Arthur Feingold

Arthur Feingold is the mastermind behind the Progress fleet project, a member of the Technocracy's triumvirate, and the primary Technical commander in the Main Belt during the Solar War.
Born in SY 79, Arthur Feingold was the son of Noveautrean parents who instilled in him a fiercely belief in the necessity of sacrifice for the sake of progress and adherence to a political philosophy of the rule of the intelligentsia.
During his early adulthood, he emigrated from Noveautrea to the Confederacy. He found work as a technical supervisor for Dosijing’s utility service and was exposed to Architecture, of which he became an adherent. He brought with him also a great love of the writings of Thorstein Rautenstrauch and, making contact with like minded fellows, became an early organizer of technocrat labor in the Main Belt. 
He witnessed the Freitaika Rebellion, an event that radicalized him in the direction of spacer self sufficiency and the need for more direct protection of liberty and civilization than the Confederacy could provide. However, this event also left him with a deep sense of cynicism, convinced that the consciousness of the spacer rather than their material conditions were what needed changing. Inspired, he began blocking out the Progress project and later experienced a stroke of inspiration when he realized this project could be a unifying force among spacers and could be catalyzed by the forces of Technocracy. 
Feingold would grow frustrated with the lack of enthusiasm this project would be met with by the wider public, embraced over the decades only by a hard core cadre of fellow technocrats. During this time, he wrote extensively to Rautenstrauch and took the correspondence as a sign of blessing. He also met Nikolaisha Varkosky, the commander of the unified Technocracy militias that were then legal under Confederate law. The two joined forces and a professional armed political cadre was developed. 
Around SY 119, Feingold became an accelerationist and believed that if the project were ever to be completed, it would require force. For him, the answer to the material question came not through fundraising and donations but through seizing of the needed material. To that end, Feingold kept these thoughts to himself and began laying the groundwork for a series of actions that would lead directly to the Solar War as a consequence. 
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