King Oleb XVI
King of Drinax, Dragon Emperor of Sindal-in-Exile
The current King of Drinax is Oleb XVI, an accomplished boxer and swordsman, infamous for his taste in wine (strong reds), women (ditto) and song (shouted lustily through a megaphone).
Name - King Oleb - Male - 105 (Apparent age mid-50s)
Date of First Interaction (Location): 1105-001 (Drinax)
Date of Most Recent Interaction (Location):
Perceived Attitude: {Which Traveller} (start) (current)
Additional Details:
He’s also, as he puts it, the ‘bumpty-umpth Emperor of Sindal, Lord Admiral of the Star Guard, protector of the whatsit and duke of
the other thing’. The only titles that Oleb really takes pride in are his awards for boxing and swordfighting.
The King was a wild man in his youth, and spent years as a freebooting adventurer and sometime pirate before returning home to take the crown. Anagathic drugs have preserved his youth, but not his figure; the courtiers politely refer to the King’s ‘imposing frame’ or ‘vigorous
presence’. The King is more direct about this - ‘I may be fatter than a gas giant, but I am still the godsdamned King’.
King Oleb delights in drink, in women, in food, in flying with his hawk men, and in conquest, but given the state of his faded kingdom, the last pleasure is denied him. The forces of Drinax are too diminished to conquer any other worlds, and the Aslan threat is growing.
Twenty years ago, King Oleb led an invasion of the neighbouring world of Asim, after his hydroponics bays suffered a catastrophic failure and the harvest was lost. To avoid starvation, Drinax sent a dozen small ships to obtain food from the peasants of Asim. When the Foundation of Asim refused to co-operate, the King angrily ordered his ships to take the planet by force. Although the Asimi outnumbered the forces of Drinax several thousand times over, they were technologically completely outclassed. Rifles and rockets are no match for plasma rifles and FGMPs.
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A place for the Travellers to collect their information and opinions about Lord Wrax.
Perceived Attitude
- Towards Ships
- Pioneer
- Towards Travellers
- Athena
- Lt Sir Sultana
- Harison
- Hernández
- Silas
- Mikhel
- From Travellers to him
- Mikhel:
- 1104-350: Originally, with the info gathered by data searches, this individual was called "King Oaf", by Mikhel. It appeared to Mikhel that this person had some grandiose ideas and unrealistic dreams about the way ahead for his planet. None of the things Mikhel heard or read bode well for a decent plan. Even if the Commerce Raider was a decent ship, Mikhel didn't think a 200dT glorified fighter would change the course of history for a subsector in the favour of a single system.
- 1104-364: Looking at the Floating Palace, and occupants, Mikhel is conflicted. The people are hanging on by a thread, or broken fingernails. The "Kingdom of Drinax" is vaporware. This is a refuge camp, and in two hundred years, these people have done nothing but survive. No progress has been made, and entropy is going to kill this place. Now what?
- Mikhel:
