Maximus of Sentara

Maximus of Sentara, known officially as USSEAI-2556, is a Sentaran politician and scholar who formerly resided in the Dominion's capital of Solatriya before moving to Vukhmir. He is one of the founding members of the non-governmental organization known as "Scholars Without Borders" and a member of the Progressive-Unionist Party, which he representsed together with Vukhmir in the Sentaran Citizens' Assembly until his resignation in 28 VE. After which he became a lawyer.
He is one of the few members of the Artificialis Intelligentia in all of Stoneworks, which has led him to be a leading scientist when it comes to the development of research on them.
Maximus was created by former Commissioner of Culture of the USSE David Venkesel-Sarot ahead of the destruction of Eldham, with David being able to use his god-given intelligence and powers to bless Maximus with sentience. For yet unknown reasons, Maximus inherited the personality of David-Venkesel Sarot although only as a basis, and in the time since the disappearance of his creator Maximus has developed into a fully independent and sentient being.
==Biography==
===Research and Development of Maximus (290-310 TE)===
During the final two decades of his tenure as Commissioner of Culture of the United Socialist States of Eldham, David Venkesel-Sarot began suffering from mental instability not related to any known psychological reasons. Fearing that something bad would happen to him sometime in the next few decades, David decided to begin developing an Artificial Intelligence, which he named USSEAI-2556, to carry all his knowledge and experience and continue his many works related to history and science. There were two main reasons David chose to create USSEAI-2556: the first being that David, as a cosmic entity, was unable to create any offspring as a punishment brought to him by the gods. The second was that not long before his mental instability began David started his research into Artificialis Intelligentia, which he deemed an "undeveloped scientific field."
Using the money he gained from being a journalist, scholar, and commissioner; David began to work on USSEAI-2556 in secret, with only his wife Adiega van Sarot knowing of the project. David gathered materials from across Eldham and Rathnir, with assistance from international Xeroist movements and NGOs, which assisted him in figuring out the basis of how to develop an AI. This process alone took 8 years.
The moment David successfully created the basis of USSEAI-2556 in the winter of 299 TE, ideas for how to further develop it began flooding into his mind, perhaps a gift brought to him thanks to his ability to have infinite creativity and intelligence as a cosmic entity. From the beginning USSEAI-2556 proved to be highly-intelligent and efficient, to the surprise of David. And so when, by the end of the following year, the physical body of USSEAI-2556 was created David decided to name him "Maximus." In honor of his mentor Maxwell Lazo and as a way to call him the "greatest AI developed."
Between 300 and 310 TE, David did everything to give Maximus all of his knowledge and morals, allowing him to develop his opinions independently otherwise. While the two began sharing personality traits, Maximus also didn't become identical to David. By the end of the decade, Maximus became the most intelligent and functional known Artificialis Intelligentia in history, birthing his interest in being a historian and scientist.
When David disappeared in 310 TE right after he resigned from all his positions in the USSE's government, Maximus was the only one to have witnessed what happened to him. David was turned into what Maximus, decades later, named the "Purus Angelus" (Pure Angel) in what he theorizes to have been an event caused by the Comet which struck Eldham and Rathnir. This event destroyed the bunker where Maximus was developed, and so he roamed the USSE while keeping a low-profile under the disguise of an average citizen, and only revealed himself back to the public as a refugee in Abexilas.
=== Maximus for the Citizens' Assembly (23-28 VE) ===
In the early 20s Maximus joined the centre-left Progressive-Unionist Party of Sentara, the main one standing to oppose the Far-Left Popular Front of Sentara which had been established in hopes of getting Sentara to transition into a Xeroist nation like the USSE. Maximus, while inherently believing that Xeroism could work, was encouraged by his creator's thought of "political experimentation" to adopt the P-UP's ideology. 
Shortly after joining the P-UP Maximus left Solatriya and moved to the city of Vukhmir, in the Mountainship of Vukhmir which is a stronghold of the P-UP. And in 23 VE elections were announced for the Sentaran Citizens' Assembly, yet the only candidate who ran was the Xeroist Leon Kerexon. So, Party President Devon of Vukhmir requested that Maximus put himself up as a candidate in the election as Vukhmir is meant to be a stronghold for the P-UP. And so Maximus declared his candidacy, running on a heavily republican campaign advocating for strengthening the Assembly and Sentara's republican democracy. 
