Isolde Garreau
The Karaka'An who started TKI&I.
Physical Characteristics
Tortoiseshell Karaka'An woman. "Laughing orange eyes flash before you, set in a face of patched and blending black brown and sienna red. Dark brown lashes are echoed on her nose leather and in sepia hair. Relatively short, she brims with enthusiasm and intelligence, her mottled tail a curl around her sturdy digitigrade legs."
Biography
Born in 153 BA, married Murray Garreau at the age of 23, just before they set out for Akana Ris, which had just opened to settlers from the Alliance. When they arrived, her husband found a job mining, and she spent most of her time doing odd jobs and raising their daughter (who was born two years later, when she was 25), until she discovered a market for clothing designs (and alterations). She started a tailor's shop at the age of 29. (At the time, as 'Isolde's'). When her miner husband was invalided out during an accident at work, she became the sole breadwinner for her family (then including her first daughter, Isabeja). An investor approached her about expanding her business, which she did with her help. Not long after, when she expressed a desire to move back to the Core, her first investor contacted a second and they fronted her the money to establish a store on Starbase Gamma. Isolde took that deal and opened as TKI&I, named after her investors, and her daughter, and her business exploded.
TKI&I is now a family business. There are now TKI&I locations in many of the major starbases, and on several of the Core worlds.
Family
- Husband - Murray Garreau
- Daughter - Isabeja (older by six years)
- Son - Hugo (youngest)