Steward Smart

* Basic Info
* Occupations

President of the Republic of Maricis:

M5-11 401 ASB - M8-26 401 ASB

President of the North Fleet:

M8-26 401 ASB - M8-29 405 ASB

Captain of the North Fleet:

M9-20 422 ASB - M10-05 422 ASB

Leader of Smart's Army:

M6-29 430 ASB - M2-11 437 ASB

President of the Republic of Maricis:

None, position created

President of the North Fleet:

None, position created

Captain of the North Fleet:

George Twinton

Leader of Smart's Army:

None, position created

President of the Republic of Maricis:

None, position dissolved

President of the North Fleet:

Skellard Moaruit

Captain of the North Fleet:

Gregory Madison

Leader of Smart's Army:

None, position dissolved

## Biography

### Early life (358 ASB - 375 ASB)

Steward Smart was born in the city of Maricis on M1-04 359 ASB into the powerful Smart Family. From a young age Smart was trained by his family to manage their vast holdings.

The Silt Fleet was given South Estuaria on M1-04 375 ASB following the Sand War, the Captain of the Silt Fleet at the time Sebastian Trident thought it necessary to make native South Estuarian the governor of the new territory but it would have to be both someone that the Silt Fleet could trust and someone who the Silt Fleet could afford to have change careers. The person decided on was the seventeen year old Steward Smart whose family had close ties with the Silt Fleet and whose absence from the family business would not hamper the Fleet's profits.

### Governor of South Estuaria (375 ASB - 397 ASB)

On M8-25 394 ASB Liquid Carbon invaded South Estuaria, during their capture of Maricis they went straight for the governor's office, at the time Smart was visiting his father. Following the initial attack Smart and his father organised what men they could and set about starting an uprising, it worked well up until M9-10 394 ASB when the Liquid Carbon's began executing anyone whom they suspected of working with Smart's forces. On M9-28 394 ASB Smart made an announcement over radio requesting that all the people of South Estuaria depart via boats into the Eastern Ocean and meet up with his own flagship the SF Worm. By early M10 Smart's fleet numbered into the hundreds. it was painfully obvious that they could not stay floating on the ocean forever so he set a course for what he deemed to be the safest and most welcoming location on the continent, the Sand Republic.

Smart's fleet arrived at the Sand Republic on M11-16 394 ASB and to his and his fleet's surprise found the country to be quite empty, unknown to them the Sand Republic had misinterpreted the arrival of the refugees as an invasion and fled to the artificial landmass of Ramal Athnyn. Smart decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth and ordered his people to begin filling the now emptied Sand cities. Smart's concerns soon turned to 'his' border with the Gravel Commonwealth, Smart was untrusting of Gravels as he had never seen one before and sent several scouts across the border to check for enemy movement, they returned to him on M11-21 394 ASB with the news that they had seen vast war machines moving about. Smart decided that the best thing to do was to give a speech to his people about the discovery and his plan to prevent their imminent destruction. Smart's speech took place only a day after the discovery of the war machines and managed to rile the hearts and minds of his people, they knew that their only hope of survival was to build a massive line of impenetrable fortifications across the border, this project was named Fort Mud.

Two days after his speech Smart established a system to quickly build up the defenses, every man, woman and child would be brought in to aid in creating the defenses. Massive quarries were dug out to aid in the construction of concrete, all food was taken from the cities and was only given to the people at the end of the day. By 397 ASB Fort Mud was nearing completion, however Smart and his people were almost entirely out of food. During there time in the Sand Republic none of Smart's people tended to the farms along the neither coast and as such the fields were unusable. On M3-02 397 ASB Steward Smart was invited to the Jerusoilum Conference by the Captain of the Silt Fleet William Barge. Steward Smart decided to go to the conference under the impression that he might me able to convince those present to grant his people aid.

The Jerusoilum Conference began on M5-03 397 ASB with Smart in attendance. At the conference Smart attempted to persuade the other attendees to donate aid to his people, to Smart's surprise none of the other attendees wanted to give him anything, as they considered Smart's presence in the Sand Republic to be illegal occupation. It was decided that Smart and all of his fellow Silty Clay Loams would return to the Silt Fleet or face or they would be forcibly evicted by the Soil Union and that Fort Mud was to be destroyed. The Jerusoilum Conference ended on M6-07 397 ASB, Steward and his followers returned to South Estuaria soon after. On M6-11 397 ASB the Silt Fleet had South Estuaria politically restructured with Smart's position being dissolved and replaced with multiple new governors. Steward became the Governor of Maricis.

### Governor of Maricis (397 ASB - 401 ASB)

On M3-08 401 ASB a series of protests began in Maricis over the Silt Fleet's decision to ban trade with the Kingdom of Clayistan, Smart was informed by the Captain of the Silt Fleet William Barge that his forces would "maintain order at any cost". George Twinton, the local Admiral ordered a contingent of men to be placed around the Smart's office to protect him from rioters and would-be assassins.

