Sovereign's Birthday

The Sovereign's Birthday was a celebration in the Golden Empire that honored the reigning monarch. Since it was an official day of the year, a part of the calendar around which entire months were arrayed, it was not connected with the monarch's actual date of birth.

Most member systems marked the occasion by sending good wishes and greetings to the sovereign, though Rin Sakaros first asked, and then later commanded, her subjects not to give her gifts, as these gifts were usually exorbitant and Rin felt the wealth could be better used to improve the lives of citizens. Rin herself was in the habit of making a birthday address to her people via the Royal HoloNet.

Rin kept her actual birthday a secret, celebrating it only with her brother Tariun and her apprentice Keltrayu. Over time, her sister-in-law Breek Zagrev and the Centurions Te`net Organi, Jira Zaffrod, and Tarzg Sav'lir also figured out Rin's birthday.