Michael Sisk

Michael Sisk was an American businessman, executive, investor, and later a political and military leader for Seaboard, a quasi-state which succeeded the United States after the great collapse.

Known for his deceptive leadership tactics and secretive projects, Sisk came to major prominence due to his involvement in funding and overseeing the creation of the Jinanvirus and the subsequent pandemic. Following the fall of the Federal Government, he successfully organized the development of Seaboard and appointed many previous corporate directors as heads of various parts of the government.

Within the highly militarized quasi-stage, Michael Sisk saw ambitious projects, military advances and takeovers, as well as mass exterminations. Controlling most of the Northeastern United States as well as sections of Afghanistan and Thailand, Michael Sisk was the Chairman of Seaboard until his death.

## Early Life

Born in Southampton, New York, Sisk’s parents were both wealthy English immigrants. Shortly after immigrating to the United States in the 1940s, Sisk's father, Clifford James Sisk, formed Seaboard Technologies, a research and development company. After World War II, Seaboard Technologies was contracted by the Department of Defense for research into the effects of high altitude flight on the human body.

In 1957, while Seaboard Technologies was strong and profitable, Michael Sisk was born in the town of Southampton, New York, on long Island. He grew up in Manhattan, going to prestigious private schools. Compared to his siblings, Michael was known to be rowdy, informal, and disobedient. He traveled frequently in his youth, but was opposed to his wealth upbringing. Michael Sisk ran away from home as a teenager, and lived on his own in the late 60s and early 70s, before settling in Oakland, California.

His older brother joined the Army in Vietnam against his parents wishes, and was killed sometime near the end of the war. His younger brother was chosen by his parents to succeed them, eventually going to college for business.

Without support from his parents, Michael Sisk went to college, majoring in architecture. However, he later switched his major to political science. Frustrated with college life and his peers, he drooped out before attaining his Master's in 1979. After, Sisk began political organizing for the California Social Democrats. He was prominent behind the scenes in the early 1980s, and ran for Mayor of Oakland in 1984. He was defeated in a landslide, but ran again in 1988. Defeated again by a thin margin, Sisk formed a comprehensive report on how he claimed the opposing party used their financial influence and voter suppression to win the election, before blaming the American Moderates.

Shortly after his defeat, Sisk's younger brother died from complications related to AIDS. After this, he became severely depressed, breaking up with his girlfriend. He moved back to New York at the end of 1988, where his father tried to get him back into the family business. Sisk begrudgingly conceded, but refused to return finish his college degree.

Sisk had two sisters, both who married into wealthy families and remained relatively unaffiliated with Seaboard Industries. He married in the early 1990s and fathered his son in 1993.

## Takeover of Seaboard Industries

Beginning to play a role in the leadership and financing of the Seaboard Biotech department, he also oversaw attaining government grants. In 1989, he recruited MIT graduate Arthur Wald to the Biotech team, however, he was delegated to lead a self-funded project not known by Clifford Sisk, Michael's father and the CEO of Seaboard Industries.

Extremely successful in directing laboratory teams, hiring employees and researchers, and securing funding and revenue, Michael Sisk was responsible for unprecedented growth within his sector. In 1992, Clifford James Sisk died unexpectedly of a Heart Attack at the age of 74. Shortly after his death, his only living son, Michael, assumed control of Seaboard Technologies and became the CEO. With majority control and stake in the company, he began secretly diverting funds to various underground projects. Assuming the gene-editing project led by Arthur Wald would see results by 1995, he planned to begin covert biochemical attacks to major executives and politicians he had met and learned to depise. He planned, with the hoarded recourses posessed by the company, to split from a virus-torn United States by the beginning of the 2000s.

Due to delays in the genome projects under Wald and others, the plans were continuously pushed back. He opened a new branch of the company which built military satellites, increasing revenue even more.

## Planning the Great Collapse

By 1999, Arthur Wald had exceptional results in his department. From there into the mid 2000s, Sisk began using his research for underground and highly illegal purposes. Contracting to German firearms companies, Sisk authorized the mass-production of modified Heckler and Kosh G36 rifles chambered for 9mm, coined "G39". Armor, preserved food supplies, and vehicles were also produced in bulk.

By the late 90s, project Gilded Honor began, which was an effort to engineer a mutated virus. Among the others, these projects were mostly kept out of the spotlight. Sisk knew it would never be secretive given thousands of employees, so he simply hid his own plans in plain sight, his workers in production believing all work was done under contract for the military. The heads of different departments were somewhat aware, in varying degrees, of Sisk's ambitions. Very few were fully aware.

Starting in 2015, investigation began into the production of firearms by Seaboard Technologies, led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. It came after leaked documents related to the production, asserting Seaboard Technologies didn't have the required federal permission to mass produce the weapons. Michael Sisk sought out business attorney Jared Coleman, who made it evident he could get the company out of the troubles for the right price. However, Coleman was aware of a greater scheme, and made an agreement that when whatever was to happen in the world goes down, he and his family would be supported and bolstered. Sisk agreed, and was able to keep the company relatively unscathed, resulting in fines and the ending of production of the rifles until proper business licenses could be attained.

In 2016, Journalist Olivera DeBravka began leaking documents related to illegal practices by Seaboard Technologies and Michael Sisk. He attempted to keep the documents covered up, which was partially successful. Before the end of the year, various anonymous parties alleged that Seaboard Technologies Biotech branch was designing a Supervirus. Michael Sisk then created fake documents to release in conjunction with these claims, suggesting multiple governments conspired together to create a planned pandemic. Due to the seemingly outrageous claims, the truth was buried with false claims and was all dismissed as conspiracy theories, failing to gain widespread attention.