Commissar Tribune Volusius MalCommissar Tribune Volusius MalthoCommissar Tribune Volusius Maltho is one of the most notorious members of the ISSC, a successful career soldier turned government agent whose extreme brutality is matched only by his intelligence and ambition.Malthos start in life was not auspicious: unusually for a high-ranking Imperial officer he is of relatively humble background, his family being minor provincial gentry. His father was a magistrate and used his influence to enrol his teenage son in the local Imperial garrison. Not content to spend his career on routine garrison duty in a quiet backwater, the ambitious young cadet applied for a tr
Emperor Theodore SuleimanEmperor Theodore Suleiman The current Emperor is Theodore Suleiman, who has reigned for five years since the death of his father, the Emperor Tam Suleiman II. Theodore may also be the last of the direct line, for as yet he has expressed little interest in marriage and regards the droves of eligible noblewomen paraded before him by hopeful advisers with bored indifference. This is unusual behaviour for a man of the Suleiman family, who normally pride themselves on their virility (besides his twelve legitimate children, Theodore's father acknowledged twenty-seven bastards during his reign and probably sired many more) but Th