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Under assumed names, Elias, used his charisma to unite he and many of his fellow passengers to band together and settle a on a colony world. He managed to convince the JumpShip's crew to take them to an unnamed backwater world near [[Aldebaran]]. This included some of the ship's crew, including it's navigator, before leaving Elisa's people and leaving for Terra in [[2189]]. | Under assumed names, Elias, used his charisma to unite he and many of his fellow passengers to band together and settle a on a colony world. He managed to convince the JumpShip's crew to take them to an unnamed backwater world near [[Aldebaran]]. This included some of the ship's crew, including it's navigator, before leaving Elisa's people and leaving for Terra in [[2189]]. | ||
| − | Within a year of settling on what Elisa names as Cynthiana (after his late wife), he arranges using nearly all the colony's funding to bring in a number of live stock to the placid grasslands like world. Among the live stock are Eridani horses, who were extremely well sought out and expensive. However, Elisa's gamble pays off. During these earlier years, Elisa's genius for administration | + | Within a year of settling on what Elisa names as Cynthiana (after his late wife), he arranges using nearly all the colony's funding to bring in a number of live stock to the placid grasslands like world. Among the live stock are Eridani horses, who were extremely well sought out and expensive. However, Elisa's gamble pays off. During these earlier years, Elisa's genius for administration paid off. Through selective breeding, his colony becomes a major supplier for live stock from sheep to thoroughbred horses for local star systems, beating Terran exporters. |
Elias dies at age 61, with his grandson, Victor, being selected as governor of [[Liao|Cynthiana]].<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'' p. 8 - New Beginning - Years leading his followers and convincing would-be colonists to join his cause of settling unknown planets and prospering.</ref><ref>''Liao Family Tree'' p. 163 - Victor shown as grandson.</ref> | Elias dies at age 61, with his grandson, Victor, being selected as governor of [[Liao|Cynthiana]].<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'' p. 8 - New Beginning - Years leading his followers and convincing would-be colonists to join his cause of settling unknown planets and prospering.</ref><ref>''Liao Family Tree'' p. 163 - Victor shown as grandson.</ref> | ||
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Elias Jung Liao (2141-2202[1]) was an early 22nd Century Terran-born Chinese politician and founding father of the Liao Dynasty.
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Character Description
Elias Liao was the founding patriarch of House Liao, having left Terra in 2188. Prior to the events of 2179, he was considered a conservative, eastern-educated politician. However, his personality radically changed over the course of his adult life, leading him to eventually become a Philosopher-extremist and leader of an international terrorist organization.
Biography
Early Years
Elias was born in the Hong Kong Free State on Terra, the son of an English Politician and a Nepalese woman. He grew up and attended Hong Kong University, where he majored in politics. He later attended Oxford University, in England, where he took global economics.[2]
Terran Politician & Terrorist
When Elias returned from England, he was elected as Assemblyman for Hong Kong's Free State government in 2176. Only two years later, he was elected and became the third President of the Hong Kong Free State. However, in 2179, the offshore China Republic invaded Hong Kong and Elisa and his family was forced to flee nation to Nepal.[3]
During his time in the Himalayas, his mentality underwent a transformation that left future researchers baffled in what could have happened.[4] In 2182 Elias Liao, former President of the Hong Kong Free State, emerged from exile from Tibet. He had had a revelation that lead him to believe that the only way to save mankind was through global anarchy to return the humand race to a "simpler time". His fanatical following of anarchists, the "New World Disciples", went on an assassination spree, killing 149 bureaucrats, scientists and government leaders, including twenty-six heads of state of the Alliance World Parliament.
