Jane Zarkan II

"I am grateful for you for putting your faith in me to lead this great nation, I hope I may lead this nation as well as my mother did. I know you loved my mother with all of your hearts, and were only too happy to pledge your loyalty and obedience to her. I pray to God that I may earn such respect."

- Part of Jane Zarkan II's inaugural speech upon becoming the President of the Confederacy, 4 ABY

Jane Zarkan II was the daughter of Jane Zarkan, the "Mother of the Confederacy", as with her mother Jane Zarkan II became Queen of the Zarkan Kingdom, as well as the President of the Confederate States of Earth, an alliance of 95 of Earth's nation states which broke away from the Union of Earth States.

Born in 31 BBY, Jane Zarkan II was born to a 16-year old Jane Zarkan in the Royal Zarkan City Hospital, in Zarkan City, the capital city of the Zarkan Kingdom and Empire, unknown to both Jane Zarkan and those around her King Daniel Zarkan IV, Jane Zarkan II's grandfather, was almost assassinated on his way to see his new granddaughter. The would-be assassin was insane, delusion Samuel Sutton, the self-proclaimed "Liberator of the Colonies".

A week after the birth Jane Zarkan was released from the hospital, and she brought Princess Jane Zarkan II back to Castle Zarkan, the home of the Zarkan royal family. Everything was largely quiet for the next 3 years, Daniel IV was sometimes away on state visits, and Jane Zarkan was busy caring for young Jane Zarkan II.

Tragedy struck the family in 28 BBY, when Samuel Sutton was finally able to successfully assassinate Daniel IV whilst he was walking through Parliament Square, Jane Zarkan II saw her mother cry and be angry for the first time. Though Jane Zarkan II was too young to understand what was happening, so all she could ask is where her grandfather had gone, to which Jane Zarkan told her that he had gone to be with her grandmother, forever.

Over the next few years, as Jane Zarkan II grew older she began to understand her position in society and what was going on around her, her mother taught her basic politics at first, gradually getting more complex, in order to begin Jane Zarkan II's eventual rise to the position of Queen of the Zarkan Kingdom and Empress of the Zarkan Empire, Jane Zarkan explained to her daughter about nations, governments, politics, how to act and behave in polite society and how to behave with her subjects.

"When you are older, you will fully understand why your subjects must bow before you, and how to act when they do so. Let's just say, for now, that they are your servants, they kind of belong to you, unofficially, of course, God decided to put you in a position of dominion over them, put simply, God decided to make you a queen, he decided it was your duty to rule over your subjects, and he decided to make them your servants, that is the way of the world, and the people do not question it."

- Jane Zarkan explaining to a young Jane Zarkan II about the commoners' deference to their monarch

In 21 BBY Jane Zarkan announced the secession of the Zarkan Kingdom from the Union, when a 10 year old Jane Zarkan II asked why her mother had done this her mother explained that she had done it because it was necessary to defend the freedom of her nation, and to strike a blow in the name of liberty for all. Over the next three days another 9 nations seceded and Jane Zarkan met them in her castle, Jane Zarkan II was out playing in the castle garden during this, but she remembered seeing a flag flying above the castle, one she had never seen before, it was quite distinct and she remembered it quite vividly, even as late as 70 ABY, when she described it during an interview on her childhood memories of the Confederate States of Earth's earliest days, when the flag was almost totally forgotten, at the time she didn't know it was the flag of the Alliance of Ten, the name given to the first 10 nations to secede from the Union, the first 10 nations who founded the Confederacy.

"I remember seeing a flag above the castle, one I had never seen before, and one I haven't seen in many decades since, it had a wide dark blue bar on the left-hand side of the flag, with 10 fairly large white stars running down the length of the bar, to the right of the bar extended two very wide horizontal bars, each bar covered half of the flag, the top half was black, and the bottom half was red. I remember the flag quite distinctly, at first I didn't know what it was, but I later learnt that it was the flag of the "Alliance of Ten", an alliance of the first 10 Confederate nations created by my mother prior to the official founding of the Confederacy, the flag could be said to have been the first unofficial national flag of the Confederacy, and was actually a pretty popular patriotic flag in the early years, the popularity of the flag seems to have died out following the Imperial takeover in the 3rd year of Confederate indepdendence, for I rarely saw it after the restoration of the Confederacy in the 25th year of Confederate independence."

- An elderly, 101-year old Jane Zarkan II describing the flag she had seen above Castle Zarkan on the day of the signing of the Declaration of Confederate Independence