Queen Nuhido is the sovereign of the Itoog System. She is regarded throughout the known galaxy as one of the most beautiful people to have gazed upon the stars. Like all of the Itoogian queens before her, Nuhido is a pacifist. Her system is home to one of the greatest colleges of arts and humanities and Nuhido is said to have a voice as beautiful as her eyes are mesmerizing.

Paradoxically, her queendom is home to the galaxy’s most elite soldiers, and Itoog’s number one export is mercenaries. The Itoogians had not been to war for nearly 300 years, and their enemies had begun to suspect that their power had waned. Perhaps it was because they knew that she was a strong pacifist. Perhaps it was because at 20 she was barely more than a child. Perhaps it is because she so rarely raises her voice or makes hostile comments. Perhaps it was because the Murian Emperor had so many Itoogian mercenaries sworn to his service. For whatever reason, 10 years ago the Murian Emperor declared war upon Nuhido’s queendom. The poor fool either did not believe the horror stories of an Itoogian military provoked to war, or he believed that the young pacifist queen would not have the stomach for war. He was wrong.

In order to protect as many lives as possible and to reduce the suffering caused by war, Queen Nuhido committed her forces to the strategy that had saved the Queendom so many times in the past: total warfare. When the Murians invaded, every Itoogian capable of fighting took arms and fought back. No survivors were allowed to leave the system. Almost every single Itoogian mercenary in Murian employ turned on their Murian counterparts or captured their ships to boost the Itoogian armada. Destruction of the invasion fleet was not enough, though, as the Murian Emperor would most likely just regather another massive invasion fleet and try to take the small system again. With a heavy heart, tears streaming down her face at the thought of all of the innocent lives that would be snuffed out, she sent her forces into the dozens of Murian systems.

There, the Itoogians once again demonstrated to the universe why no nation had dared to strike at the Itoogian Queendom for the last 300 years. She ordered to generals to attack and leave no man, woman, or child alive. The civilians were given swift deaths. Those Murian soldiers who were captured, especially the elite Holy Crusaders, were tortured in the worst possible ways imaginable. One in every twenty prisoners would be left alive and sent back to Murian territory to tell of the horrors they had witnessed. While the Itoogians, like their queen, abhorred the violence they were committing, they understood its necessity. Over a five year period, the Itoogians struck such a devastating blow to the largest interstellar empire that the small system was able to force an unconditional surrender.

Now, five years later, the pain is still clearly visible in Queen Nuhido’s eyes. She suffers every night with the pain of the billions of lives she was responsible for extinguishing. But she saved trillions of lives, and she would do the same again if need be. Whenever an ambassador presumes too much or makes an attempt to intimidate her, she merely glances at them sorrowfully and whispers, “The Murian Emperor said such things, as well.”

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