Antes Romodi

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## Antes Romodi

### Occupation

United States Marine Corps Engineer (formerly) Civilian Naval Engineer (formerly)

### Specialized Training

United States Marine Corps Basic Training

### Family

Technical Sergeant Kirtman Romodi (grandson)Doctor Kassandra Romodi (daughter)

### People

Skyler Brooks

**Antes Romodi** is the founder of the Romodi Corporation, the largest ship-builders in the New American Empire responsible for supplying over 75% of the new ships introduced into the True Sons fleet. An engineer in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, Romodi developed a love of the sea after spending his youth landlocked in a hot and miserable jungle.

Upon returning stateside, Romodi worked on civilian vessels and would spend much of his free time sailing. He later married his high-school sweetheart and had two sons and one daughter, although one son sadly passed away at only six months from complications around his birth. Grief-stricken and looking for someone to blame, Romodi sued the hospital for malpractice, blaming them for not catching treating his son's condition in time. Romodi's case began to pick steam, until the hospital was bailed out of consequences for the state attorney general, who had a vested financial interest in making sure Romodi's case never succeeded and the hospital's mistakes were swept under the rug.

Romodi was furious, becoming convinced that the very systems of democracy, human freedom, and individuality were flawed and broken. He reasoned that a strong, one state centralized system would never allow such blatant corruption by a low-ranking official. Romodi quickly became radicalized into fascist and authoritarian views, especially following his wife's death a few years later in a car crash.

After the creation of the New American Empire, Romodi, reasoning that if the New America were to truly rise up and control the entire planet, they'd need a navy strong enough and big enough to cripple the rest of the world's navies combined. He formed the Romodi Corporation, and began pushing for the creation of new ships rather than simply refitting old ones as had been the standard up to that point.

Romodi is a believer in blind devotion to the state and it's leaders, as well as patriotism and moral strength. His company frequently uses propaganda tactics to indoctrinate it's employees of Romodi's ideals, chief amongst them being the belief that the main tenants of freedom and liberty are the need for a strong-armed government that displays power to its citizens, allies, and enemies, and enforces a strict sense order across their territories. Romodi also believes that victory and conquest will always be superior to truth, and that individualism should be put aside in favor of communal loyalty to the empire.

Antes had two descendants serving in the True Sons, grandson Kirtman Romodi, a Technical Sergeant in the True Sons Air Force, and Doctor Kassandra Romodi, his only daughter, serving as the head of Project Aceso.