Name: Aelisha Montenagre
Chronological Age: 44
Height: 5' 8"
Ethnicity: Equatorial Native Intaki
Profession: CEO of Nisaba Syndicate (Capsuleer corporation), SCC Market Trader
Citizenship: CONCORD Multi-National Visa, State citizenship (Sukuuvesta sponsored, YC 109)
Personal HistoryAelisha is the fifth incarnation of Idama Yosan Mand, preceded by (in chronological order starting after Mand's passing): Diplomat Aspan Gamun, Speaker Soleene Marthris and finally Idama Tamil Arsunsa. Her original name, Arnaala Monsume, was changed by deed poll prior to her entry to the University of Caille in YC88, to Aelisha Montenagre.
Born on Intaki V early in YC70, Aelisha Montenagre had been selected since conception to become the next incarnation of the Idama Tamil Arsunsa. Due to the fact that this process was aided by technology and not, as with her incarnation as the honoured Idama, 'natural', the title of Idama did not pass down to her current incarnation. Though rebirth is a great honour and a deeply spiritual tradition, she recognises that a part of her duty as a Reborn is to experience new environments, cultures and events. This might be one of the core motivations that drove her from spiritual practices into the cold world of corporate leadership, but as with most such things it is far from the sole contributor to her chosen lifestyle.
Her aptitude for administration and business was excellent by any standards, but in itself unremarkable amongst a population of gifted communicators and tradesmen. The discovery of genetic markers indicating a high probability of capsule compatibility was the primary driving force spurring the then teenage girl, into a frenzy of academic achievement. Her previous lives had little to offer in the way of business acumen, but they had a wealth of experience in crowd control, people management and interpersonal relationships, allowing her to deftly navigate ever harsher educational and social environments.
Second-wave testing post-adolescence confirmed the earlier Capsule compatability results, but due to her lack of physical and spatial aptitude, she was not selected for the then military FedNav capsuleer scheme. Progressing to the Centre for Advanced Studies to read business and management, she changed her birth name to better integrate with the primarily Gallente population.
Remaining local, having worked her way from junior management to junior Director status in a variety of organisations, it was not until capsuleer technology became available to the general public (albeit at extreme, government subsidised cost) that Aelisha would truly make a mark for herself.
Submitting herself for rigorous training, implant procedures and re-education, she passed the tests, survived the initial integration without mindlock or wetgraving, and struck out to carve herself a niche in the cluster. Tiring of the increasingly regulated business laws of the Federation, and feeling little kinship with the non-Intaki population (who she had begun to realise were slowly having their culture eroded by the constant stream of Federation media and products available at low prices), she emigrated to the State in YC109. There she set up her first corporation (Steel Frontier), making good use of the relatively deregulated corporate society to start experimenting with a variety of colonisation and trade efforts in low and null security space.
Presently, Aelisha is CEO of the successful, technology pioneering Nisaba Syndicate corporation, Executor of the NISYN Inc alliance.
Beliefs and ValuesAelisha is a strong believer in individual rights, but also possesses a strict work ethic. Essentially, she believes that those who are helpless through the actions of others need those in power to stand for them, but disdains all who pity themselves though their own actions have put them in positions of poverty or exile.
As a result of this strongly held view, she has always employed skilled, free-thinking specialists who have been chastised by the Empire governments for one reason or another. Non-capsuleer employees range from unskilled labourers who would have long ago starved to death in the State due to unemployment, to lauded scientists who have been cast out of the Federation's academic network merely for their associations with the wider EvE scientific community.
Her alliance is not a charity-case, and only those skilled and with the drive to better their lives if given the chance are worth a second glance. Those who fail to meet expectations, or found wanting in other ways, are soon returned to the drudgery and misery of their former lives; the indelible mark of failure the only note of their employment in NISYN Inc for letting down their fellow employees.
Aelisha follows a less spiritual interpretation of the Ida. Her careful planning and long-term activity is suggestive of a belief in cosmic cycles and a technologically supported belief in a truer immortality than even most Capsuleers experience. This can occasionally come across as a pleasant but mildly condescending paternal attitude towards those experiencing immortality for the first time. Her spiritual beliefs in this area merge seamlessly with her scientific interests in eternal life, not just for Capsuleers and the Reborn, but for all with the strength of will to achieve it. Worryingly, this research has led to association, discussion and violent conflict with several rival entities currently researching Talocan and Sleeper technology, including piratical and outer-region Capsuleer alliances. She is vocally disparaging of the Arek'Jaalan project, which she sees as small minded and ethically restricted. She will brook no negotiation with Nation forced for the opposite reason, seeing them as so lacking in ethics as to be dangerous to themselves and the cluster at large.
Fully aware that her organisation is small and very focused, she does occasionally participate in the greater political and scientific community, especially should more information regarding empyrean or ancient technology become available through such endeavors.
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