childhood due to censorship, most sources agree that Rinelia and Lenelius had a somewhat mischievous, but overall close and loving relationship and that she lived a luxurious, extravagant lifestyle in the palace. It is also known that as a child, she consumed large amounts of fictional works containing anti-Ingffhaestia rhetoric including literature; her parents looked down upon other children Rinelia's age who used modern technology such as cell phones or television, raising her in a very traditional and authoritative manner.
Initially, Rinelia's older brother Telemachus su Kalgamania was the next in-line for the throne. However, anti-Kalgamanian rebels staged a bombing which killed Telemachus in 2082, resulting in heated disputes over whether Rinelia or her brother would ascend to the throne. On October 20, 2084, all members of the House of Su except Rinelia were found dead in the Leviticus City Imperial Palace, leaving Rinelia as the sole candidate for ruler. She was crowned that day as Third Empress of Kalgamania at the age of 9 years old, the youngest on record. Though unconfirmed, many historians now agree that Rinelia had executed her family herself in order to become Empress.
Empress[]
As Empress, Rinelia's rule was aided by a council of royal advisors due to her young age. However, the Empress frequently bribed or threatened her advisors in order to get her ways. Following her father as well as her grandfather Nathan su Kalgamania's footsteps, Rinelia ruled with an iron fist and executed all who opposed her rule.
Ingffhestia-Kalgamania War[]
Vehemently opposing the Ingffhaestian Federation even during childhood, Rinelia's first move as Empress was to declare war on Ingffhaestia on October 31, 2084. The Empress ordered weapon manufacturing companies to significantly increase production of spaceships and space weapons for the war by forcing employees to work 24 hours as part of her Interstellar Militarization Act (IMA). This led to several strikes and protests among workers viewing their employers' policies as exploitative; Rinelia quickly put these revolts down by force while denouncing the worker protests as "degeneracy on the level of those Ingffhaestian retards." A total of 17,329 workers died as a result of armed enforcement of the IMA.
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With military production bolstered by the exploitation of workers, Kalgamania was able to procure thousands of state-of-the-art spacecraft and weaponry, including the infamous world glasser, which Rinelia immediately sent into service in the war against Ingffhaestia. They quickly overpowered the Ingffhaestian Federation's forces. On January 16, 2085, the Ingffhaestian Federation surrendered to Kalgamanian rule after its capital, the city of Yang-Moof on Planet Uingffh, was threatened to be destroyed by a shot from a world glasser. The Empress made a public statement that day blaming the Ingffhaestians' loss on their supposed genetic inferiority, proclaiming humans as a superior race. She also blamed the Ingffhaestians' emphasis on peace, stating that "peace is the catalyst of weakness" and that "the greatest strength comes from the greatest wars."
Colonization of Ingffhaestia (Gliese 105)[]
Following the conquest of Ingffhaestia, Empress Rinelia appointed several noblemen, business leaders, and family members as governor-generals to rule the newly-conquered planets on her behalf. Over roughly a decade, Rinelia oversaw numerous programs of oppression designed to eliminate alien civilizations and their culture as well as the development of human settlements on the colonized worlds. She also had ships colonize other star systems such as Epsilon Indi, Alpha Centauri, etc., though no programs of oppression were created for these systems due to their lack of native civilizations.
On June 4, 2086, Rinelia su Kalgamania announced the formation of the Gliese Indigenous Police (GIP), an organization designed to "bring order and civility" to non-human species. Under Rinelia's orders, the GIP rounded up hundreds of thousands of aliens and imprisoned, tortured, or even murdered them. Oftentimes, they would murder or capture aliens in broad daylight in public; Rinelia and the GIP would cover-up these incidents by concocting false stories of the aliens in question threatening to incide violence against humans. This not only deflected criticisms of Rinelia's programs of oppression, but also contributed to the Empress' speciesist propaganda campaign.
Back on Earth, Rinelia built a lavish lifestyle for herself, hiring thousands of servants including many alien slaves. She had a new, much larger imperial palace, the Tower of Babel, built for her. Like the previous emperors, Empress Rinelia treated her servants with extreme, wanton cruelty; she would have butlers and maids tortured or executed for minor offenses such as breaking furniture, getting recipes wrong, creating stains on her dress, etc. She also imposed outrageous tasks and restrictions on the royal staff; Rinelia would force her cooks to create huge meals, her gardeners to tend to large swaths of her personal garden (the Court of Thorns and Roses, nicknamed the Court of Death and Destruction by servants due to the high number of executions carried out there), and other servants to complete long, arduous chores over an unrealistically short period of time, executing anyone who failed to meet these impossible goals. The Empress limited the servants' pay as well, with most receiving as little as 1 cent an hour. Rinelia frequently practiced favoritism in paying her servants, with the Empress granting more money to servants she favored and cutting the pay of servants she disliked or held no particular care for. Alien slaves enlisted as servants in Rinelia's palace received no pay.
Seraphim Rebellion[]
The outbreak of the Seraphim Rebellion in August of 2099 initially saw no reaction from Rinelia, who believed that the Kalgamanian Armed Forces would quickly deal with the rebellion. However, the subsequent liberation of Uingffh and the murder of the Uingffhian governor-general at the hands of the rebellion's leader, the Seraph, brought her attention and prompted her to take proper action against the fledgling rebellion.
As part of her plan to crush the Seraphim Rebellion, Empress Rinelia ordered the governor-generals and military officers of nearby worlds to attack Uingffh and the Seraph's captured fleets. However, all of these efforts failed, and the rebellion liberated even more planets in the Ingffhaestian System - not even the kilometer-long world glassers and their nuclear guns stopped the Seraph from freeing billions of aliens from human rule.
Rinelia quickly resorted to more extreme measures in response. She commissioned the construction of multi kilometer-long upgraded world glassers from renowned Kalgamanian engineer and ship designer Campanella Liszt and had prince Evan inv Kalgamania spy on the rebellion from within. These efforts proved successful; on August 3, 2101, Evan inv Kalgamania captured the Seraph and turned her in to the Kalgamanian government.
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