Gideon Bodnari

Gideon Bodnari
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Biographical Information
Race	Qiraash
Homeworld	Qat Chrystak
Siblings	none
Children	none
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Political Information
Affiliation	Kingdom of Elysia
Rank	Lord Magistrate
Positions	Former Consul for DAPR, Avance Coalition Duke Administrator, Golan Technologies
Prior Affiliation	Avance Coalition Golan Technologies Ex Gal Society The Wraiths

Originally from Killesh, the major starport on his homewold of Qat Chrystak, Gideon was raised by his Uncle Brodda, who was proprietor of a local starship repair establishment. Leaving home as a young Qiraash, Gideon plied the stars as crewman for several years, learning to pilot and operate the various systems on the freighters he'd learned to repair as a child in his uncle's shop.

Mercenary Career

Eventually feeling that he wished to live a life of greater significance, Gideon signed on with The Wraiths, a mercenary operating at that time mostly in the Moddell Sector. It was also at this time that Gideon was inducted into House Vigihan, one of the Avance Coalition's ruling Houses. Gideon remained with The Wraiths for some time, during which he participated in a number of operations.

Ex Gal Society

Though he remained a Wraith at heart, Gideon was later asked to participate in bringing the Ex Gal Society under the Avance Coaltion's umbrella. Just as Gideon was getting used to the idea of full-time work in researching and crafting news, however, fortune dealt him another twist. His position with ExGal led him to learn to design system-wide satellite networks. When Avance leadership mandated that each House design a network for their local system, Gideon volunteered to craft the design for House Vigihan. His work proved so efficient that he was quickly tasked to design networks for every system in the Coalition, including some for which he was given system maps but no galactic coordinates.

Golan Technologies

Late in Year 7, Lord Arklari Clise, Archduke of House Vigihan, had determined that the House was in a financial position to establish a manufacturing corporation marketing products based on designs found in caches discovered in the Adega System. He asked Gideon to lead the corporation on behalf of the House. The faction -- Golan Technologies -- was officially founded on Year 8, Day 30 with Gideon as it's first Administrator. Applying values he learned as a child in his uncle's ship-repair shop on Qat Chrystak, Bodnari personally selected the title "Administrator" to remind himself that Golan Technologies was not his plaything, but rather his responsibility to administer for House Vigihan. Gideon spent the next several years working diligently with other members of Golan Technologies to establish the company as the galaxy's leading sporting-weapons producers -- both in terms of products and service.

Government Service

In late Year 10 Horthon Gorthy, Second Seat of the Avance Coalition, asked Gideon to leave his position at Golan Technologies to serve as Avance's Consul for Diplomatic Affairs -- a post previously held by exceptionally capable diplomats but which had been vacated some months earlier.

Gideon's love for the faction he'd helped create, great though it was, could not compete with the sense of social obligation his uncle had instilled in him as a child. Although Uncle Brodda had not instructed Gideon in any patriotic virtues toward a given government -- he was far too cynical for that -- he had taught Gideon that no opportunity to make a positive social impact should be lightly discarded. In the years since he'd joined The Wraiths and become an Avance citizen, Gideon's own cynicism had given way to a firm belief that Avance's values of pacifism and neutrality, which provided a safe haven from the galaxy's war and turmoil, were of such value to the billions of sentients the Coalition protected that he felt compelled to serve them.

While doing so, he also continued to serve House Vigihan, helping to build the House's assets and argue its interests in the Hall of Houses. The House was elevated to Founding House status within the Coalition during this time, and Arklari named Gideon Duke of the Lorta District.