Freya Sherman

Doctor **Freya Ruth Fox-Sherman,** known simply as **Freya Sherman**, (September 29, 1998 -) was a Libirachi scientist and politician who is currently serving as Health Secretary and Director of the ADAWR from February 20, 2023, as well as having previously served in a capacity as Deputy Chief Scientist of ADAWR between 2019 and 2023, and is the current Empress Consort to Penny Fox of the Libirachi Empire

As a relative political unknown, Sherman's promotion to the directorate of the Army Division for Advanced Weapons Research and the title of Health Secretary in 2023 came as a surprise to most Beijing insiders, with her promotion to secretary of state largely being viewed as her pulling in a favour with President Damien Salamander from her time working at the Ministry of War during the Has Wars whilst Salamander was still Minister of War. In spite of this, Sherman proved to be an effective manager in military weapon research as well as general medical care, despite only having a scholarship in the field of physics. Sherman used her new title to consolidate power within the ADAWR and over the course of the Libirachi Civil War, Sherman and the Empress Fox grew close as the two worked together to design new technological advances for the war effort.

Despite her general obscurity, Freya Sherman made headlines in big ways in 2026 with the discovery that she was engaged in sexual relations with Empress Penny Fox, which began the Wahngso Crisis in which major political leaders attempted to blackmail the Libirachi empress into abdicating under a false charge of "gross misconduct in office"; after being held hostage, Sherman and Fox were freed by members of the Vindicta, ending the attempted coup d'état and leading to a complete overhaul of the Libirachi constitution's writings on gender roles and matrimony with the Same-Sex Relations Act 2026 which legalised both same sex marriage and civil partnerships too, with Sherman and Fox opting for the latter and Sherman assumed the title of Empress Consort in late 2026.

Sherman remained within the government during the 2033 Libirachi Coup d'état and was able to remain as the Director of the ADAWR as the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order began to assimilate all roles of government. In 2028, Sherman and Fox adopted a child and began to raise her as Kristen Fox, the Princess Royal. Despite being married to the Empress Fox and possessing a cabinet-level office of state, Freya Sherman remained a deeply private figure and stayed largely out of the public eye for much of her time as Empress Consort - in 2039 following the end of the Conquest of Africa, Sherman attended the 20th Anniversary of the New Order celebrations in Beijing alongside her wife and daughter, marking the first time the reigning Fox family had been on full display under the new regime.

## History

 **Empress of the Libirachi Empire****Reign • Coronation of Fox II**Xi III • Salamander I,II, III • Voor I, II • Rivera
Commission for the Preservation of the New Order • Fox Dynasty • Imperial Privy Council • Mars 2030 Project • Shanghai Pact • Union of Aligned Nations • Libirachi Civil War • Wahngso Crisis • 2033 Libirachi Coup d'état • Conquest of Africa • 2034 Libirachi Army Purge • 20th Anniversary of the New Order • New-Think • Purges under the reign of Penny Fox • Historical Rankings of Libirachi Leaders

 **Regent of the Libirachi Empire**
**Regency • Council of the Regency**Libirachi Shadow Council • Libirachi Civil War • Commission for the Preservation of the New Order • Union of Aligned Nations • Libirachi Revolutionary Party • Chairman of the Union of Aligned Nations

 **Director General of COMPNOR****Directorate of COMPNOR**COMPNOR • Imperial Intelligence • Imperial Directory Board • Hǔnluàn • Hunt for the Hǔnluàn • Explosion at the Xi Kanna Power Plant • Explosion at the Ulaanbaatar Government Building • Assassination of Hazael Buller • Has Wars • Assassination of Omar Jude • Death of Laura Fox

Born into a middle class family in Beijing, Freya Sherman graduated from the Beijing Scientific Academy with a degree in 2004, before being inducted into the Army Division for Advanced Weapons Research (ADAWR) as a scientist on the Tsar Bomba project led by Chief Scientist Bevel Lemelisk. Having achieved a professorship at the Beijing Institute for Mass Destruction and Annihilation (BIMDA) in 2008, Sherman quickly rose through the project ranks, transferring into the ADAWR department headed by Inspector General Jacob Damall in 2010, helping design a series of neuron-implants which enhanced the cognitive and physical abilities of the wearer, effectively producing super soldiers, although the project was shut down after the loss of Airship Karunga in 2012 and the subsequent drive to cut back on extravagant defence projects. Taking command of an ADAWR division in Shanghai, following the government re-shuffle in 2015, Sherman and her team managed to develop new forms of advanced weaponry as part of Project Stardust, whilst working on procedural surgery techniques with the intention to reverse death in a human body. Despite failures with Project Rebirth, Sherman's team were instrumental in the construction of the DS1, being merged with Chief Scientist Bevel Lemelisk's Beijing team in the winter of 2017.

