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|image1=[[File:Raptormm4.png|200px]]

|office3=Member of the [[Cascadia House of Representatives]]

|residence=Yellowstone, Cascadia

|citizenship=[[File:Cascadia.png|20px]] [[Cascadia|Republic of Cascadia]]

|gender=Male

|language=English

Having originally joined Terra Aurora just a few weeks after it's start date in the summer of 2022, Raptor had established the town of Yellowstone before 42ing a few weeks later. He returned to the server and his town in October 2023, joining Cascadia with the goal of establishing [[Yellowstone National Park]]. He first entered politics in the aftermath of the Osoyoos Crisis, being elected a [[Legislature of Cascadia|Representative]] for the Eastern District in the [[December 2023 Cascadia presidential election|December 2023 General Election]]. During his first term in the House of Representatives, Raptor passed the Cascadian Conservation Act, which was a landmark law for Cascadian conservation that created the modern national parks system. Following reelection in the [[January 2024 Cascadia presidential election|January 2024 General Election]], Raptor was elected [[Speaker of the Cascadia House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]], a role he would maintain for the following 2 terms, until being selected to lead the [[Cascadia Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] by President [[Paper1emur]] in March 2024. During his 5 months in the Legislature, Raptor helped push for the return of the Eastern District to the "Frontier District", helped establish some of Cascadia's earliest national parks, and advocated for foreign policy choices which improved Cascadia's soft power abroad. As Secretary of Defense under both President Paper1emur and President [[SergioTheCrafter]], Raptor helped reform Cascadia's long-dormant Department of Defense, creating new armories, strategic goals, and realigning much of Cascadia's strategic assets to intelligence and clandestine activities as opposed to conventional PvP. Most notably, this period saw him propose the Military Command Restructuring Act of 2024, which restructured the National Guard's command structure, the Classified Materials Act, which created a system for classifying and protecting secret information, and The Espionage Act, which officially defined the crime of espionage for the first time. Raptor ran for president in the [[May 2024 Cascadia presidential election|May 2024 General Election]], ultimately defeating incumbent President SergioTheCrafter.

An environmental conservationist, Raptor's most prominent policy was the expansion of Cascadia's national park system, which by the end of his presidency had expanded to a total of 7 parks, with only 2 having predated his entrance into politics. His economic policy was the first to by led mostly by Treasurer [[RAWRyoutube]], who would continue to serve as Treasurer for nearly another 6 months, ushering in a period of economic stability and steady growth. His foreign policy during his first term would mostly be spent dealing with the [[Aurora:Organization of Free Nations (Alliance)|OFN]], wherein Cascadia's closest ally [[Aurora:Havaiki|Havaiki]] was dealing with a [[Aurora:Zealandia-Havaiki Secession|rebellion]] from [[Aurora:Zealandia (Nation)|Zealandia]], and OFN-ally [[Aurora:Vermont|Vermont]] was attempting to mediate negotiations between Cascadia and the [[Aurora:North Sea Republic|North Sea Republic]] regarding borders surrounding the NSR holding of San Fransisco. It was during these negotiations that Raptor caused the now-infamous [[Aurora:"Fucking Ireland" Incident|"Fucking Ireland" Incident]]. He also joined the long list of presidents who attempted to fix the long-lasting ice rail problem, creating a National Commission on Transportation to organize transit efforts. Raptor would defeat SergioTheCrafter for a second term in a landslide victory in the [[June 2024 Cascadia presidential election|June 2024 General Election]]. Raptor's second term was dominated by foreign policy, as near the beginning of the term Cascadia faced invasion from [[Aurora:The Kingdom of Texas|Texas]], kicking off the [[Great American War.]] While Raptor led the initial preparations and response to the conflict, his plans would ultimately not come to fruition until similar ideas were put into action by Secretary of Defense [[FieryMatter]] a few months after his presidency. With the conclusion of his 2nd term in July 2024, Raptor would announce his retirement from presidential politics, instead choosing to focus on other roles in the government that were more specialized towards him.

== Frontiersman Life ==

Raptor's first political experience in Cascadia would be the [[October 2023 Cascadia presidential election|October 2023 General Election]], which saw Flatvent_One face off against incumbent President [[EmpressCorgo]]. Raptor would support Corgo in this election, being opposed to Osoyoos' isolationist foreign policy and aligning himself with the Frontiersmen who were campaigning against Osoyoos. Ultimately, Corgo would win the election after the general election arrived at a tie and the House of Representatives broke the tie in her favor. Following Corgo's victory, Osoyoos seceded, promising revenge against Cascadia. It was around this time that Raptor would publicly mock Osoyoos supporters in the Cascadia Discord, usually by mocking their attempts at a "crusade" against Cascadia while residing in Africa. Raptor continued to be a political observer through the remainder of the Corgo and following Akeboun presidency.

