Rakesh Ackbar

Rakesh Maziar Ackbar (1449–1536) was a Babkhan–Shirerithian nobleman, poet and politician. Rose to prominence in Babkha as a military officer and politician in the early 1470s, joining the Babkhan Liberal Centre Party, and taking part in the cabinets led by Tahmaseb Farshbaf, where he served as Vizier of Foreign Affairs. He later joined the Rastakhiz Party and was Grand Vizier of Babkha 1491–1499. Granted Shirerithian citizenship in 1485. Raised to the nobility as Duke of Brookshire in 1490. Later Baron of Amarr. He also held the Satrapy of Razjania as his fief and power base in Babkha for the longest time, although the records of his tenure there have been mostly lost.

A staunch liberal, he fell out with the monarchs in both Shireroth and Babkha. Lost the title of Duke of Brookshire in 1497 after the Kaiser found him too liberal (he was replaced by the kaiser's own wife, Alexandra Decens. In Babkha, he fought (with rhetorics) against the end of liberty and democracy and the implementation of the Harmonious Society. Ultimately, it was in vain.

Fort Rakesh Maziar Ackbar in Constancia is named after him. Ackbar's poetry used to be lauded around the world, taught in Elwynn's Madrasah University of Beebullah (formerly Beebullahabad University). It was the subject of Esther Ayreon-Kalirion's doctoral dissertation, Magical realism in poetry of Rakesh Ackbar.

As may be expected, his reputation does not flourish in those lands which have been harnessed under the Humanist yoke. The Constancian indiscretion in naming a fort after such a personage has been explained by their lack of awareness as to his proper historical context, ironically a testimony to the effectiveness of the Babkhan efforts to suppress knowledge of the man and his deeds in the years prior to the 1598 Babkhan Holocaust.