Captain:Uriel Ultanos

"Leaders come and go, show wisdom and a firm hand and your name can live on forever"

- Uriel Ultanos XVI

Paragon Uriel Ultanos is the current reigning emperor of the and has always considered himself an adventurer and explorer at heart and is widely considered a just ruler.

Appearance & personality
Uriel is young by his people's standards, caring greatly about his appearance. His auburn scales shine in the light and his face is somwhat rounded. His emerald-green eyes constantly switch between subjects. Rather than anxiety this is more a sign of how attentive he is to his environment.

When in battle and attending ceremonial events to impress Uriel wears a set of gilded ceramic armour. The gilding is marked with many intricate patterns and every single plate appears as a masterpiece of craftsmanship studded in many places with precious gems. The gem-encrusted pylons on his shoulderpads conceal a portable shield generator, the field of which shimmers in a blue haze over the surface of the body when active. Uriel looks athletic compared to other Draconis, his voice is a soft gravelly tone showing signs of an educated upbringing. He is never seen without a well-crafted fusion pistol at his side that he will rest his claws on if aggrevated - a warning to his agitators that he does not take kindly to disrespect.

Outside of his armour Uriel enjoys wearing fine silks and padded leather, often contrasting this by wearing armoued boots; He does this both as a sign of status and out of practicality, believing that the wilderness is "no place for silk-padded loafers".

He is generally respectful to aliens and cares gratly for his own kind, yet he still portrays an air of respect - Other draconis might snub an alien while Uriel might give a subtle nod. Many diginitaries have questioned if he might be more of a diplomat for his people than a warrior but this is never said in his presence. When angered he can act without hesitation and is easily lost in the rush of battle. He pays equal respect to his soldiers as he does to maintaining the quality of his equipment; a firm believer that "a shoddy weapon creates a shoddy soldier". An adventurer at heart, he enjoys visiting far-flung worlds either to see the galaxy's other life or to see environments other than the gilded spires of Minos'Drakon.

Equipmet
In battle Uriel wears a suit of ACp-31 powered armour. Constructed with a ceramic/nanotube weave the armour can withstand tremendous force. Built into the shoulderpads are two multiphasic sheid generators - one primary and one backup - allowing him to resist all if not most small-arms fire. His primary weapons are an ESl-21 energised longsword capable of slicing light armour and a HGf-21 fusion pistol. Both of which are gilded, finely decorated, engraved with symbolic imagery and custom-built. The weapons are keyed to his genetic structure prevening others from using them and simply power down when he is not touching them. He carries a combat knife used for ceremonial and military purposes.

Abilities
His years of exploration and wisdom have added to his already-potent diplomatic skills. In battle he is well-versed in the ancient combat form of Kalai'Krusi (Dracid: Key Strikes) which focuses on flexibility and striking key areas of the body (An art form he has grown to master over roughly 200 earth years). He prefers fightng in melee out of long-held belief that going toe-to-toe is the domain of heroes and, out of a sense of honour, rarely refuses a challenge. =History=

Early Life
Born in ID.216132 as the second son into the prestigious House Ultanos, Uriel (named after an ancestor rather than his father) was always curious from a young age. His family's status meant that no expense was spared to prepare him in both academics and military life. When he was only 12 he met a young officer named Lieutenant Larnus Vontarion. Although uneasy at the stranger the officer - who was serving as an aide to the lord-admiral at the time - comforted him and the two of them quickly became good friends. Larnus would serve as Uriel's mentor and protector until he was enrolled at the Kahn'Thar military academy in Minos'Drakon (one of the finest on the entire planet). By the time he was 32 years of age he had knowledge of using over 20 different types of firearm, 12 different styles of unarmed combat and had studied the exploits and strategies of over 450 generals and scholars. He graduated with honours at the age of 40 and with Larnus' help, the two of them would serve in the navy side-by-side, growing even more inseperable.

For 83 years he served in the Imperial Talon Navy as an officer and over his years of service he had travelled to opposite ends of the Imperium several times over. In ID.216204 he was contacted by his family back home and was told that his father had died of a terminal illnes. During the funeral service he met Alenisa Vossas; Her uncle was an old friend of Uriel XV and after the service Uriel returned to duty, secretly remaining in contact with Alensia with whom he loved while his brother Korr took over as paragon.

Over the next five years their love blossomed and Uriel could not stop thinking about her while on duty. After telling his younger sister of his relationship she was skeptical if it would last, Larnus however was more optimistic at the prospects. At age 77 Uriel asked Alensia if she would marry him, she agreed and the celebration was held in the Cathedral of Drakon in Dagonris, Alcanti. over 35 families gathered to watch the celebration and the event was braodcast throughout the imperial territories and Uriel had personally chosen Larnus to be his best man at the cermeony.

