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|office3=Member of the [[Cascadia House of Representatives]] | |office3=Member of the [[Cascadia House of Representatives]] | ||
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|residence=Yellowstone, Cascadia | |residence=Yellowstone, Cascadia | ||
|citizenship=[[File:Cascadia.png|20px]] [[Cascadia|Republic of Cascadia]] | |citizenship=[[File:Cascadia.png|20px]] [[Cascadia|Republic of Cascadia]] | ||
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|office1=14th [[President of Cascadia]]|in_or_assumed_office1=In office|term1=May 19, 2024 – July 22, 2024|deputyoffice1=[[Vice President of Cascadia|Vice President]]|deputy1=[[Setrus]]|predecessor1=[[SergioTheCrafter]]|successor1=[[Lovelyfurball]]|office2=13th [[Cabinet of Cascadia#Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense of Cascadia]]|in_or_assumed_office2=In office|term2=March 17, 2024 – May 19, 2024|predecessor2=[[Cheeseballfluffy]]|successor2=[[Cheeseballfluffy]]|superioroffice2=[[President of Cascadia|President]]|superior2=[[Paper1emur]]<br>[[SergioTheCrafter]]|constituency3=Eastern (Dec '23-Feb '24)<br>Frontier (March '24-May '24)| | |office1=14th [[President of Cascadia]]|in_or_assumed_office1=In office|term1=May 19, 2024 – July 22, 2024|deputyoffice1=[[Vice President of Cascadia|Vice President]]|deputy1=[[Setrus]]|predecessor1=[[SergioTheCrafter]]|successor1=[[Lovelyfurball]]|office2=13th [[Cabinet of Cascadia#Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense of Cascadia]]|in_or_assumed_office2=In office|term2=March 17, 2024 – May 19, 2024|predecessor2=[[Cheeseballfluffy]]|successor2=[[Cheeseballfluffy]]|superioroffice2=[[President of Cascadia|President]]|superior2=[[Paper1emur]]<br>[[SergioTheCrafter]]|constituency3=Frontier (2025-)|spawndate=June 21, 2022|spawnlocation=Yellowstone, [[Aurora:Cascadia|Republic of Cascadia]]|office_status3=''Incumbent''|term4=December 17, 2023 – May 19, 2024|constituency4=Eastern (Dec '23-Feb '24)<br>Frontier (March '24-May '24)|predecessor4=[[Beamz]]|successor4=[[Coltonsupergame]]|in_or_assumed_office4=In office}}'''Raptormm4''' is a Cascadian politician who served as the 14th [[President of Cascadia]] from May to July 2024. He is currently a Representative for the Frontier in the [[35th Legislature]], as well as the Director of the [[National Parks Service]], Director of Intelligence, and Chancellor of the [[University of Cascadia]]. A native of Cascadia's [[Frontier]] region, Raptor spent most of his political career as a leading figure in the Frontier post-2023 and often pushed for reforms that were especially relevant to the Frontier. | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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=== Second Term === | === Second Term === | ||
[ | Foreign affairs dominated Raptor's second term, as the Great American War kicked off not long after he was reelected. The domestic affairs of this time were also entirely related to the ongoing war effort, such as The Homestead Act, which was an attempt to fund the creation of new towns in areas that defense officials feared may otherwise be claimed by Texas. There were also a great deal of emergency funds given out in the name of the war effort, due to the defense budget being smaller during that time and being needed elsewhere. This included hundreds of gold for claiming in California, for overclaim shield in Astoria, and gold being spent with the recruiters union in an attempt to improve the nation's falling population. | ||
==== The Prelude to War ==== | |||
The intention of NorthPaso, the King of Texas, to invade Cascadia had become known near the end of the previous term, however it wasn't until after his reelection that Raptor truly began to prepare the nation for war. Right at the end of his first term, he had signed a law that secretively gave 200g to the newly independent Mexican republic of Michoacán, who had declared their independence from Texas a few days earlier. Before the war officially broke out, Cascadian defense officials put together a basic strategy for how they would fight the war, mostly influenced by the grand strategy pushed by Raptor and his Attorney-General, Akeboun. The plan was to surround Texas on all sides, using their superior numbers and allies to put pressure on Paso from every flank. Cascadia knew that Texas had "[The rebelling] Texas Republic to its north, Mexico to its south, Cascadia to its west, and if they go in on us, Vermont to their east," as Raptor told the leader of Michoacán around June 16, 2024. Cascadia was prepared to face the onslaught of war, and the administration waited patiently for Paso to cross the line and officially enter Cascadian territory in California. | |||
==== The Great American War ==== | |||
On June 18, 2024, the borders of Texas officially reached California, which Raptor described as Texas "just about reaching the fuck around and find out line." The following days were mostly spent preparing a strategy for the seemingly inevitable conflict and preparing allies for war. OFN nations were informed that Cascadia was in a particularly dangerous situation with Texas, and that they should prepare. Havaiki was specifically warned that Cascadia would likely be entering into a war, to which Havaiki promised its support when the time came, just as Cascadia had done for them during the Zealandia War. Cascadia had attempted to convince NAU officials, who at the time still had the best claim to Mexico and a great deal of money and influence, to support a war with Texas in order to kick Texas out of Mexican territory. The NAU, which felt the war wasn't serious and was generally isolationist, declined to participate. On the night of June 22, 2024, Cascadian officials, led by Raptor and his Secretary of State, Milgorn123, issued Texas an ultimatum. Texas could either leave California in peace, or Cascadia would do whatever was necessary to defend its territory. Texas responded the following evening by rejecting the ultimatum, causing Raptor to request the legislature issue an Authorization of Military Force in Texas, which amounted to a declaration of war. The AUMF passed on June 24, 2024, at 8:07 PM PT, though it would not be publicly announced to the rest of the server until over an hour later, by which point Texas' own declaration of war had been issued, at 9:16 PM PT. | |||
