Ada’Usa Arion Mir rel Va’annu ascended to become his Imperial Divine Majesty Va’namir VII, the 42nd tir’a emperor and hierophant of Va’annu barely a decade before the outbreak of the Great War.
As leader of the rel clan, Arion Mir had worked closely with the previous emperor, Va’anstit IV to help move the traditionally conservative rel toward more progressive social attitudes. He helped push Va’anstit’s ruling abolishing the practice of killing at birth children with physical deformities or defects(known as “culling”) through the Ru, officially outlawed so-called “honor killings”, and supported many other progressive social policies. Despite his “left-learning” social stances on specific issues and his support for the progressive policies of his sed predecessor, Mir was widely perceived as a moderate. Since his election as emperor he has continued to take ever more progressive stances, often bringing him into conflict with both the Ru and the leadership of his own clan.
His ability to balance political realities against practical and moral concerns is, in large part why he has been able to rise to his current rank.
Though this has seen his popularity amongst his subjects rise in general, there are elements, specifically elements in his own clan, that had painted him as weak. Specifically there have been, among the rel and some others, criticism of the emperor’s close ties to the politically savvy and socially liberal sed and the artistic teh clans.
In the period leading up to the Great War, the emperor worked fearlessly to find a peaceful solution to the terrachian problem. During the war, he secretly held back-channel negotiations with the Brazilians and Europeans to push for regime change in the United American States. Even supplying material support to protest groups and state-sponsored efforts to unseat Rupert Kristens and the Humanist Movement.
Despite his best efforts, there were tir’a atrocities committed during the war. Rogue command groups hunted, killed and even fed on human colonists and POWs in the occupied territories. Early in the conflict there was considerable pillaging and rape on newly pacified worlds and several all rel units opted for their traditional no quarter, no prisoner approach to warfare. Where possible, the emperor punished these transgressions vigorously and mercilessly. Over the objections of both the Ru and his own generals, he broke up single clan units and reconfigured rel, sed, teh, leh, jel and even boj clan members into integrated units.
Nothing in the war years affected Va’namir quite so much as the loss of his two children, Mira and Bestin. Both were fighting as front line unit commanders during heat of the early conflict and both died during those first dark days of the war when the tir’a were at a disadvantage to the tactics of the terrachians. As his initial anger cooled and the war continued to grind, Va’namir attitude shifted from vengeful god-head to peacemaker.
In the end it was Va’animir willingness to deal with the newly minted Federation and to see past his own pain that led to the end of the Great War and membership in the Federation.
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