Ashton Morre

**Ashton Edward Nielsen Morre** (December 10, 1969 -) was a Libirachi politician, soldier, anarchist and campaigner who served as Grand Marshal of the Confederacy of Independent Nations between 2021 and 2024, as well as having previously been the 5th President of Persia between April 5, 2020 - August 29, 2021, the Supreme Marshal of the Hǔnluàn between 2019 and 2021 and a Marshal within the Libirachi Imperial Army between 2010 and 2019.

As a Libirachi General within the Libirachi Imperial Army and the First Legion, Ashton Morre served for over 3 decades in the armed forces of the Libirachi Empire, under the presidencies of Jacob Zuma and Nathan Jackson, until a misguided Invasion of Iran in 2019 led to a nuclear attack on the region and the decimation of the lands in which Morre was the marshal for, killing off numerous members of his own division. In retaliation for the nuclear attack, Morre denounced the Libirachi Empire and found himself imprisoned, and alongside his eventual successor Edward Mandelson, Morre faced execution for his betrayal of the state, although with the aid of some loyal soldiers he escaped into the desert reaches of the Libirachi Empire.

Founded in September 2019 following the 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état by deposed government minister Wang Yi, the Libirachi Republic adopted it's flag and new leadership as a government in exile with Wang as the self proclaimed President. Encountering former Marshal of the LIA Ashton Morre and his band of cohorts in the western mountains, Wang and Morre formed a working partnership, merging the two entities with Morre's gabble becoming the armed wing of the republic. Persuaded by Morre to rebrand the organisation into a paramilitary style regime as so to actually control the territory in which it occupied, Wang re-christened the group as the Hǔnluàn, with Morre's forces conducting various terror attacks against the new Fox Regime in the Libirachi Empire.

With the two superpowers of Bovido Has and the Libirachi Empire spiralling down into war, the Hǔnluàn switched it's target towards the fledging Persian Republic under the leadership of Emanuel Parra, destabilising the nation to the point where Parra and his government abdicated their responsibilities for their safety and fled to the Libirachi Empire. Meanwhile, Morre seized power and began forcing a state of anarchy into the nation, essentially making Persia into a terrorist's paradise with no laws and no centralised government with much of the Persian Congress in hiding alongside the exiled government. Eventually with the attention of the Libirachi beginning to turn away from Bovido Has, the Libirachi Imperial Army launched an attack on Persia, seemingly killing Morre in a bombing raid on his convoy as they evacuated him from the Nupersia Congress building.

Morre returned from his presumed death in 2022 as the leader of the armed forces of the Confederacy of Independent Nations, leading the charge against the Libirachi Empire and it's Union of Aligned Nations as part of his ongoing mission for the destruction of the Fox Dynasty; Ashton Morre would continue in his role until the Second Battle for Dubai, and after the death of Confederate President Almac Docu, Morre fled the Confederacy, retreating into hiding to continue his crusade against the Libirachi government.

## History

Born in 1969, Ashton Morre was born into a middle class family in the eastern reaches of Imperial China. After attending Military School between 1990 - 1997, Ashton More was accepted into the Libirachi Imperial Army as a General. Rising through the ranks under the reign of Jacob Zuma, Morre was appointed as a Vice-Marshal after Nathan Jackson came to power in 2010. He quickly became appointed as a Marshal, serving under Grand Marshal Edward Mandelson.

In late May 2019, the Empire declared war on Iran, leading to one of the largest bloodbath the Libirachi Empire had ever seen. Following a successful invasion of eastern Iran, the President threatened a nuclear strike upon the capital. His demands were not met, and shortly a Tsar Bomba class nuclear device detonated above Tehran, annihilating all of the Iranian government. Whilst this should have been a victory, the Iranian government refused to surrender, detonating a nuclear bomb to prevent the advance of the Imperial Occupation Legion. A nuclear terrorist device was also detonated in the Imperial capital of Beijing, levelling the main international airport. By the end, the Iranian government was weakened and opted for a surrender, which the Empire graciously accepted. Following surrender negotiations, the Iranian military lay down their weapons to Imperial soldiers and, to ensure peace, the remaining government officials were incinerated in a final nuclear detonation.

