Thomas Jackson

Thomas Jackson is the most well-known emperor of the Lukeian Empire. He is older brother to Alec Jackson, who is the next selected emperor.

## Old Lukeian Career

Thomas was one of the original miners, along with the Grigorian brothers, who founded the pastime back in 2013. He and Jacob were aged between 5 and 6 at the time, and Luke was between 8 and 9. There isn't much that we know about this time, but more info can be found on the Early Ages page.

Thomas then began his career as a miner and raider in Year 1. Him and Jacob became respected workers for Luke's company.

In 2016, Luke moved to secondary school, leaving Jacob and Thomas heirs to his empire. Thomas and Jacob were 7 at the time.

### Rise to Power

As a natural born leader, Thomas took the reins and, over the next 3 years, became the most well known miner in the history of Chalk Mining. He left fear in his wake, as his prestigious company became the most successful ever. However, that uncovered a lot of hostility and Thomas dealt with regular raids. Luckily, he had an excellent team of miners and raiders on-side who batted off the attacks.

### Peaceful Company

In Autumn 2018, Thomas started a peaceful company, with his brother Alec, a team of miners, Jacob and Isaac Whitaker, a friend he'd made the previous year. The company was committed to peaceful interactions, and was fully against raiding as a concept. But, raids were inevitable. In October the same year, the base was wrecked while the company was escaping. A team of raiders used a battering log to break the barricade, then looted all the logs. Thomas then went in for a final battle with the Raiders' Union, who had attacked the base. The exchange ended badly, however, and a team of DLs had to clear up the argument.

## Early New Lukeians Career

In April 2019, the school opened the Field a few months early, due to an early heatwave.

Thomas took this opportunity and began to reconstruct his chalk company for the new season. However, he found a lot of the staff he'd previously hired had migrated to another company - the New Lukeians - so decided to join their company. A few days later, they changed the name to the Lukeian Chalk Company.

### Operation Gypsy

At that time, the company resided at Tarantula Hill, where they had their earlier success. From that vantage point, they fought the two Field Wars, both of which they won, and created the Warhammer.

However, due to a complaint from a lady over the fence, the Lukeians were forced to move to a new base in what was called Operation Gypsy. They moved all of the logs, and the pinwheel table and several other pieces of equipment to the newly vacated Prickle Base. This created a lot of confusion for the raiders, who saw that the company was no longer in the hill, and mounted a search. It wasn't long before they found the new base, but the raiders fought them off.

## Mid New Lukeians Career

After surviving several attacks on Prickle Base, the Lukeians found themselves with a new head-teacher who wasn't overly keen on the trend. Soon, the base was cordoned off with literal and metaphorical red tape. In accordance, Thomas assembled a team to retrieve the logs. They carried them to the makeshift Scorpion Shade base, which didn't last very long, due to it being in a very open space.

The logs were then moved to the Canopy base. This was safer, as it was very enclosed, and well guarded, but it was in a popular hiding spot, and it was hard to navigate. At this point, Thomas decided it was time for a change. They reorganised and very slightly relocated the base in what was referred to as Operation Solomon. This, however, backfired a little, and Dan Morris stole the Warhammer soon after. Luckily, it was retrieved, then it was disposed of again to end arguments.

### Dustbomb Factory

During May of 2019, Thomas, Isaac and Jacob had their SATS, so Raph Elms was left in charge of the company during their period of absence.

When the three returned, the Lukeian base had abandoned chalk altogether, and had begun trading dustbombs for logs instead.

So, the trio set out on a journey forming an independent and truly peaceful company (Luke's Nomads).

## Late New Lukeians Career

The Nomads travelled a little further, then their Year 6 Residential began. When they returned, Thomas began a small base in the Tube. They accumulated a team of Year 1s and 2s over the next few weeks, and then Thomas made a revolutionary decision: the Lukeian Chalk Company was to return to Luke's original mine.

### Luke's Original Mine

Once the company settled, Thomas decided that true peace was good thing to uphold, so didn't try to obtain any new logs. Instead, they began digging to find what had originally been Luke's mine. After Luke left the school, the teachers attempted to cover up the mine with the dirt he'd dug up. However, they didn't do a good job of it, and Thomas and Jacob managed to uncover it with ease. They managed to uncover 4 sections of what they called the Northern Mine, and then managed to link them. The mine soon reached over a foot in depth.

As for the Southern Mine, this was worked on by some other miners. While it produced little chalk, it measured nearly 2 feet in depth.

### Forest Stronghold & The Final Battle

After a while, the Lukeians did gain logs once again, and built a fortress about a metre from the Northern Mine. This soon attracted popularity, and indeed hostility.

Near the end of July 2019, the Stronghold faced a attack. A team of raiders, about 20 in number, broke the Barricade,and started damaging the logs, including Isaac's ukelele. Then some DLs noticed the attack, and they came to break it apart. Simultaneously, Raph began a fistfight with some of the raiders. AFter about 10 minutes of madness, Mr Kirkham (the head) was called in, and broke apart the base with his bare hands.

### The Heir

As Thomas faced his last year at the school, it was his job to pick an heir. His primary choice had been Monty Brindle, a firm leader, but Monty had left weeks ago. So, in a last attempt to keep it alive, Thomas declared his brother Alec his heir.

In September that year, he moved to secondary school, leaving a prestigious legacy behind him.

Alec has accepted the role, despite not making any formal announcements since Thomas’s departure.