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Fred Serviss Character Reference

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Gender Identity: Male
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Australian ambassador to the Co-operative Federation of Xinjiang in the IOT spin-off The Multipolar World. Originally created as a one-off to the illustration accompanying the roleplay announcement of the government's inauguration, he is referenced in the sequel game's epilogue as resigning in protest when Australia failed to condemn the Monarchist invasion of 2173 (a covert vent at my own frustration with Oz's player, whose foreign policy throughout the game waffled between noncommittal and outright duplicitous). In 2182, Oz itself collapses into civil war and he flees to India, becoming a citizen and chairing the International Climatological Commission, the developing body for the Revivicación project that seeks to repair the long-lasting damage from the first game's nuclear holocaust.

Trivia:
  • The Australian civil war mentioned in his MP2 cameo was created as a potential origin for the continent's three-way split at the start of the sequel game. N.B.: MP2 is set eight centuries after the original Multipolarity (though that didn't dissuade players like christos from treating it as picking up a proverbial two weeks later).
  • His moving to India is a nod to the player JohannaK, who despite some questionable dealings with christos200 early in the game that may have precipitated the 2162–5 Pan–Asiatic War, became a staunch advocate of the internationalist cause post-war, including criminal prosecution of the China Six. India was betrayed by its own allies Australia and Korea in a landgrab to compensate the near-total destruction of their countries in Lighthearter's nuclear ragequit after the Comintern effectively shut Hawaiʻi out of the 2165 Dublin Conference for China's restructuring. Game was wack, yo.