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Sophia Byzainti came to be on the Third Sunrise of the first Period, in the year of Earth Ascension Four Hundred and Ninety Two, in the Capital of the Serene^Union, Solarri. Born to a Senior Apothecary and comissioned Officer of the Defence Solarri, the young Kaeneian as was fashion took the career path of her parents in serving the state, opting to enter the expansive halls of The Spire as Data-Adept for Internal Administration. Personnel records from the vast catacombs of the Aengelistoria Dominica's vaults reveal a diligent, focused though not necessarily remarkable individual through primary, secondary and tertiary schooling.
 
  
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==Overview==
  
  
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'''Sophia Myiani Byzainti''' (born 3rd SR/1st PR/492 EA) is the current [[Governor-General]] of the Serene^Union of [[Kaenei]], First Chair of the Council of the Aengelistoria Dominica and head of Internal Administration (De-Jure) since taking office on 4th SR/ 8th PR/550 EA.
  
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She has held the office of Governor-General since taking over from the incapacitated Killthanus following his failure to recover from injuries which ultimately proved fatal, becoming the first ever Kaeneian Head of State to be elected outside the previous rotational system shared between all Supreme-Overseers following the said inability of Killthanus to discharge his duties. At only thirty years of age she is the youngest ever Governor-General.
  
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Fate did strike a cruel blow upon the young Kaeneian shortly before her fifteenth birth-echo when her father's starship, and all hands therein, were lost in an exchange of fire between Defence Solarri and Sketchen forces some years following the conclusion of the war which had devastated the surface of the Jovian moon Europa. Proceeding psychiatric reports, as standard upon adolescents in the event of unexpected bereavement, revealed a suprisingly positive belief in the manner of his passing - protecting the Union and carrying forth the will of the Council with a dedication to duty beyond the living.
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Sophia Byzainti is also the first Governor-General to initiate a full mobilisation of the Armed Forces for offensive action, making the first Kaeneian decleration of War against the Sketchen Ogliarchy following their unprovoked attack against the Angelan WorldDisc which claimed some five million lives. See [[Conflicts involving the Serene^Union]] for a more detailed examination of the circumstances.
  
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Using his untimely, though well-remembered passing as a catalyst the maturing Sophia proceeded to throw the full weight of her growing dedication behind employment; surpassing any expectations and for the first time in recorded civil service history, surpassed the rank of Master-Adept upon her eighteenth birthday, to later become a Grand-Overseer scarcely a final year beyond that.
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As well as overseeing said war the Governor-General instigated a program of experimental liberisations and reforms designed to gradually dismantle the isolationism which had been a founding and integral part of Kaeneian foreign policy for two hundred years preceeding, sanctioning joint-scientific endevours and expanding the participation of the Union within [[The Triumvirate of Yut]] and the [[Non-Democratic Alliance]].
  
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As a result of the bitter fighting and loss of life in prevailing against the Sketchen Military Sophia Byzainti pursued a more aggressive foreign policy; actively examining events both political and social in progress throughout the Solar System, and pushing for an expansion of Kaeneian operations to both the Jovian moon of Europa and to the Red Planet ([[Kaenei Mars]].
  
  
  
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Her ascension to supreme control over one of the Serene^Union's most sprawling and all-encompasing departmental facets was not without controversy. Her predecessor had opted to decentralise much of the actual operation of the department, arguing centralised control over an agency charged with tasks as far opposite as street hygiene to housing construction and maintenance was best left effectively at the discretion of the Provinces themselves.
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Such a line of thought incurred much affirmation; the needs of the Provinces were varied, with Solarri requiring colossal habitation towers and Fortuna, living modules built directly into the mountainous rock. Sophia however, felt this an unofficial and haphazard devolution of executive power - delegating responsibility simply to be free of it, and not to the improvement of the Kaeneian people.
 
  
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Byzainti was born in the capital of the Serene^Union Solarri City in Solarri Province, the second child of Vanaiya & Riise Byzainti. Sophia spent the first six months of her life at the very centre of Kaeneian government where her Mother Vanaiya Byzainti was the Chief Apothecary of the Union of Medicine, serving on the Council of the [[Aengelistoria Dominica]] under then Governor-General ''Alyia''. Byzainti celebrated her first birthday outside of the capital however on ''Khandrii'' orbital facility, where Riise Byzainti was based as a comissioned Fleet-Overseer of the [[Defence Solarri]].
  
