Fleet Command Council

General Overview
The Fleet Command Council are a group of elite individuals who oversee the day to day running of the Empire in the Empress's name. The Fleet Command Council are the top authority of the Empire sometimes superceeding the authority of the Empress herself. The Command Council meets once a month and makes tactical and logistic decisions about the many different campaigns waged by the Empire on different fronts. They seek to expand the Empire's presence in the Delta Quadrant, creating a dominion over the various alien races and harvesting their technology for development within the Empire.

History
The Fleet Command Council was founded in 2386 by Vice Admiral Lynnywinny Resident, former executive officer to the late Grand Admiral D'Deridex Orici who was killed when the I.S.S. Warrior, and other members of Task Force Avenger was pulled into the Delta Quadrant by the entity known as the Caretaker.

Seeing the amazing potential of the Nacane's (the Caretaker's species) technology, Vice Admiral Lynnywinny decided to attack the Caretaker's array which was caring for the nearby Ocampa and sieze it for the Empire in order to return to the Alpha Quadrant and gain a powerful edge over her rivals.

However, the guardians of the Ocampa, known as the Kazon Collective attacked the Task Force are were successful in driving them out of the system but not before being forced to destroy the Caretaker's array after Lynnywinny had deployed a toxin, devoloped by the I.S.S. Proteus which was effective in killing the Caretaker entity.

Realising this defeat, Lynnywinny ordered the Fleet to withdraw to unclaimed space and discovered the uninhabited world of Audrey. Seeing this as an oppotunity to begin an Empire of her own, Lynnywinny ordered the begin building a homeworld for a new imperial regime.

However, numerous leadership challenges began to break out that threatened to tear this new Empire about and sabotage the building work on the surface. Recognising that she could not keep control of the Fleet without a figurehead and that she would have to share power within the Fleet, Lynnywinny appointed the Fleet Command Council and used D'Deridex's popular daughter, Drrexia Orici as Empress to rally the Fleet.