Cedric Falken, Public Minister

"Some days I think I work too hard... but then I ask myself, what else is there to do?"

Name:	Cedric Falken
Bond:	Niya'tkaraji
Bonded At:	Nidus Ryslen's 2004 Flurry
Species:	Human
Age:	46
Sex:	Male
Height:	5'10"
Hair:	Sandy brown, worn short
Skin:	Pale pink
Eyes:	Green
Residence:	Star City
Position:	Public Minister
Family:	Ex-wife, Rachel Ramirez, and daughter, Deborah Falken
Description:	Of fairly average height and of fairly average build, Cedric dresses cleanly and richly, of a perfect cut and smoothly matching colors, usually either blues or some combination of his home city-station's colors. His hair is kept trimmed and neat-- except for that one lock of sandy-brown that refuses to stay back, and always curls down over his forehead, giving his square face a softer, younger look. As if to try and counter the effect, he wears an equally neatly-trimmed beard and moustache. His murky green eyes manage to seem very open, honest, and earnest, no matter what his face portrays, and whether or not he is actually feeling that way.
Personality:	Cedric Falken fills many roles: politician, gentleman, businessman, father, and celebrity, among other things on an as-needed basis. The one he will say first, though, is businessman, for it is the only thing he feels he has earned on his own. He is a superb businessman, in fact, largely because he is both shrewd and charismatic, the former ending him with a wide number of economic arrangements and a fat savings account to augment his family fortune, and the latter with friends and contacts on nearly every friendly planet the station has come in contact with, and even more within Star City itself. It is both of these, along with his experience as a minor noble in the previous royal regime's hierarchy, which landed him the position of Public Minister, settling disputes and organizing affairs on the station itself, and being a very public figure while doing it. His only remaining family are his ex-wife, whom he makes tentative but rebuffed overtures now and then, and his daughter, who used to cause him no end of consternation with her wild, licentious living, though he loves nothing in the world so much as her-- with the sole exception, perhaps, of her mother. He is, on the whole, an oddly caring man for someone in his position, he has just also learned the importance of expedience and learned the lesson that no one can make everyone happy-- sometimes not even one's self.