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Line 1: {{Update Needed|[[Handbook: House Liao]]}} {{Update Needed|[[Handbook: House Liao]]}} − {{InfoBoxCharacter+ [[File:Elias Liao.jpg|right|thumb|Image from House Liao Sourcebook]] − | image = Elias Liao.jpg − | caption = − | name = Elias Jung Liao − | birthdate = [[2141]]<ref name=HB:HLp11>''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 11: "Elias Liao"</ref> − | died = [[2202]]<ref name=HbL-8>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 8: "New Beginnings"</ref> − | affiliation = [[Terran Alliance]];<br/>[[House Liao]] − | rank = − | title = − | position = [[President of the Hong Kong Free State]]<br/>[[President of the Liao Republic]]<br/>[[Planetary Governor of Cynthiana]] − | profession = Politician − | parents = − | siblings = − | spouse = [[Cynthiana Liao]] − | children = [[Rufus Liao|Rufus (or possibly Victor)]],<br/>[[David Paul Liao|David Paul]],<br/>[[Carmen Liao|Carmen]],<br/>[[Margarette Liao|Margarette]] − }} − '''Elias Jung Liao''' was an early [[twenty-second century]] [[Terra|Terran]]-born Chinese politician and founding father of the Liao Dynasty. + '''Elias Jung Liao''' ([[2141]]-[[2202]]<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 8, "New Beginnings": Liao died in 2202, at the age of 61</ref>) was an early [[22nd Century]] [[Terra|Terran]]-born Chinese politician and founding father of the Liao Dynasty. ==Character Description== ==Character Description== + Elias Liao was the founding patriarch of [[House Liao]], having left [[Terra]] in 2188. Prior to the events of 2179, he was considered a conservative, eastern-educated politician. However, his personality radically changed over the course of his adult life, leading him to eventually become a Philosopher-extremist and leader of an international terrorist organization. Elias Liao was the founding patriarch of [[House Liao]], having left [[Terra]] in 2188. Prior to the events of 2179, he was considered a conservative, eastern-educated politician. However, his personality radically changed over the course of his adult life, leading him to eventually become a Philosopher-extremist and leader of an international terrorist organization. − ==History== + ==Biography== ===Early Years=== ===Early Years=== − Elias was born in the Hong Kong Free State on Terra, the son of an English Politician and a Nepalese woman. He attended Hong Kong University, where he majored in politics. He later attended Oxford University, in England, where he studied global economics.<ref name=Hbl-7b>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 7: "The First Liao: Elias"</ref> + Elias was born in the Hong Kong Free State on Terra, the son of an English Politician and a Nepalese woman. He grew up and attended Hong Kong University, where he majored in politics. He later attended Oxford University, in England, where he took global economics.<ref>''House Liao (Capellan Confederation)'' p. 7 - The First Liao: Elias</ref> ===Terran Politician & Supposed Terrorist=== ===Terran Politician & Supposed Terrorist=== − When Elias returned from England, he was elected as Assemblyman for Hong Kong's Free State government in [[2176]]. Only two years later, he was elected and became the third President of the Hong Kong Free State. However, in [[2179]], the offshore China Republic invaded Hong Kong and Elias and his family were forced to flee to Nepal.<ref name=Hbl-7b/> + When Elias returned from England, he was elected as Assemblyman for Hong Kong's Free State government in [[2176]]. Only two years later, he was elected and became the third President of the Hong Kong Free State. However, in [[2179]], the offshore China Republic invaded Hong Kong and Elisa and his family was forced to flee nation to Nepal.<ref>''House Liao (Capellan Confederation)'' p. 7 - The First Liao: Elias</ref> + + ==Record crossroads== + + This is a time of his life that has a few different versions, one by ComStar and one by the Capellan historians. <ref>''Handbook: House Liao'' p. 11 - Strength in Belief</ref> + + ==ComStar version== + + During his time in the Himalayas, his mentality underwent a transformation that left future researchers baffled in what could have happened.<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation) p. 8 - The First Liao - Researchers speculated that Elias discovered some hitherto-unknown religious sect artificats that lead him down road of terrorism.