The Chairman

== Character Profile: The Chairman ==
The Chairman. A man of strategy, a man of courage, a man who is not afraid to lead the world into prosperity and create what is now the Last City and the AEGIS corporation itself. But who was the Chairman before he became the Chairman? Was he a fearless leader, a man who always pulled strings from the shadows, or did he manipulate the world around him with more… brutal methods? The Chairman’s story starts in the city of London, the capital of the United Kingdom, and the home of the most powerful people ever known in the history of mankind. 
Even in The Chairman’s young days he was a strategic thinker with a unique mind and unique ideas. He always believed that a world united under one leader was a world worth living in, no wars, no more unnecessary death, just peace. As the First Resource War came along his views were only made stronger, he watched from the sidelines as some of the most powerful nations on the planet tore themselves to pieces over petty diplomatic squabbles. As the war ended and the ashes of the great powers settled, he got to work. The Chairman founded the AEGIS Corporation, an at the time military arms manufacturer. As the true golden age of technology hit Europe money came flooding in. The Chairman was not satisfied with just producing what was requested of him, no, he was always pursuing something more, and for his innovations he profited immensely, and of course the more money he made, the more money was sent right back into ARD.
The Chairman had achieved global prominence and wealth just by pursuing innovation, however, his dreams of a united world still persisted. As AEGIS grew larger and larger the chairman became gradually dissatisfied with his progress, no matter what he did the world only came together inch by inch kicking and screaming as it went. Tired of his slow progress he hatched a plot to try and unite humanity, and it started with the foundation of AEGAMI Aerospace.
AEGAMI started with small and rather simple goals compared to what would come, revolutionizing space travel and things like that. The real challenges were met when colonization of various parts of the solar system was proposed. Scientists of the world worked together in order to achieve this goal, and as resources were poured into it by practically every nation on the planet it seemed the Chairman’s scheme was succeeding, that was until the project was completed. He needed a new virtually impossible task that required collective human contribution to complete, and believe me those are in short supply. Again Scientists and resources pooled together in an attempt to immortalize the human race as AEGAMI launched humanity's one and only Von-Neumann probe, a probe capable of theoretical  self replication thus making it immune to the passage of time and capable of exploring the entire galaxy. The nations of Earth, while closer to interplanetary cooperation on all topics, were still very far from the end point, so like a bad movie once again the planet came together to complete another “insurmountable” task. Unsurprisingly it was completed with ease considering it was something seen as practically impossible just a few decades earlier.  It was on July 17th, 2071, that the Alpha Centauri project was completed ahead of schedule and launched. The project had taken a great portion of Earth’s resources and while the Chairman thought this would bring humanity together, he was sadly mistaken.
As bickering filled the UN General Assembly over who would reap the benefits of the colonial efforts they worked together to create, the chairman could no longer take it. The sound of his microphone turning on caused the attention to shift to him.
“Why is it… that whenever we work together it seems like everyone demands more than they actually contributed, leading to impossible demands from all sides. Are you really this eager to return to humanity's tortured past of war over money which we have an ABUNDANCE of! Our work, OUR WORK, is not quantifiable in any way, do you know why this is? We were not working independently, but UNITED, we were working as the human race and not whatever petty flag you fly over your head! WE ARE A PEOPLE, NO MATTER YOUR NATION WE SHOULD TREAT EACH OTHER AS A PEOPLE! Do you realize that everyone can profit equally? Or yet… Do you realize we are on the cusp of becoming an interstellar dominion..? This is the stuff of scientific fiction and yet what I see here is not a monolith of power, but a monolith of stupidity!” His final words echoed, and in their absence there was nothing but silence and shame. One representative however felt nothing but anger and responded with a fiery remark and demanding compensation equal to their work. The Chairman turned and began to make his exit and the further he got from the assembly, the more voices he heard entered the argument. The Chairman realized he had made a grave mistake, a mistake he would regret for the rest of his life. Being born into such a wretched society. That was the day the first plans for the last city were drawn up.
World leaders would be assassinated to delay the inevitable war coming, as the chairman got more desperate for time more drastic measures were taken. The road to hell is paved with good intention. If the world would not come together then he would have to get rid of the world and rebuild it.