Editing Advisor Olgerd

Advisor Hans Olgerd was born on the world of Midgaard, colonized by Scandinavian emigrants during the Great Expansion. It was among the planets that lost its technological achievements and plummeted into barbarity; for a thousand years its culture, descendant to the ancient vikings of Old Earth, was progressing in complete isolation.<br />
Midgaard only partook of interstellar tech once again when it had been rediscovered by traders belonging to the newly-formed Protectorate; however, what happened next was not as Protectorate trade companies would think. Instead of becoming one more planet intended to supply the Protectorate with raw materials in exchange for tech, Midgaard turned into a regional center of piracy - and it was not the only such center.
Its inhabitants now knew how to sail the stars once again; the new vikings of Midgaard, unwilling to comply with Protectorate laws, were now raiding and plundering, like their Old Earth ancestors before them. By rediscovering Midgaard, the Protectorate made itself the victim of its own shortsightedness for several centuries.

An unexpectedly simple solution appeared. The planet, located at the very border of the Dominion Sphere, was among the first worlds to be targeted by the Polaris Empire when the First Wave started. Imperial lords decided that Midgaardians, deemed an unruly and dangerous nation, would not have a place in the new, Empire-ruled galaxy, and ordered a genocide.

Only a few refugee ships, carrying mostly children, managed to escape the doomed world; a seven-years-old boy named Hans among them. Some refugees moved to Protectorate planets and began to build new lives, using money from the pirate clans' reserves; however, the Protectorate couldn't allow the Midgaardians to create yet another pirate haven, especially in the very middle of the Golden Hundred and with a war taking place. They were faced with a choice: to serve to Protectorate, or to be immediately exiled onto a near-uninhabitable planet outside the Dominion Sphere. Midgaardians chose service. The Snow Wolves mercenary company was born; it later performed admirably in subsequent wars.<br />
Unlike his kin, Olgerd took a different path. After serving among the Snow Wolves for several years, he joined the Advisor Academy.

During the Second Wave, Olgerd commanded a Protectorate rapid response squadron consisting of light space vessels; his duty was to destroy Empire supply ships. Aside from that, Olgerd participated in a number of large-scale operations, such as repelling the imperial fleet attacking the world of Felicia.<br />
During the Third Wave, Olgerd was leading an interdiction group within an army, tasked with slowing down the Empire's advance into the Protectorate. He finished the war at Velian during redeployment to another planet; alongside six other advisors, he was protecting the world from imperial troops.<br />
When open hostilities between the Empire and the Protectorate ceased, Olgerd didn't take part in fighting for some time; however, two years after the signing of the Vigilant Peace, he secretly led a flotilla of vessels tasked with supporting Protectorate-loyal rebellions on Empire-conquered territories. His involvement in the liberation and subsequent defense of Rusty Shard was the most active.

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