Eozoanga’o A’oukhoukseiroeloenk
Eozoanga’o A’oukhoukseiroeloenk is a Vargr entrepreneur, a Protectorate immigrant, and prominent citizen of Dharmendra (Empty Quarter 1236).
Description (Character)[edit]
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History and Background[edit]
He was born and raised on Ikon (Empty Quarter 1602), the most prominent world of the Rukadkaz Republic - itself a member state of the Julian Protectorate. Eozoanga’o’s family have generally been lowerclass/ working class Vargr, struggling to get by on a wealthy world and getting into more fights than they can handle. Eozoanga’o decided that he wanted something better for himself. Most of the good employment opportunities on Ikon are dominated by Vilani and highly Vilanizied Vargr, but Eozoanga’o managed to grab a position for himself as a deckhand on the Vargr trader Oekthodzokhungvokh. Unlike most Vargr traders (who dip into piracy, smuggling, or world-raiding activities when the opportunity presents itself), the Oekthodzokhungvokh stayed on the straight and narrow, focusing on making her ports on time and regular cost-cutting. This meant that the ship had to pay regular ‘taxes’ to the underworld to insure that they ‘weren’t noticed’ by the more powerful pirate bands. (The ship could handle the lone wolves herself, thank you very much.) However, her customers, pleased by her reliability, soon became valuable repeat customers. This, coupled with word-of-mouth, insured that the Oekthodzokhungvokh crew always got paid in full, every time. This stability is somewhat uncommon among the Vilani-influenced Ikonaz Vargr, and simply unheard of elsewhere in the Vargr Extents.
Marital Prospects[edit]
In 985, the intensely Vilanizied Inllegh caught the Eozoanga’o’s eye. He desired to lay with her, but Inllegh, in extremely un-Vargr fashion, insisted on a Vilani-style non-revocable monogamous marriage. Despite his anger at her refusal, Eozanga’o was mad with desire for this high-status Vargr female who spoke in flawless Vilani. After losing a lot of Charisma contests, he finally agreed to her insistence on a formal Vilani-style marriage contract in 987. In 988 Imperial, the Imperial Courts authorized Oekthodzokhungvokh crew to seize seventy hectares of land for non-payments of debts. The seizure wasn’t contested, and Eozoanga’o - now the Master of the ship - planned to sell the land off to the highest bidder. However, the Baron of Dharmendrapersuaded Eozoanga’o to keep the land, and develop it into a profitable business. As the Vilani Baron offered incentive after incentive to stay, Eozoanga’o grew more interested, but still worried about being alone in hostile space: the human and Bwap-dominated, xenophobic, low-tech Empty Quarter is a huge shift from the high-tech, civilized realm of the Rukadkaz Republic. After his return to his home port of Ikon, his wife was overjoyed to hear the offer - “What favor from the ancestors To be ruled by a genuine Vilani Noble, in the true successor-state of the Ziru Sirka Finally - endless stability is within our grasp” It took two years to make the financial arrangements, while still working the trading routes. But in 991, the A’oukhoukseiroeloenk family took their last journey on the Oekthodzokhungvokh. At a sorrowful parting, they said goodbye forever to their old friends and crewmates, and set up shop on Dharmendra. Earlier market research concluded that the most profitable livestock to farm was dogs (dogs as “Canis lupus familiaris”, not as “Vargr” (derogatory) or “guard animal/pet”) - dog-meat is in high demand in Lishun and Antares sectors, especially by Asian nobility, squires, and social wannabe’s. Eozoanga’o had no ethical issues with this: after all, neither dogs nor humans were blessed by the touch of the Ancients. Vargr are.
Puddle Farms Business[edit]
As of 993, Puddle Farms is the largest existing dog-breeding and processing facility trailing of Antares. While there are still teething problems, the debt load has stabilized and losses have shrunk considerably. Cash flow is on a solid upswing: the agribusiness is expected to turn a profit within three to five years, thanks in no small part to the assistance of the planetary Baron. The farm has grown enormously, from seventy hectares to five square kilometers over four islands (the planet has only specks of land dotting the World-Ocean - christened “Bathtub Ocean” by typically mischievous Scouts in the early Third Imperium, in contrast to the rather somber names preferred by Second Imperium bureaucrats.) When an annual profit is finally shown, the A’oukhoukseiroeloenk’s plan to take a month-long holiday on nearby Agnakhong (Empty Quarter 1137) - the only Vargr-dominated world in the Imperial Empty Quarter. There are Vargr cities (and lots and lots of Vargr slums) within the Imperial Quarter with more Vargr than Agnakhong: but on Agnakhong, the Vargr are truly free of local human domination - while still under the sway of the Imperium.
There are some further goals after profitability. First, the reintroduction of dogs as pets: a hard sell in most of Chartered Space, as they interact very poorly to interstellar life. (For example, dogs don’t exist in the Spinward Marches.) Moreover, dog-eaters, dog-owners are associated with Solomani supremacists in the public mind. The pious Muslim and Christian communities’, influenced by their religious texts, disdain dogs. And finally, some Imperial Vargr dislike the symbolism of humans owning dogs (Vargr from the Extents could hardly care less.) Secondly, the vast Bathtub Ocean is teeming with life - most of which is rather poisonous to humans and Vargr.
Aquaculture Prospects[edit]
But, some Vargr from Nulinad (Empty Quarter 0338) are very experienced with aquaculture, and are trying to get Eozoanga’o to set up a small-scale fish-farming project. (“Fish” in Emptyhead Anglic means “anything that lives in a liquid environment.”) Eozoanga’o is reluctant to start such a venture until the dog-farming business is on a solid footing.
Politics[edit]
Third, the Baron of Dharmendra is hinting that shares of the planet itself may be made available, permitting Eozoanga’o to buy himself a seat on the Governing Council, and perhaps putting his family on the road to Noble status in a few generations. Eozoanga’o isn’t into politics - but his wife Inllegh loves the idea….
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- Jason Kemp. "Biography: Selected Ship Masters and Vessels of the Empty Quarter, Part 2." Stellar Reaches 08 (2008): 51.