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==Lady Trader Admiral Madeline Prinz==
{{Topquote|Money’s nice, but by the Throne do I look good.|Madeline Prinz}}

Rogue Traders are vain creatures, as a general rule. Even the ones with ties to the Ecclesiarchy tend towards the grandiose and opulent. Lady Prinz is so opulent, so determined to conduct business with maximum ostentation that her rivals think it can’t be anything but a front.

It isn’t. Madeline Prinz is obsessed with appearance, with presentation, and with wealth. She has made herself the personal foil of Lord Captain Walsh, the Inquisitor and Rogue Trader whose enigmatic journeys have become a source of speculation for every other Trader in the Circuit. Exactly why she seems so fixated on defeating or at least showing up Walsh, nobody but her immediate staff knows. For his part, Prinz disgusts Walsh. He thinks her a dilettante and a showboat, at best. To her credit, she was a decorated Imperial Navy Captain prior to becoming a Rogue Trader, but on the surface, she does sooner chase money and glory than accomplish anything for the strict good of the Imperium.

Walsh has also sourly noted that the Lady Admiral is both a highly unconventional admiral and a profoundly incomprehensible one. Her victory record does nothing to suggest she deserves the title she’s given herself. Worse, she seems to follow him around at times, even interfering in his missions, albeit never without a cover story to allow her to deny any wrongdoing to the Inquisition. Yet despite her cavalier attitude, for some reason, fate or the Emperor smiles on her at times, allowing her to escape certain doom or the rage of the Lords Inquisitor Council.

Prinz’ personal history is a baffling one. Her family in House Prinz appeared to have no regard for her, yet she was clearly integral to their plans for supremacy in the Circuit from the age of fifteen. She never pays any attention to her surviving blood relatives, yet without them, she would have had no claim on the Warrant. What little her rivals know is that she was a Captain in a squadron of Escorts in the Navy. Her opponents other than Walsh know there is more to her story, and there’s no way Walsh doesn’t know with his Inquisitorial credentials, but he is tight-lipped on her past to his peers, even as his resentment at her conduct grows.

There is simply nothing to grasp, as far as her rivals can tell. She has no one world she seems to favor, and her accent is purely neutral Celeste nobility. She likes to back up her promises with withering firepower, but she eschews aid from her former employers in the Navy as often as not. Ultimately, there is little for the other Rogue Traders of the Cloudburst region to find with Madeline Prinz. Her overall plan shall remain enigmatic, for now.