The Mecha-Wasp War
Twenty years after the marriage in ID.216229 Uriel was called to rendevous at waystation zero with the 195th fleet, a race of insectoids called the mecha-wasp had launced an assault towards the Lorean system - Jump zero's exit point. Uriel was first deployed on the planet Alpantir, watching in horror as the mecha-wasp swarm dismantled the ruins of Laros. One of his first exploits in the war was that he had led the charge into a mecha-wasp hive, calling an orbital bombardmant to destroy the hive after gathering crucial information about their inner-workings. He would spend the next 15 years fighting in the border colonies.

During the war Uriel became ever-more convinced the insectoid horrors were an abomination to all life, he gained much popularity among the marines as a considerate commander who would not bear to leave a soldier behind, dead or alive. His experience had emotionally scarred him, seeing what the horrors of rampant cubernetics could do to the most majestic of creatures would develop an innate hatred for their use. Uriel would feel pain for every planet that was eradicated due to infestation and vowing that the Mecha-Wasp deserved nothing less than total extermination.

After 13 years of fighting by ID.216242 Uriel was called to return home after heading to the Hyldera system. Upon arrival within the Hyldera system he was told by a marshal of 670th marine legion that the mecha-wasp had murdered his brother Korr. As he approached the open coffin he witnessed on his brother's body what had been done; lying in the coffon was a partially-consumed corpse, almost unrecogniseable. After retching from the sight he aggreed to join his brother's body to the family's burial site back on Alcanti, still in full service uniform. One week after the funeral Uriel was told that he was next in line to become Paragon. He insisted that he could not take his brothers place until justice was done, and that the Mecha-wasps would pay for their actions. The war was officialy concluded two years later after a gambit that left the Mecha-wasp homeworld a dead, crater-scarred rock. it would be another century before the mecha-wasps were completely destroyed. In order to oversee the operation he asked Larnus - now an admiral - to oversee the hunting operations, eventually granting him the tiele of vice-admiral of the Ohlon-2 sector.

Life as the Paragon
Uriel was coronated in front of the imperial palace with his wife by his side. His first act was do decide what to do with recovered mecha-wasp technology. Uriel flatly declared that the use of cybernetics and nanobots to such and extent would be nothing less than stoping ot their level of depravity. Realising the technology's sophisitication Uriel had agreed that some of the technology would be reverse-engineered. Uriel agreed with the senate to update the Nano-Replication Regulation (A legal document within the Nanomachine Act of ID.74,341 resticting the use of self-replicating machines), the update called for complete prohobition on self-replicating nanobots within imperial space.

Seeing what wars were doing to the empire in the long-run, Uriel pushed for the Expansion-First Act. The act was to focus on the establishment of new colonies and to diplomatically add more protectorates to the empire. Uriel also suggested a project to map the wormholes that make up the draconis' galactic empire - both known and unknown. Over the next 80 years Uriel would raise several children and, bored of politics and the contant rantings of the houses, insisted on joining expeditions to map the wormholes.

In ID.216326 On one expedition to the galactic rim, Uriel encountered an advanced race eerily similar to his own people on a planet near the edge of the galaxy. Calling themselves dronir they welcomed Uriel and the expedition as 'brothers' which greatly shocked the entire crew. Curious to find out more Uriel had agreed to meet with grand-prince Atheviel Sepimas - the ruler of the isolated world - and after a lengthly discussion discovered these 'aliens' were in fact an offshoot created by an imperial scientist over 20,000 years ago. Upon hearing of Uriel's talks the expedition leader called for the entire civillization to be 'wiped from the face of the galaxy'. Uriel refused such an act despite the commander's protests. Knowing the risks, Uriel was adamant that the two cultures should be introduced slowly. He was then informed of the rumours about the secret 'Purity crusade' - an ongoing operation sanctioned by paragon Septis X and the cult of drakon to root out illegal draconis modification. The expedition leader, one Orlis Thantarom, requested that Uriel has a full checkup at the base camp before continuing with his decision.

That night Uriel had a dream of Drakon who approached him in hummanoid form and praised him for his actions. Far from being disgraced (A belief the cult of Drakon had spread, claiming the Draconis were a pinnacle species and only Drakon himself could make anything better) he was proud of what been created. Drakon told Uriel that he was dissapointed at the way the Empire treated non-draconis, the creation of the Dronir was perhaps the first step to a more tolerant species. This caused confliction in the young paragon; for years he had been brought up to believe all species were inferior, only fit to support the Draconis, yet he never took these values to heart. Drakon also spoke that the scientist responsible was one of few who truly understood Drakon's joy after creating life with passion. Drakon would then leave as mysteriously as he had arrived.

