Ilanah Dalai

Ilanah Dalai is a liaison officer for Hounds of Tindalos Interstellar Security and the sister of notorious hacker Tasha Dalai. Recruited in late 2018, she first saw action during the Disorder invasion of Everfree.

=Biography=

Ilanah grew up in a dense arcology hab on a small comet at the very rim of Qhevak, populated by a sect of largely conformist nearbaseline AstroHoxhaist socialists. Tasha Dalai, her older sister, had strained against the habs relatively restrictive (by Qhevak standards) rules, using her hacking skills to bend the hab's systems to her whim and frequently mildly tormenting the other occupants for her pleasure. By the time the rest of the populace began to catch on to her deeds, Tasha was gone – it was two weeks before anyone realized she’d hijacked an autonomous shuttle headed for Moria, at which point trying to find her was like searching for a needle in the Pacific.

Perhaps naturally for the second child, Ilanah – three years Tasha’s junior – was just about her polar opposite, usually working better with people than code and lacking anything resembling a rebellious streak. The two siblings were always friendly of course, but she’d never played along when Tasha snuck into maintenance regions or hacked audio systems to blast ear-destroying mixes of old cartoon openings – though she nonetheless loved her just enough to never say a word when the elders went asking.

She went into trade negotiations shortly after her sister left for places unknown, serving as an intermediary between her hab and transapient dealers of heavy industrial spacecraft, and found she had something of an aptitude for conveying the wishes of artificial demigods to mortals. This, in conjunction with her skill in a number of popular tactical military GalNet sims, lead her to be scouted for a Liaison Officer role by Hounds of Tindalos Interstellar Security.

Following several years of training, Ilanah would first see action during the 2021 Disorder Invasion of Everfree, while serving aboard the Roc Attack Lander Nimkasi. During this operation Ilanah negotiated contract terms between the Hounds of Tindalos and the naval forces of Unithidor, and would later accompany Hound forces in the stealth force insertion to the surface of Everfree.

=Relations=

Hounds of Tindalos
Ilanah Dalai has a mostly positive relative relationship with the Kumihos, as much as a conventional Human-Kumiho friendship is truly possible. She's particularly close to the married pair Kito and Malik, and enjoys participating in combat exercises against them despite it regularly leading to her being brutally ripped apart - a sign of respect among Kumihos.

Tasha Dalai
They were generally fairly close before she left, despite their clashing personalities. She still wants to find Tasha again after all this time, a goal which may prove impossible.

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