Blaise Jeannot Andrieux - The Abomination (Takis)

The Abomination (Takis)

Decades prior to events upon the Rox, Dr. Tachyon had traveled from Takis to Earth in a living starship with its own mind. .. the mind of a child. He even named it "Baby", and its personality had grown somewhat addled after years of imprisonment in a government facility. Still absolutely dedicated to its master, Baby was eventually released back to Tachyon. Blaise used the ship's blind loyalty to hijack it by having Kelly pose as Tachyon. Blaise fled to Takis, leaving Tachyon trapped on Earth in Kelly's pregnant form and without any apparent means of pursuing him. He could not know that Tachyon would contact a representative of the Network (a spacefaring culture reviled by the Takisians) and book passage to her homeworld, where Blaise was busily planning to carve out a personal empire.

Mentally controlling Baby, Blaise had landed the sentient ship in the territory of House Vayawand, Durg's homeland and hereditary rivals of Tachyon's House Ilkazam. With the body (though not the mind) of the Ilkazam heir as an offering, Blaise and Durg used Kelly to purchase their safe passage. Soon the pair began sowing discord and amassing power. Blaise employed his ability to mind control the once-immune Morakhs to deprive his enemies of bodyguards, and his jumper power to then discredit or murder them. Control of Vayawand was complete once Blaise personally executed L'Gura, Rayis (the Takisian equivalent of a king) of Vayawand, and took his place. Preaching a policy of vaguely socialist reforms and a program of interbreeding with the mindblind serfs, Blaise employed the best soundbites of Earth's greatest speeches (Churchill and Teddy Roosevelt are both directly quoted) to set an unstoppable political juggernaut into motion. Revolt swept Takis as Blaise's House Vayawand made military victories, territorial acquisitions, and committed atrocities, akin to Earth's Third Reich during the early years of WWII. Amongst the enemy camps Blaise quickly came to be known as the Abomination, the literal embodiment of the lowest epithet in Takisian culture, an uplanned half-breed that should have been aborted rather than allowed to live.

Accompanied by the aces Captain Trips and Popinjay, Tachyon eventually defeated her grandson and recovered her male body, but not before she was forced to give birth to "their" daughter. Though his bid to conquer Takis was unsuccessful, Blaise possessed an immense amount of virtu, that indefinable Takisian quality to flamboyantly succeed or fail on an equally grand scale. Indeed, Tachyon's grandson left an unremovable mark upon all of Takis, introducing such modern political concepts as demagoguery, propaganda, equal rights and class struggle to an alien culture mired in thousands of years of eugenics, feudalism, and apartheid like racial laws. As punishment his brain was removed and installed as a worker in the Takis' rival civilization computer network.