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Talia Oveiden
[fancybox4="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/8f/80/d6/8f80d6d4804ffba8c5f2b6dfc15559ea.jpg"]FULL NAME: Talia OveidenAGE: 53
SPECIES: Human
HEIGHT: 5'7"
WEIGHT: 147 lbs
EYE COLOR: Hazel
HAIR COLOR: Jet Black
SKIN COLOR: Ebony
MARKINGS: N/A
FACTION: The Republic - Senate
RANK(S): Senator of Onderon, Dowager Queen
Senator Talia Oveiden is the senator of Onderon and former queen to King Tyrell II of Onderon. Born to fame and wealth in the walled city of Iziz, Talia was taught from birth the ways of economics, politics, and governance. She was betrothed to Prince Tyrell, then heir to Onderon, at a young age. Upon their eventual marriage and Tyrell's ascension to the throne, Talia and Tyrell immediately showed how well they worked as joint-ruling monarchs, both of them personally taking charge of numerous projects that improved infrastructure and interplanetary relations both. However, an assassination plot against her beloved King Tyrell proved successful, and Onderon's government and infrastructure fell into disarray. Their son, Prince Bastille, was ill prepared and too young to face such a crisis, and so it fell to Talia to put down the cultists/terrorists responsible for the king's death, and reorganize and rebuild Onderon.
Talia just recently came into her tenure as Senator. The most common rumor has been that King Bastille grew tired of his mother constantly looking over his shoulder, and gave her the office as a means of respite from her. Regardless, she plans to serve the galaxy as well as she did her planet. [/fancybox4]
POLITICAL VIEWS
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The Sith: Openly hostile. Senator Talia believes that the Sith are "a taint on the galaxy", and that they should be removed promptly if a safe future is what the Republic wants. (Her dissenters believe that this hatred for a seemingly dormant threat is due to her husband's assassination by dark side cultists years ago.)
The Jedi: Senator Talia has the utmost support for them and respects the Order immensely. She seeks to improve relations between the Senate(and Onderon) and the Jedi and expand on their affiliation with them. She also says that cooperation with the light side users will be "crucial in the future struggle against the Sith."
Militarization: Talia is definitely for a standing army for the Republic. She has been very vocal about it since even her announcement for her senatorial debut. She wants this army to be used not only against the Sith, but against criminal organizations as well, targeting the Hutt's and the Bacta Cartels in specific.
The Border Alliance: Senator Talia is generally supportive of this band of planets. They seek to defend themselves from the Sith threat, and she respects them for it, though she staunchly believes that the Republic should be protecting its member planets in a unitary effort, rather than allowing them to fend for themselves.
Outerplanetary Relations/Diplomacy: The senator is very much open to the possibility of accepting new planets into the Republic. She actively pursues diplomatic assignments to other worlds to try and recruit them. "No planet should be left behind."(Political journalists against war with the Sith use this same slogan to describe Talia's opinion that they should be annihilated, often accompanied by drawn or animated Sith planets/civilians burning while Talia laughs maniacally above them, saying "Revenge is mine! Leave no planet left behind!")
Crime: Talia believes that massive changes are in need of addressing in how the Republic deals with "vagrants." She fully opposes the legality of the Bounty Hunters' guild, the Bacta Cartels, and many other criminal organizations. Smuggling, drug-use, drug manufacturing, violent crimes, all of these things must be stopped.
The Chancellor: Though never personally meeting the Chancellor since her arrival in galactic politics, Talia has been a bit of a critic of Chancellor Chanzot. She is outspoken of her speculation of a Zeltron, what with their raging hormones and hedonistic tendencies, as a capable chancellor. She is also very critical of Charon's neutral policy toward the Sith threat, and has only once spoken out about the chancellor "picking favorites" among the galactic community. However, despite those things, she seems to agree with many other of Chanzot's policies.[/fancybox2]
BIOGRAPHY
[fancybox4="http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonage/images/b/b7/Viviennee.png/revision/latest?cb=20141215180852"]Part 1: The PrincessTalia was born within the walled capital city of Iziz, on the planet Onderon. Her parents were both of very famous names, but those names had fallen on hard times. Her mother, who had died in childbirth, was of the House of Bonaga, a family of wealthy merchants that blazed their path to decadence off-planet, seeking investments in other companies that only served to make Onderon richer. While Talia's father, of House Oveiden, was a statesman and adviser to King Havel I, and improved Onderon through diplomacy and efficient governance.
Talia's father made sure that she was given the best education he could afford. She was very interested in writing, reading, and mathematics from a young age. Though she was also very spoiled, considering the wealth at her father's disposal.
At the age of eight, Talia was betrothed to what would be her future husband, Prince Tyrell, who had just reached shy of nine. Though she did not understand at the time why she had to marry this boy for whom she had no affection for, she did not shirk in her duty. From that point on, she was groomed to rule by her father's tutors, foreign and otherwise. She studied political ideologies, history, foreign relations, all in preparation for her ascension to queen.
Meanwhile, her father and King Havel arranged for Talia and the crown prince to spend as much time together as possible. Her father told her to "watch, listen, and learn" from him, get to know him as a person before he became king, and she his queen. She did so, and ardently fell in love with him as time went on. Prince Tyrell, even as a child, was gentle and romantic, and extremely handsome, a spectacle of royalty and a silver-tongued devil. Talia counted herself as the luckiest girl on Onderon to have such a man, and Onderon the luckiest planet to have such a future king. On the day of their wedding, all of Onderon sang and cheered for the future.