Regretfully, most nuclear radiation from the campaign was blown into Imperial Ranjor by prevailing winds. This caused a great deal of radiation sickness, and as a result, Marshall Ashton Morre denounced the Empire on the world scale, starting his downfall. Within a few days, Grand Marshal Edward Mandelson was his replacement. Thanks to Morre's outburst, Ranjor became a fully fledged part of the empire, with the existing government removed forcefully. Mandelson was a strong leader who, despite serious advice, advocated for Ranjor to become an independent province once more. This drove him to deliver an ultimatum to the President to convince him of this. However this failed, and he, and his staff, were captured and executed by imperial forces. After the failed rebellion, the President dissolved the state of Imperial Ranjor, deporting its residents to the nuclear wasteland of Iran, where the population descended to zero. With the fall of the provincial government, Ashton Morre and his superior Edward Mandelson, who had both grown attached to the population of Ranjor, were rounded up by Imperial Purge Troopers and taken to Beijing where they were given a show-trial and sent for execution on the 4th of July 2019 and 5th of July 2019 respectively. Despite this, Morre escaped and began to form an insurgency movement, collecting a range of freedom groups into the Hǔnluàn, and began a series of targeted attacks on the Libirachi Empire after the 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état had placed Xi Jimping as the new President and Laura Fox as the new Empress. Having destroyed the Mongolian administration building in December 2019, the Libirachi Imperial Army began tracking his new movement down, and in January 2020 destroyed their Chinese base, effectively forcing them out of the Empire. Despite this, the Hǔnluàn began moving against other countries in Asia, and set off a chain of events that lead to the Has Wars and overthrew the Persian government in April 2020, with Morre becoming the new President of the Persian Republic on the 5th of April.

## Hǔnluàn

 Main article: Hǔnluàn

Founded in September 2019 following the 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état by deposed government minister Wang Yi, the Libirachi Republic adopted it's flag and new leadership as a government in exile with Wang as the self proclaimed President. Encountering former Marshal of the LIA Ashton Morre and his band of cohorts in the western mountains, Wang and Morre formed a working partnership, merging the two entities with Morre's gabble becoming the armed wing of the republic. Persuaded by Morre to rebrand the organisation into a paramilitary style regime as so to actually control the territory in which it occupied, Wang re-christened the group as the Hǔnluàn, with Morre's forces conducting various terror attacks against the new Fox Regime in the Libirachi Empire.

Over the winter months of 2019, the Hǔnluàn began conducting major attacks on the Libirachi Empire under the leadership of Morre who deposed Supreme Marshal Wang Yi on December 19, 2019 and installed himself as the leader, but their campaign of chaos came to an end in January 2020 when the Libirachi Imperial Army conducted a joint raid on their mountain headquarters in eastern China, tipped off by a former member of the insurgent group, and shut down most of the Hǔnluàn network in the eastern reaches of the Empire. However, Ashton Morre and his cabal of loyal supporters mostly escaped and began causing local uprisings in neighbouring areas, such as Bovido Has and the expanding Persian Republic (which had gained self rule from Bovido Has in 2018). Following this, the Hǔnluàn became increasingly ambitious in their assault on Bovido Has, and engineered a political crisis in which both the Libirachi ambassador to Makassar and the Bovido Hassian Archbishop and Emperor were killed, with both parties blaming each other, beginning the Has wars. Despite no outwardly proven evidence for this case being presented, a common theory of historians and social-political commentators is that the Director General of COMPNOR, Penny Fox, provided funding and equipment to the Hǔnluàn in order to use the entity to target groups and governments hostile to the empire whilst staging attacks on it's own soil to disguise this; furthermore, it seems highly likely that if this activity was happening, it was unsanctioned and largely unknown to all but a select handful of COMPNOR officials, meaning that even Imperial High Command and the Empress Fox were in the dark about the involvement.

