Harold Archins

* Basic Info
* Relations
* Occupations

Lieutenant General in the Sandy Clay Republican Army:

M9-01 391 ASB - M6-07 397 ASB

Lieutenant General in the Sandy Clay Regional Army:

M3-28 386 ASB - M9-01 391 ASB

General in the Clayistan National Army

M2-18 375 ASB - M7-17 378 ASB

Major in the Clayistan National Army:

M2-28 367 ASB - M2-18 375 ASB

Captain in the Clayistan National Army:

M10-30 363 ASB - M2-28 367 ASB

## Biography

### Early life (340 ASB - 358 ASB)

Harold Archins was born on M5-13 340 ASB in the Sandy Clay village of Greenrock in the Kingdom of Clayistan. Archins moved to Point-slag on M3-04 358 ASB to join the Clayistan National Army (CNA) which he joined on M3-07 358 ASB.

### Clayistan National Army (358 ASB - 378 ASB)

Harold Archins was made a Captain in the CNA on M10-30 363 ASB. When the Sand Republic invaded the Sandy Clay Loam Protectorate on M10-28 365 ASB Archins was serving in the city of Annaractine, he spent the first few years of the war patrolling around the city and fighting mock battles, he was told by General Haroon Byrne who was the head of the forces at Annaractine that it was in preparation for a counter invasion of the Sand Republic. Archins was promoted to the rank of Major on M2-28 367 ASB.

M5-29 368 ASB Harold Archins married a Clay waitress at a diner in the Annaractine military base named Lara Winters who took the name Archins.

On M4-14 373 ASB the Sand Republic landed in northern Clayistan, all of Byrne's forces including Archins were initially ordered to remain at Annaractine. A day after the capture of Terracotta City on M5-15 373 ASB Byrne had his forces split into three groups, one being led by himself that contained most of his best officers and would serve as an attack group, one being given to Governor Chad Sutton to defend the Annaractine and one group being given to Archins to serve as a mobile distraction.

On M7-16 373 ASB despite being composed of decently under equipped men Archins' forces re-captured the city of Pockton from the Sand Republic. Archins was present outside of Terracotta City on M1-04 375 ASB preparing for the battle to retake the city when the Sand War ended with the Sand Republic forces opening the gates of Terracotta City. On M2-18 375 ASB for a combination of his actions during the war and a power vacuum created by the deaths of several prominent generals Harold Archins was promoted to the rank of General within the CNA, this made him the highest ranking Sandy Clay within the army.

On M8-23 377 ASB Harold Archins's wife gave birth to a daughter named Helia Archins.

On M7-13 378 ASB Harold Archins began reading "The Southern Walls" by Dao Go which detailed Dao Go's service in the Sandy Clay Regional Army (SCRA) and their betrayal by Clayistan during the Sand War, he finished the book three days later. The day after he he confirmed the sources mentioned in the book and left the CNA under the guise of an early retirement and set off for Sunbell to meet with Dao Go, his wife and daughter remained in Clayistan.

### Work for Dao Go (378 ASB - 391 ASB)

Harold Archins arrived in Sunbell and met Dao Go on M7-28 278 ASB, he discovered that Dao Go had been removed from the SCRA for publishing his book. Five day after they met Dao Go requested that Archins write for him a hypothetical military curriculum for the schools of the Sandy Clay Autonomous Region (SCAR) to include in his new book, Archins willingly agreed and began writing that same day. Dao Go's second book titled "Secrecy and Treason" released on M3-14 379 ASB well before Archins had finished writing his theoretical curriculum, when Archins asked Go if he wanted him to continue writing it Go told him that he would "...put it in the next book".

On M7-21 379 ASB Dao Go was reinstated in the SCRA, given the rank of General and declared it's head under the orders of the recently crowned King of Clayistan Dervot IV, Archins once again asked Go if he should continue writing his curriculum to which Go confirmed that his curriculum was an "...absolute necessity". Archins finished writing the curriculum on M9-10 381 ASB and presented it to Dao Go, only three days later Dao Go met with the Governor of the SCAR Manfred Urchin and convinced him to implement the curriculum. On M3-28 386 ASB Dao Go offered Archins the rank of Lieutenant General within the SCRA, Archins accepted this position despite knowing that it would throw off his cover of being in Sunbell under the guise of an early retirement. Three days after his appointment to Lieutenant General Archins was sent to the southern border garrison just outside the city of Makan.

