Born 5256 s.y.v.p. in Einsehlek to miner parents, Gilean’s influence in the Eudaemonic community was greater than any non-Zeiral citizen’s had historically been. After Operation Aurora, Gilean came to power with the resignation of the former Cardinal Brin Patel. She immediately began a recovery program for former employees of the disgraced Archprelate Varen Ontoli and those disaffected by the Arcturian church’s failure to ensure victory.

Her placid, eerily friendly manner kept her at the center of delicate Vermailian negotiations, and she personally oversaw the orderly and gentle purging of the Conclave of Mek’ril without getting herself killed. Since she had taken a Vow of Proletarianism with her air-traffic controller husband, Yeoh-na was considered unbribable and incorruptible. For her service to the government, she was anointed al-Amr, official spiritual advisor to the Premier and whoever she would run into grocery shopping.

Gilean had a tendency to make dozens of balloon animals, especially during important diplomatic meetings, as a meditative exercise. She reported that the most difficult for her were the small felines and poisonous snakes.

—Maie-Knoumane