Space Odyssey.

A weathered yet striking human male with sharp features, a strong jawline, and streaks of silver in his jet-black hair. His deep-set gray eyes flicker with cold calculation, and a faint scar runs from his temple to his cheekbone. He wears a tailored black-and-crimson military coat with a high collar, adorned with pauldrons etched with the names of battles he’s won, and a simple silver locket containing a faded hologram of his deceased wife.

Charismatic Manipulator: Uses quiet intensity, not rage, to command. Quotes poetry from the Concord’s golden age to justify atrocities ("Even roses require thorns to survive"). Patron of the Arts: Secretly funds restoration of pre-war human symphonies and paintings, believing culture is the “soul” of human supremacy. Haunted by Loss: Keeps a private garden aboard his flagship, Ascendant Fury, filled with flowers from his dead wife’s homeworld. He visits daily, often murmuring to her hologram.

Doran Veyth was once a celebrated Concord hero, a brigadier general who saved millions during the Xyphos Plague by quarantining entire star systems. But when the civil war erupted, he watched his wife and homeworld burn in the Silent Cataclysm. His grief curdled into fanaticism. He rebuilt the Iron Ascendancy not just as a warlord, but as a grieving father figure for a broken humanity—offering purpose to the lost, but demanding absolute loyalty in return.