Archins was informed over radio on M1-01 389 ASB of Dao Go's plan to seize control of the Government of the SCAR, Archins was ordered to remain at his garrison when the coup takes place as to keep the regional government unaware of the coup. Dao Go's coup was successfully excited on M8-08 390 ASB with Dao Go becoming the new Governor of the SCAR and Theodore Thompson becoming the new Mayor of Sunbell. On M9-01 390 ASB less than a month after Go had taken control of the SCAR and a day after the announcement of the Soil Union election additional soldiers were sent to the various border garrisons, Archins began to suspect an offensive war was in the works, he decided against asking Dao Go to confirm this. On M9-01 391 ASB Harold Archins was informed by Dao Go over radio that he had declared independence from Clayistan as the Revolutionary Republic of Sandy Clay (RRSC) and sent Archins orders to invade and occupy the northern regions of the Sandy State, beginning the Great Soil War.

### Great Soil War and Levilius Trial (391 ASB - 398 ASB)

Harold Archins' march to through the Sandy Clay Loam region of the Sandy State was almost unopposed by the local Sandy Clay Loams and On M9-03 391 ASB decided to begin recruiting Sandy Clay Loams into his army from the settlements that he captured. Archins took Levilius on M11-27 391 ASB after the city's capture he made it his primary base of operations often driving between it and the front lines.

On M4-17 394 ASB Archins was informed that Dao Go had been captured by Soil Union soldiers and that a rescue mission was in the works being lead by Theodore Thompson. A meeting was held between Dao Go's nine Lieutenant Generals over radio to determine his successor if he could not be rescued, the meeting lasted three days when it was finally decided that Theodore Thompson would replace Dao Go as their leader on paper but each of the Lieutenant Generals would act pseudo-independently of Thompson and each other.

On M5-24 395 ASB Levilius was attacked by the Soil Union whilst Archins was present and fully captured the city along with Archins two days later, Archins was imprisoned in Levilius. Although Archins had been captured the soldiers who he had commanded still controlled large portions of the northern Sandy State, the Soil Union attempted to force him to order a surrender. Despite multiple strategies were being used to force him to order a surrender he did not and claimed that only the Commander in Chief of the RRSC could order him to surrender. On M11-13 396 ASB a radio transmission from Theodore Thompson ordering the surrender of the RRSC was show to Archins, Archins promptly wrote several letters of surrender that were to be sent to his men still fighting against the Soil Union and Sandy State.

On M2-03 397 ASB Harold Archins was informed that the Great Soil War was over and that he was now awaiting trial for his actions during the war, during the following months Archins noticed a large influx of Sandy Clay prisoners arriving. On M5-10 397 ASB Theodore Thompson was placed into Archins's cell, Archins told Thompson that he believed that the prisoners were being placed in groups of twos in an attempt to get them to confess their crimes each other. On M8-03 398 ASB Harold Archins was removed from his cell and was brought into a large room filled with various people, Frank Stallion the Union Head of the Soil Union stood at a podium at the back and announced that Harold Archins had been accused of war crimes, refusing to surrender on capture, contributing to the overthrow of a legitimate government, prolonging an unlawful war and using enemy civilians as soldiers, in his defense Archins claimed that he had done nothing that any other competent leader would not do. The trial took only four hours and in the end Harold Archins was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to imprisonment beneath the city of Voltucique, he was then placed back in his cell where he told Thompson of his fate before he was sent off for his own trial. Archins was loaded on a truck destined for Voltucique two hours after his trial.

### Life in Voltucique (398 ASB - 421 ASB)

Harold Archins arrived in Voltucique on M8-14 398 ASB, to his surprise instead of being placed in some underground chamber he was placed and locked in a room in the Sandy State's government building he was fed three high quality meals a day by the buildings staff. On M11-17 398 ASB just over three months after his arrival Frank Stallion entered into Archins's quarters and gave Archins a proposition "Work for the Soil Union or be sent to the now completed chamber beneath Voltucique" Archins chose to work for the Soil Union. Following his decision to work for the Soil Union Archins was permitted to leave his room though he was still restricted to the government building, he was given the task of designing a military curriculum for the Sandy State. On M4-30 400 ASB, following the withdrawal of Clayistan and the Sandy Clay Commonwealth from the Soil Union Archins task was updated to designing a military curriculum for all of the Soil Union. Archins finished his curriculum design on M2-20 405 ASB, he was then placed into a largely advisory position until further notice.

### Service on the Precious Metals Continent (421 ASB - 422 ASB)

On M1-01 421 ASB Harold Archins was given the rank of Lieutenant General in the Soil Union Armed Forces (SUAF) and given orders to travel to the Empire of Red on the Precious Metals Continent to train rebels, he was assured that it was training was the only thing that he would be doing there. Archins arrived at the Soil Union camp within the Empire of Red on M1-21 421 ASB and began his training program immediately. Archins finished training his first group on M9-25 421 ASB and began training his second group. Archins was killed on M1-28 422 ASB when the forces of the Empire of Red shelled the Soil Union's camp.