Baroness Sarin Zala

"The universe is a place of finite physical experience; but what I provide removes the boundaries that make individuals content in boredom, and finds new avenues in which pleasure can be discovered."

''"The purpose of art is to shock, and to etch itself into a persons memory. Trauma is merely created from a person going outside the long established comfort zone that is morality. Morality is subjective, to seek new experience for the realization of individual fantasy is by its definition incompatible with such elder systems. Much like how the woman evolved by technology; to be freed of the slavery of bearing children, the Shari people will evolve from the slavery of outdated social codes to live truly fulfilling lives." - ''

Sarin Zala was the daughter of the prematurely deceased Baron Zala Senior, one of the five men whom formed the Shari Trifecta by the colonization of the Atraxins and Edonins. She is perhaps most widely cited as the most prolific war criminal of the Great War, however her criminality spanned far longer than its thirteen bloody years.

For her debauched crimes; the current ruling family of the Shari Trifecta, the Nareena Family under Baroness Nina Nareena, use Sarin Zala's spine chilling memory as a cautionary tale for the younger generations; warning them against narcissism and deviancy. In addition the mention of her family name in a positive light can see a person investigated by the police, and to own or seek to purchase any of Zala's artwork, heraldry or family coats of arms is a serious offense. She is the only artist in over ten thousand years of Shari history to have her work destroyed by the state.

Criminal Mentality
While the Baroness was clearly a sociopath, she did not display the chaotic traits of a psychopath. Her evil was measured, and meticulously planned out. Nobody could claim to have ever seen her show a flicker of true aggression, even whilst she tortured and killed her victims, she went about such horrors with a disturbing glee.

Zala believed that such things were a gift unto anyone who received them; as her narcissism had reached such extreme bounds she honestly believed for her to gracefully brutalize a person bettered them in some way, even if they died at her hands, which many did. She viewed these individuals as living artworks, and had a sickening taste for using pieces of stretched flain skin as canvases, or for keeping certain tattoos an individual possessed after they were flayed.

War Crimes
Empress Nadine IV seeked to have the members of the brave "AURA" network interrogated, whom without prompt or foreign financing had attempted to send messages to the Arcadian powers; to shed light on the severity of the situation in Shari space.

Initially, the Vanguard; a special forces/secret police organization, had used more orthodox methods of interrogation, preferring blackmail or intimidation tactics over true torture. These returned little success, as all AURA members took oaths to die before surrendering information that might benefit the Trifecta. In frustration, the Empress turned to Baroness Zala, whom she knew was not held back by morality as the result of her beliefs, and recruited her to make these individuals speak by any means.

When Zala joined the SRN in the attack on the Confederacy of Casabani Yakalin Republics, she was provided a limited number of Yakalin women to take as slaves as thanks, but she was also solicited to have Yakalin officers tortured for information on the CCYR's fleet movements.

Defeat & Capture
Zala was given total command for her "Operation Sanguin", the attempt to subjugate the Siramese Empire at large by fear, invading the planets of the realm of Sai-Ron with lightning speed and unleashing horror unto the terrestrial populations. This was a catastrophic failure, as the attempted subjugation of Hammerhead had been slowed by the civilian populations ferocity over a period of two weeks, helped in part by the presence of the Lady of the Fleet, Lady Samsam, whom stoked morale with exclamations of Siramese superiority.

by the time success was on the horizon, the combined forces of the ISN, ESN, USAR and even to some extent the CCYR had arrived in Sai-Ron to begin a counterattack, and obliterated most of Zala's fleet in the Battle of Sai-Ron Bay, themselves receiving minimal losses. Zala fled into Arcadian space in an attempt to escape from them, but Star Marshal Enlin of Arcadia had anticipated this, and had dedicated several hundred ships with long range radar antennas to aid the Siramese in the ensuing manhunt.

She would finally be stopped at the Battle of Lightbridge Crossing, where her crew faced sixteen Esserin Class Ships of the Line of both Esseryan and Ingitarian colours, whom ensnared their craft, the Black Rose, in a tangled web of magnaclamp cables. Whilst this battle unfolded she had remained in her personal quarters in a drug induced euphoria, and had withdrawn from command since the earlier stages of the chase.