</ref> In [[2182]] Elias Liao, former President of the Hong Kong Free State, emerged from exile from Tibet. He had had a revelation that lead him to believe that the only way to save mankind was through global anarchy to return the humand race to a "simpler time". His fanatical following of anarchists, the "New World Disciples", went on an assassination spree, killing 149 bureaucrats, scientists and government leaders, including twenty-six heads of state of the [[Alliance World Parliament]]. + + Elisa's followers were not the only religious terrorists on the planet, but they were the most notable and efficient, disrupting the lives of tens of thousands in their "Cleansing actions". However, in [[2187]] it was alleged that followers of Elisa Liao triggered a multiple fusion explosion in Bejin. This was the final straw for the global community, the Alliance's Hemisphere Court ruled that Elisa Liao and his followers were guilty ''in absentia''. Within a year the Chinese Republic with the aide of neighboring Indian and European allies, assaulted Elias's mountain stronghold in the Himalayas in [[2188]]. The assault forced Elisa to secretly evacuate his two surviving sons and several hundred survivors to a waiting Jump-Ship.<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation) pp. 7-8 - The First Liao</ref> − ===Record crossroads===+ {{Quote|''You should never seek to hold any one thing, any one person, any one system, any one ideal above all others. For when you hold that single thing, that single person, that single government, that single value above all else, that thing, that individual, that order, that principle will come to control you and you will have forfeited your basic humanity.... Seek therefore to free yourself from unnecessary entanglements, and thereafter seek to free your neighbor, whether he would be free or no.'' − This is a time of his life that has a few different versions, one by ComStar and one by the Capellan historians.<ref name=HB:HLp11/> − ====ComStar version====+ —'''Elias Liao''', leader of the New World Disciples, c. 2182<ref>''Touring the Stars'', p. 33, "Volume XVII: Celestial Unity—Birth of the Capellan Confederation"</ref>}} − During his time in the Himalayas, his mentality underwent a transformation that left future researchers baffled in what could have happened.<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 8: "The First Liao"</ref> In [[2182]] Elias Liao, former President of the Hong Kong Free State, emerged from exile from Tibet. He had had a revelation that led him to believe that the only way to save mankind was through global anarchy to return the human race to a "simpler time". His fanatical following of anarchists, the [[New World Disciples]], went on an assassination spree, killing 149 bureaucrats, scientists and government leaders, including twenty-six heads of state of the [[Alliance World Parliament]]. − Elias' followers were not the only religious terrorists on the planet, but they were the most notable and efficient, disrupting the lives of tens of thousands in their "Cleansing actions". However, in [[2187]] it was alleged that followers of Elias Liao triggered a multiple fusion explosion in Beijing. This was the final straw for the global community, the Alliance's Hemisphere Court ruling that Elias Liao and his followers were guilty ''in absentia''. Within a year the Chinese Republic with the aid of neighboring Indian and European allies, assaulted Elias's mountain stronghold in the Himalayas in [[2188]]. The assault forced Elias to secretly evacuate his two surviving sons and several hundred survivors to a waiting JumpShip.<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', pp. 7–8: "The First Liao"</ref>+ ==Capellan view== − {{Quote|''You should never seek to hold any one thing, any one person, any one system, any one ideal above all others. For when you hold that single thing, that single person, that single government, that single value above all else, that thing, that individual, that order, that principle will come to control you and you will have forfeited your basic humanity.... Seek therefore to free yourself from unnecessary entanglements, and thereafter seek to free your neighbor, whether he would be free or no.''|''Elias Liao'', leader of the New World Disciples, c. 2182<ref>''Dark Age: Touring the Stars (3130)'', p. 33: "Volume XVII: Celestial Unity—Birth of the Capellan Confederation"</ref>}}+ Capellans, on the other hand, say that such a radical change of personality 2 times over and a poor Himalayan figure becoming one of the most powerful and feared men in the world is absurd and rather believe he's made a fortune for his Nepalese family before he left Terra in 2188. However, both sides agree on the attack on his family that happened in 2188. The event supports both arguments as Capellans say that if what ComStar says is true, then he would use the immnense power he has and fanatically try to avenged his family by a global slaughter like Jinjiro Kurita’s slaughter of Kentares. On the other hand, it also partly supports the ComStar version of history, because Capellans