Freya Ibsen

### Occupation

Astrophysicist, Commissioner of Nordica, Commissioner of The Atlantic Confederation

## Physical description

### Height

178cm

Freya Ibsen is a lifelike **Ai Android**. She is an engineer, astrophysicist, and political figure, with notable public influence. She served as Vice Commissioner to Jaan Minkenen from 2226, serving brief stints as Acting Commissioner of Nordica in 2250, and between 2056 and 2063. She Served as Commissioner of Nordica from 2263 until 2269, when the role became analogous with the Commissioner of The Atlantic Confederation.

> **"Her Appearance is perfection, attractive, kind, intelligent. But in her heart, you find depravity enough to make Ekrim Tekin look like Mahatma Gandhi"** - Jaan Minkenen in an open letter to Linkar Tayathein, 2266
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## Early Life

Freya Ibsen was born in **Boston, New Britain** on 12th June 2191, as an Integration of an advanced AI into an Android body. As a result of her non typical origins, Freya has a significantly above average ability to retain information and make calculations, allowing her to learn at a rate that far surpasses humans. She would learn at a rapid pace, becoming fluent at speech within a few weeks, before quickly learning a number of other languages and concepts. Her learning continued at a similar rate for the first years of her life, and she began making public appearances. In particular, she would frequently appear on Nordican television as a result of her unique circumstances, making her an overnight celebrity. Freya picked up a formal education at the **University of Trondheim**, taking a degree in psychology, as well as a degree in engineering physics, although only attended the former, having learnt the latter at a prior point, though still needing an official qualification to conduct work in the field. She disliked the formalities of university life, feeling learning there was too structured, instead preferring to learn at her own pace. She became the youngest graduate ever from the university, aged 8, though significant debate on whether she should graduate, given her natural advantages, had occurred. Even though many argued different rules should apply, believing that it would set a precedent that could disadvantage naturally born students, it was ruled that, by merit, she had earnt both degrees, and she was allowed to graduate. Shortly afterwards she began work on robotics and bioengineering, with the aim of creating a new body for herself, intended to look as human as possible. It was also around this time that she began work on a number of high end, technical projects for large companies. This, in conjunction with frequent television appearances made her quite rich, giving her the resources to peruse her own projects. Using this money, she would begin constructing her phase 2 body. **Freya believed that she could become the perfect human** and in response, began to mould her public image. The resulting body was perhaps the ultimate expression of this, with Freya even hiring a number of models to base her own body around. Her phase 2 body would end up being almost completely indistinguishable from human.

## Career in Astrophysics

Aged 15, she was recruited for the **Mission to Proxima Centauri**, the direct response to Neo-Europe's Hayat program. Now receiving state backing, she gained access to Nordica's resources, allowing for significant advancements. She quickly rose up through the team, becoming it's lead within a few years. In particular, she pioneered the Hagall's engines, and the Quantum Entanglement communication system it would use to communicate with Earth. The project only garnered her more notoriety amongst the general public, and a larger number of sceptics were rallying against her. In particular, a group developed a webpage that would output everything she thought to the internet. She would use her leverage with the government to prosecute the developers, though first wrote a loophole into the page's code that allowed her to censor anything that would compromise her activities, though notably allowed them to gather information on The Hagall's development, giving the government grounds for action against them. The government, fearing that this sensitive information could get into the hands of Tekin, quickly shut down the website. It was during this time that Freya discovered and joined the Fellowship of the Radiants, a cult with the intentions of world control, holding similar desires to herself.

Freya was present at the Launch of the Hagall in 2218, and would later become its main contact.

## Political Career

Having gained favour with the people, and being closely linked with both the Nordican government and The Fifth Commission, Freya decided to get a formal education in a political field, allowing her to work closer with Jaan Minkenen, who she had met whilst working on the Hagall program, and was at the time being tutored to become Aiga Truelson's successor. She took a course in Politics at **Stockholm University**, though rarely attended, claiming "I learnt in a month, what they teach in four years." She would likewise begin a relationship with Minkenen, and began grooming him, in order to gain power and influence from his future position. The two would begin planning for their Commission, with Minkenen promising Freya the role of **Vice-Commissioner**, believing that she would also succeed him as the Seventh Commissioner when he becomes too old to do the job himself. At the time, she saw no issues with the arrangement, with her and Minkenen agreeing on most of their planned actions, as well as being close outside of their roles. When Minkenen became Commissioner in 2226, the people stipulated that Freya **had to receive an update that would give her human emotions**, as it was feared that her solely logical brain could have a tendency to make inhumane decisions. Freya wrote a deliberately ineffective code to allow her to pass the requirements, but also gave her the freedom to toggle her emotions whenever she wanted, though this part of the code was obfuscated. The update was applied, and, now taking the surname **Ibsen**, she became Minkenen's Vice-Commissioner. She would serve as Minkenen's aide during this time, whilst also quietly growing her influence independent of him. She had developed a hatred of Tekin, and would channel that into her work, pushing in particular, further scientific advancements, as well as tighter relations with America and Panama, forming the Atlantic Association. She would become the direct ambassador to the Hagall mission around this time too, handling most of their requests personally. She would continue to oppose Neo-Europe after Ekrim Tekin's death, and was beginning to use this as a rallying point for Nordica and the Realm at large, targeting his successor, Franz Stuttgart-Tekin. To Freya's surprise, Franz was murdered by his sister **Wilhelmina** when he made advances on her, and the Tekinian regime collapsed with him. This complicated Freya's plans for Nordica's ascension, no longer having an external enemy to galvanise the people, as well as leading Minkenen to withdraw his support for many of the programs they had jointly backed, believing them to be unnecessary now that a free Neo-Europe had been restored. This upset Freya, who thought Nordica would inevitably backslide, and accused Minkenen of acting more like his predecessor. This culminated in 2250, when she orchestrated a failed assassination attempt on Minkenen at the **Tangier Conference**, which would lead to him taking temporary leave, affording her an opportunity to act. She implanted a chip into his brain, giving her the ability to **supersede Minkenen's Autonomy.** This control allowed her to undo the changes Minkenen had made since the fall of the Tekinite regime, effectively making her Commissioner by proxy.

