Viktoria Georgiou
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Full name | Viktoria Iris Georgiou |
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Species | Human |
Gender | Female |
Hair color and style | Brown, shoulder length |
Eye color | Brown |
Skin color | White |
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Date of birth | 24.IV.1650 |
Place of birth | Vey, Constancia |
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Occupation | Opposition activist, musician |
Viktoria Iris Georgiou is a Constancian musician and politician who attained prominence during the 1688 Xtina Protests in opposition to the rule of the Autokrator Primo de Aguilar. Her whereabouts are presently unknown.
Early life and musical career
Viktoria was born on 24.IV.1650 in Vey. Her parents were electricians locally engaged by the Euran Directorate of the Honourable Company. She has two young sisters, named Maria and Tatiana respectively.
At the age of 16, she embarked upon the Katabasis of the Loyalists (1666-1667), joining those families evacuated by the Constancian government from Vey, prior to its destruction by orbital bombardment, on account of their continuing utility to the regime and its patrons. Following the perilous overland evacuation to the National Redoubt centred around Aqaba, during which Viktoria had become separated from her family and obliged to serve as an auxiliary companion for a retreating troop of loyalist Home Guard, she was briefly settled in the Displaced Persons Camp outside Aqaba. Reunited with her sisters in late 1667 through the efforts of the ESB Personnel agency. In keeping with the corporate culture of the ESB Group, their parents having endured martyrdom during the long march across the Euran continent, the Honourable Company, the sisters were placed into a studio apartment located in Illumination Circle of the Radiant Sun Plaza, and in 1668 received bursary scholarships to attend the newly Euran University within the ESB Cantonment. Unlike her sisters, Viktoria elected to pursue her childhood passion for music. She graduated from the Euran University as a harpist and a conductress in 1675, and continued to develop her musical knowledge through the academic route through the study of early Euran music and Late Babkhan Harmonics, the latter of which was the subject of her masters, which was awarded in 1680.
During the 1680's, increasingly disillusioned with the corruption and nepotism of the Primokratía, she sought to distance herself from position she enjoyed within the outer orbit of the corporatist and technocratic oligarchy which in practice ruled the Imperial State of Constancia. Having obtained letters of credence and introduction from the Euran University and the Honourable Company, and obtained an assistant teaching post with the Nathan & Elijah College in Lindström in 1682. During her time in Natopia Viktoria had begun to move in counter-cultural circles and in 1685 founded an art collective "Anthesteria". Her work adopted an increasingly striden tone denouncing the intersecting networks of corruption, militarism, and racism embedded in the international system of power blocs and megacorporations dominating the globe. These criticisms, and the increasing focus on cultural output, ultimately cost Viktoria her teaching post at the Nathan & Elijah College in 1686.
Political activities
In 1687 Viktoria relocated to Punta Santiago, integrating herself into the Constancian exile community and opposition movement. Her drift into activism saw her become increasingly concerned by the purported influence of a cell of the State Protection Authority operating from the Imperial Constancian Consulate-General at Punta Santiago.
Her increasing prominence as an organiser in activist circles came to the fore in 1688 during the counterprotests against the release of Christina Aguilar, an infamous "media figure" with ties to the family of the Autokrator, following the overt influence of the Constancian government and the Honourable Company on local law enforcement.
Abduction
On 12.IV.1688, she was abducted outside the Hotel du Babkha in Punta Santiago by masked men, who bundled her into a minibus and drove her away. A missing persons report relating to her abduction was filed by civil advocacy groups.