Description
¶ Overview
- Full Name: Ty'Sii Circean
- Born: December 17th, 2583
Ty'Sii Circean is the first (and maybe only) Lyndri to achieve the rank of League Naval Admiral. She clawed her way up the ranks, fighting against the institutional bias towards humans the entire time. During her rise through the ranks, she drifted into Alastair McKenzie's sphere of influence.
Despite the bigotry, she managed a career of meritorious service and it takes a deeply awful person to deny the evidence of her record.
¶ Physical Description
Circean, like most Lyndri, has a very lithe, graceful build. Due to her League training, she is also a well-muscled individual.
¶ Personality
Circean is a goal-oriented individual. Once she sets her sights on something, she shifts her entire self to pursuing it. As her current goal is to be the best League officer she can be, that currently means that she is making damned sure that she is the best she can be at what she does for the League.
On her very limited down time, she maintains a small group of tightknit friends, besides just getting to know other Lyndri at whatever port of call she finds herself at.
¶ History
¶ Early Life
Circean was born on Vykreth as the first of six siblings, one of whom was a male. This propelled her family up the ranks of Lyndri society almost overnight, and as a result, Ty'Sii was selected for Kingsguard training at a very early age.
¶ Education
Ty'Sii's education was mostly done through a variety of Kingsguard mentors and tutors. Her primary focus of education, beyond her general basics, was in tactics and combat analysis. She excelled at both and found herself being pushed towards eventually taking a role as an Ambassador. Ty'Sii held a deep resentment towards selling her fellow Lyndri into slavery, even if she understood the rational behind the decision. As a result, when her time in the Kingsguard was completed, Ty'Sii retired from service to the Lyndri government entirely and sought out league citizenship.
¶ Joining the League
It turns out, even when you have the skills and qualifications of someone like Ty'Sii Circean, having been a relatively prominent member of a major governmental service for a foreign government means that any other government is not exactly going to go out of their way to grant you citizenship. The odds of you being an asset for your original government are just too high.
Ty'Sii found a unique loophole, however, when she uncovered a plot to detonate a bomb onboard a diplomatic vessel carrying ten members of the League General Assembly. In recognition of her actions, seven of the GA Legislators signed her petition for citizenship and had a minor argument about just which one of them would grant her appointment to the Naval Officer Academy on Chalcedon. Eventually, it was the Legislator from Calysto who won the argument based on primacy of position.
¶ Officer Academy
At the Academy on Chalcedon, Ty'Sii was first exposed the institutional bias towards humans that exists within the League military. It would be awhile before she was outright targeted by more narrow-minded members of the military, but she still has to deal with a lot of minor irritations on the way to graduation.
When she did graduate in 2658, she wasn't top of her class, but she was top ten. Normally this would have earned her a cherry posting, but again, institutional bias reared its head.
¶ First Assignments
Ty'Sii was assigned to a Versailles-class carrier, the LSS Topkapi, as a Lieutenant JG and spent the next seven years working her way slowly up the ranks until she was given a promotion to Lieutenant Commander and a transfer to the LSX Archigos which was fresh from her refit.
Under Captain McKenzie, Ty'Sii eventually worked her way up to Commander and her eventual transfer to the position of First Officer onboard the LSS Alhambra, another Versailles-class. She remained there for the minimum time in grade before she was granted the rank of Captain.
¶ Captaincy and her First Ship
When Circean made Captain in 2668, her first command was the LSS Megaera, an Ares-class Advanced Frigate. She was given this command at the recommendation of Captain McKenzie. On the Megaera, Circean performed with distinction. Enough distinction that she should have made Admiral far sooner. However, so many of her assignments on the Meg were so deeply classified that they couldn't even be referenced in her performance reviews if they were conducted by anyone but McKenzie.
As well, neither Circean or McKenzie had an immediate interest in her moving up to flag rank. When she eventually did so, it was because McKenzie had asked her to take a promotion. He needed some extra friends at Flag Rank and had long believed that she would be one of the best to ever carry the rank.
Circean was transferred to the LSS Duban, an Aegis-class cruiser assigned to Naval Intelligence, in 2672. She frequently ferried Intelligence assets from place to place and operated as their eyes in the sky and support system. She remained on the Duban until McKenzie approached her about taking command of a brand new Super Dreadnaught that the League Admiralty was already unhappy with. Interested in the challenge, and feeling like she owed McKenzie a favor, she accepted.
¶ LSS Shadrach
Circean was given command of the LSS Shadrach, the second Revelation-class Super Dreadnaught to come out of the yards, in 2677. Despite many people in the League Navy believing that such a posting was a career death sentence, Circean, and most of the Revelation-class crews, proved them wrong. Yes, the class was largely considered a punishment assignment and then later, a cursed class, but in reality, being stationed on a Rev gave you a tightknit family who all looked out for each, even if they were transferred away.
Circean commanded the Shadrach for nine years, leading dozens of diplomatic missions into NorAellian and Lyndri space, including one mission where she saved several of the Lyndri Kings (her brother was not among them) and the NorAellian Alpha Prime. This mission alone wouldn't have been enough to warrant a promotion in the eyes of the League Admiralty, but when coupled with her highly meritorious service in what many consider a deadend posting, plus a nudge from Admiral McKenzie, it saw her promoted to Admiral and assigned a task force and a brand new Valhalla-class, the LSS William Wallace, as her flagship.
On her way out to take up her new role and command, she was able to hand pick her successor in the Captaincy of the Shadrach and chose Typhen Reese, the Captain of the LSS Aglaope, one of the Shadrach's destroyers.
¶ Role as Admiral
As an Admiral, Circean was given operational command of a Freelance border patrol task force, meaning that, for a time, the LSS Abednego, the sister ship to the Shadrach, was under her operational command.
¶ The Fall
Ty'Sii was in subspace when the Fall occurred. Her aide, Mallory Graves, turned out to be a Zealot infiltrator and attempted to assassinate Ty'Sii. Thankfully, the Wallace's First Officer, Amman Hart, had revealed himself as a Heretic to her within the hour before the attack happened and warned her that someone was likely going to try and kill her.
Between the two of them, and the Task Force CIC security team, Graves was stopped. Instead of facing questioning and either incarceration or execution, Graves ruptured her own heart with Focus. She was dead within minutes and fully non-responsive to medical treatment.
The upshot of all of this was that the Wallace and Admiral Circean were able to alert the other ships in the task force and stave off a total loss. Word didn't reach the entire task force in time, but instead of the League's primary task force on the Freelance border being completely leaderless and taken off the board, a small number of ships, including a recently commissioned Erebus-class, were able to regroup.
¶ Ships
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LSS Shadrach - Circean comannded the Shadrach for six years and was directly responsible for making it a tight, well-ordered command. She was able to chose her own successor, ensuring the continuity of command and of the familial atmosphere she cultivated.
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LSS William Wallace - A brand new Valhalla-class assigned to Circean as her flagship. From it, she commands the League Naval Task Force that patrols the League/Confederacy border.
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LSS Megeara - Circean's first command as a Captain and the ship she eventually selected as her personal ship when she attained flag rank. The Megeara was scheduled for a refit at the time, so it all worked out. When not ferrying Circean around or running errands for her, she can be found docked with the Wallace on her starboard pylon between the two bridging arms.
¶ Major Associations
¶ Alastair McKenzie
- Relation: Boss and Mentor
¶ Jirael
- Relation: Lyndri Ambassador, Occasional Mentor, Almost Friends