[I copied this part from my Trader fleet dossier. Not lazy--efficient.

1 Msec is about 12 days. 1 Gsec is about 32 years. If you want me to explain the family and calendar systems, ask. -L]

Rohl, Larissa (11Rohl-Elaryn family, C-8Rohl subfamily) b Calyst UT 812.534.675.343 LT 195.2046(2)

Larissa Rohl was born to Fleet Captain (ret.) Yris Rohl. FCpt Rohl did not record a father, but apparently did not undergo any medical treatments for insemination or parthenogenesis. It is assumed her daughter's unusual name, neither Trader nor Calystan, is from the unknown father's culture.

FCpt Rohl was killed in the Alesteri Towers bombing when Larissa was less than 75 Msec old. Care of the child was given to her nearest relatives in the C-8Rohl branch, and Larissa received a standard Trader upbringing thereafter. Pedagogy was accelerated in view of exceptional aptitude, and she passed the Fleet exam in the 99th percentile at the age of 473 Msec.

Electing to pursue the Negotiator specialization, Larissa enrolled in the first open Academy session in the Calyst system, and graduated with honors to a post aboard the uplift vessel Vanguard, tasked with reestablishing contact with the Ventraxis system, which had gone silent approximately a Gsec before. ...

[Service details redacted for exceeding dullness. You're welcome. -L]

... Rohl was promoted to Senior Negotiator and accepted a transfer to the main Fleet vessel Northern Expanse. The timing was fortunate, since the Northern Expanse was immediately thereafter involved in cementing the Trilateral Route among Huong, Imoktria, and the Relsforth Confederacy, a deal in which SNeg Rohl played a pivotal role. ...

[This part I wrote. The prose style may give it away. -L]

At which point, returning to the core of Trader space profitably and covered in glory (or gloriously and covered in profit) the Northern Expanse and crew joined the Fleetmeet, already in progress in the Draconis Cluster capital, the creatively-named Draconis Major system, for a much-needed dose of civilization and a look at some new faces for the first time in two gigaseconds.

Fleetmeet was proceeding with the usual debauchery, rowdy good spirits, and aggressive dealing of people who only see each other every few Gsecs when the dark-haired man introduced himself to Larissa as her father. This was a possibility she was willing to concede, but regretted to inform him that, even so stipulating, the fact created in her no sense of obligation.

Even, the man countered, if he had a business proposal?

Larissa told him she was listening.

The rest is a variant of a familiar family story and needs no retelling. Thus did Larissa, daughter of Eric, come for the first time to her ancestral homeland, to support her father in his bid for kingship, and discover to her everlasting chagrin that the Exemplar of Reality has no blasted computers.

Overcoming her disappointment with masterful fortitude, Larissa embarked upon a diplomatic career not substantially different from the one she had left as a Trader, meeting the family who were present in Amber at the time and riding out (horses took some getting used to) to the Golden Circle kingdoms to smooth over rifts sometimes millennia old--where Oberon could compel, Eric needed allies.

Never more than cordial, the relationship between Larissa and her father cooled substantially after his coronation, when she discovered that the sentence he had laid on Corwin had actually been carried out. After learning its source, Julian, too, she avoided, and spent more of her time at sea with Gerard and sometimes Caine, or out in the Golden Circle with friends she had made there during her embassies than she did in Amber proper, finding the company at home uncongenial. She was uncharacteristically quiet, though not what anyone could reasonably describe as devastated, at Eric's funeral.

In the battle against the demons from the Black Road, Larissa reluctantly played a military role when called upon, never particularly caring who was in military command, and remained in Amber with Gerard when the bulk of the family took the battle to Chaos. She was thus one of the few in the city for the entirety of the seige, and there she helped broker the unhappy peace that fell after Gerard did.

Now she lives at Court and daydreams of absconding to some distant Shadow with computers, space travel, and a steady source of meat that doesn't come from animal corpses.