President-for-Life Alexander Wayne & THE GALACTIC CONFEDERACY

At the end of the 22^nd century, space exploration was at an all-time high.  This boom was partially due to the commerce created by the discovery of the first of the five non-human races in 2210.  Until that time, man had explored the galaxy for a century without encountering life in any forms other than microbes.

 Before the introduction of the five alien races, many Earth leaders had become tremendously arrogant, convincing themselves that man was the unique and single, sentient creation of the Almighty.

To some in positions of power, the conquest of space had become the will of ‘divine providence’--a manifest destiny for the only entity with a soul in all creation—Man.

Their monumental arrogance was only matched by their absolute dismay when contact was first made with the Pyresian race.

At first, there was jubilation at having finally made contact with a sister race and that their centuries-long search for intelligent life had finally ended.

However, some in power quickly realized that the assumption of their entire power base rested on the premise that man was the dominant life form in all of God’s universe.

To allow the Pyresians to influence Earth culture would quickly erode the premise of galactic supremacy that kept certain factions in power.

It was four years after first contact that a young diplomat named Alexander Wayne suggested to the governing galactic counsel that Pyresian culture could be considered --a contaminant—something to be feared and something that must be controlled.  

Earth had become a depository of ‘all things Pyresian’, with the races’ music, art, cuisine and philosophy quickly becoming very much of a “fad’ in terrain popular culture.   

Citing several examples of routine clashes between humans and Pyresians, Ambassador Wayne creates a climate of fear and uncertainty to poison the governing counsel on the idea of allowing the respective races to intermingle without supervision.

In 2221, the first Pyresian/Human hybrid was born. Unfortunately for the fetus, the minimal genetic differences in the two races DNA was enough for it to life for only a few hours before expiring.

Seeing yet another chance to further his agenda, Wayne seizes this opportunity to falsify hybrid’s medical records to make the fetus’ cause of death due to massive genetic deformities.

Mingling between the races would now being viewed as a threat the human gene pool itself.

Running for the highest position in government—the Galactic Presidency, Alexander Wayne wages a campaign of fear and racial distrust. Caught up in the wave of xenophobia, the populace elects Wayne in a landslide.

Shortly after taking office, Wayne manufactures an incident that turns popular opinion against the five known alien races, culminating in a deportation of all aliens from Earth territories. Although interplanetary commerce continues, all cultural exchanges between Earth and the five races abruptly ceases.

Two years later, after several skirmishes in space with alien marauders and the nomadic Crall, Wayne declares a state of emergency and seizes total military control over the Space Exploration and Commerce Agency. (or S.E.C.A.)

After that, having control over the destinies of the five races becomes paramount to Wayne’s overall plan.

In the years that follow, the New Galactic Confederacy is formed and a series of clandestine overthrows of the governing bodies of the five races begins.

Within another two years, the Pyresians, the Bial Traphu, the Byriani, the Crall and the Taul are declared inferior races and stripped of any individual rights.

Those aliens who refused to knuckle under to control from the Con-Fed governors are declared outlaws and sentenced to life imprisonment.

President-for-life Alexander Wayne is a refined man, with impeccable tastes and a profoundly vast knowledge of history. He is diluted in the belief that his own superior knowledge of the past will allow him to avoid its mistakes.

Wayne is the worst kind of egomaniac—the kind that believes himself to be truly humble. He feigns angst over critical decisions—as if he wants the historical records to see him in that manner.  President Wayne ‘plays’ for the cameras and is, in fact, more a caricature that he’s created to fill future volumes of history. In reality, he is ruthless and devoid of genuine human feelings—believing his own hype about being one of the greatest political figures ever known. 

Once learning of the planet Erus and its startling secrets, Wayne becomes determined to keep its resources under his personal control.  In order to keep curiosity seekers and privateers from meddling with Erus, the President-For-Life concocts a brilliant scheme to make the planet undesirable to outsiders.

Wayne decrees that Erus was to become a prison planet, a depository for the living refuse of the Confederacy. Wayne creates a place so cruel and inhospitable, no man in his right mind would ever venture there of his own free will.

However, the brilliance of the plan was that Wayne has also conscripted a massive work force by using the prisoners as slave labor for mining the planet of its secret riches. 

With no chance of parole, the convicts would live—and die with the planet’s secrets safe from the outside world.