Orso Hawker

**Orso Hawker** is a Sordish politician, jurist and the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sordland since 1937.

## Biography

He graduated from Imperial Markian University in 1903 with a degree on legal theory. Later on, he started working as a public prosecutor and then as a judge at the local district court of Erlory until the fall of the Kingdom of Sordland. During the first government of the republic, he started working at the Ministry of Justice, where he became an assistant and contributed to legislative planning and constitutional law.

He joined USP after the coup in 1929 and was elected as a member of the assembly. He was known to have close ties with President Tarquin Soll, who appointed him as a judge of the 2nd Supreme Court in 1933. After the death of the first Chief Justice Gregor Marcia, Orso was elected to his position by the court in 1937.

The Hawker Court handed down several landmark rulings that significantly transformed criminal procedure, taxes, and other areas of the law. Many of the Court's decisions incorporated highly controversial policies of Tarquin Soll, including the approval of the Security Package Laws and ruling that the Bludish Freedom Party entering the elections was unconstitutional, effectively removing the Bludish identity from politics.

As a staunch establishment supporter, he represents the majority of the Supreme Court and he is regarded by some as the most powerful and divisive figure in Sordish politics.

## Role

Hawker serves as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at the start of the game, and as the biggest roadblock and threat in all three paths of the game. In both the Reformist and Dictator paths, Hawker will rally the Old Guard to go against the President, while in the Autocrat path, he will use his powers to turn him into a puppet, and will impeach him if the player fails to meet his demands.

At the end of Turn II, Anton Rayne will have a meeting with both Hawker and his ally, Heron Garaci, where they will try and convince the player to declare a state of emergency over the Bludish and Rumburg threats externally, as well as the violence of the communists and the nationalists; the latter of which was sparked by the assassination of Bernard Circas, which was orchestrated by Hawker's Old Guard ally, Lileas Graf with the exact purpose of tricking Anton Rayne into declaring the emergency. Should the player be pursuing a new constitution, he would voice his disapproval, and will attempt to convince the player that using the current presidential powers to declare a state of emergency is the best way. If the player is trying to work with the Old Guard, he will discuss the clauses that can be used to sign the emergency, and should the player agree to it, it will start the Autocrat path.

Should the player successfully pass a constitution with the Justices' immunity being removed, Hawker can be impeached and removed from office. Alternatively, it is possible to send the SSP after him on the Dictator path, and he will die from "natural causes". Worth noting that doing this on the Autocrat path will result in his dog dying instead, which will always lead to Anton's impeachment or exile.

Hawker is the Chief Justice who is the most likely to impeach the President. Hawker will impeach him for something as minor as sending Franc to Holsord State University, something which, while corrupt, will only go so far as to cause a media scandal and a drop in public opinion. On the Autocrat path, ending the emergency at any point during the game will lead to the eventual impeachment.

## Trivia

* Hawker is one of the oldest characters in the game, with him being in his 70s at the earliest as he graduated from university over 50 years prior to the game's start.