On M5-07 401 ASB George Twinton and his forces stormed Smart's office. Twinton entered his office and demanded that Smart declare independence from the Silt Fleet and use his connections to persuade the other governors of South Estuaria to do the same, Smart agreed and Twinton left. Smart set about calling up the various governors and asking for their support in a declaration of independence. By M5-11 401 ASB Smart had the support of both the Governor of New Maricis and the Governor of Eastern Peak Port, he decided that then was the time to declare independence and declared the creation of the Republic of Maricis. By this point George Twinton had already declared the creation of the North Fleet and the Kingdom of Clayistan had already entered into South Estuaria to support them.

On M7-02 401 ASB the Silt Fleet and the Soil Union pulled out of South Estuaria. On M7-17 401 ASB Steward Smart met with George Twinton and King Dervot IV of Clayistan in Maricis to discus what was to be done with South Estuaria. The debate concluded on M8-26 401 ASB, it was decided that the North Fleet would annex the Republic of Maricis, join the League of Soils and would be restructured to have two heads of state, the President, Steward Smart who would be in charge of internal affairs and the Captain, George Twinton who would be in charge of external affairs, the Kingdom of Clayistan was placed in charge of securing their border with the Soil Union.

### President of the North Fleet (401 ASB - 405 ASB)

Despite having helped found the modern North Fleet Smart was not a very popular politician, many of those in the south of the country still supported Silt Fleet and many of those in the north of the country did not support the unity with the North Fleet and would have preferred that the Republic of Maricis remained.

On M8-26 405 ASB an election was held that saw Smart lose in a landslide to Skellard Moaruit who took over as President three days later. Smart was then hired as an advisor to the new president.

### Advisor to Moaruit (405 ASB - 422 ASB)

On M9-19 422 ASB the Captain of the North Fleet George Twinton was killed by a rouge artillery shell. A day later President Moaruit selected Smart to serve as the new Captain of the North Fleet. Smart suspected that the militarily would try and intervene and left to New Maricis on M9-23 422 ASB as that is where his support during the 405 ASB election had been the highest. Smart's prediction proved right when on M9-29 422 ASB Admiral Flax Layson attacked the Presidential Palace and captured Moaruit. On M10-02 422 ASB Admiral Gregory Madison attacked New Maricis and captured Steward Smart whilst simultaneously rescuing Moaruit from Flax Layson. Steward Smart resigned from the position of Captain of the North Fleet three days later in favour of Gregory Madison and two days after that Smart resigned as an advisor to Moaruit to retire.

### First Retirement (422 ASB - 430 ASB)

Smart decided to retire in the city of New Maricis where he purchased a decently sized manor in the city's outskirts. Smart soon grew bored with retirement and decided to convert his manor into a place for social gatherings. At first the gatherings were members of his family and former work colleagues but as the years went on the people attending the gatherings became more and more influential, people such as businessmen and politicians came to socialize in his manor. On M6-22 425 ASB Smart created Smart Club as an exclusive establishment. Smart Club differed from other country clubs in the area in that the members would often go on trips into the central of the country or even out of the country on trips either for hunting or for exploration, Smart enjoyed these activities.

On M6-29 430 ASB the Empire of Shale invaded the North Fleet as a part of the Second Shale Invasion of the Soil Texture Continent, among their landing points was New Maricis, that day Smart called a meeting with the Smart Club and announced that in order to protect their city they would go to war and from that point on they referred to themselves as Smart's Army.

### Shale Invasion (430 ASB - 437 ASB)

Immediately after his speech Smart and his forces armed themselves with their hunting supplies and ventured into the central portions of New Maricis to aid the city's defenders. Smart's forces came into contact with the forces of the North Fleet on M7-18 430 ASB, Smart was brought to meet with their leader Admiral Kenneth Proctor who informed Smart that the city had been almost completely surrounded by Shale forces. Smart decided to help the North Fleet in breaking the siege if only to create a potential escape rout for his forces, On M7-27 430 ASB President Skellard Moaruit announced over radio that Captain of the North Fleet Gregory Madison had been killed and that Maricis was under total siege, he ordered any remaining forces to Maricis to lift the siege and any available vessels to aid in removing civilians from the city. After the transmission Smart asked Proctor if he intended to obey Moaruit's order, he told Smart that he did not as he lacked the capacity to have his forces leave the city and that he did not recognize Moaruit as his superior. Smart decided that he would attempt to break the siege to aid Moaruit in Maricis and on M8-02 430 ASB Steward Smart and his forces fought their way out of the city with very little resistance and began the trek to Maricis.

Smart and his forces arrived at Maricis on M10-02 430 ASB, his forces had almost doubled on the journey over from people that he recruited from the villages they either passed through or liberated. Smart met with Moaruit on M10-05 430 ASB who thanked Smart for showing up and requested that he aid him in his evacuation of the city. On M8-26 431 ASB a vast number of civilians in Maricis were rescued by Dervot IV of Clayistan's zeppelin. On M8-28 431 ASB Smart, Moaruit and their collective forces along with the majority of the remaining population of Maricis forced their way out of the city and began travelling north-east to Eastern Peak Port where Smart would remain for the remainder of the war.

The war with the Empire of Shale ended on M2-11 437 ASB with the conclusion of the Sunbell Conference which Steward Smart attended.

### Second Retirement (437 ASB - present)

Steward Smart retired after purchasing a new home in Eastern Peak Port.