<strong>Name:</strong>Telaliel Moondream (more formally "her royal highness the princess Telaliel of the house of Moondream, princess royal and heiress apparent of the throne of Ælphera") or, on rare occasions with those that are close to her, Tela<br/><strong>Age: </strong>32 years/18 by human appearance<br/><strong>Rank: </strong>civil - Princess; military - squadron leader<br/><strong>Occupation/Affiliation: </strong>Usually political/formal with a significant amount of free time.  Seven years ago, while serving her family's obligatory military service she saw action in one of the occasional disputes amongst the more distant territories on Ælphera.<br/><br/><strong>Description: </strong>Telaliel stands just shy of 5'11" and has the long, slender build common to Ælph's, with lustrous, smooth white skin just lightly touched by sunlight.  She stands perhaps a bit top-heavy for her species which some suspect to be a result of the dietary regimen and pharmaceuticals administered for the advanced pilot academy.  She usually keeps her long, dark blue hair pulled back into a loose ponytail with a second ring around the level of her waist to keep it from getting away from her too much and ending around her knees.  Several artfully loosed locks of hair framing a heart shaped face with large, blue eyes.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://www.mangabullet.com/galleryimg/2008/06/07/The_Model_Elf_Princess_by_Rera_on_08-06-07-122433.jpeg)</div></div><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>In formal occasions in public she is usually quiet and demure, allowing her parents to control the flow of the event rather than trying to involve herself overmuch in them.  As things become smaller and more intimate, though, more of her personality comes to the fore, a much more light hearted and extroverted person, causing those that know her well to smile.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Tela is the eldest daughter to the current 'planetary monarchs' of Ælphera.  Her single younger brother recently turned 20 and is beginning his stint with the local military as Tela takes more and more official duties herself.  Growing up, there was nothing that she wanted for.  Anything that she desired was hers, and all the best schools were more than willing to do everything to help her along her way.  The few friends that she had were the children of the house staff who were occasionally allowed within.  Even now, at many of the balls that are thrown, she is more apt to be found in a back room with the staff than out in the ball if she can help it.<br/><br/>More recently, she was involved in what was officially noted as a 'regional uprising' where one of the member states, a small island off a coast nearly halfway around the world from the capital.  In reality, one of the distant feudal lords decided to try to separate from the rest of the kingdom with some degree of military force.  Tela was dispatched as part of the air wing of the force that was dispatched to politely bring them back into the fold.  nearly two years later, on her third orni and only two original members of her squadron, the third born (and only surviving) son of the lord signed his willing repatriation of his island realm to the kingdom.  Tela isn't comfortable with everything that happened, nor her part in it, though she quietly fears what would happen if the realms were allowed to fracture once more.<br/><br/>Once more, her life is balls and parties and formal galas, bridge openings and 'being the face of the royal house, but in the quiet of her mind there is a doubt that still lingers.<br/><br/><strong>Of Ælphera and of Ælphs</strong><br/><br/>(for the curious you can type Æ on a windows PC by pressing and holding the alt key and typing 146, then releasing the alt key)<br/><br/>Æphera progressed in much the way that the terrans of earth did.  The key differences between the species come from two main factors: firstly, Ælphera has a noticeably lower gravity than Earth, being perhaps .85 G.  The second being the lack of naturally occurring crude oil.  Instead, where humans built the internal combustion engine, harnessing the power of fire via oil or coal for locomotion, thus powering the industrial revolution, the Ælphs discovered a naturally occurring alloy on their world that twitched much like muscles do when exposed to a very slight current.<br/><br/>Where humans developed trains and cars the Ælphs developed a wagon system powered by these artificial muscles and a battery, akin to the system on a bicycle, as well as a system akin to snail with a series of muscles moving in sequence to produce movement more directly.  Much like terrans and their evolutions of the internal combustion engine, Ælphs refined the system and produced myriad other systems from it.  These artificial muscles power everything from mining equipment to portions of the burgeoning space industry.<br/><br/>The first humans to discover Ælphera initially thought the society primitive and that the planet would be a simple conquest.  Where humans have chemical propelled slug throwers or basic energy weapons, many elves use a modernized version of a long bow.  Sleek designs can be folded down for convenience, and advanced polymers and the use of artificial muscles gives them far greater throw power than one might expect.  This enables a skilled user to fire an 'arrow' at velocities and ranges comparable to that of terran long arms.  The Ælphan fighter craft more closely resembles a dragonfly with six wings to most terrans than any type of attack craft, but the newest evolution of ornithopter design has lead to a vehicle that can perform maneuvers within the atmosphere that make terran atmospheric pilots green with envy.  Even the royal house guard armor has integrated artificial muscles integrated with advanced combat systems.  Of course, such devices take years to learn and decades to master, to say nothing of the frightful expense.<br/><br/>It doesn't take too much to see why it is that there are certain elements of Terran society, though, that would like exclusive rights to the mining of the metals involved as well as access to the technologies that have been built upon it.<br/><br/>(Basically, the Ælphs operate on about the equivalent of 50 years into the future from the present day, however, they have less space industry and chemicals (particularly explosives and oil) than terrans.  In turn they've advanced even beyond the terrans in certain areas, namely artificial muscles, batteries/energy storage and energy generation.  In turn, terrans have the edge in almost every other category.  To outsiders Ælph's appear to be fairly primitive given the use of swords and bows and such, in truth, they are hyper-modernized platforms that closely resemble their ancestors.)