    With the two superpowers of Bovido Has and the Libirachi Empire spiralling down into war, the Hǔnluàn switched it's target towards the fledging Persian Republic under the leadership of Emanuel Parra, destabilising the nation to the point where Parra and his government abdicated their responsibilities for their safety and fled to the Libirachi Empire. Meanwhile, Morre seized power and began forcing a state of anarchy into the nation, essentially making Persia into a terrorist's paradise with no laws and no centralised government with much of the Persian Congress in hiding alongside the exiled government. Eventually with the attention of the Libirachi beginning to turn away from Bovido Has, the Libirachi Imperial Army launched an attack on Persia, seemingly killing Morre in a bombing raid on his convoy as they evacuated him from the Nupersia Congress building. Recalling the Hǔnluàn loyalists back to a session of congress, Karen Sanders was officially appointed as the President of Persia, and quickly began to call upon the LIA to cease its campaign under the premise that she was a democratic proponent of democracy but her regime came crumbling down as the congress in exile held an election to select it's new leader, picking exiled Libirachi politician Almac Docu to hold office of president, which he took the role of on September 1, 2021 with the execution of Sanders at the hands of the Libirachi Imperial Army. Having lost a second leader in the space of a week and having lost control over the Persian Republic at the same time, a battered Hǔnluàn under the leadership of Anton Ivanov continued in its attempts to keep a foothold in Persia, which ultimately came unravelled with interference from Almac Docu's government.

## Presidency

 Election
 Prime Minister

Escaping from the Libirachi Empire as the government began to crack down on the organisation, Ashton Morre led the Hǔnluàn into neighbouring Persia and began fostering disorder and anarchy within the nation, leading to a revolution in Nupersia whereby President Emanuel Parra resigned the presidency to allow Morre to take office in order to prevent too much damage to the nation and to protect the safety of his cabinet. On the 5th of April, Ashton Morre, the terrorist leader, was inaugurated as the new Persian President and committed Persia to the Has Wars in an attempt to enact revenge upon the Libirachi Empire, and seize land from the flailing Bovido Has. Surrounding the city, the Libirachi forces began several month long bombardment of the city, levelling much of the government facilities and forcing the Hǔnluàn out from their seat of power in the Nupersia Capitol building into smaller buildings, whilst the President of Persia began ordering strategic retreats back into the centre of the city. After a bombing raid on the acting capital building, the President was evacuated but his transport was intercepted by Libirachi commandos and detonated, apparently leaving President Morre dead, although it was never confirmed. With the loss of their leader, the Persian congress appointed Morre's Prime Minister Karen Sanders to the presidency, although she was quickly toppled and replaced with exiled Libirachi politician Almac Docu. As the new Persian government began to consolidate its power, the Hǔnluàn remnants began to shatter and their control over the city was finally destroyed in September 2021. Rallying his army to defend the capital city, Docu officially surrendered to the Libirachi Empire on November 14th 2021, beginning a 6-month occupation period (although it was cut short by the Invasion of Japan) and a transition period into a constitutional republic.

## Post Presidency

Faking his death during the Battle for Persia, Ashton Morre fled the nation into Bovido Has and found refuge in Jerusalem as a refugee and struggled to survive until his eventual Persian successor Almac Docu expatriated him in November of 2021 in order to lead the army of the Confederacy of Independent Nations, which he would lead in the Invasion of Obadiah Has and in the Libirachi Civil War of 2022 - 2024. As the head of a world-class army for 3 years, Morre would eventually disappear following the death of Almac Docu during the fall of Dubai in November 2024 and disappeared off the grid for several months, popping up again briefly in Austria during the campaign against Chancellor Sebastian Kurz before being found dead by the Libirachi Empire in 2025 with no evidence as to the nature of his death, leaving one of the most mysterious people of the 21st century with an even more mysterious demise.

The true nature of Ashton Morre's cybernetics would never be uncovered, and indeed why such cybernetic implants were needed became the subject of much debate and deliberation; an initial investigation was conducted by the Army Division for Advanced Weapons Research led by Freya Sherman in 2019 when Morre first re-appeared with enhancements, but following the destruction of Morre's Libirachi base the investigation was called off. Once again in 2025 an investigation was opened by the ADAWR with Dr Sherman, now the Director of the ADAWR, leading the research but most of the results came back inconclusive, leading to speculation that Morre might have been the puppet or a test subject of some other person or political movement, although no link has ever been properly made and its likely for this to remain that way.