Ililek Kuligaan
Ililek Kuligaan (1070-TBD) held the post of Chairman of the Imperial History Department (IHD) at Dlan University from 1116 to 1123.
Description / Specifications[edit]
As a first-hand witness to the decisions and events of the Final War, his advice and guidance was actively sought by the Reformation Coalition leaders and their Hiver backers. Kuligaan, never one at a loss for a forceful opinion, would have thrived under such circumstances in any event. But the fact that the cause was the one to which he had dedicated his life, the prevention of any further civil wars, made this role the fulfillment of his calling. It was he who coined the phrase "The New Refomation," and he became known as the semi-official Star Viking philosopher, ethicist, and theologian.
History & Background / Dossier[edit]
Kuligaan took over the post of Chairman of the Imperial History Department (IHD) at Dlan University in 1116, originally temporarily, as its permanent holder accompanied Dulinor to Capital, and then permanently when the predecessor was stranded on Capital during the misexecuted assassination. Kuligaan was not involved with the assassination planneing, but as a policy analysit found himself in agreement with Dulinor's charges against Strephon's govenment.
By 1123, his disgust with the Black War, the Verge War, and the increasing influence of the militant wing of the Virasan Church prompted Kuligaan to plan a public break with Dulinor's government. Kuligaan spirited his family off-planet, destroyed as much classified material as he could, took some with him to allow him to document his charges he intended to write, made his final remarks, and was gone.
As a roving, outspoken critic of every faction, he gained a great deal of attention over the following seven years. He was abord the merchant ship Compass Call in the Old Expanses when the Virus struk.
Kuligaan and the remainder of the Compass Call crew and passengers were discovered and revived in 1200 by a Dawn League trader. His fame as a political writer and analyst preceeded him, and he was immediately brought into contact with the Dawn League leadership during the period when the League's policy entered a more activist phase.
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