Elisa's followers were not the only religious terrorists on the planet, but they were the most notable and efficient, disrupting the lives of tens of thousands in their "Cleansing actions". However, in 2187 it was alleged that followers of Elisa Liao triggered a multiple fusion explosion in Bejin. This was the final straw for the global community, the Alliance's Hemisphere Court ruled that Elisa Liao and his followers were guilty in absentia. Within a year the Chinese Republic with the aide of neighboring Indian and European allies, assaulted Elias's mountain stronghold in the Himalayas in 2188. The assault forced Elisa to secretly evacuate his two surviving sons and several hundred survivors to a waiting Jump-Ship.[5]
| “ | You should never seek to hold any one thing, any one person, any one system, any one ideal above all others. For when you hold that single thing, that single person, that single government, that single value above all else, that thing, that individual, that order, that principle will come to control you and you will have forfeited your basic humanity.... Seek therefore to free yourself from unnecessary entanglements, and thereafter seek to free your neighbor, whether he would be free or no.
—Elias Liao, leader of the New World Disciples, c. 2182[6] |
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Governor of Cynthiana
Under assumed names, Elias, used his charisma to unite he and many of his fellow passengers to band together and settle a on a colony world. He managed to convince the JumpShip's crew to take them to an unnamed backwater world near Aldebaran. This included some of the ship's crew, including it's navigator, before leaving Elisa's people and leaving for Terra in 2189.
Within a year of settling on what Elisa names as Cynthiana (after his late wife), he arranges using nearly all the colony's funding to bring in a number of live stock to the placid grasslands like world. Among the live stock are Eridani horses, who were extremely well sought out and expensive. However, Elisa's gamble pays off. During these earlier years, Elisa's genius for administration paid off. Through selective breeding, his colony becomes a major supplier for live stock from sheep to thoroughbred horses for local star systems, beating Terran exporters.
Elias dies at age 61, with his grandson, Victor, being selected as governor of Cynthiana.[7][8]
Character Notes
Information on Elias's successor was mistakenly listing his son instead of his grandson being his successor. Victor was listed as being a older son in short story, while family tree shows Victor being a Grandson. In the following chapter of House book shows Victor reflecting on his father's death. However, not being cleared if it was his father being David or his grandfather Elias.[9]
Family & Legacies
Elisa & his late wife Cynthiana had four children, Rufus, David Paul, Carmen & Margarette, and one grandchild, Victor Edward Liao, son of David Paul.[10] Rufus himself died a year after Elias.[11] Victor Liao would follow his grandfather Elias as President of the Liao Republic[12] and then Governor of Liao under the Terran Alliance.[13]
Notes
Handbook: House Liao states that the renaming of the planet Cynthiana to Liao was opposed by "Elias' sons, Victor and David Paul". It hasn't yet been clarified whether this is a mistake or a retcon.[12]
Titles and Positions
References
- ↑ House Liao (The Capellan Confederation), p. 8, "New Beginnings": Liao died in 2202, at the age of 61
- ↑ House Liao (Capellan Confederation) p. 7 - The First Liao: Elias
- ↑ House Liao (Capellan Confederation) p. 7 - The First Liao: Elias
- ↑ House Liao (The Capellan Confederation) p. 8 - The First Liao - Researchers speculated that Elias discovered some hitherto-unknown religious sect artificats that lead him down road of terrorism.
- ↑ House Liao (The Capellan Confederation) pp. 7-8 - The First Liao
- ↑ Touring the Stars, p. 33, "Volume XVII: Celestial Unity—Birth of the Capellan Confederation"
- ↑ House Liao (The Capellan Confederation) p. 8 - New Beginning - Years leading his followers and convincing would-be colonists to join his cause of settling unknown planets and prospering.
- ↑ Liao Family Tree p. 163 - Victor shown as grandson.
- ↑ House Liao (The Capellan Confederation) - Liao Family Tree & Night Fall- pp. 163, 7 - Family Tree shows Victor as Grandson, despite short article Nightfall mentioning Victor being David's older brother.
- ↑ House Liao (The Capellan Confederation) p. 7 - Nightfall - exert from Elisa's younger son, David Paul's book notes the death of his two sisters and mother while fleeing Terra.
- ↑ Liao Family Tree p. 163 - family members listed.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Handbook: House Liao, p. 11, "Elias Liao"
- ↑ House Liao (The Capellan Confederation), p. 8, "New Beginnings"