Board Thread:Random RP/@comment-27718380-20151012210935/@comment-26084195-20151030210750

Name: Lord Sturgeon

Rank: Lord of the Covenant

Country: The Covenant of Antarctica

Ruler of: Antarctica, The Gateway (A large island gifted by Britain, now one of the only ways into Antarctica), a portion of southeastern Australia (to a small extent, he mostly lets them manage themselves)

Army Ranking: I'm not really sure. The army itself is quite small, but they have very advanced tech.

Story: So here's the deal. A brilliant man named Barnabas Draynes Sturgeon had lots of really good ideas, but they were so outlandish and ludicrous-seeming that he was scoffed at by most of the professors in Britain. However, he was of noteable birth, and he eventually got enough funding and enough good ideas that the royal family allowed him to execute his idea: establish a colony based entirely off of logic and scientific research in the mostly unoccupied territory of Antarctica. And so it was that two dozen ships of scientists and hopeful colonists set sail to Antarctica. And it worked. Barnabas was soon head of a colony that advanced science at otherwise unprecedented rates. They did virtually nothing else. And as they did, they expanded their new colony. Not across the frozen wastes, but under them, where heating and hydroponic farms were more manageable. Eventually, Barnabas realized the very dangerous potential of the science he had developed. So, with the permission of Britain, he declared independance and closed off Antarctica to most of the rest of the world. He continues to advance science to this day, but the only people he ever gives such things to are his close allies, the Australians and the British. And he only gives the military technology to their own small but elite military.