Part 2: The Queen
It was around three years later when King Havel fell to natural causes, and Tyrell succeeded him as king at eighteen, with Talia queen at seventeen. Tyrell's mother, now the dowager queen, was initially going to put in place a council of regents made up of Havel's former advisers, until such time as Tyrell was deemed ready to rule, but the new king acted swiftly. He denounced his mother's decision of a regency and declared that he and Talia would rule as co-monarchs, starting that very day. The queen dowager left Iziz the following morning.
In the years that followed, the king and queen brought Onderon back into the galactic and economic arena like no monarch had before them, reaching out to fellow Republic planets and forging bonds for decades to come. They were heroes and role models in the eyes of the majority of Onderonians, especially the younger, more ambitious ones.
A significant event in Talia's life during her reign was the birth of her one and only child, Bastille. Her and Tyrell would try to have more children in the future, but each attempt would prove barren. Bastille was his mother's pride and joy, and she doted on him almost ceaselessly. He would prove to be rather selfish and prideful as he aged.
Around twenty years into their reign, Talia and her husband faced the first threat to their rule after the windfall that was their ascension. A band of dark side users that called themselves the "Descendants of Nadd" landed on Onderon's moon of Dxun, in an effort to locate the tomb of their patron. Suspecting the large party to be a massive smuggling operation for drexl's, the Onderonian government sent an expedition of police enforcers to deal with them. After the expeditions' disappearance, Talia and Tyrell themselves traveled to the moon (with a large security detail) to lead the search for them.
They found the expedition absolutely massacred. All evidence pointed to an ambush, rather than a drexl attack. Tyrell was furious, wanting to start a massive search-and-destroy operation to find the culprits on the moon. Talia talked him down, however, and persuaded him that they should just leave that awful place.
An edict was soon put forward, signed by both of their hands, that all travel to and from Dxun was prohibited. Anyone seen entering or leaving the moon's atmosphere would be detained.
Part 3: The Tyrant
Over the next ten years of their rule, the Tragedy of Dxun faded from the memories of Talia and her people, and her and Tyrell began to focus on bringing Onderon even higher than it was. They spread a message of peace and prosperity throughout Onderon, but some mistook this love of peace for weakness. The socialized Beast Riders living on Onderon, already upset with the "cowardly" rule of Talia and Tyrell, became even more so when the edict for no travel to Dxun was established. They were no longer able to carry out their tradition of flying to Dxun by way of the "oxygen bridge" on their drexls.
Already facing small groups of non-violent partisans all over the planet(some even being Onderonian conspiracy theorists that believed that a secret operation was ongoing on Dxun), Talia and Tyrell began to address the issue. They repealed their previous edict and allowed travel to the moon only on the day the Beast Riders made their annual pilgrimages.
This small act of sympathy would be their downfall.
The incident for which the edict was signed, and the cultists that carried out the ambush, were not faded away from reality as much as they had been faded away from Onderon's memory. The Descendants had lived on Dxun for the better part of a decade by now, searching endlessly for the tomb of Freedon Nadd, with no clue as to where it was or how to find it. They started to suspect that the rumors they had heard were false, and that the grave of their patron was not on the moon of Dxun, but on the planet of Onderon itself.
During the first year in several that the Beast Riders and other pilgrims were allowed to travel to Dxun, the cultists took the opportunity to investigate by taking the oxygen-bridge to Onderon. There, they learned more of the reign of Talia and Tyrell, and soon became complacent with many partisans against them, many of those being Beast Riders.
The cultists soon became head of a plot to assassinate both King Tyrell and Queen Talia. It is a great mystery to all why the cultists decided to do this, and a great many conspiracy theorists in the Republic still debate it today. Regardless of the why, the plot both failed and succeeded, with one monarch dead and the other still alive. Tyrell was ambushed, along with Talia, returning to the palace one night. He was ripped apart by the Force, along with his personal guard, by two dark-side users and three Beast Riders in the middle of Iziz. One of the cultists was killed by a stray blaster bolt, while Queen Talia herself killed the last as he attempted to physically choke her.
This event was the birth of a much more cold and calculating Talia. Upon her arrival back at the palace, and her recovery, she immediately set about purging the city of Beast Riders, and hunting the remaining cultists. This event was called by many "The Great Purge of Iziz," and many within the city suffered because of it. Neighbors turned against neighbors, accusing eachother of dark-side magic. Political rivals would do the same, causing mass hysteria and paranoia throughout the city of Iziz and the planet of Onderon itself.
After a few months of all-out despotism, Talia seemed to come to her senses, slightly. She began to notice the famine and starvation affecting her people, because of her rash actions and cruel policies. After pulling the planetary government together, a process which took three years after only three months of damage, Talia went before her people and made a public apology, addressing her failure as a ruler, and announcing her abdication in favor of her son Bastille.
The remaining cultists were never found or seen since.
Part 4: The Senator
Shortly after her son's ascension to the throne of Onderon, Talia accepted the honorary title of Dowager Queen and a seat on her son's council. She helped him in any way that she could, but she could not shake the thought away. I failed my people. The advisers that had remained after Tyrell's death gave her stares like venom. The people of Onderon no longer cheered her name. Her own son could barely look her in the eye without thinking of the cruel woman she had been in those short three months of tyranny.
So, Talia decided to ask her son for the role of senator. The senator that had previously served Onderon, Lorettya Sasin, was recently assassinated. Though this troubled Talia deeply, as Lorettya was once a trusted aide when she was queen, she knew she had to leave Onderon. She'd go mad if she had to deal with the hatred towards her anymore.
She doubted the people would vote for her, but Onderon was a monarchy. The king would choose who would represent his interests in the Galactic Senate. Knowing that his mother only wanted to be away from all of the uneasiness towards her, and that she's the most politically savvy out of all of his own candidates for the office, he accepted. [/fancybox4]
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