can't explain why would the attack even happen in the first place. − ====Capellan version====+ {{Quote|''learned in Hong Kong the danger of being a small state in the sea of larger nations. If we are to survive, we must move away from our regional differences. In space we can be free. Among the stars, we’ll find room enough for all of us, and in that space we’ll find safety.'' − Capellans, on the other hand, say that such a radical change of personality twice over and a poor Himalayan figure becoming one of the most powerful and feared men in the world is absurd and would rather believe he had made a fortune for his Nepalese family before he left Terra in 2188. However, both sides agree on the attack on his family that happened in 2188. The event supports both arguments as Capellans say that if what ComStar says is true, then he would use the immense power he has and fanatically try to avenge his family by a global slaughter similar to Jinjiro Kurita's Kentares atrocity. On the other hand, it also partly supports the ComStar version of history, because the Capellans cannot explain why the attack would even happen in the first place. − {{Quote|''I learned in Hong Kong the danger of being a small state in the sea of larger nations. If we are to survive, we must move away from our regional differences. In space we can be free. Among the stars, we'll find room enough for all of us, and in that space we'll find safety.''|''Elias Liao'', 2188<ref>''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 11: "Strength in Belief"</ref>}}+ —'''Elias Liao''', c. 2182<ref>''Handbook: House Liao'' p. 11 - Strength in Belief</ref>}} ===Governor of Cynthiana=== ===Governor of Cynthiana=== − Under assumed names, Elias, used his charisma to convince many of his fellow passengers to band together and settle on a colony world. He convinced the JumpShip's crew to take them to an unnamed backwater world near [[Aldebaran]]. This included some of the ship's crew, including its navigator, before leaving Elias's people and leaving for Terra in [[2189]]. + Under assumed names, Elias, used his charisma to unite he and many of his fellow passengers to band together and settle a on a colony world. He managed to convince the JumpShip's crew to take them to an unnamed backwater world near [[Aldebaran]]. This included some of the ship's crew, including it's navigator, before leaving Elisa's people and leaving for Terra in [[2189]]. − Within a year of settling on what Elias named as Cynthiana (after his late wife), he arranges using nearly all the colony's funding to bring in a number of livestock to the placid grasslands like world. Among the livestock are Eridani horses, who were extremely well sought out and expensive. However, Elias's gamble paid off. During these earlier years, Elias's genius for administration paid off. Through selective breeding, his colony became a major supplier for livestock from sheep to thoroughbred horses for local star systems, beating Terran exporters. + Within a year of settling on what Elisa names as Cynthiana (after his late wife), he arranges using nearly all the colony's funding to bring in a number of live stock to the placid grasslands like world. Among the live stock are Eridani horses, who were extremely well sought out and expensive. However, Elisa's gamble pays off. During these earlier years, Elisa's genius for administration paid off. Through selective breeding, his colony becomes a major supplier for live stock from sheep to thoroughbred horses for local star systems, beating Terran exporters. − Elias died at age 61, with his grandson, Victor, being selected as governor of [[Liao|Cynthiana]].<ref name=HbL-8/><ref name=HbL-163/> + Elias dies at age 61, with his grandson, Victor, being selected as governor of [[Liao|Cynthiana]].<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'' p. 8 - New Beginning - Years leading his followers and convincing would-be colonists to join his cause of settling unknown planets and prospering.</ref><ref>''Liao Family Tree'' p. 163 - Victor shown as grandson.</ref> ==Character Notes== ==Character Notes== − Information on Elias's successor was mistakenly listing his son instead of his grandson being his successor. Victor was listed as an older son in one version, while the family tree shows Victor as a grandson. In the following chapter of the House book, it shows Victor reflecting on his father's death. However, it is not clear if he referred to his father David or his grandfather Elias.