Terry Blacksburg

**Terry Blacksburg** (December 16th, 1977 - August 3rd, 2021) was the head of the House of Blacksburg from 2010-2021 and the CEO and Admiral of Chuck Weapons. He also served as a commander in the Cum Territorial Navy during the First Great Realm War. He was a pirate and mercenary and gained a substantial net worth from both criminal activities and legal enterprises over the course of several decades. At the time of his death, he was the eleventh richest man alive in the entire Realm.

## Life and Activities

Born in 1977 to a French refugee family in the Cum Territories, Terry Blacksburg spent most of his childhood helping with his father's fishing business, gaining valuable experience and acquiring an affinity for the ocean at a young age. When he was fourteen, he enlisted in the Cum Territorial Navy, lying about his age, working for four years before receiving an honorable discharge to co-found the now defunct Chuck Weapons, becoming the leader of the maritime branch.

His childhood friend Chuck Johnson persuaded him to help him found their own mercenary company, which started with roughly seventy men and around forty in the maritime focused branch. It's unknown where funding was acquired to assist the foundation of the group but it is suspected Chuck received funds from Johnson clan members, many of the land-based mercenaries being Johnsons themselves.

It is unknown the exact date the group was founded but its first recorded action was in August 12th, 2002 when the group assisted a crime syndicate fight local law enforcement in the northeast of Cum Island. Terry, using modified civilian sailboats, routed a unit of reinforcing Coast Guard ships loaded with hundreds of military personnel, even managing to capture several. The lump sum gathered from the ransom of the captured ship crew was worth much more than the actual payment received from the syndicate. According to the prisoners, Terry treated them with the utmost respect and even had a banquet with them on the eve of the prisoner exchange in the captain's quarters. This incident would lead to a wider divide between the two branches of Chuck's group, whose naval counterpart became more piratical and influential, eventually becoming the financial backbone of Chuck Weapons.

Terry's ships pirateered the waters surrounding both Cum Island and Tibet, even having operations in Arstotzkan waters, many vessels surrendering as soon the black flag was raised as they approached. After a skirmish with the Cum Territorial Navy, where Terry sustained a gunshot wound to the chest and his ship was destroyed and sunk in 2006, Terry decided to resign from his position, leaving it to former Admiral Ackbar. Terry moved back with his family now in France who had been receiving cash wired over from his previous job.

From the years 2006-2020, Terry Blacksburg would continue work for Chuck Weapons on an ad-hoc basis as Chuck Weapons had set up their main headquarters and bases in Tibet as ObamaLand and many of the Johnsons within the group rose to power, ObamaLand himself was elected leader of the group after Chuck died from gunshot wound complications in 2003. Mainly, Terry worked to improve conditions in his community with the money he amassed. In 2009, Terry pitched his run for leader of the House of Blacksburg and later won in a landslide election. Terry threatened the government of France itself and Tibet continued to be on the precipice of major clan conflict, thus from 2012 to 2021, the coastal province of Negromuria practically operated as its own sovereign state.

As the First Great Realm War approached, Terry pledged his allegiance to the Cum Territories and supported the nation with troops and himself led large swathes of the navy. After the bombing ended, Terry led the combined navies of the Cum Territories, Albania, and Negromuria well against the more numerous and technologically superior Japanese forces. Japan threatened bombings against Negromuria, to which France and the Tibetan Republic met with threats of their own to assert their hegemony over Negromuria lest they continue to meddle in the war. Attempting to avoid jeopardization of their sovereignty or lives of civilians, the Negromurian Navy quickly departed from Cum Island under direct orders from Terry Blacksburg at around 6:12 PM on February 21st. The Japanese Navy did not engage the retreating fleet and hostilities ceased as Negromuria withdrew any involvement in the war.

## Death

Terry Blacksburg was arrested on July 28th, 2021 by the orders of ObamaLand, for allegedly having "Republican Sympathies". On August 3rd, 2021, it was confirmed by Tibetan intelligence and law enforcement that Blacksburg had hung himself in his cell in Paris with an improvised noose, though some say he was murdered in a plot to regain control over Negromuria. Other theories allege he had been suspected of plotting to overthrow the government of France.

He left a large inheritance to his now widowed wife and three children, HIP, HOP, and CARTOONS. His immediate family has maintained its commitment to his various other businesses and organizations, most prominently Negro News, a media company directed at French, Negromurian, and Villager audiences. In addition, Israelite Aid has continued to operate as a charity with the express purpose of aiding refugee Black Hebrew Israelites and their families.