Name– Gustaf Gladium
Age– 43
Gender– Male
Occupation– General of the Aegis
Faction– White Guard
Species– Human
Personality– Gustaf is a tactless and ruthless man who uses the art of deception to his own needs. He's also a statesman, once being a part of the Bolshevist Directory. However, as a shy person, Gustaf only appeared once in the elections, but he was booted out thanks to his more liberalised ideologies. Though a right-wing liberal, he sees modern democracy as perverted to serve the deep hedonistic wants of an individual, thus cancelling out all forms of brotherhood. When he left for Russia, which had some semblance of theology and theory left, he found out about Catholicism soon enough, and began to follow it, as it fitted his own dreams of a brotherly world that was to be brought about by a destructive war, as stated in Revelations. He also exhibits a staunch hatred for the Coalition, as he holds humanocentric values. He treats his men like his own children, and is equal to Johann Bellum in military prowess and genius, and was one of the men who eventually shattered Bellum's communist views and convinced him to join his religion. He is an outspoken man, a staunch critic of communism and absolute social equality; he is a supporter of stricter government, equal rights, and class collaboration. He views the class struggle as a struggle between self-serving men, and sees class collaboration as the system of a brotherly world.
Likes–
- Brotherhood
- Orderliness
- Class collaboration
- Communism and class struggle
- Alien species
- Individualism
- Modernism
Physical Description– Gustaf stands at 187cm and weighs in at around 70kg. He is a mesomorph, as well. He has a wrinkled face and strands of silver on his temples, even though he's only in his mid-forties. He also sports a moustache. His nose is long and hooked. His hair is black, and is usually swept backward neatly. His eyes are of the same colour.
Equipment and Weaponry–
- 9mm Parabellum Pistol
- 10mm Parabellum Submachine Gun
- 8mm Parabellum Assault Rifle
- Pen and Paper
- Deatomiser Sabre
History– Gustaf was born into a family that supported the communist ideology. Gustaf, however, was quite different, even at childhood. He exhibited great intelligence and care for others at such a young age. As he grew older, he became a free spirit, exploring the surrounding forest near the apartment his parents lived in. Inside the forest, he one day discovered an ancient building, and inside, there were walls covered in books considered illegal by the government. He read to his heart's content whenever he had free time, until one day, a friend, who was a staunch communist, followed him and reported the place to the authorities. However, he never ratted out on his friend. Gustaf was distraught, but everything he studied remained with him. His ideologies garnered himself support, and he was able to enter politics at the young age of 20 after his parents sent him to cavalry school at the age of 16.
His political ideologies garnered him much support to the point that he became an intergalactic symbol of liberalism, but one day, he found himself alone once again. All his support had disappeared overnight, and the media reported the event as the people returning to the wonderful ideology of communism. One day ago, he believed that a liberalised communism could be achieved, but suddenly, inside his mind, the realisation formed that a liberalised communism could not be achieved, no matter what they did. He realised that the ideology he was looking for was the enemy of communism itself: capitalism. He went to his friend's home carrying only a suitcase with a pistol inside. He was now a convict, public enemy number one. Gustaf went to the home of his friend, an anti-communist. He was greeted, and his friend arranged for a ship to carry Gustaf off to Russia, where the Bolshevik influence was significantly less, but when the call ended, just before Gustaf could leave, the police stormed his friend's house, and his friend was soon riddled with bullets before any words could be exchanged between the two groups. Gladium took the pistol and shot two of the three police officers before the last one wounded him with a bullet through the belly. Filled with adrenaline, Gustaf ran and jumped out the second story window, the pain unrelenting, but not strong enough to break Gustaf's will to survive.
He hid for hours by the extraction point, and he entered the lift when it came, pistol in hand, his stomach bleeding. Apparently, his friend's contact was a White Guard member, who lifted him out of the miserable State of Marx. They passed over a large stadium with a glass ceiling that was closed off for unknown reasons, and Gustaf saw the real reason why: down below, hundreds of thousands of men gathered, all in prisoners' uniforms, and all of them started dropping dead as green smoke was released into the air. They tried desperately to gasp for air, but they all died off. Just like that, Gustaf felt woozy and passed out. He later woke up in a Russian building, a former cathedral, where the White Guard medics patched him up. When he was patched up, he continued his pursuit of knowledge, discovering what Christianity was, and soon, his view of democracy as the perfect system disappeared, replaced with the belief that democracy would pervert and corrupt the minds of men. A few years living in unconquered Russia, and Gustaf was baptised, and was married and had a daughter. He became a farmer in the fields of Prokhorovka, and there, he developed his strength and body. At the age of 22, Gustaf's loved ones were killed in an airstrike by Bolshevist forces. Nothing but anger welled up inside Gladium, but one day, he and a handful of others rediscovered the White Guard, which soon replaced the Free Russian Army.
At the age of 29, Gladium was appointed a general, and he created a small elite force from some of the best partisans in the White Guard and turned them into real soldiers. He formed the Aegis Platoon which was only made up of fifty men in its first few days. They carried out raids in what was once Eastern Europe. At the age of 30, more men flocked to the side of the White Guard, and the amount of men joining Aegis became overwhelming for a platoon, and it welled up to a regiment, to a battalion, to a division, and eventually, into a whole army that ran across many of the Human-inhabited worlds. They carried out professional attacks on important locations and cities across the Orion Arm, turning the White Guard into a bigger threat than it ever was. It was at the age of 40 when he finally drew up plans to retake Terra with his multiple armies, but before that, he had to blockade any Coalition force from helping them out. They had to secure Pluto, and at the age of 43, they finally did it by defeating Johann Bellum. However, it wasn't the fact that Gladium's forces were decimating the Bolsheviks under Bellum: Gladium personally spoke to Johann face-to-face in a secret meeting. Gladium was the person who convinced Bellum to truly side with them, for him to drop all his ideologies. A few months later, Bellum came to him, a broken man. He and his men were baptised into the Roman Catholic faith, and Gladium finally asked for help to retake Terra. Bellum agreed, and just in time, former Bolshevik generals had sent a message to Bellum claiming that they were to begin a coup. From then on, Bellum and Gladium had remained in contact, and when Bellum returned home, Gladium followed his ship on a smaller one back to Russia, where hundreds of thousands of men awaited orders.
Skills and Hobbies–
- Sword fighting
- Fencing
- Sharpshooting
- Commanding and leading