Uriel awoke, although credited with a clean bill of health, his encounter with the dragon god made him wonder if it was just a dream or a divine message. Drakon's words influenced him him to drastically reconsider what the empire was doing. Speaking with a camp priest did little to help; the priest herself was just as confused about Drakon's motives as he was. The conslusion was to work to slowly and gradually integrate the Dronir into the empire; Not as a protectorate, but as a territory equal in importance to the imperial colonies themselves with the hope of allowing the two species to intermingle (Something like this had never been done and the closest case was the Speeder - Who were granted citizenship in ID.205,730 yet still had restrictions). After four months uriel returned to Minos'Drakon to present his findings to the univerities - deliberately leaving out identifiers that the dronir were created from draconis DNA - His first goal was to add the fledgeling dronir Confederacy to the empire.

When he told Larnus (Who had been chosen as the new lord-admiral in his abscence) his mentor simply told him that such an action would bring nothing but bad news: If the people and followers of Drakon would not openly protest the Inquisition would certainly act. He told the lord admiral he would consider. Weeks later he discovered that Larnus was mobilising a fleet to blockade the sector's wormhole. furious, he gave the lord-admiral a direct order to call off the blockade - he didn't listen. His mentor's actions conflicted with his expansion-first policy and filled with rage struck the man. Larnus struck back but Uriel's bodyguard intervened, preventing the two from tearing each other apart. The two of them agreed the best choice was to establish a 20-parsec retricted zone around the confederacy yet allowing colonisation rights for the sector.

In late ID.216342 Uriel met with an ambassador from the Divinarium. He discovered that both societies shared similar but differing methods of government. When informed of their government's priniple of placing psionic implants in it's citizens he commented that such an act was "a dark mirror of what could have been if we decided to moniter slaves at all hours". He was generally pleased with the meeting and grew even more interested in the divinarium and its workings.

The Andromeda War
This interest didn't last long after the Andromeda war broke out. Upon realising that Iovera was after the relics he lost all trust in her. After the Battle of Crepusculum the potential of regaining his confidence in her flickered however he remains distrustful to this day. During the battle for Alcanti Uriel remained deep inside the imperial palace under the supervision of the Blood Dragons. Uriel met with Tyraz and Iovera once again as his throne room was under asault and soon before realising his wife was not with him, both of them ran off to save her - being the only peopele who could injure Volkarus Khaxvis - but this was all a ruse. Unknown to the others Volkarus appeared and swiftly dispatched Uriel's bodyguards before approaching the man, lifting him up by tightly gripping him by the torso. As Tyraz returned Volkarus impaled him in the stomach and bringing him an inch from death. After Volkarus' defeat it was in the final moments Uriel encountered a respectful side of Tyraz he had not seen before, and one he would never forget.

Uriel was later ressurected by the energies donated by Iovera and after waking up to Alensia he proceeded to tell Tyraz how grateful he was and, depite the Zazane's rejections and the fact he gave Volkarus the powers that were used to kill him, greatly respected what Tyraz did for him in the end.

=Gallery=

=Relations=

Allies
"I hold great respect for these people."


 * Lord-admiral Vontarion - Both a good friend and a masterful strategist.
 * - my daughter

Indifferent
"I don't hate them, but i'm not impressed either."


 * - There's something about her. Either way I do not trust her.
 * - There's more to him than he lets on and regardless of his prior involvement, he saved my life.

Enemies
"Be glad I am not a vengeful man, for my people's fury is something to be feared."


 * - You killed me once, I will not submit to you.

=Quotes=

Himself

 * "A man of honour would never cower"
 * "I am but one of many paragons in an empire spanning many thousands of generations. However that does not give you the right to see me as insignificant! Remmeber that I have only to give one word for the force of a thousand suns to burn your home to ash and you would be smart to respect that. Do I make myself clear?"
 * "There is only one true and righteous path to immortality; to be remembered."
 * "I Don't consider the idea I am above everyone else simply becuase of my station. I had no say in the world I was brought up in."
 * "I am tired ofthe Imperium's lust for war. A new age should begin."

Others
"He's eager, he's young, but he's got good intentions and his heart's in the right place."

"With all due respect, he may be going soft"

"A true hero to his people...I wish I could swap lives with him..."

- of the

"Eventually, you will ascend to greatness. Strong and powerful with a a warm heart. It is a honour to work with you."

=Miscellanious=

Name
Uriel shares his name with a warrior of ancint Draconis legend. Within the legend Uriel was disdained with the corruption and vice that plagued his house and set out to do what he could to purify it. Travelling across Miminas he became a knight-errant and took on deeds and tasks to clear his house's name, eventually dying redeemed on the shores of lake Drak.

In an old Miminan language his name comes from Urayla meaning peacekeeper.

Trivia
=Navigation=
 * His name originates from Emperor Uriel Septim (Elder Scrolls IV). He also shares his name with Archangel Uriel (Abrahamic faith) and Captain Uriel Ventris (Warhammer 40,000)
 * He was Monet47's first ever fiction character.