Ashley Hudson

1902-1996 (died age 94)

Ace Hudson (father)

Lucy Hudson (mother)

Dexter Hudson (husband)

Elliot Hudson (son)

Tyler Hudson (son)

Allison Hudson (daughter)

## **Early Life**

Ashley Hudson was born on August 11, 1902 in Portswater, Garecia. She was the daughter of Ace Hudson and Lucy Hudson. She was born and raised in the city of Portswater with her two brothers William Hudson and Jackson Hudson. Her brothers were taken into military training when they turned 16. However Ashley was left as an afterthought. She spent most of her time alone, mostly reading about famous historical figures in Garecia and beyond. Whenever she wasn’t inside reading, she would mostly be found traversing across Portswater and other, smaller surrounding towns. After she graduated in 1920, she was taken into military training, after her brother Jackson died of heat stroke the previous summer, and the Hudson family needed a replacement. As such she became the first female in the family to join the armed forces at age 18.

## **Early Military Service**

She was guided and mentored under her father’s wing. In 1928 she was given her very own small military division to command. However with these successes there were also losses. Her family was beginning to tear itself apart. With Ace Hudson aging, he grew more and more suspicious and brash towards those around him, and he became more and more aggressive in attitude, causing resentment from William Hudson, who began to despise his father for his extremist and militaristic ideology, and he began to drift more and more towards revolutionary leftism. Ashley on the other hand, watched in horror as the family she once knew was fractured.

## **Miller's Scandal Watch**

In 1933, the Miller Scandal was in full swing and Ashley was ordered to put her troops on high alert in case of an accelerationist rebellion. However this would never occur and her troops calmed down after news of Olivia Miller’s assassination came over the national radio. However this would turn upside down when in 1936 news came out that Ace Hudson had couped the federal government and declared martial law.

## **Second Garecian Civil War**

As the Garecian Republic collapsed into civil war between the Conservatives in the South, the revolutionary socialists in the Northwest, the military junta in Colville, and the fascists in the West, Ashley Hudson made the risky move of fleeing South with her army to join the recently declared Garecian Unitary Republic. In 1936, she became a commander under the Unitarian army.

Through the civil war, Ashley and her troops won battle after battle. In 1937 she and her followers broke into the capital city and in a tense confrontation, she shot her father who refused to surrender. Then in 1938 when the socialists were on the brink of surrendering, Ashley witnessed her brother William commit suicide after stating he refused to live under “capitalist tyranny.” With the conclusion of the civil war, Ashley remained in the army and was given the Garecian Medal of Honor in 1940 at the age of 38. However with the deaths of all her family members, she was left with horrid memories and scars that would last until her death.

## **Married Life / Cold War Service**

In 1946, she was married to Dexter Mitchell, and throughout 1951 to 1955 she gave birth to three children. Elliot, Allison, and Tyler Hudson.

Throughout the Cold War, Ashley Hudson led several men throughout many proxy wars. She fought in Brikarta in the 50s, the Congo in the 60s, Garatoa and Alesta in the 70s, and Yurchakia in the 80s. However by the 80s, Ashley was reaching the point of retirement. However she refused. Her top advisor at the time, Harvey Rogers, encouraged her to step down and even promised to take over as head of her military division, even though he was technically running most of the divisions tasks since 1976.

## **End of an Icon**

When World War Two broke out in 1990, Ashley was evacuated to a bunker outside of Hatchet, Garecia as the PR of Laurada began a full scale invasion from the Northern border. By 1995 as the war was coming to a close, Ashley could do nothing but sit and watch on TV as the country she fought so hard to maintain and protect get humiliated and punched in the face, as the morale of the army was plummeting. Refusing to let her nation surrender she departed from her bunker and joined the frontlines in Colville.

During the battle, she was shot in the arm by a young Lauradan soldier. She was evacuated again to a hospital in Hatchet. Her two sons and one daughter visited her when she arrived, but by the time they got there it was too late. On September 17, 1995, lapsing in and out of consciousness, passed away at the age of 93. And it wasn’t long until the Lauradan Red Army entered Hatchet and was outside the hospital. While escaping, the LRA came across Ashley’s hospital room and, realizing that their war time enemy had just lost a major national icon, signaled a victory, and took her dead body as a trophy which to this day is kept below the foundation of the People’s Hall in the Lauradan capital city. There have been attempts made to bring her back to Garecia for a proper burial and funeral but these requests have all be denied.