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A particularly heated debate within the upper chamber of the [National Consultative] House of the Union led to Sophia suggesting her outgoing predecessor (Aged as he was and as a consequence, retiring) had taken the decision to devolve national power to the provincial level for no more than the relief of the burden from his sagging shoulders. She was superficially chided by then Governor-General for overzealousness, but no official reprimand was suggested - All, including the challenged retiree agreed her desire to succeed in state office was too uncontaminated to dilute.
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Sophia spent the majority of her childhood years alternating between her Mother and Father's respective sides, the burden of senior positions in the state meaning relatively little time was spent with the family as a cohesive unit. Having completed Primary and Secondary education within the Kaeneian Defence Force Education System ''(KDFES)'' Byzainti declined to focus a future career in the Armed Forces, instead enrolling to fulfil Tertiary education requirements at Solarri Provincial Educational-Assignment Complex -- A university traditionally seen as a feeder-institution for the Kaeneian civil service.  
  
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Achieving commendable ''Alpha'' passes on the Internal Services, Logistical Considerations and  Public Works modules Sophia chose to begin an internship with Internal Administration -- the largest and most diverse facet of the Aengelistoria Dominica with responsbilities for providing all the internal public services of the Union; electricity, housing, sanitation and civil construction to name a few.         
  
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Only three months after entry her father Riise Byzainti was lost along with all hands aboard, when the ship under his command''(K.D.V. Serenity)'' came under fire from rogue Sketchen Interstellar Naval assets breaching ceasefire conditions and was unable to overcome enemy strength of numbers. Sophia herself collected the posthumous ''Union Defence Star''' awarded to her father for service and sacrifice to the state, initiating the salute of the guard which had bore his coffin to its final resting place.
  
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Byzainti returned to her internship after three months compassionate postponment, remarkably completing it along with the rest of her class on time despite the loss of almost a fifth of the study time due to the unexpected and tragic bereavement.
  
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She is relatively famous for being the only Supreme-Overseer to vote against membership of the Triumvirate of Yut, citing the unavoidable eroding of sovereignity, truthful when one considers the loosely federal nature of the alliance.
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Sophia was officially comissioned as an Adept of Internal Adminstration and agent of the Aengelistoria Dominica a day after her twenty-fourth birthday, beginning what would be a steady and seemingly meteoric rise to the position of Grand-Overseer and De-Facto control of the Department. Her innovative strategies of encouraging strong Provincial capacity to deal with internal problems, whilst ensuring the National goverment held the capacity to plug any breaches in coverage or assist in the unexpected allowed for a vast reduction in duplication and pointless logistics.  
  
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Delegation of these issues to the Provincial level also allowed for true customisation of individual needs, for the requirements of the Provinces were as varied as could be imagined; The habitation modules and cities of Fortuna centered on or against the rocky eastern peaks of the country, whereas the clustered and high-rising living towers of the Capital Solarri required slightly less unorthodox  engineering skills.
  
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The up-and-coming Kaeneian cemented a first in civil service history when she attained the rank of Grand-Overseer, becoming the youngest ever to hold such a lofty office at the incredible age of twenty six. Only a single step from the council of the Aengelistoria Dominica Sophia also stood on the brink of a quite remarkable second record -- That the Council would for the first time ever count two Supreme-Overseers of the same family within its ranks.
  
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Such a grandiose record sadly did not come to pass, with her mother Vanaiya retiring from the Council and practicing medicine at the respectable age of eighty two. Following further the retirement of her own direct superior, and the strong reports of praise and justly-deserved compliments Governor-General Killthanus elevated Sophia to the rank of ''Supreme-Overseer of Internal Administration'' shortly therafter to add to her own career firsts of being the youngest ever Supreme-Overseer appointed to the Council.
  
  
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Sophia Byzainti became the one hundredth and first [[Governor-General]] of the Serene^Union, having become the first to take office outwith the normal procedure which dictated that the position was to be of a cyclical nature shared for five year periods between all Supreme-Overseers of [[the Aengelistoria Dominica]]. Sophia was the Supreme Overseer whom recieved the most votes following an impromptu election between the heads of department to elect a new Governor-General into office during the constitutional crisis evoked by the effective death of the incumbent, Killthanus. 
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Unfortunately for Byzainti her tutledge under Killthanus would be short lived, for scarcely four years later whilst in transit from Earth to Europa the Governor-General's starship would suffer a catastrophic engineering malfunction which led to the deaths of almost the entire crew -- only twenty souls including the gravely-injured Kaeneian Head of State and the Elven Special Ambassador [[Lady Melyanna]] surviving.  
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Sophia faced and indeed continues to overcome the challenges inherent in the dissolution of the Kaeneian preference to total neutrality in foreign relations, which had begun in years passed with the ascension of the Serene^Union to membership status within the Triumvirate of Yut and Non-Democratic Alliance.  
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Despite the best efforts of the Union of Medicine Killthanus' condition was pronounced hopeless, with the Kaeneian remaining in a coma and suffering progressive neural failure with almost no hope of reversal. Without a Head of State the entirety of the Council and the government as a whole was effectively paralysed, leading to an unprecedented suspension of national and trans-solar governance in favour of self-rule where applicable.
  
