Garrison Varundle

Garrison Varundle was a political activist and politician from the system of Borel III. He was a major figure of Borel, because he fought in the Borellian Civil War and became the planet's first. He helped, along with Fredrico Borek, establish a following the defeat of the Absolutist's in the Civil War. He is also the blood ancestor of future galactic politician and Chancellor Kellen Varundle.

Early life
Garrison was born to a strong family, and because of that upbringing he also became a strong democratic advocate in his early life. He grew up following politics and how it worked in his hometown of Chicagwa. He went on to enroll in the Political Branch of Chicagwa University, majoring Political Theory and, he started to diverge from his original political stance and move toward a stance that involved a Consensual Democracy. After he graduated he met and married his wife Loretta and had a son also named Holt. He spent the next 5 years evolving and changing his political views until a Civil War broke out between the Rebel Absolutists and the incumbent Democratics.

He was hesistant of joining the Democratics, but relented to joining them once he realized the ramifications of the Absolutists winning the war. He was assigned to 300th "Screaming Eagle's" Division of the Army. There he met and befriended Fredrico Borek, the two combined for the two highest mission success rates and lowest casualty counts in the war according to statistics kept by the Borel Defense Department.

Operation Downfall
Garrison along with Fredrico participated in Operation: Downfall. The mission was to infiltrate the Absolutists bunker beneath the city of Rothana, they were to get through the waterfall entrance and capture or kill the leaders of the rebels, while the main section of the Eagles engaged the enemy away from the battle. The plan was a relative success in the eyes of the loyalists, only Fredrico and Garrison survived the mission, though they both almost were killed approaching the entrance.

They wound up killing the of the rebels and capturing their. The war ended, but not without their lasting impact on the major participants of the war and the system of Borel III. He slowly absorbed some of the ideas of the pleading dictator into a new philosophy for the government, his ideas evolved into a Constitutional Republic, led by a.

Politics
After the success of the war and his resulting fame on Borel, he was elected to a committee to determine the next leader and possibly the next composition of the new democracy. He, Fredrico and a cabinet of officials decided upon a Constitutional Republic to run the, while a Consensus Democracy would run the individual cities. After the decision, Garrison was named the President of the new government and named Fredrico the.

Behind the scenes
Garrison's first name was originally the last name of Kellen Varundle, his eventual. The division he enlists in when he joins the army, is actually the nickname of a real life. This character was also partially based on real life world leaders, , and , all of whom had been elected or rose to power after successful military campaigns. The name of the he attended was influenced by the author's hometown of  and.