Ael t'Rllaillieu

Ael i-Mhiessan t'Rllaillieu served as a khre'Riov, or "Commander-General" for the Romulan Star Empire in the mid 23rd century in command of the Imperial Warbird, the IRV Bloodwing.

Family
Ael came from a family with a long history of military service, and Ael prepared for a military career from childhood. Her father once required Ael to completely disassemble and re-assemble every system on his old Warbird. A task she completed in three months.

Ael's son, Tafv and her cousin Aidoann both served with her on board Bloodwing.

Ael's niece was the Warbird Commander known as Charvanek who was disgraced when she allowed a cloaking device to be stolen from her ship by James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) in 2268. When Charvanek was sentenced to exile following the incident, Ael pleaded passionately on her behalf to the Romulan Senate to no avail. (TOS novel My Enemy, My Ally)

Bloodwing
Ael's appearance was that of a deceptivly frail woman who did not even reach five feet in stature. However in battle, she proved a cunning and fierce warrior whose crew onboard Bloodwing was loyal to her unto death.

When tensions began to rise between the Empire and the United Federation of Planets in 2275, Ael found her ship and crew in many skirmishes with Federation forces along the Neutral Zone, including several indecisive encounters with Kirk and the Enterprise, who was patrolling the Federation side of the Zone.

Ael believed very strongly in an old form of Rihannsu behavior known as Mnhei'sahe, which she described as "...not quite honor-- not quite loyalty-- and not quite anger or hatred or about fifty other things. It can be a form of hatred that requires you to give your last drop of water to a thirsty enemy-- or an act of love that requires you to kill a friend."

Ael served the Empire faithfully as the Senate became corrupt and gredy and abandoned even the pretense of Mnhei'sahe. But when the Praetorate approved a plan to harvest living tissue from the brains of live Vulcans as a means of obtaining mental abilities like those of the Romulans distant cousins, Ael spoke out strongly against the plan, believing that it would make the corrupt government even more so.

For her efforts, Ael was "rewarded" with command of the IRV Cuirass, a ship of spies and malcontents, and given a distant border patrol from which she was not expected to return. An exile in all but name. With help of her loyal crew on Bloodwing, Ael was "liberated" from her "exile", and set about finding an ally in stopping the mind-power experiments.

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