<ref name=HbL-7>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 7: "Nightfall"</ref><ref name=HbL-163>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', foldout (pp. 163–164 in PDF): "The Capellan Confederation's Line of Succession and Partial Liao Family Tree"</ref> + Information on Elias's successor was mistakenly listing his son instead of his grandson being his successor. Victor was listed as being a older son in short story, while family tree shows Victor being a Grandson. In the following chapter of House book shows Victor reflecting on his father's death. However, not being cleared if it was his father being David or his grandfather Elias.<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'' - Liao Family Tree & Night Fall- pp. 163, 7 - Family Tree shows Victor as Grandson, despite short article Nightfall mentioning Victor being David's older brother.</ref> ==Family & Legacies== ==Family & Legacies== − Elias & his late wife Cynthiana had four children, Rufus, David Paul, Carmen & Margarette, and one grandchild, Victor Edward Liao, son of David Paul.<ref name=HbL-7/> Rufus himself died a year after Elias.<ref name=HbL-163/> Victor Liao would follow his grandfather Elias as President of the Liao Republic<ref name="HB:HLp11"/> and then Governor of Liao under the Terran Alliance.<ref name=HbL-8/>+ Elisa & his late wife Cynthiana had four children, Rufus, David Paul, Carmen & Margarette, and one grandchild, Victor Edward Liao, son of David Paul.<ref name="HL(TCC)p7">''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'' p. 7 - Nightfall - exert from Elisa's younger son, David Paul's book notes the death of his two sisters and mother while fleeing Terra.</ref> Rufus himself died a year after Elias.<ref name="HL(TCC)p163">''Liao Family Tree'' p. 163 - family members listed.</ref> Victor Liao would follow his grandfather Elias as President of the Liao Republic<ref name="HB:HLp11"/> and then Governor of Liao under the Terran Alliance.<ref name="HL(TCC)p8">''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 8, "New Beginnings"</ref> − The [[Capellan Confederation Armed Forces]] would name the very first ''[[Feng Huang]]''-class [[WarShip]] after the Elias, CCS ''[[Elias Jung]]''.+ ===Notes=== + ''[[Handbook: House Liao]]'' states that the renaming of the planet Cynthiana to Liao was opposed by "Elias' sons, Victor and David Paul". It hasn't yet been clarified whether this is a mistake or a retcon.<ref name="HB:HLp11">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 11, "Elias Liao"</ref> − ===Notes=== + ==Titles and Positions== − ''Handbook: House Liao'' states that the renaming of the planet Cynthiana to Liao was opposed by "Elias' sons, Victor and David Paul". It hasn't yet been clarified whether this is a mistake or a retcon.<ref name=HB:HLp11/>+ + {{S-start}} + {{S-bef|before=????}} + {{S-title|title=President of the [[Hong Kong Free State]] on [[Terra]]|years=[[2178]]-[[2188]]}} + {{S-aft|after=None}} + {{S-end}} + + {{S-start}} + {{S-bef|before=None}} + {{S-title|title=[[Terran Alliance]] Governor of [[Liao|Cynthiana]]|years=[[2189]]-[[2202]]}} + {{S-aft|after=[[Victor Liao]]}} + {{S-end}} ==References== ==References== Line 66:
Line 71: ==Bibliography== ==Bibliography== − * ''[[Dark Age: Touring the Stars (3130)]]'' + *''[[Handbook: House Liao]]'' − * ''[[Handbook: House Liao]]'' + *''[[House Liao Sourcebook]]'' − * ''[[House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)]]'' + *''[[Touring the Stars]]'' − [[Category:Terran Alliance Characters|Liao, Elias]] + [[Category:House Liao Characters|Liao, Elias]] − [[Category:Capellan Confederation Characters|Liao, Elias]]
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| − | '''Elias Jung Liao''' was an early [[ | + | '''Elias Jung Liao''' ([[2141]]-[[2202]]<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 8, "New Beginnings": Liao died in 2202, at the age of 61</ref>) was an early [[22nd Century]] [[Terra|Terran]]-born Chinese politician and founding father of the Liao Dynasty. |
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Elias Liao was the founding patriarch of [[House Liao]], having left [[Terra]] in 2188. Prior to the events of 2179, he was considered a conservative, eastern-educated politician. However, his personality radically changed over the course of his adult life, leading him to eventually become a Philosopher-extremist and leader of an international terrorist organization. | Elias Liao was the founding patriarch of [[House Liao]], having left [[Terra]] in 2188. Prior to the events of 2179, he was considered a conservative, eastern-educated politician. However, his personality radically changed over the course of his adult life, leading him to eventually become a Philosopher-extremist and leader of an international terrorist organization. | ||
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===Early Years=== | ===Early Years=== | ||
