Tharch

Emperor Tharch, officially High Lord Tharch, of the Imperial House Rhych, Imperator of the Volkar Stellar Imperium, Lord Protector of the Homeworld, Archduke of Kavalk, Lord Overseer of the Fouahiri Strait (17 April 2230 to present) is the current ruler of the Volkar Stellar Imperium, and head of the Imperial House Rhych.

Tharch is notable as the first emperor of the Stellar Imperium to maintain his own military forces, a program he ordered begun after the House Siplim victory in the Second Shantarak War. These forces later played an important role in the Adel Campaign of the Volkar Civil War and the First Battle of the Fouahiri Strait, though they were disbanded at the end of the Civil War.

Tharch also began a process of centralization following the Civil War, bringing the Houses more under his authority to prevent future Sunderings.