Viktoria Georgiou

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Viktoria Georgiou
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Full name Viktoria Iris Georgiou
AKA Subject Seventeen
Physical information
Species Human
Gender Female
Hair color and style Brown, shoulder length
Eye color Brown
Skin color White
Biographical information
Date of birth 24.IV.1650
Place of birth Vey, Constancia
Date of death Prior to 1690
Place of death Unknown
Residence(s) Zeed State Crematorium No. 45, Rusjar
Nationality Constancia Constancia
Allegiance(s) Free State of Constancia Constancian Liberation Movement
Occupation Opposition activist, musician

Viktoria Iris Georgiou was 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 were unknown for a period between her disappearance in 1688 and the circulation of reports of her death which began to gain currency in 1690.

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 had two younger 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, she applied for 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 strident 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 and death

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.

Her subsequent whereabouts were unknown.

On 19.X.1690 a consignment of fifty-six fuel drums, reported as containing chemical waste (coolant, mixed fuels and lubricants, contaminated water) for disposal, were received at the port of Avey in Zeed. As dockworkers at the cargo terminal reported what they described as an abhorrent stench emanating from the container in which the drums had been stored, officers from the Second Directorate of the Central Committee for Security and Defence were dispatched to conduct an investigation. Within each drum were discovered cadavers, found to be at various stages of advanced decomposition. The fifty-six bodies were subsequently transferred to Rusjar for the performance of a series of autopsies. Because of the condition of the bodies, some of which appeared to have been partially cremated, it was practically impossible to identify to identify causes of death, but in thirty-two instances the state pathologist was able to confidently determine that the corpses had been partially or fully dissected, with evidence of organs and tissue being removed with something approaching surgical levels of precision. Subject Seventeen, anatomically female, was amongst those suspected to have been subjected to surgical evisceration, with evidence pointing to the removal of every internal organ including her uterus and, where the cranium had been extensively damaged by the suboptimal handling of a circular bone-saw, her brain. With no fingers or toes to be found amongst any of the deceased with which to assist with their formal identification, the state pathologist was obliged to dental examinations in those instances where it was possible, including in the case of Subject Seventeen.

The movements of the containership that had delivered the cargo were complex and the record keeping unfortunately inexact. It was difficult to determine from the ship's itinerary and the bill of lading, which specified Port Farrar as a loading point, was suspected to have been tampered with. On 1.XI.1690 copies of the pathologist's reports were circulated to police authorities in Alduria-Wechua, Constancia, Floria, and Natopia. From Constancia no reply or acknowledgement was received, the FDI in Floria was unable to provide any matches, while the Ministry of Justice in Alduria-Wechua confirmed that requests for information had been circulated to police forces at the municipal level after no matches had been found at a Federal level. The Imperial Natopian Constabulary however did respond, advising that Subject Seventeen provided a partial match for the dental records held by a private clinic in Lindstrom for Viktoria Georgiou.

On 19.XI.1690, following consultations between Rustam Bukhori Yazghulam and Zurvanudin Miran al-Osman held five days prior in Port Alduria, the investigation into the fifty-six deceased was transferred to a joint commission formed of officers from the Second Directorate and the State Protection Authority. No further information pertaining to the cases has subsequently been divulged, and requests by parties particularly interested in the fate of Viktoria Georgiou have been referred to this joint investigation which has to date not responded to any such requests for information.

Following the commencement of the Third Euran War her case featured in a dossier of alleged Raspur Pact atrocities, publicised by the Azad Eura coalition during 1694.

Bibliography

  • Cartel PlanetAn exploration of how the rivalries of three global multinational corporations, the ESB Group, the Iron Company, and Sameinaða Erlendur Kaupsýsla Einokun Félagið (SEKEF) precipitated global conflicts that resulted in the death of untold multitudes, poisoned Micras, and ultimately enslaved humanity under a doomed system of exploitation. – (Publication date TBC, pending litigation for the certification of death by authorities in Punta Santiago and with regards to the rights to her estate which is presently disputed between the art collective "Anthesteria", which possessed the unfinished manuscript, and the sisters of the deceased authoress who sought an injunction on publication.)