Richard Thurston-Moray
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Richard Thurston-Moray | |
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| Also known as | "Stefan Amaris VII" |
| Died | 14 July 3057 |
| Affiliation | ComStar House Amaris |
Richard Thurston-Moray (d. 14 July 3057), better known as Stefan Amaris VII, was supposedly a descendant of the real Stefan Amaris through his mistress Shera Moray. (Amaris had tried to have her and her offspring hunted down and killed, but a case of mistaken identity saw another woman with child killed on Slocum in 2774 while Moray and her child escaped.[1]) It was noted, however, that there was a generation-long gap in the lineage;[2] see also Notes below on the credibility of his lineage. It has also been speculated that the series of events surrounding his ascent is so unlikely that it must have been engineered by either ComStar or Word of Blake.[2]
Personal History
Born on Terra, Richard Thurston-Moray was recruited into ComStar, where he became an archivist and discovered not only his lineage but also a substantial amount of money on a secret, centuries-old bank account belonging to the original Stefan Amaris.[2]
He subsequently set up in the "Cavern of the Skull", an ancient Star League era base on New St. Andrews, which was a low-tech periphery world recently (re-)discovered by ComStar. There, he recruited an army of lowlife mercenaries and bandits. Now calling himself Stefan Amaris VII, he ordered his troops on undercover terror raids against various Great Houses bearing false colors, most notably those of the Knights of the Inner Sphere, in an attempt to sow chaos, destabilize the existing order, and eventually step up to claim leadership over the entire Inner Sphere.
It remains debatable if those plans ever had any chance of success; in any case, the terror attacks proved enough of a nuisance for Thomas Marik and his Knights of the Inner Sphere to initiate an undercover mission of their own that became known as Duncan's Demons. They eventually found Amaris VII's base on New St. Andrews, and eradicated his fledgling empire there. Stefan Amaris VII himself was killed by Clan Steel Viper expatriate Dawn in a Circle of Equals aboard the DropShip Good Richard as he fled New St. Andrews, and she brought his frozen head back to her Clan.[3]
Personality
As self-styled Emperor Stefan Amaris VII, Moray acted out the archetypical villain, to the point of shooting an insubordinate mercenary leader on the spot as an object lesson to his other assembled minions.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag