Nolan Allison

Nolan Edward Dexter Allison (21 Dec 2420 - 25 Dec 2485) was an Orinian political magnate and military commander for the Federate who served as the 37th President of the Federate. His political background stemmed back to his first post as director of the moon-tied sprawl Downey Terminal from 2445 to 2462. His ability to bring a station from dirt to a metropolis boosted his image after the station's demise at the hands of terrorists and lead in part to his election to the directorate of the Orion State capital, Masson Station, where he served from 2465 until 2477, when the station met an eerily similar fate. In both positions he stood with Earthborn Darin Masson as second-in-command, who was found to be the purpetrator of both attacks. He was elected to become the 37th president of the Federate in an election against sitting president Jova Brannigan in 2479, running on a platform of solving the crisis of system loss. In the spirit of determining a way to either bring systems back or prevent them from being lost, Nolan set a fleet of drones into every corner of the galaxy to spot other inaccessible systems that had been ignored by humanity and for anything that would be usable in the fight against the terrorists responsible for the loss of a growing number of systems. In December 2485, a drone returned a signal that suggested the presence of an isolated alien phenomenon. Nolan went to investigate before anyone who could leak the material to media had the chance to snuff it out. On December 25th, 2485, Nolan came face to face with what would later be known as the "Alien Deflection Construct" and was killed in an interaction involving him, the construct, and Esina in the early hours of December 26th.

As a station leader, Nolan has been routinely praised by his constituents as a keen observer who would personally investigate any major issue on board, as opposed to previous directors that would send their aides.

Nolan has a history of leading with an iron fist, one that was metaphorical before it became literal. He personally investigates major station issues and acts as his own unit in military endeavors relating to regional security. He takes part with infighting with the Federate in efforts to expand humanity's dominance in the absence of any notable secondary power to the galaxy, and to do so before another one has the opportunity.

Nolan married his late wife Evie at 24 and had three daughters (Veronica, Alaska, and Nyreen), and later informally adopted Kelsey Bax with support union partner Oralynn Lane.

Childhood
Nolan was born on December 21st, 2420, in a general medical clinic aboard Hope Terminal. The second son of policy official Baxter Allison and the then-unmarried Julia Kindall, an internal design management official at Hope Terminal on what was then the fringe of inhabited space on the outer edges of Orinian space.

Political Emergence
Spending several after-school hours with his father, Nolan took an early interest in general political activism, seeking to become a leader in his own right. In 2440, aged 20, he left the Orion Developmental Complex (ODC) to pursue his political career. Working with recently-elected Downey Terminal Director Martin December within several key positions.

Downey Terminal Directorship Nomination
Martin December would step down from the director's chair in 2444 to take an eventually long-term position with former DT director and then-current Masson Station director Vladimir Coutinho, and later Veronica De La Cruz in the same position.

Seeing this as a way up with his experience within the well-received government of Director December, Nolan approached the Orinian Alliance standard command and requested a general threadnet poll for his potential as an elected leader. With the success of that poll, the OA selected Nolan as the nominee for the directorship against the candidate for the minor party Consolidated Federate. Nolan would come to win the election against sector governor Jova Brannigan with a tight margin of 1.18 percentage points.

Nolan was inaugurated to the position of Director in a ceremony at Downey Terminal's government sector on January 20th 2445, 100 days after the election. His policies in station expansion improved the standard of living among those in the far-flung colony, and he would never see his popularity decline to a level that would trigger an election.

The 2442 Natural Worlds Expedition
See Natural Worlds Expeditions for information on the campaign.

Nolan met his late wife, Evie Harthorn, on a natural worlds expedition organized by President Leonel Reidt in Orion State in April 2442, when she was 18. Nolan's journal recounts both sparking conversation independently, with their interest in each other being apparent early on. The expedition quickly broke into task groups of duos to find a place at distance from both main camp and other participants.

Nolan writes that it was the nights spent in solitude that initially ignites their lust for one another, but he maintains distance from anything that would resemble detail of their specific interactions during the week of the woods. Evie, a member of the Masson family tree, would break from the family fold on Masson Station to move with Nolan at the significantly smaller Downey Terminal.

Project Groundfather
Nolan's journals provide little insight into his activity between 2448 and 2452 regarding this project. The information included suggest that the project was intended for human genetic experimentation prior to birth without post-birth modifications. While, officially, the project did not exist, shreds of data and lost loggers on Masson Station provide insight into the program.

An audio recording was found in an abandoned logger assumed to belong to Nyreen Allison after the Masson Station Incident. His recount of the initial stages of her conception and the day of and after her birth insist a strong emotional connection to the program, later including an admittance to being the cause of the decompression that killed the 16 primary researchers in the experiment that insisted Nyreen was to be taken for study. His belief on the matter suggests that she would have been killed in the process, and does not regret his decision despite his internal struggles with whether or not a less deadly outcome would have been feasible.

The Downey Terminal Incident
In November 2462, a large construct that would come to be referred to as a Node popped in outside of the sprawl. Assailants on board claimed it had the intent of repeating the Sol Incident. The claim, which bypassed local digital security measures and relayed to every device on the station incited a riot as residents began to panic about their livelihood. Director Allison regained control of the network and enacted martial law with enforced evacuation of the station. Early scans suggested a matter of two hours before the internal charge of the Node would become supercritical. In the end, the Node was successful in its task and rendered a significant portion of inhabited space surrounding the terminal inaccessible through the threads.

Radio emissions from the site indicated that there was survivors remaining in the system, and SEW Expedition One in 2477 found a surviving population of approximately 2000 individuals.

Rise to the Helm of Masson
The detonation of Downey Terminal left many people in a state of fear around whether or not their survival could be assured. Nolan brought himself against the sitting director

Character Trivia

 * 1) Nolan was director of both Downey Terminal and Masson Station at the time of their respective detonations. However, Federate information oppression left public information regarding known details of this event strictly classified due to the likelihood of other groups attempting technological replication of the device responsible.
 * 2) Nolan was in close proximity to an explosion aboard Masson Station during the civil panic related to the appearance of and broadcasts from The Node in the station's inner circle. The left side of his face remains scarred and his left eye dead from the event., and refused cosmetic correction.
 * 3) Nolan, along with Nyreen, Alaska, and Veronica, are among the only known persons to have survived both the Downey Terminal and Masson Station incidents. The individual events have a 3% and 4.5% escape rate, and a 0.05% and 0.004% survival rate within the seared thread zones, both respectively.