Initially the race was expected to be close, with polling suggesting a possible tie between Maximus and Leon, but campaigning by Maximus through speeches among the local populace granted him a boost which gave him a much greater lead over Leon than was expected. After the results were announced, Maximus made a short speech thanking the people for voting for him and complimented his rivals, mainly for "making this election fair and competitive." Just as he finished the speech, he went to get interviewed by The Dwarven Chronicle, a newspaper in Sentara. 
After an inactive CA for 4 years, Maximus decided to resign in order to focus on the inner politics in Vukhmir, the P-UP, and on the SWB. Before this, he led reforms to the organization of the Progressive-Unionist Party that formalized the creation of a factional system, and instated a proper bureaucracy within it. Through these reforms, he saw the creation of the PUP-Scepter (right-wing), PUP-House (centrist), and PUP-Torch (left-wing). He was then appointed the Chair of the PUP-Torch, over which he oversaw further internal reforms. 
=== Vukhmirian Political Life (28 VE-Present) ===
First thing Maximus set out to do after his resignation from the Citizens' Assembly was to propose to the Vukh Grand Assembly (the local legislature) that he be given the authority to write up a constitution for the province, with the intentions of turning it into a strong, politically diverse, democracy to hopefully serve as a beacon of democracy for Sentarans and Abexilans everywhere. With support from Mountain Lord and First Advisor Devon of Vukhmir, Maximus immediately won the support of the Grand Assembly and quickly got to work. The constitution began writing shortly after Maximus passed the bar exam to become a Sentaran government lawyer. According to some of his statements, he became a lawyer for the sole reason that it be fair for him to be the person in charge of writing a new constitution. 
Maximus, who was convinced by his experience in Vukh politics to shift toward the center, wrote up a 5-page Constitution clarifying the roles and powers of the Political Administration and Judicial Administration. He also clarified the rights and terms of the citizenry, the process of holding public referendums, and the process by which Vukhmir may choose to secede from Sentara or keep itself as a loyal province of the Dominion. Maximus wished to use the constitution to also prove to the world that parliamentary democracy can work, and that previous Stoneworks nations who have attempted to implemented failed to make it so due to the lack of a proper checks-and-balances system that made every position "mortal." As part of this he made sure the constitution made it relatively easy to form political parties in Vukhmir and he enshrined the rights of independent politicians to ensure proper competition. He also put effort into empowering the Grand Assembly as much as possible as a legislature and to make the Judiciary as strong and independent as possible while keeping the Mountain Lord relatively influential over it.
Although a supporter of the continued Federation with Sentara, Maximus wrote an entire section in the constitution explaining the procedure which Vukhmir must follow if it wishes to secede, although the section also emphasized cooperation with the Federal Government and remaining loyal to it so long as Vukhmir is a part of it. This was done mainly at the suggestions of Devon, who did not wish to anger the Sentaran government. 
In mid-29 VE Maximus handed the final draft of the Constitution over to the Grand Assembly, which accepted it unanimously. And thus a referendum was called for the Vukh citizenry to vote on whether they approve of the Constitution. Ceremoniously, Maximus was the first to vote for the Constitution.
== Scientific Work ==
Maximus, as one of the top researchers of Sentara, dedicates nearly all of his time into research. Thus far throughout his career he has focused his scientific/biological research on three races/groups: his own, the Artificialis Intelligentia, the Villagers, as he was the one who gave them their scientific name "Homo Vicanus", and the Purus Angelus, which he seeks to extend into what he has called the "Divinum" race group to include all gods and other cosmic/divine entities. 
He is a member of the "Council of Scholars", the ruling organ of a non-governmental organization known as "Scholars Without Borders", a still very small and young organization created by Zilatran scholar and politician Diogo Ronango'O, who he is currently working with on all of his research projects.
== Ideology ==
Since becoming a prominent member of the Progressive-Unionist Party, Maximus has self-identified as a "Radicalist" or a "Classical Radicalist." In contrast with the centrist politics of the rest of the P-UP, Maximus supports radical political, social, and economic reforms in Vukhmir and Sentara. Maximus advocates for Secularism to be enshrined in both the Vukh and Sentaran constitutions, he also can be seen as a "Civic Nationalist" but specifically in Vukhmir, which he wishes to turn into a culturally, religiously, and politically diverse nation while supporting the growth of Vukh traditionalism.
==Electoral History==
23-24 VE Election for Citizens' Assembly (Vukhmir)
Party 	Candidate
Popular Front of Sentara (PFS) 	Leon Kerexon
Progressive-Unionist Party (P-UP) 	Maximus of Sentara
Dadoo Political Party of Vukhmir (DPPV)	Pilot the Dwarf
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