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.
