Esua Payn

Esua Payn (15 Feb 1347 - 27 Oct 1469) was the Empress of the Great Empire (1388-1469), succeeding Essemar Kuz and preceding Emaod Zingro. A native Earthling, she is renowned for her culture, fashion, grace, and elegance. She further helped keep the empire unified in the period after the Great Civil War and uphold its power and influence in her 80-year reign. Her universal travel and works making her subject of numerous awards and achievements, she is considered the 'greatest thing out of an era of not great things'.

Overview
Also known as 'Blossom', Payn was a very elegant Human woman who reigned as the first Empress, for 80 years, during which was a great time of peace and growth, following the overthrow of the First Empire due to corruption during the Great Civil War and founding of the Second Empire by its own people in 1332, like a revolution. She was President of Earth from 1375 to 1385, highly successful, leading it into a golden age.

Esua was nominated for Emperor in 1388 by her predecessor Essemar Kuz before death due to her great intelligence, calmness, and skill in politics. She traveled the universe promoting democracy and social interdependence, and even had a cooking channel. She brought much elegance and color to the Empire, which became more isolationist under her. She was a virgin queen. In February 1469, age 122 but still healthy, she resigned as Empress due to Kuzon Jr.'s guiding principle of serving no more than 80 years, but died only a few months later. She nominated Emaod Zingro as her successor (though it would become a horrible decision).

She was almost the one to improve Earth and Big Red's relations (as they were rivals as they increasingly contrasted viewpoints), as she was girlfriend once and later friend with King Hogan of Big Red. However, both their successors were enemies and relations broke, leading to the War of Unification. She was critical of Kastair United, the spacepower TGE was member of, later revealed to be corrupt, but she neglected to take action.