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==Admiral Tiago Caravel, Stationmaster Maxient==
{{Topquote|The Omnissiah must be an incredibly mercurial god indeed if he sees fit to bless the work of people as petty as the Adeptus Mechanicus. Don’t even start with me.|Admiral Tiago Caravel}}

As the presiding officer of the Deep Void platform [[Setting:Cloudburst/Maxient|Port Maxient]], Admiral Caravel has hit the end of his career path. He is the third-highest ranking officer of the Cloudburst Sector space forces after Lord Admiral Maynard and Admiral Connor Liamsson, but he shall climb no higher. Part of this is the result of his station, part of it is because he knows in his heart he will never quite reach Liamsson’s level of skill, and some of it stems from the fact that he is not gaining the esteem in the eyes of his peers he would need to succeed the ancient Admiral Maynard. He hasn’t had the chance.

The vast space station Maxient is as far removed from the path of the Glasians in the Seventh Migration as any station in the Cloudburst Sector could be. There is no risk, the Emperor’s Tarot and the Blue Daggers assure him, of the station coming under attack in the coming war. In his heart, Admiral Caravel knows his career ambitions must be sated with a support role.

He does not desire for the war to strike at his home, exactly, but he would certainly like to prove himself in glorious battle. Still, given the alternatives, he would settle for the current state of affairs, however grudgingly. He has a family to protect. In fact, Tiago Caravel is a family man. Thank to his juvenat treatment and many wives, he has fully eighteen grandchildren and thirty-nine great-grandchildren, and would not throw them all into the fires of war if it was the only way to succeed Maynard.

In his official responsibilities as the presiding officer of the massive space station Maxient, his job is simple: secure the Imperial western trailing border. The massive Warp-shadow thrown by the great Warp Storms to the galactic south-west delineate the borders of the Oldlight Exo-zone quite clearly. Beyond them, the Imperium may travel freely, but within them, only the most skilled Navigators can chart a course without blindness and death following their every step. His role means that he – more accurately, his subordinates – must deal every day with merchants, Explorators and Astrocartographers, Rogue Traders, privateers, and other people who slowly scour the Oldlight Exo-zone. He buys maps from many, but only if they meet the strict standards of the Astrocartigraphicae.

However, his principal job is military. Port Maxient is a battle platform and border fort above all other factors. The problem is that half of the station is outside his control, thanks to the literal interpretations of his predecessors of the ruling that split the station. What was probably intended to be a metaphorical split to ensure that nobody shirked responsibility over the station’s wellbeing is now a literal proclamation that has left half of the platform’s military power beyond his oversight.

In his youth on Celeste, Tiago was schooled in the highest Imperial boarding schools, operated by monastic Sisters of the Order of the Sanguine Soul. They correctly interpreted the youngster’s eye for detail and numbers as a potential military talent, and shunted him into the Imperial Navy officers’ corps as soon as he was legally old enough.