| − | Elias was born in the Hong Kong Free State on Terra, the son of an English Politician and a Nepalese woman. He attended Hong Kong University, where he majored in politics. He later attended Oxford University, in England, where he | + | Elias was born in the Hong Kong Free State on Terra, the son of an English Politician and a Nepalese woman. He grew up and attended Hong Kong University, where he majored in politics. He later attended Oxford University, in England, where he took global economics.<ref>''House Liao (Capellan Confederation)'' p. 7 - The First Liao: Elias</ref> |
===Terran Politician & Supposed Terrorist=== | ===Terran Politician & Supposed Terrorist=== | ||
| − | When Elias returned from England, he was elected as Assemblyman for Hong Kong's Free State government in [[2176]]. Only two years later, he was elected and became the third President of the Hong Kong Free State. However, in [[2179]], the offshore China Republic invaded Hong Kong and | + | When Elias returned from England, he was elected as Assemblyman for Hong Kong's Free State government in [[2176]]. Only two years later, he was elected and became the third President of the Hong Kong Free State. However, in [[2179]], the offshore China Republic invaded Hong Kong and Elisa and his family was forced to flee nation to Nepal.<ref>''House Liao (Capellan Confederation)'' p. 7 - The First Liao: Elias</ref> |
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| + | ==Record crossroads== | ||
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| + | This is a time of his life that has a few different versions, one by ComStar and one by the Capellan historians. <ref>''Handbook: House Liao'' p. 11 - Strength in Belief</ref> | ||
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| + | During his time in the Himalayas, his mentality underwent a transformation that left future researchers baffled in what could have happened.<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation) p. 8 - The First Liao - Researchers speculated that Elias discovered some hitherto-unknown religious sect artificats that lead him down road of terrorism.</ref> In [[2182]] Elias Liao, former President of the Hong Kong Free State, emerged from exile from Tibet. He had had a revelation that lead him to believe that the only way to save mankind was through global anarchy to return the humand race to a "simpler time". His fanatical following of anarchists, the "New World Disciples", went on an assassination spree, killing 149 bureaucrats, scientists and government leaders, including twenty-six heads of state of the [[Alliance World Parliament]]. | ||
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| + | Elisa's followers were not the only religious terrorists on the planet, but they were the most notable and efficient, disrupting the lives of tens of thousands in their "Cleansing actions". However, in [[2187]] it was alleged that followers of Elisa Liao triggered a multiple fusion explosion in Bejin. This was the final straw for the global community, the Alliance's Hemisphere Court ruled that Elisa Liao and his followers were guilty ''in absentia''. Within a year the Chinese Republic with the aide of neighboring Indian and European allies, assaulted Elias's mountain stronghold in the Himalayas in [[2188]]. The assault forced Elisa to secretly evacuate his two surviving sons and several hundred survivors to a waiting Jump-Ship.<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation) pp. 7-8 - The First Liao</ref> | ||
| − | + | {{Quote|''You should never seek to hold any one thing, any one person, any one system, any one ideal above all others. For when you hold that single thing, that single person, that single government, that single value above all else, that thing, that individual, that order, that principle will come to control you and you will have forfeited your basic humanity.... Seek therefore to free yourself from unnecessary entanglements, and thereafter seek to free your neighbor, whether he would be free or no.'' | |
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| − | + | —'''Elias Liao''', leader of the New World Disciples, c. 2182<ref>''Touring the Stars'', p. 33, "Volume XVII: Celestial Unity—Birth of the Capellan Confederation"</ref>}} | |
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| − | + | ==Capellan view== | |
| − | + | Capellans, on the other hand, say that such a radical change of personality 2 times over and a poor Himalayan figure becoming one of the most powerful and feared men in the world is absurd and rather believe he's made a fortune for his Nepalese family before he left Terra in 2188. However, both sides agree on the attack on his family that happened in 2188. The event supports both arguments as Capellans say that if what ComStar says is true, then he would use the immnense power he has and fanatically try to avenged his family by a global slaughter like Jinjiro Kurita’s slaughter of Kentares. On the other hand, it also partly supports the ComStar version of history, because Capellans can't explain why would the attack even happen in the first place. | |
