Captain:Carillion

Carillion was the Chief Ambassador of the Gjigantrox Interstellar Empire. He was appointed to that position three years before the rise to power of the tyrannical Emperor Maximilian. He kept his position throughout Maximilian's four-year reign, and was responsible for the Emperor’s death at the hands of the Delpha Coalition of Planets.

Early Life
Carillion was born on Scarolinos, the capitol of the Gjigantrox interstellar Empire. His parents, Inco and Zefta, were both officers in the Gjigantrox space navy, and throughout his youth Carillion was encouraged to join them. He had two younger siblings, a sister, Klora, and a brother, Mekren. He was very protective of his siblings, and they were quite close. Klora grew up to become a biologist, and Mekren joined his parents in the armed forces.

While he was young, Carillion attended school in Ashes, a large city on Scarolinos. He was one of the school’s best students, and he was praised for often thinking outside the box. He was well-liked by his fellow students and teachers alike. After many years of service in the space navy, Carillion’s father resigned and instead took charge of the Ashes police department. He was an efficient police chief, and he reduced crime greatly. However, this earned him many enemies, and put him and his family in danger.

One day, when Carillion was fifteen, a time of adolescence for the Gjigantrox, he was returning home from school when he saw something shocking. His family was being attacked by a large group of gangsters. Carillion’s father, as the police chief, had helped convict members of the gang of several crimes, and they were not happy. There was evidence of a fight, as several more gangsters lay dead in the street. Carillion’s family had been dragged from their house and thrown onto their front lawn, where the gangsters were preparing some sort of punishment for them. Without thinking, Carillion lifted a fully automatic slugthrower from a fallen gangster and shot every last gang member standing, which was more than ten of them. None of them survived. Carillion was cleared of all wrongdoing by a court. The judge said that he had more than likely saved the lives of his family, and that he had killed the gangsters in self-defense. The media hailed him as a hero, and Carillion did feel that he had done the right thing. But he was also haunted by his actions. He felt guilty about having caused so much death, and he was horrified whenever he thought about the gangster’s families, and what he had put them through. From that day on, he decided that he would not pursue a military career, and that he would never do such a thing to another being ever again.

Ambassador
Carillion, after his experience with the gangsters, decided that peace was the only way to deal with others. He attended other schools to train for an ambassadorial position within the Gjigantrox Interstellar Empire. Eventually, he was appointed to serve as an ambassador at the Gjigantrox Embassy on Gortellia, a major planet belonging to the Skytral Empire. The Skytrals were a minor power, but they were very aggressive. They had fought the Gjigantrox before, and had lost more than half their planets before surrendering. A few months after Carillion was appointed as an ambassador, they demanded more territory from the Gjigantrox, desiring several planets that they had lost in the war. The Gjigantrox refused, and after two months of negotiations, the Skytrals declared war on the Gjigantrox. Carillion had tried his best to find a compromise, but in the end he could not. He, along with the rest of the embassy’s staff, attempted to leave Gortellia, but the Skytrals would not allow it. They attacked the Gjigantrox, attempting to capture them, and Carillion ordered a retreat into the embassy. He led the Gjigantrox forces there, and they held out for a week against the Skytrals. The Gjigantrox were only lightly armed, but they held the embassy, with well-placed snipers taking down many of the Skytral troops. After that week, a Gjigantrox ship arrived and beamed the embassy staff to safety. The following war was short, and the Skytral Empire was obliterated.

This experience deeply affected Carillion. He realized that he could not always talk his way out of a difficult situation. He blamed himself for failing to negotiate peace and for the war that had started because of that. He also blamed himself for the death of several of his Skytral friends, three of which he had gunned down himself. Despite the fact that he disliked violence, Carillion trained to be prepared for combat situations when negotiations failed.

Carillion received several promotions in the following years. He negotiated the first peace treaty between the Gjigantrox and the Ezkos. He convinced the Tarinkads that ceding the Zelto System to the Gjigantrox was the best course of action. He also led the famous “Ambassador’s Raid” on Kroonen II, averting an entire war by taking key members of the Skroon government hostage. After these and many more accomplishments, the Ruling Council of the Gjigantrox Interstellar Empire appointed Carillion as the Empire’s Chief Ambassador.

Carillion served as Chief Ambassador for three years. Then, the Ruling Council was assassinated by Maximilian, the then-Admiral of the Gjigantrox space navy. Maximilian took over as Emperor, and he ruled the Gjigantrox harshly and cruelly. The only reason that Carillion was spared was that Maximilian knew that there was no better negotiator than Carillion. As Maximilian’s Chief Ambassador, Carillion took much less pleasure in his job. Most of what he did was negotiate unfair treaties that heavily favored the Gjigantrox with empires that were too small to do anything about it. He had been planning a revolt against the Emperor for some time when Maximilian ordered him to contact the Delpha Coalition of Planets. The DCP was very powerful, and Carillion secretly offered to aid them in their civil war in exchange for their help in assassinating Emperor Maximilian. The DCP agreed, and they soon cornered Maximilian’s personal starship, the No Escape, and destroyed it, ending his reign of terror. Carillion was hailed as a hero by the Gjigantrox people, and the grateful Empire allied with the DCP. He then reestablished the Gjigantrox Interstellar Empire as a democracy. Soon, Carillion was given command of the Gjigantrox fleet that was sent to aid the DCP, and he commanded the fleet to great success. He still disliked violence and war, but he felt that he had natural abilities for combat and command that he could use to serve his people well. After the war, he returned to his post as Chief Ambassador, in addition to holding a high rank in the Gjigantrox military.