## Commission Years

With the newfound influence, she further established close ties between Nordica, America, and Panama, expanding the roles of the Atlantic Association, forging it into a **Military, Economic and Diplomatic bloc**. The organisation would be challenged in 2256 when trying to intervene in a war between French Guyana and neutral Pará, her actions got Minkenen arrested by allies of Tekin. Despite winning the war, and stipulating Minkenen's release on the **Treaty of Porlamar**, French Guyana kept Minkenen, returning a clone of him instead. Ibsen maintained that she would only serve as **Acting Commissioner** until Minkenen is returned, though in 2263, French Guyanan doctors removed the chip in his brain, severing her control of Minkenen. Shortly thereafter, Felonius sent his findings to Indomalayan Commissioner Linkar Tayathein, who sent a unit to extract The Commissioner. This in turn, prompted Freya to send one of her own after Minkenen, which consequently met with the Indomalayan group, which had already taken Minkenen, resulting in a firefight. Nordican relations with Indomalaya soured quickly, with this being the first sign of open hostility between any two Realm Members since the organisation's inception. this in turn, drove a wedge between the Atlantic Association and those remaining in The Realm. Also at this time, she **officially assumed the role of Commissioner**, becoming Nordica's seventh, only further confirming Tayathein's suspicions. The new rift would only expand when Minkenen was found in Peru, which had so far, been neutral to the split developing in the Realm. This prompted a Panamanian led invasion of Peru, in attempts to secure Minkenen, and keep what information he had about Ibsen and her 'Hidden Coup' from getting into Tayathein's hands. However, the attempt failed, with a Chilean team securing Minkenen, and transporting him to safety in Indomalaya. Also a result of the event, The Realm voted by a slight majority to expel Panama from the Realm, over attacking and occupying another Realm member. Nordica, as well as the remainder of The Atlantic Association left The Realm in solidarity. The alliance would go on to unify into the Atlantic Confederation in 2269, with Ibsen becoming it's sole Commissioner, doing away with the commissions of the other Nations, although many from these gained positions in the new **Commission of the Atlantic Confederation**. Concurrently, she also worked alongside the Hagall, in documenting their findings on **Valos**, especially regarding the Valati and the Domolaki. After overseeing an attack on a Domolaki facility by a group of Valati in 2265, a revenge attack came on the Hagall early the following year, capturing it's captain, Ingvar Hauge, as well as ending the Hagall's ability to self sustain itself over a number of generations via the death of the only female survivor of the earlier crsah, Heidi Turéll. In response, Ibsen authorised a relief effort, allowing the launch of the **Kaun, Oss, and Naudr**, initially built for the second phase of the mission to Proxima Centauri, but curtailed when the landing on Proxima B failed, as well as retrofitting two larger military vessels, **NMV Sentyr and PMV Volturi**, to accompany the smaller craft to The Sanctuary. She would begin to build a rapport with some of the Valati Ivaks, and began forming the Valati Coalition. In the meantime, the Fellowship of the Radiants was discovered by the **NEIA**, leading to an ongoing investigation. while this continued, Premier Milosovic ceded control of Neo-Europe to Ekrim Tekin, with him reorganising Neo-Europe into The Human Commonwealth. Ibsen immediately began preparations for war with Tekin's reigime, though found this unviable without the Realm's aid. At this time, with an Indomalayan research group about to reveal her involvement with the Fellowship of the Radiants, she announced it herself, also revealing that she left in 2262, upon discovering that Tekin had influence in the group, though not before attempting sabotage, much of which went unnoticed, hampering The Human Commonwealth's future efforts in both the Soft War, and against the Domolaki. She would begin orchestrating a 'New kind of War', in which both sides would commit acts of mass disruption to their opponents, via the use of science and technology, becoming known as the **Soft War**.

Throughout the Soft War, Ibsen would prioritise attacks on Tekin, his projects, and even his surrounding family with an almost vitriolic fervour, such as with the attempt to destroy all trace of Tekin's cloned wife, Semola Kemal in 2283. While it is likely she intended each attack to send a political message, some have hypothesised these attacks lay in a deep seated hatred of Tekin and his ideals. Regardless, by engaging The Human Commonwealth in this way, she would critically impair the infrastructures of both nations, leaving them vulnerable to the oncoming invasion by the Domolaki. The landing of the Hagall relief effort on Valos would mark the start of the conflict between Humanity and the Domolaki, coinciding with Cassia Tsatsos' invasion of Earth the following year. Freya would play a crucial role in both the defence of Earth, as well as the Liberation of the sanctuary, using her connections to relay information between the two fronts. Though initially withholding information gathered on the Moons of Osiva in order to guarantee Tekin's downfall, she would eventually begin to allow this information to reach the other nations, allowing her to somewhat stay in control of happenings on earth.