ComradeMaethor

Hello there, it's me Comrade Maethor, or Patrick. This project is very important to me, and my dream is for a community of people to share a particular passion for Andromedian History. So I feel like I have to put a face on the project, and that's me, the creator.

So before we get into the actual story, who exactly am I? Well, I am an 18 year old who lives in New York. Say what you want about my age, but I love writing. Ever since I was young lad I loved making grandiose stories about empires and wars and huge battles. My first work was conceptualized when I was about six or seven about the planet Tycon-4 and the warrior inhabitants, the "Utarians". That was my primary work for years. I had many side-works as well, too numerous for me to get into, but the Utarians was my first story.

One of these side-projects I had was this story called "Quarantine Zone". I made it up when I was on vacation in Florida, and for my ten year old self if was cool, but now when I look back on it. . . the whole story was ten pages long in a notebook. But, nonetheless I always had a certain affection towards the story. So about three years ago I started to have some nostalgia about it, so I found that notebook and I read it all over. I changed since then, and I've grown a greater capacity to create hugely complex histories, so the potential I saw was something I couldn't not harvest. And the first foundations of what you read here on this wiki started with the idea of "twelve human allies". They were the: Lokteli, Tokelians, Thesolians, Silonians, Alekans, Lanikians, Primilans, Asentinians, Sephelians, Caselians, and Erethians. As you can tell, some changed. Lokteli, became Lokeli, which I turned into a planet which became the capital of the Lokelian People's Republic. The Caselians were a short-lived idea. They were supposed to be a nation that separated the Primilans and Lanikians. . . I turned them into the Amrilnae Buffer Zone. And the Erethians were supposed to be a pirate and mercenary enclave where there were no laws.

From that point, I have been working pretty much every single day on developing the story. I have timelines on Google Sheets, as well as one massive timeline on my phone that covers all history from Age of Expansion to the end of humanity (but this one is highly outdated and only serves as a rule of thumb). That flag you see on my profile picture, is a flag I made myself for the Lokelian Empire. And no, that eagle is was not drawn by me, that is the eagle found on the Prussian flag (because I can't draw at all). But let's get more descriptive. ..

Why I write
As an only child, writing was a great pastime for me. When I was playing alone I always made stories for my toys, in fact, some stories I legitimately wrote and developed was inspired/about my toys. So writing has always been the best way for me to express what I come up with in my head. But there were other inspirations at hand.

Without any shadow of a doubt, my favorite story in all of the history of humanity is Lord of the Rings, and my childhood hero is J.R.R. Tolkien. Reading and learning the LOTR legendarium sparked the curiosity inside me. I always wanted to know more. The mystery of this expansive history of a world caught all of my attention. This also translated into me loving both history and science. There is nothing I love more than studying history. This love for history especially is what motivates me to make Andromedian History, a history, and not just some novel.

Philosophy
My work on Andromedian History is reflective of the ideas I have on life. Everything pre-space age is as realistic as possible, while everything during the space age is as real as political science goes. It is in the modern history of Andromeda like Lokelian Revolution to Second Frethic-Golic War where you see my own philosophy come in. You see how I envision certain aspects of human society. Here are the themes in Andromedian History:
 * Humanity united under one banner
 * Replacing religion with a drive to progress humanity into a greater form of civilization, a type of human nationalism
 * Devastation of war
 * How (radical) populism leads to disrepair and tyranny
 * Emphasis of order in society at the expense of freedom
 * Absolute and total equality of humans (always of opportunity and never of outcome)
 * Recognition of the single most strongest unit in society: the individual (note that this is philosophical, not really political)
 * Out with the old and in with then new, constant unabridged progress is the way forward

Q&A
Personal Questions:

''Where do you live? ''Here

''Do you know any other languages? ''Technically speaking, I can speak, read, and write in Russian, but I am still learning it. I study linguistics a lot on my spare time, and I'm familiar with most Germanic languages, mainly in the phonetics department. I can also read Greek.

How smart are you really? I can give you a full history of Western Civilization with a few gaps in between to account for my most human memory. I'm also pretty good at the natural sciences too.

''What's your favorite music? ''My favorite band is Sabaton. I listen to music that tells a story, because that's just how I see music. Love stories don't really appeal to me that much, so I opt for things like Sabaton where every song is a different historical story. But I rarely discriminate on genre, I say my favorite genre is heavy metal, but in reality I listen to anything that I like the story to. Right now I'm in this phase with Wardruna, a Norwegian group that sings traditional pieces from the times of the Vikings, and every piece they sing is a distinct story.

''Favorite color? ''Red. . . for no reason, I just think it enhances everything.

What is your favorite food? I am quite eclectic when it comes to food. My family is not rich in any way, but I have just developed a really sophisticated palate. My favorite food is red meat, but I can generalize it to all meats and fish. The only type of "fish" I didn't like was raw oysters and plain salmon with no sauce or crust. I loved every single piece of land meat I have ever eaten. Other than that I really appreciate complex flavors that burst in your mouth, and really simple homey flavors that are just good, like a steak sandwich with mozzarella melted on it, so basic, but so good.