General Gwin Kramer Printable Version

Background

• The central military and political authority behind The Republic -- the figure who transforms what could have been a protective survivor government into a rigid, authoritarian state.
  
• Rose to power January 1, 2010 after the fall of Fort Irwin and Boulder, when "a captain becomes a General" amid the anarchy of the old world's collapse.
  

Personality

• Deeply strategic, with a goal beyond mere survival: to grow the Republic and keep it running against all odds. Pushes for international trade, foreign weapons acquisition, and control of a western port.
  
• What makes him dangerous is not madness or brutality for its own sake -- he embodies the danger of rebuilding the world through authoritarian nationalism, where power is justified by survival and used to excuse any atrocity.
  

Notable In The Series

• His desire to absorb or destroy Westport is territorial, logistical, economic, and ideological -- Westport holds the largest shipping port on the west coast, the last piece that would make the Republic a true world power.
  
• Rarely appears directly in the story; Ambassador-Chancellor Aaron Friedrich acts as the Republic's public conduit instead, so as not to have too many figureheads.