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Liberalisation has slowly but almost incessently creeped into the law making of the Union's ultimate authority; decisions taken currently unthinkable but a scant decade ago and further evidence of the discomfort and difficulty in absorbing the after-effects of integration. Sophia has effectively found herself ever willing to consider new ideas and approaches, a far cry from the conservative policies, mentioned earlier, which marked her previous tenure as head of Internal Administration.
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During an emergency meeting of the Aengelistoria Dominica Defence Solarri Supreme-Overseer [[Christiansin Meridiaa]] suggested that the current system, whereby the Governor-Generalship would pass to each Supreme-Overseer of the council for a four-yeat period, was unusable in consideration of the unlikely but possible scenario of Killthanus' incipacitation being deliberate on the part of one desiring power.
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Instead he suggested an immediate and secret ballot, where a new Governor-General would be selected from the existing Supreme-Overseers gathered, by whomever held a simple majority of votes. There was considerable dissent, with both Sophia and the Chief Apothecary Viktoria Annabel voicing grave reservations on altering the line of executive succession.
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Securing a simple majority in favour of voting, both Supreme-Overseers of the Defence Terra and Defence Solarri respectively withdrew from any ballot, arguing the Military had no place in deciding the civlian Head of Government. From the follwing ballot Sophia secured a majority of one over Riordan Likonesse, the Supreme-Overseer for the Office of Foreign and Extra-Solar Affairs and therefore became the one hundred and first Governor-General.
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The terms of Byzainti's tenure in office has yet to be fully decided, for there is no constitution or defining document by which the circumstances which occured were predicted and a solution provided. It is widely commented on by those versed in the subject that Sophia will continue in the Office of Governor-General until such time as she is unfit through illness or unwillingness to discarge her duties, or a superior system of succession is debated and applied.
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Revision as of 03:55, 30 May 2006

Mariani Sophia Byzainti.
Governor-GeneralSophia.jpg
Position:
Governor-General of the Serene^Union.
Periods in office:
4th SR/ 8th PR/550 EA - Present
Predecessor:
Ser Killthanus
Successor:
Incumbent


Overview

Sophia Myiani Byzainti (born 3rd SR/1st PR/492 EA) is the current Governor-General of the Serene^Union of Kaenei, First Chair of the Council of the Aengelistoria Dominica and head of Internal Administration (De-Jure) since taking office on 4th SR/ 8th PR/550 EA.

She has held the office of Governor-General since taking over from the incapacitated Killthanus following his failure to recover from injuries which ultimately proved fatal, becoming the first ever Kaeneian Head of State to be elected outside the previous rotational system shared between all Supreme-Overseers following the said inability of Killthanus to discharge his duties. At only thirty years of age she is the youngest ever Governor-General.

Sophia Byzainti is also the first Governor-General to initiate a full mobilisation of the Armed Forces for offensive action, making the first Kaeneian decleration of War against the Sketchen Ogliarchy following their unprovoked attack against the Angelan WorldDisc which claimed some five million lives. See Conflicts involving the Serene^Union for a more detailed examination of the circumstances.

As well as overseeing said war the Governor-General instigated a program of experimental liberisations and reforms designed to gradually dismantle the isolationism which had been a founding and integral part of Kaeneian foreign policy for two hundred years preceeding, sanctioning joint-scientific endevours and expanding the participation of the Union within The Triumvirate of Yut and the Non-Democratic Alliance.

As a result of the bitter fighting and loss of life in prevailing against the Sketchen Military Sophia Byzainti pursued a more aggressive foreign policy; actively examining events both political and social in progress throughout the Solar System, and pushing for an expansion of Kaeneian operations to both the Jovian moon of Europa and to the Red Planet (Kaenei Mars.


Family background

Byzainti was born in the capital of the Serene^Union Solarri City in Solarri Province, the second child of Vanaiya & Riise Byzainti. Sophia spent the first six months of her life at the very centre of Kaeneian government where her Mother Vanaiya Byzainti was the Chief Apothecary of the Union of Medicine, serving on the Council of the Aengelistoria Dominica under then Governor-General Alyia. Byzainti celebrated her first birthday outside of the capital however on Khandrii orbital facility, where Riise Byzainti was based as a comissioned Fleet-Overseer of the Defence Solarri.

Sophia spent the majority of her childhood years alternating between her Mother and Father's respective sides, the burden of senior positions in the state meaning relatively little time was spent with the family as a cohesive unit. Having completed Primary and Secondary education within the Kaeneian Defence Force Education System (KDFES) Byzainti declined to focus a future career in the Armed Forces, instead enrolling to fulfil Tertiary education requirements at Solarri Provincial Educational-Assignment Complex -- A university traditionally seen as a feeder-institution for the Kaeneian civil service.

