Today, despite vocal opposition from planetary leaders, Baronet K’Cheh Saah was sentenced to 18 more months of house arrest by Mogul leaders. She was charged with violating the terms of her previous house arrest. 

The terms were supposedly violated when a Kroy from Falcon Station entered the house where K’Cheh Saah was detained. The Kroy, a member of the The Temple of Haela of Latter-day Divinity, believed he had received a message through his studies of the Great Philosophies that K’Cheh Saah was about to be assassinated. His visit was unsolicited, and K’Cheh Saah complied with the authorities who came to arrest him. But months later she was charged as if she had set up the meeting herself. 

This is not the first time politics has entered K’Cheh Saah’s life. She is a powerful and controversial figure on her home, the TerraBase of Myaburm, both because of her political campaigns and her family’s history. Her father was Baronet Sang Aun, an honored and respected warrior of the people who was instrumental in creating Myaburm.  He was assassinated sixty years ago, and his wife – K’Cheh Saah’s mother - became an ambassador to Myaburm’s neighboring bases. From a young age K’Cheh Saah followed her mother, living and learning in outside worlds until her 19th year.  

At 19 she traveled to Abberon where she earned her doctorate and met her husband. After decades abroad with many honors earned, K’Cheh Saah returned home to Myaburm ten years ago to nurse her ailing mother. Within the year of her return, the reigning Mogul General announced he was stepping down from power. As political chaos ensued, K’Cheh Saah openly sided with Kalsan supporters as the Moguls tried to crush opposition.   

The Mogul force tried to consolidate its power with a general election. But the Kalsan sympathizers won 62% of the votes, and K’Cheh Saah was considered the Kavaliro de Myaburm of the new regime. Shortly after the results were announced, the Moguls nullified the election and announced they had reinstated themselves into power. 

Since then K’Cheh Saah’s life has been a series of house arrests on suspicious charges. 14 of the past 20 years she’s been imprisoned by the Moguls. Her supporters say this new stretch of imprisonment is purely political: being under arrest for the next 18 months means K’Cheh Saah will not be eligible for candidacy in this year’s election. But it could have been much worse. The original sentence handed down from the courts was three years hard labor.