== Early political activities ==

The only bill which Raptor proposed during his first term in the Legislature was the one which he had set out to create to begin with, the [[Cascadian Conservation Act]]. The act established the modern national parks system, different designations for different types of parks, a protections for national parkland. The act was one of the first laws in around half a year to mention conservation, with the previous National Parks Service and small parks system effectively being defunct. The bill placed national parks under the direct control of the Department of Interior, rather than a separate agency. Originally, the bill would have included a reformed National Parks Service, however this plan was shot down by more experienced Representatives who remembered the previous agency which had gone unused. The original draft of the bill also included more stringent punishments for damaging national parkland, but again more experienced Representatives advised lessening the provision.

=== Speakership ===

Following a reelection victory in the [[January 2024 Cascadia presidential election|January 2024 General Election]], Raptor would become Speaker of the House, running for the position due to a lack of almost anyone else doing so. He would remain as Speaker for the following 2 terms, enforcing order in the sometimes chaotic House of Representatives which he oversaw. Most notably, he repeatedly fought to enforce the rules regarding House Debates, which are publicly viewable and most be put up 2 hours before a bill can be proposed to the House. Although there were attempts around this time to make House debates more private, Raptor would effectively shut down these attempts, as well as attempts to circumnavigate the time requirement for how long a bill must be debated before being proposed. As part of this issue, Raptor made more stringent debate requirements for resolutions, and set the precedent that a bill proposed in the previous Legislature must be put to debate again in a new term. Much of this debate was in the backdrop of a political fight between Raptor and Secretary of State Milgorn123 over whether or not Cascadia should adopt a formal claim map, to which Raptor was opposed since he believed it would limit their options in the future. This period of the Legislature was also notable for the [[Great North Icerail Crisis]], during which Raptor attempted to maintain decorum in the House and would attempt to argue that the Department of Interior did have the right to maintain the ice rails that they built, though he also pointed out that the Secretary of Interior, [[Moxiecodone]], had clearly failed to properly explain the controversial proposals involved to the public.

== Secretary of Defense ==

=== May 2024 Campaign ===

Raptor announced his long-anticipated campaign for the presidency on May 10, 2024. He was soon thereafter endorsed by Vice President Setrus, former President and sitting Representative Paper1emur, Secretary of State Milgorn123, Representative RuffWoof, and Lovelyfurball, among others. His campaign focused on promises similar to the policies he had fought for in the House, including strengthening national defense, expanding the national parks system, and improving nationwide infrastructure. There were also other focuses added to the campaign, most notably around his slogan of "A Square Deal for All!". The slogan was inspired by the words of irl president Theodore Roosevelt, from whom Raptor took a great deal of inspiration. By adopting this slogan, the campaign attempted to argue that for much of the last few months, if not years, the Cascadian government had been almost entirely focuses on what was happening in the urbanized areas of the Cascadian Metro and California, while neglecting the more isolated regions of the Frontier and Great North. In order to combat this neglect, the Raptor Campaign promised to consider all regions in the expansion of government programs and infrastructure, focus on catching up in the neglected parts of the nation before focusing again on the major cities, and create a homesteading system wherein citizens could apply for government grants to create new towns in areas that Cascadia wanted to settle. The campaign also promised to "return leadership to the presidency", addressing a perceived lack of leadership from recent presidents who had given their cabinet secretaries near-total control over their respective areas of policy. This perceived lack of transparency was also blamed by the campaign for the loss of population of slow economic growth during the spring of 2024. On May 19, 2024, Raptor won a decisive victory over Sergio, winning the Metropolitan and Frontier outright, winning all but the Great North in the final count, and winning 56.1% of votes cast. Sergio, a resident of the Great North, did manage to win twice as many votes in that district as Raptor, however strong Raptor majorities in the other 3 districts, where Raptor had support from neglected towns and liberal establishment leaders who supported his foreign policy, would ultimately win the election.

Raptor's mission of environmental conservation would continue during his presidency. During his first term in office, Strait of Georgia National Park would be established on Vancouver Island, and on June 6, 2024, Raptor would pass the Conservation Aid Act. This act created a fund which could be given to mayors in exchange for claiming land for national parkland which the Department of Interior deemed especially important. The goal of this program was to provide a financial incentive which could help convince mayors in environmentally sensitive areas to donate land to the national parks system. The funding provided by the act would ultimately be used to pay for 24 chunks of Glacier National Park, however the act was repealed in November 2024 by RAWRyoutube's Welfare Reform Act of 2024, which repealed the Conservation Aid Act and a handful of other more obscure and specialized welfare programs.

==== Foreign Policy ====

== Post-Presidency ==