The Cascadian strategy set up by Raptor at the start of the Great American War was based on the idea that Texas would eventually overextend itself, overestimating its own abilities, while Cascadia and its allies would use every advantage available to them to push them back into Texas. Raptor believed that the war with Texas could be used as a rationale for Cascadia to reform in many of the sectors that had otherwise been slow to do so, including territorial expansion through the Homestead Act, a declining recruitment situation, an OFN split by internal arguments, and a Department of Defense that was not yet large enough to fight a continent-spanning war. The Cascadian plan from the onset of the war was to fight Texas in California, holding their ground and limiting Texan gains, while their allies began to put pressure on Texas from other flanks. Eventually, Cascadian planners believed this would cause Texas to focus on defending its homeland, allowing Cascadia to push towards Texas as well. Psychological warfare, which would attempt to encourage defection amongst Texans by teaching them of Paso's historical wrongdoings and reign, was also an important component of this plan. Raptor and many other intelligence officials were of the belief that "Texas could not be conquered," but it could however see regime change to a democratic government. By June 28, 2024, Raptor and others in the Cascadian government began to plan a set of towns to bridge into the Texan homeland, including where siege towns would be set up throughout the Texan Metro. Many of these locations would later be independently chosen by Secretary of Defense FieryMatter for his own offensive. Raptor also attempted to gain further allies while fighting Texas, most notably Mesoamerica, which sought to liberated Central American from Texan colonies, notably in the Yucatan. | |||
While the Raptor plan for the war was sound in theory, the problems that Cascadia faced before the start of the war continued as it began. A declining population and recruitment crisis meant little to no new mayors for towns in Texas, which delayed a proper offensive. On the front line, Texas made its most successful offensive in the first week of the war, and by June 26, 2024, had established the siege town of OBLOCKFENTGANG on the borders of Oceanside (present-day Astoria), threatening the core of Cascadia's Metro. This required the government to give Oceanside a 600g loan to prevent OBLOCKFENTGANG from increasing too rapidly. The Texan siege town of Mackenzie_CFOB, just north of Corgo's Pass, was the furthest extent of the Texan offensive in Cascadia. The speed of the Texan offensive had set off some alarm bells in the Cascadian government, especially amongst those who had begun to desperately recruit for their towns to prevent being overclaimed by Texas, and the rate of Texas' recruitment (mostly in Houston) was surprisingly fast. Things also began to go awry for Raptor on the allies front too, as while Havaiki, Pilbara, and Mexico immediately began to do what they could to help, Vermont, whose participation was a core component of Raptor's plan, quickly faced war weariness. Unbeknownst to Raptor, Vermont was a nation of pacifist builders led by those with little experience in leading a war, and thus quickly crumbled in the face of a Texas offensive following the end of Texas' offensive in Cascadia. Vermont's governments went into turmoil, as Texan siege towns nearly reached the Vermonter capital, and many political factions in the nation began calling for anything from an end to the war to even becoming Texan allies. Cascadian and Havaiki diplomats would eventually manage to convince Vermont not to surrender immediately, though dealing with a feeble Vermont trying to back out of the war entirely would be a continuing problem for the rest of the war. Amongst Vermont's problems war also their small treasury, which made it difficult for them to respond to the Texan offensive. Raptor responded by offering them a 750g low-interest loan from Cascadia, though this was declined by Vermont officials who were failing to make up their mind as to whether or not they would even remain in the war. In California too, problems began to arise, as Texas managed to overclaim historic areas of Lost Coast, causing the town to defect to Texas for protection. This defection was cemented by the mayor's paranoia after the 7/23 Nuking. | |||
Ultimately, Raptor would decide not to run for a third term in office, instead deciding to focus on intelligence operations, and placing the mantle of leadership through the war on his chosen successor, Lovelyfurball, who had proven himself as a military leader in Israel. | |||
== Post-Presidency == | == Post-Presidency == | ||
Following his retirement from presidential politics, Raptor has mostly focuses on his work with the National Parks Service and Office of Intelligence. | Following his retirement from presidential politics, Raptor has mostly focuses on his work with the National Parks Service and Office of Intelligence, though over time he has become increasingly involved again in mainstream Cascadian politics. In late 2024, Raptor was heavily involved in the creation of Cascades National Park, the expansion of the National Parks Service through the Raptormm4 Conservation Act, and the founding of the Cascades Club, a lobbying organization for conservation issues in Cascadia. Raptor also remained commander of the office of national intelligence while it was a division under the National Guard, and became the Office's first Director when it became independent of the Department of Defense in November 2024. The work that Raptor has done with the Office of Intelligence remains mostly classified. Raptor was appointed Chancellor of the University of Cascadia on June 6, 2025, promising to reinvigorate the national university by focusing on research and the dissemination of knowledge, rather than larp classes that have never materialized. Raptor was elected to a new tenure as a Representative for the Frontier in the 35th Legislature, on June 15, 2025. He ran on the promise of continuing to support conservation issues, expanding home rule, and reforming the Department of Interior. | ||