Name: John Clarence Russel
Nickname: Johnny
Age: 25
Birth Date: 25,684
Gender: Male
Planet of Origin: Antelope
Race/Species: Human
Height: 6’2
Weight:185 lbs
Physical Description or Image:
Social Class: Working Class
Titles: Comrade General of the Antelope Self Defense Union and General Secretary of the Antelope International Workers Union
Occupation: Coal Miner, formerly a member of the Antelope Home Guard.
Hobbies/Pastimes: Hunting, having cookouts with his neighbors, and fishing.
Talents/Skills: Johnny has been trained in the basics of firearms and small unit tactics, thanks to his time in the Home Guard. Thanks to skirmishes between the ASDU and AHG Johnny has been able to expand his strategies and prepare for the worst possible situations. His connections with some rebellious Ra’Shide and young officers in the Home Guard had led to John being able to retrieve some less than legal weapons incase of an Authority attack on the strikes.
Religious Beliefs: Agnostic
Personality: Johnny has been described as a kind hearted and honest sweet talker, Johnny is known for his inability to lie to others, always telling the truth no matter the situation. John manages to keep his cool and even the most stressful of situations and is known for coming up with quick solutions for problems.
Biography: Born 25 years ago on the mining world of Antelope, John Clarence Russel or Johnny for short was born on the planet capital of Woodsboro, the city was home to large steel factories and munitions factories which most of the populus worked in. Johnny’s father worked in the local garrison, the Antelope Home Guard while his mama worked in one of the many munitions factories, Johnny was lucky enough to go to a pretty decent school compared to most of the other children in his neighborhood thanks to his father’s status in the Home Guard. As the years went by the family’s situation improved with each promotion his father made, eventually his father got to the rank of captain, which thanks to the pay grade, allowed them to move to a nice home right outside of town, but things changed shortly after. At the age of 10 Johnny lost his mother, his mother was a member of a local union that had recently gone on strike, after a few days the strike turned violent and the local garrison of Home Guard was called in to deal with the workers. The fighting was brutal with workers and soldiers getting critically injured or killed, but one case affected Johnny more than any other. During the fighting his father and mother were both involved, during the fighting his mother was shot while trying to help some fellow workers flee the scene but the man who shot her wasn’t just a random soldier it was her husband, who until hours after the fighting realized who he had killed that day
Johnny and his father began to split apart after the death of his mother, Mr. Russel began a habitat of heavy drinking while Johnny started sneaking out of the house and began hunting small animals. After six years Johnny decided to move into the city with his grandfather instead of continuing to live with his drunkard father, when he moved into the city he decided to enlist in the Home Guard. Johnny was shipped off to a Ra’Shide conservation, there he got to know the culture of the group and their history, as he talked to more and more of they Ra’Shide he began to understand the troubles they faced the more distaste he grew for the Authority and the Imperium as a whole. After serving for four years until the age of twenty, Johnny decided to quit working in the Home Guard and went to work in a coal mine near Woodsboro. After a few years of work Johnny decided to run for the leadership of his local union and managed to win the election, after that he began to get into contact with other unions across the entire colony and called for the formation of a one big union and so after many weeks of discussion and debate the Antelope International Workers Union was formed and involved all types of workers and jobs. After the formation of the AIWU, the Authority decided to slash the wages of any workers that were a part of the AIWU this resulted in a meeting of the Workers Council, which after a few debates resulted in a unanimous vote for a General Strike. As the preparations were made, Johnny began to set up what was needed for this general strike to succeed, firstly he began the organization of the Antelope Self-Defense Union which beforehand was a poorly organized militia was organized into an effective deterrent force in case the Home Guard had tried to violently stop the strike, secondly he got into contact with Ra’Shide chieftains and young Reformist officers in the Home Guard both parties agreed to assist the general strike for their own reasons.