| − | + | {{Quote|''learned in Hong Kong the danger of being a small state in the sea of larger nations. If we are to survive, we must move away from our regional differences. In space we can be free. Among the stars, we’ll find room enough for all of us, and in that space we’ll find safety.'' | |
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| − | + | —'''Elias Liao''', c. 2182<ref>''Handbook: House Liao'' p. 11 - Strength in Belief</ref>}} | |
===Governor of Cynthiana=== | ===Governor of Cynthiana=== | ||
| − | Under assumed names, Elias, used his charisma to | + | Under assumed names, Elias, used his charisma to unite he and many of his fellow passengers to band together and settle a on a colony world. He managed to convince the JumpShip's crew to take them to an unnamed backwater world near [[Aldebaran]]. This included some of the ship's crew, including it's navigator, before leaving Elisa's people and leaving for Terra in [[2189]]. |
| − | Within a year of settling on what | + | Within a year of settling on what Elisa names as Cynthiana (after his late wife), he arranges using nearly all the colony's funding to bring in a number of live stock to the placid grasslands like world. Among the live stock are Eridani horses, who were extremely well sought out and expensive. However, Elisa's gamble pays off. During these earlier years, Elisa's genius for administration paid off. Through selective breeding, his colony becomes a major supplier for live stock from sheep to thoroughbred horses for local star systems, beating Terran exporters. |
| − | Elias | + | Elias dies at age 61, with his grandson, Victor, being selected as governor of [[Liao|Cynthiana]].<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'' p. 8 - New Beginning - Years leading his followers and convincing would-be colonists to join his cause of settling unknown planets and prospering.</ref><ref>''Liao Family Tree'' p. 163 - Victor shown as grandson.</ref> |
==Character Notes== | ==Character Notes== | ||
| − | Information on Elias's successor was mistakenly listing his son instead of his grandson being his successor. Victor was listed as | + | Information on Elias's successor was mistakenly listing his son instead of his grandson being his successor. Victor was listed as being a older son in short story, while family tree shows Victor being a Grandson. In the following chapter of House book shows Victor reflecting on his father's death. However, not being cleared if it was his father being David or his grandfather Elias.<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'' - Liao Family Tree & Night Fall- pp. 163, 7 - Family Tree shows Victor as Grandson, despite short article Nightfall mentioning Victor being David's older brother.</ref> |
==Family & Legacies== | ==Family & Legacies== | ||
| − | + | Elisa & his late wife Cynthiana had four children, Rufus, David Paul, Carmen & Margarette, and one grandchild, Victor Edward Liao, son of David Paul.<ref name="HL(TCC)p7">''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'' p. 7 - Nightfall - exert from Elisa's younger son, David Paul's book notes the death of his two sisters and mother while fleeing Terra.</ref> Rufus himself died a year after Elias.<ref name="HL(TCC)p163">''Liao Family Tree'' p. 163 - family members listed.</ref> Victor Liao would follow his grandfather Elias as President of the Liao Republic<ref name="HB:HLp11"/> and then Governor of Liao under the Terran Alliance.<ref name="HL(TCC)p8">''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 8, "New Beginnings"</ref> | |
| − | + | ===Notes=== | |
| + | ''[[Handbook: House Liao]]'' states that the renaming of the planet Cynthiana to Liao was opposed by "Elias' sons, Victor and David Paul". It hasn't yet been clarified whether this is a mistake or a retcon.<ref name="HB:HLp11">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 11, "Elias Liao"</ref> | ||
| − | === | + | ==Titles and Positions== |
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| + | {{S-title|title=President of the [[Hong Kong Free State]] on [[Terra]]|years=[[2178]]-[[2188]]}} | ||
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| + | {{S-title|title=[[Terran Alliance]] Governor of [[Liao|Cynthiana]]|years=[[2189]]-[[2202]]}} | ||
| + | {{S-aft|after=[[Victor Liao]]}} | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
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| − | * ''[[ | + | *''[[House Liao Sourcebook]]'' |
| − | * ''[[ | + | *''[[Touring the Stars]]'' |
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