### Work for the ADAWR

Working with Bevel Lemelisk, Sherman advanced further through the ranks, becoming a Deputy Scientist in 2019 following the completion of the DS1, and was deployed to New Delhi in late 2019 with a division of Imperial Purge Troopers following reports of nuclear radiated "zombies" roaming the area destroyed by the test blast. Deployed back to Beijing after a series of terrorist attacks attributed to former Marshal Ashton Morre caused severe damage to national services, Sherman took command of a new division of ADAWR to chase down and analyse the advanced technology used to restore the former Marshal to full health, although with the destruction of Morre's base in late 2019, almost all evidence was lost and the group was disbanded, with Professor Sherman moving to take charge of an advanced weaponry division helping to build new weapons of war for COMPNOR soldiers on the orders of Director General Penny Fox.

Serving in her capacity during the subsequent Has Wars, Sherman rose through the hierarchy of the ADAWR, assuming some of the administrative functions of Director Jacob Damall in 2022 at the end of the Has Wars. With the death of Empress Fox I on May 27, 2022 at the hands of a Persian assassin, Freya Sherman was relocated back to Beijing as part of the new Regent Penny Fox's attempts to patch up the fractured bureaucracy left by the splintering of various regions into their own successor fractions. Serving in close quarters with the Ministry of War between 2022 and 2023 to help the war effort with technological weapons to help defeat the Confederacy of Independent Nations. Appointed to the office of Director of the ADAWR in 2023 and assuming office as Health Secretary in the reshuffling of the Damien Salamander I Cabinet, formed after Regent Fox grew frustrated with the slow progress of the war under President Xi Jimping, appointing the Minister of War to the premiership. Pulling in favours with Damien Salamander, Sherman pulled herself up to a cabinet office and as part of her Health Department reforms had the offices of the ADAWR Directorate and the Secretary of State positions merged to best control the two departments. Devising new weapons of war, Freya Sherman was tasked with the difficult task of overseeing the weapons to destroy enemy forces whilst also being responsible for the maintenance and supply of health products to the frontlines of the civil war.

### Wahngso Crisis

 Main article: Wahngso Crisis
Becoming one of the advisors to Regent Fox in 2023 following the change-over of the Chairman of the Union of Aligned Nations from Penny Fox to Stanford Newman, Freya Sherman became one of a select handful of people in the nation to ever have a personal relationship with the Libirachi Empress. Forged by necessity, the bond between the two former COMPNOR officers grew close during the war, and the immediate aftermath with the political reunification in the aftermath of the two major wars, with the two becoming intimate at some point between 2025 and 2026, when power hungry members of cabinet led by Grand General Guo Tijjan, former president and Duke of Beijing Xi Jimping and Finance Secretary Vladimir Medvedev confronted Empress Penny Fox over the intimacy of their relationship, essentially demanding for her to step down on the basis that she had committed an egregious crime and in order for the secret to remain a secret, then she would have to step down. With the armed forces taking control of the Forbidden City under the orders of Grand General Guo, Dr Sherman was rescued from house arrest by members of the Imperial Security Bureau still loyal to the empress, saving her from a scheduled execution, whilst General Maximilian Veers of the COMPNOR security forces led a mission to retake control over the Forbidden City from the LIA and Guo's forces, liberating the Empress from the coup forces and detaining the leaders of the coup. Having been freed from the Forbidden City, Freya Sherman became one of the principle architects of the Same Sex Relations Act 2026 which legalised her relationship with the Libirachi Empress, although the two instead opted for a civil partnership rather than a more formal marriage in keeping with the tradition of the monarch keeping an empress consort, a title formally applied to Sherman although never used in anything other than in foreign correspondence.