DeutschThe General
General Benedikta Ignatia Krahl, the "Iron Abbess": supreme command over the colonisation of AZ884, strict, terse and generous when you deliver.
The General leads the colonisation of AZ884. She picked you, more on impulse than by plan, and expects results from day one. Inside the Colonial Authority she is known only by her nickname: the Iron Abbess.
Origins
Benedikta Krahl grew up on Saint Florian, an old convent habitat in Mars orbit. The sisters there taught her three things: prayer, obedience and how to repair life support. At some point she dropped the prayer. Never the rest.
At eighteen she entered the Saint Ignatius cadet academy on Phobos and graduated top of her year. According to her personnel file she has not taken a single day of leave since.
Operations
| Year | Operation | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 2414 | Evacuation of Hestia Station during a solar storm | 3,112 people saved, as the youngest lieutenant of the fleet |
| 2421 | Battle of the Tessaris Ring against the last fleet of the Free Pack | Victory, she lost two fingers of her left hand and has worn a glove ever since |
| 2424 | Operation "Silent Watch" | 400 days blockading the Vesper Corridor, not a single smuggler got through |
| 2431 | Founding the Nordwall colony on AZ881 | self sufficient after 9 months, still the Authority's record |
| 2435 | The burning of Port Calvary | held the burning spaceport for 19 hours until the last freighter had lifted off |
| 2438 | Supreme command over the colonisation of AZ884 | ongoing, and you are part of it |
Her appearance
In the intro she briefs you on the situation on the planet. She tolerates no inattention: whoever looks away during her speech gets told off and hears the sentence again. Her tone stays military and terse, and her sentences rarely end with a smile.
"Order is not a suggestion, colonist. Order is the reason you are still breathing."
Transmissions
Later she contacts you by holo transmission from the Colonial Authority. The most important one arrives during the tutorial, shortly before you open up kryptonite and spice:
"Colonist! The Colonial Authority provides you with a kryptonite mine and a spice mine. Place them where they fit, we cover the cost. Power is your own responsibility. Do not disappoint me."
Both mines are a gift. You pay power and wages yourself once they run. Whoever inaugurates the gifted kryptonite mine finds a ruby in it shortly after (Special Finds).
What she wants from you
A working colony as the foundation for the drill project. Only once the north stands will she dare the way through the planet's core (The Drill Project). What she expects to find in Cibola is in no file you are cleared to read.
More about the authority behind her is under The Colonial Authority, the full history in the Chronicle: from Earth to AZ884.