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Anaander Mianaai is the Lord of the Radch: chief authority in all judicial, political, military, and religious matters. Mianaai possesses many bodies, all cloned from her original self. Formerly, these bodies were all connected in a single consciousness, very similar to an Ancillary, allowing her to govern the entirety of the Radch Empire by herself. Due to a disagreement with herself, the consciousnesses of all her bodies split from each other, and formed at least two factions, which each worked to oppose the other. While she managed to keep her war with herself secret for a long time, even from some parts of herself, Breq made it impossible to keep secret any longer by publicly attacking her at Tstur Palace and starting the Radchaii civil war.

Anaander was unknown prior to her conquest, but due to being a ruthless politician, she formed the Radch from nothing through political maneuvering and military conquest.

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Unlike the bodies used as Ancillaries, the bodies that make up Anaander Mianaai are almost entirely clones of the original Mianaai. These clones are connected to her consciousness very early in life, presumably around or even before birth. The only exception is that of Lieutenant Tisarwat, who is forced into becoming part of Anaander Mianaai during the events in Ancillary Sword. Before connecting to Tisarwat, Mianaai never had to endure a fully conscious body becoming connected to the network of her selves, which is described by Breq as being extremely disorienting, even terrifying.

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