Three months after the General Strike vote was passed it was declared that the AIWU would launch the strike, across Antelope workers stopped working and alongside local ASDU militia seized their workplaces, at Ra’Shide reservations warriors and tribes kicked out their Home Guard watchmen, and the entirety of the Woodsboro garrison had declared a mutiny until the demands of the AIWU were fulfilled. The AIWU now holds several reservations, smaller coal towns, and the capital Greensboro, now the cocky General Ivan Yazov prepares to handle the strike without Imperial assistance trying to show his might and the local navy sits by and waits, whatever the result of the Antelope General Strike it will affect the Authority for the rest of its days.
If Great House or a leader of a Faction like a SAS, Colony, Et Cetera
Name of Territory: The Antelope Authority and The Antelope International Workers Union
Government: The AA is run by a council of local garrison officers and is headed by General Ivan Yazov, while his opposition, the AIWU is led by young revolutionary General John C. Russel. The AIWU is led by a workers council elected by popular vote by union members, then the members of the council vote out of two of them for the position of General Secretary.
Capital World: Antelope, A world in the Eastern Frontier of the Empire.
Population: 750 Million-600 Million Humans/augmented humans and 150 million Ra’Shide.
The Ra’Shide: The Ra’Shide are the native population of Antelope, the species can be described as an insectoid-humanoid species that are extremely traditionalist, the average Ra’Shide is 7-9 feet tall, all Ra’Shide are asexual and reproduce as so but the species reproduces at a small rate which has resulted in a low population increase rates. The species has a thick exoskeleton able to absorb low and medium caliber ballistic rounds of ammunition and even some laser fire, they are also known for being 10x stronger than the average human which allows them to do jobs that would normally require several men to only need one Ra’Shide . The species was found during the colonization of Antelope in the 23rd Century, the colonizers encountered the Ra’Shide, who at the time were still a tribal society, on the Eastern side of the planets on and only supercontinent. The Ra’Shide decided to launch an attack on the colonizers, believing that they were demons sent to punish them for their misdeeds. The Antelope war lasted a long 10 years and killed 3,000,000 million Ra'Shide and 1,650,000 colonizers, what was left of the Ra’Shide leadership decided to accept their defeat and pledged their loyalty to the Imperium. Since then there have been laws passed that have made the Ra’Shide second class citizens in compensation for the war, they are tasked with the most tiring jobs and receive the lowest pay in the entire Authority. Those that don’t live in cities live under the control of tribal chieftains in designated reservations for the Ra’Shide, most of the tribes are still waiting for a chance to free themselves from the Authority. The average Ra’Shide warrior owns a traditional sword of spear and a home crafted three shot rifle, but in some parts of Antelope the rifles of the Ra’Shide are outlawed.
Economy: The economy of the AA is heavily based on the coal,oil, and steel industries of Antelope and the gem mining operations on the barren worlds within the control of the Authority.The AA also is known for forcinging the native Xeno populace to operate on the more “Dangerous” jobs on the planet.
Culture:The culture of the AA is similar to that of Midwestern America, with a large amount of the population being involved in mining work and steel work. On the other hand there is the Ra’Shide population whose religion and culture focus on the preservation of nature and the warrior spirit, this had caused conflicts between them and corporation owners and military officials.
Social Structure: General Ivan Yazov>Military Council>Business owners and Landlords>Mayors and local politicians>Ra’Shide Chieftains>Average Human citizen>Average Ra’Shide resident.
Territorial Size: Antelope (Continental world about the size of Earth but with only one large continent), Elk (Smaller mining world with about 10 million residents), Wraith (Barren world used as a mining outpost for corporations)
Military and Security Forces: Antelope Authority:
Antelope Home Guard: 2,500,000(15% is in Mutiny, in solidarity with the General strike)
The Antelope Guardian Navy: 2,200 men (8 destroyers and a few fighters, the Navy is currently indecisive in the General Strike Crisis)
The Antelope International Workers Union:
The Antelope Self-Defense Union: 1,800,000 (Mostly civilian equipped militias, some groups have military grade weaponry.)
The Ra’Shide United Tribal Coalition: 1,000,000 Ra’Shide Warriors (Equipped with traditional blades and rifles.)