Achieving commendable Alpha passes on the Internal Services, Logistical Considerations and Public Works modules Sophia chose to begin an internship with Internal Administration -- the largest and most diverse facet of the Aengelistoria Dominica with responsbilities for providing all the internal public services of the Union; electricity, housing, sanitation and civil construction to name a few.

Only three months after entry her father Riise Byzainti was lost along with all hands aboard, when the ship under his command(K.D.V. Serenity) came under fire from rogue Sketchen Interstellar Naval assets breaching ceasefire conditions and was unable to overcome enemy strength of numbers. Sophia herself collected the posthumous Union Defence Star' awarded to her father for service and sacrifice to the state, initiating the salute of the guard which had bore his coffin to its final resting place.

Byzainti returned to her internship after three months compassionate postponment, remarkably completing it along with the rest of her class on time despite the loss of almost a fifth of the study time due to the unexpected and tragic bereavement.

Sophia was officially comissioned as an Adept of Internal Adminstration and agent of the Aengelistoria Dominica a day after her twenty-fourth birthday, beginning what would be a steady and seemingly meteoric rise to the position of Grand-Overseer and De-Facto control of the Department. Her innovative strategies of encouraging strong Provincial capacity to deal with internal problems, whilst ensuring the National goverment held the capacity to plug any breaches in coverage or assist in the unexpected allowed for a vast reduction in duplication and pointless logistics.

Delegation of these issues to the Provincial level also allowed for true customisation of individual needs, for the requirements of the Provinces were as varied as could be imagined; The habitation modules and cities of Fortuna centered on or against the rocky eastern peaks of the country, whereas the clustered and high-rising living towers of the Capital Solarri required slightly less unorthodox engineering skills.

The up-and-coming Kaeneian cemented a first in civil service history when she attained the rank of Grand-Overseer, becoming the youngest ever to hold such a lofty office at the incredible age of twenty six. Only a single step from the council of the Aengelistoria Dominica Sophia also stood on the brink of a quite remarkable second record -- That the Council would for the first time ever count two Supreme-Overseers of the same family within its ranks.

Such a grandiose record sadly did not come to pass, with her mother Vanaiya retiring from the Council and practicing medicine at the respectable age of eighty two. Following further the retirement of her own direct superior, and the strong reports of praise and justly-deserved compliments Governor-General Killthanus elevated Sophia to the rank of Supreme-Overseer of Internal Administration shortly therafter to add to her own career firsts of being the youngest ever Supreme-Overseer appointed to the Council.


Unfortunately for Byzainti her tutledge under Killthanus would be short lived, for scarcely four years later whilst in transit from Earth to Europa the Governor-General's starship would suffer a catastrophic engineering malfunction which led to the deaths of almost the entire crew -- only twenty souls including the gravely-injured Kaeneian Head of State and the Elven Special Ambassador Lady Melyanna surviving.


Despite the best efforts of the Union of Medicine Killthanus' condition was pronounced hopeless, with the Kaeneian remaining in a coma and suffering progressive neural failure with almost no hope of reversal. Without a Head of State the entirety of the Council and the government as a whole was effectively paralysed, leading to an unprecedented suspension of national and trans-solar governance in favour of self-rule where applicable.

During an emergency meeting of the Aengelistoria Dominica Defence Solarri Supreme-Overseer Christiansin Meridiaa suggested that the current system, whereby the Governor-Generalship would pass to each Supreme-Overseer of the council for a four-yeat period, was unusable in consideration of the unlikely but possible scenario of Killthanus' incipacitation being deliberate on the part of one desiring power.

Instead he suggested an immediate and secret ballot, where a new Governor-General would be selected from the existing Supreme-Overseers gathered, by whomever held a simple majority of votes. There was considerable dissent, with both Sophia and the Chief Apothecary Viktoria Annabel voicing grave reservations on altering the line of executive succession.

Securing a simple majority in favour of voting, both Supreme-Overseers of the Defence Terra and Defence Solarri respectively withdrew from any ballot, arguing the Military had no place in deciding the civlian Head of Government. From the follwing ballot Sophia secured a majority of one over Riordan Likonesse, the Supreme-Overseer for the Office of Foreign and Extra-Solar Affairs and therefore became the one hundred and first Governor-General.

The terms of Byzainti's tenure in office has yet to be fully decided, for there is no constitution or defining document by which the circumstances which occured were predicted and a solution provided. It is widely commented on by those versed in the subject that Sophia will continue in the Office of Governor-General until such time as she is unfit through illness or unwillingness to discarge her duties, or a superior system of succession is debated and applied.

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