Steinric Deir

Steinric Deir was an Explorator officially commissioned by the Consortium with aerowings and the primary force behind the Freitaika Rebellion. He led an expedition of approximately four thousand colonists from Earth to the Main Asteroid Belt in SY 89. There, they founded a minor platform that was admitted to the Confederacy. A staunch traditional republican, Deir declined the traditional offering of executive power for life and encouraged the colonists to organize themselves into a constitutional republic. Two years after founding the platform, he relocated to Freitaika. 
For the next five years, Deir would use his significant political influence as an Explorator in the Freitaikan monarchist government. During this time, he gained anti-Confederate sympathies, believing that the Confederate government was too weak and that a stronger, more centralized spacer civilization was required to provide any real competition to the Consortium. His ideals were mostly popular among the intellectuals and elite of the platform, while the working and middle classes were overwhemingly supportive of the Confederate status quo and approved of the benevolent monarchy derived from the family of the platform's original Explorator. 
Deir and his followers engaged in public demonstrations where he gave speeches appealing to the general public for a strong centralized republic that would eventually grow to encapsulate all of spacer civilization. Despite being from Earth himself, he appealed strongly to anti-Earth sentiment which gained him some popularity. Independent polls taken in SY 95 suggest that about one in three Freitaika citizens supported Deir's ideology. 
In SY 97, Deir believed that he had gained enough support from both the populace and the government itself and orchestrated a soft coup. In reality, the majority of his support came only from the government itself and the wealthiest spacers. The Carlson family nobility was arrested. Overnight, a new Constitution (actually years in the making) was drafted, ratified, and implemented. Deir himself was unanimously appointed President of the Republic of Freitaika. Police forces did not exist on Freitaika, and the change of power was initially bloodless. The newborn Republic attempted to contact the Consortium for recognition of it's legal authority and hoped to establish independent trade outside of the Confederacy.
The Republic lasted less than a year as the populace and volunteers from across the Confederacy came to fight Deir and his followers. 
Deir was arrested for sedition, tried, and executed.
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